Synopsis
The Butterfly Room (2012) is an Italian-American horror thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jonathan Zarantonello. The cast is a roll call of genre history: Barbara Steele leads, with Heather Langenkamp, Ray Wise, Camille Keaton, and a cameo from Gremlins director Joe Dante.
Anna is a solitary, butterfly-obsessed woman who strikes up a friendship with a young girl named Julie. Julie's mother is wary at first but eventually lets Anna babysit. The more time Julie spends in the apartment, the more drawn she is to the one room she is never allowed to enter.
Zarantonello keeps the film almost entirely inside a single flat, and Steele — the original icon of Italian gothic horror — carries it on her face alone: warmth and menace in perfect equilibrium. A knowing love letter to the genre, and one that earns it. Stream The Butterfly Room online on iFILM.
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