
The Yellow Wallpaper
A dark and disturbing adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s controversial gothic feminist horror story about patriarchy and hysteria. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper—that she must free.
Why it matters
Director
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
0
Slow Burn
66
Psychological
100
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
50
Fun Factor
0
Cerebral
99
Survival
50



