<em>Shirley</em> Is an Unconventional Biopic About a Horror Master
A new movie out on Hulu gives the writer Shirley Jackson the unsettling and incisive cinematic treatment she deserves.
“A clean house is evidence of mental inferiority,” Shirley Jackson (played by Elisabeth Moss) grumbles at her husband as he stumbles around her messy bedroom. By that yardstick, Shirley might be the smartest person alive; her North Bennington abode is so full of dirty dishes and random junk that it feels almost haunted. But that’s the mood the director Josephine Decker wants to conjure in one where even a mundane home
