The Silent Companions (2017)

Sent to her late husband's crumbling estate in seventeenth-century rural England, newly widowed Elsie Bainbridge discovers a locked garret housing painted wooden dummies known as silent companions. Purcell roots the escalating uncanniness in the grim practicalities of female inheritance, provincial suspicion and pregnancy. The dread does not rely on sudden jumps; it stems from the sickening weight of wooden eyes watching an isolated woman unravel in a house that despises her.