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Lyvia's House

Play trailer Poster for Lyvia's House Released Jan 19, 2024 1h 57m Mystery & Thriller Drama Fantasy Play Trailer Watchlist
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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?
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Bobby LePire Film Threat A strong debut for its writer, director, and cast. Rated: 8/10 Sep 28, 2024 Full Review Joseph Tomastik Loud and Clear Reviews 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. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 25, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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A K Absolutely horrible acting. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/27/25 Full Review Ben J 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. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/22/25 Full Review Samantha B 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. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/13/25 Full Review Audience Member The acting was amateurish (and by "amateurish," I mean not good). The plot and theme were half-baked takes on those that have been done a hundred times - and much more successfully. Despite efforts through dialog, I still felt as if I'd walked into the show late (and stayed too long, as I watched, until the end). It then de-escalated rapidly, as it rushed to a conclusion after an hour+ of meaningless encounters. The entire time, I'm wondering who this mad woman (the protagonist's mother) they keep referencing is, and why she's always crying and hallucinating and otherwise behaving as if she belongs in a psych ward. Finding out does NOTHING to make sense of her earlier behavior. I'll not be able sleep tonight. Not because I'm haunted by how chilling this film was, but because I'll never again have the 117 minutes of my life spent watching this. That is, after all, what keeps most of us awake at night - regret. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/04/25 Full Review Michelle S Smoked some 🥬 with my Husband and we LOVED this movie. Laughed so hard 🤣 Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/04/25 Full Review Les N Obviously friends and family wrote these reviews. Unwatchable. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/29/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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