An excellent romp

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2000)

I thoroughly enjoyed the film which brought back happy memories of evenings spent watching Hammer Horrors in the late 60's. Heaving bosoms and lots of blood!
It was visually stunning and very atmospheric, though unsurprisingly the countryside did look very English in some parts. The special effects were excellent too. There was good acting from the main actors, but some of the accents were a bit bewildering. It was interesting to see such a lot of good 'jobbing' British actors in the film, presumably economics played a part in using them rather than bringing over American actors
I actually thought that it had a lot of humour, but that doesn't mean that it didn't have it's gruesome moments. But I think it lacked real horror and there was nothing that really came as a shock or even a surprise.

Having said all of that, it was a good evening's entertainment.