Overview
A woman grapples with her sanity as dark secrets unfold in her new life.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- brooding
- eerie
- claustrophobic
- classic cinema night
- gothic thriller night
What critics said
Critics broadly regard George Cukor's adaptation as a classic, praising its sustained suspense and the force of its central performances despite its melodramatic excesses.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Gregory uses missing pictures, unexplained footsteps, and dimming gaslights to destabilize Paula inside their London home.
The flickering gas jets, nocturnal footsteps, and shadowed interiors turn the Anton residence into the central source of dread.
Paula's struggle to retain her sanity is deliberately engineered by her husband through sustained manipulation.
The film builds its tension around Paula's increasingly distressing confrontation with Gregory's intentions and behavior.
Films like Gaslight, and why
Rebecca
A classic psychological thriller centered on coercive domestic manipulation and a woman's threatened sanity.
The Innocents
Shares Victorian atmosphere, gothic domestic suspense, and a heroine confronting sinister marital control.
The Spiral Staircase
A claustrophobic black-and-white mystery in which domestic spaces conceal criminal motives and psychological danger.
Movie Details
- Director
- George Cukor
- Release Date
- 1944-05-04
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 (597)
Cast
- Charles Boyer
- Ingrid Bergman
- Joseph Cotten
- May Whitty
- Angela Lansbury
- Barbara Everest
- Emil Rameau
- Edmund Breon
- Halliwell Hobbes
- Tom Stevenson
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- TCM, IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Gaslight about?
- A celebrated Victorian psychological thriller turns a fashionable London home into a sinister laboratory of marital manipulation.
- What is Gaslight like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Gaslight as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Gaslight violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Gaslight as mild.
- What did critics think of Gaslight?
- Critics broadly regard George Cukor's adaptation as a classic, praising its sustained suspense and the force of its central performances despite its melodramatic excesses.
- Which films are like Gaslight?
- Films with a similar feel include Rebecca, The Innocents, and The Spiral Staircase.
- How long is Gaslight?
- Gaslight runs 114 minutes.
- Where can I watch Gaslight?
- In United States, Gaslight streams on TCM, IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel.
