Lyvia's House

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Lyvia's House

2024

1h 57m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

Fantasy

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When novelist Patricia V. Davis relocated to Sutter County, California, where her husband's family has owned and operated a rice farm since the 1800s, she fell in love with both the beauty of the area and the people who live there, and wanted the world to see it through her eyes. She took a hiatus from novels to write a screenplay, the romantic psychological thriller, Lyvia's House. Struck by her discovery of brutal murders that had been perpetuated in orchards not far from her new rural home, the terrible incident inspired her to write her story. It follows Tara, a young journalist who has recently transplanted with her new lover from the lavish milieu where she was raised, to the beautiful but bucolic home of a missing Italian artist named Lyvia. Town talk of the lovely but reclusive Lyvia is dismissive, even mocking, but Tara soon begins to wonder if her disappearance is somehow connected to murders that took place in the area twenty years earlier. As Tara sees and hears things that seem more and more irrational, she begins to doubt her own sanity. But is she truly experiencing a dissolving sense of reality, or is she simply unaware of the tortured relationships of those surrounding her?

Bobby LePire

Film Threat

09/28/2024

8/10

A strong debut for its writer, director, and cast.

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Joseph Tomastik

Loud and Clear Reviews

09/25/2024

2.5/5

This movie is the definition of janky … except when it’s not. The technical side of things checks out … except when it doesn’t even feel finished. [...] If that brief synopsis is messy to you, then wait until you actually see the movie itself.

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Rogue T

@RogueBait 6d

I don't ever say this, but the positive reviews are definitely fake....or they are joking. It's truly that bad, and the score is absolutely horrendous. There is light club-like music playing in the background the entire movie, even during normal night time dialogue scenes where it makes zero sense. The acting is hilariously terrible. It has the quality of a very bad porn; the acting, music, the sound, the plot - or lack thereof - are all on the same level as the "adult" movies we watched in our 20s as a joke. Every scene, every actor - so very terrible. I am assuming the good reviews are left by family members and close friends of everyone involved in making this junk because no one watched this movie and said in earnest "I cannot wait to watch it again!" (as the positive reviews all say), I promise you.

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Marilyn S

@RT22409235 Nov 13

Suspenseful and thrilling at every moment!

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Tex M

@RT56679738 Oct 1

Quite possibly the worst film in modern history. This is right up there with "The Room" & "Veloci-Pastor". If you like comically bad movies to make fun of, as you watch ~ this is exactly what you are looking for. Non-existent plot, terrible direction, horrible acting. 2 hours of random, nonsensical things that happen in smalltown USA, then a sub-normal info-dump for an ending. The ill written background music blared over half of the dialogue. I wish there were negative stars to use for a rating. I'm glad this was free on Amazon.

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A K

@RT11145851 Aug 27

Absolutely horrible acting.

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Ben J

@RT18590438 Aug 15

I can tell it's a low budget movie with poor acting but sometimes the story is good, who knows. Unfortunately from the beginning the directing is worse than the actors. There's a rat in her bed licking her face and instead of jumping away she stayed in bed comforter and all and the guy looked for the rat OUTSIDE of the bedroom. The writer is awful, terrible dialog. He's good looking that's the only thing that keeps me going.

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Samantha B

@RT18763583 Aug 13

Please don’t watch this movie. Acting is so bad, background music never stops, even when there is other music in the scene, we were just waiting for the plot to start. Yikes.

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Synopsis

When novelist Patricia V. Davis relocated to Sutter County, California, where her husband's family has owned and operated a rice farm since the 1800s, she fell in love with both the beauty of the area and the people who live there, and wanted the world to see it through her eyes. She took a hiatus from novels to write a screenplay, the romantic psychological thriller, Lyvia's House. Struck by her discovery of brutal murders that had been perpetuated in orchards not far from her new rural home, the terrible incident inspired her to write her story. It follows Tara, a young journalist who has recently transplanted with her new lover from the lavish milieu where she was raised, to the beautiful but bucolic home of a missing Italian artist named Lyvia. Town talk of the lovely but reclusive Lyvia is dismissive, even mocking, but Tara soon begins to wonder if her disappearance is somehow connected to murders that took place in the area twenty years earlier. As Tara sees and hears things that seem more and more irrational, she begins to doubt her own sanity. But is she truly experiencing a dissolving sense of reality, or is she simply unaware of the tortured relationships of those surrounding her?

Director: Niko Volonakis
Producer: Patricia V. Davis
Screenwriter: Patricia V. Davis
Distributor: Stonecutter Media
Production Co: Graffí Films, Graffi Media
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 19, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 57m

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