There have been several claims that the film seems to be inspired heavily from the Iranian movie Bashu, the Little Stranger.
Peter Cannon in Publishers Weekly writes that the novel is evocative of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
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