Nope, not as good as everybody says

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2001)

This movie has some pretty good acting, and is a 'proper', professional horror movie, and most horror movies made in the 70's aren't.
But now for the bad things: 1. The p..ac...e and jerkyness really killed me. It would go from a very tense scene in the bedroom and straight back to normal, largely weak dialogue in other locations. I really got rather bored. 2. The time that passes before it attempts to be scary. 3. The fact that this movie thinks it's too scary to have a soundtrack. It slows to a crawl in the first hour in particular without any music. Only the best of movies, the first one that comes to mind is "saving private ryan", can keep your attention all the time largely without music. And the best horror movie ever, in my opinion "The Shining (Kubrick), had a soundtrack which made it even scarier. 4. The mainly silly makeup that was used in the bedroom made me feel as if this was one of those clay animation things at times. 5. It's not scary.
To summarise, this simply doesn't live up to the hype, for me.