With a stellar cast<\/a> which features the likes of Michael Ealy, Tom Riley, Cameron Britton, Shelley Hennig and a \u201cbig juicy cameo at the end\u201d according to Bell, The Woman in the House is an eight-part satire bearing similarities to other well-known thrillers with similar titles \u2013\u00a0 but is it based on a book?<\/p>\n Read on for everything you need to know about the inspiration behind The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window and whether it\u2019s adapted from a novel.<\/p> The upcoming Netflix series was not adapted from a book of the same name, but created by Mike Tyson Mysteries writers Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf.<\/p>\n If the comedy thriller is giving you deja vu however, there\u2019s good reason for that. The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is a parody of a particular sub-genre of thriller \u2013 those which focus on a female lead who is convinced they\u2019ve witnessed a murder.<\/p>\n These include 2016\u2019s The Girl on the Train \u2013 the film starring Emily Blunt as a lonely alcoholic who believes something terrible has happened to her neighbour \u2013 as well as the similarly titled 2021 film The Woman in the Window, starring Amy Adams as an agoraphobic divorcee who thinks she watched the murder of her neighbour via her living room window.<\/p>\n Both films are based on books of the same name and seem to be the main inspiration for The Woman in the House \u2013 with Kristen Bell\u2019s Anna being a divorced, alcoholic artist with a phobia of the rain who thinks she\u2019s seen a murder take place in her neighbour\u2019s house.<\/p>\n The series also bears similarities to other recent psychological thrillers like The Flight Attendant, in which Kaley Cuoco stars as an alcoholic flight attendant who wakes up in a hotel room to find the man she had slept with the night before murdered and sets about trying to find out what happened, as well as films like Gone Girl and Vertigo.<\/p>\n The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window arrives on Netflix on Friday, January 28th.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out our lists of the\u00a0best series on Netflix<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0best movies on Netflix<\/span><\/a>, or see\u00a0<\/span>what else is on with our\u00a0TV Guide<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Lauren Morris Published: Thursday, 27 January 2022 at 12:00 am Will Ferrell-produced series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window arrives on Netflix on Friday, starring Kristen Bell as a lonely woman who thinks she\u2019s witnessed a murder and takes the investigation into her own hands when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10439,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/is-the-woman-in-the-house-based-on-a-book.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/is-the-woman-in-the-house-based-on-a-book-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/is-the-woman-in-the-house-based-on-a-book-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/is-the-woman-in-the-house-based-on-a-book.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/is-the-woman-in-the-house-based-on-a-book.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/is-the-woman-in-the-house-based-on-a-book.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/is-the-woman-in-the-house-based-on-a-book.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Morris Published: Thursday, 27 January 2022 at 12:00 am Will Ferrell-produced series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window arrives on Netflix on Friday, starring Kristen Bell as a lonely woman who thinks she\u2019s witnessed a murder and takes the investigation into her own hands when…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/10438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Is The Woman in the House adapted from a book?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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