All that build up to an unsatisfactory ending....!

Rating: 3/10 (18 July 2015)

I was searching for some great horror movies, and this name recurred in several lists, so I went ahead and saw this movie and was bitterly disappointed to say the least.
The plot is engaging and intriguing on the onset, and the movie has an overall vintage kind of feel which raises your expectations from the film. But as the movie proceeds you will think like you are up for some unforeseen magic on the celluloid, like someone is lifting you up in the air to exalt you but in the end that someone will let you go, and you will fall flat on the ground utterly dissatisfied and dejected.
When it comes to acting in the movie, Mia Farrow has done a fine job. John Cassavetes on the other hand is very unconvincing. The chemistry between them seems forced rather than organic. Other actors have done their bit satisfactorily.
The story is suitable to be told in novel format only. Although the movie kind of grows on you, like someone taking you to the edge of the mountain just so you could appreciate the view, but then instead that someone pushes you off the cliff, the ending of the film does that "pushing off the cliff" thing here. The ending just blows a blatant hole in the entire plot and you end up thinking "Did I just watch the entire movie for this..?"
Being so highly rated in so many lists on IMDb and elsewhere I expected a lot more from the movie, but it fell miles short of my expectations.