Maps to the Stars (2014)

  David Cronenberg is most famous as a horror director.  Maps to the Stars, however, is billed as a comedy.  And maybe.  If your idea of comedy is desperate celebrities and wannabes name-dropping and being awful.  Plus it has ghosts?  So it's definitely a horror movie.  Kind of a soap opera horror movie.  Which could have been funny.  But isn't.

Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) has come to Hollywood to make amends with the family that abandoned her.  She gets a job as a personal assistant to Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), a fading star that is obsessed with recreating her actress mother's most famous role and exorcising her own demons, to get access to the same set where her little brother, Benjie (Evan Bird) is filming a sequel to the movie that made him a star.  

Standard drama, right?

Except Havana is being haunted by her mother's ghost (Sarah Gadon) who keeps telling her to kill herself.  The movie Benjie is famous for is called "Bad Babysitter" about a babysitter who sets the house on fire.  Agatha has burn scars on her arms and neck.  You see where this is heading into horror territory now?

Also, there is off-screen child death, discussion of molestation (not shown, but described), just an inordinate amount of talking about incest, and Robert Pattinson.  I can't think of any reason why you should see this movie but it's streaming on Netflix anyway.