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Rating: 4/10 (20 February 2012)

I had read many fab reviews of this film and thought I'd give it a whirl – even though I am not a big fan of the horror genre. It really didn't pan out for me. The acting is OK and the cinematography lavish. The story quickly becomes a series of over-used scary cliché's – don't go in the room, why in heaven's name are you opening the door, why are you going outside - alone – at night-time .that type of stuff. There are endless searches and sounds in the overly big horror-house
There are many things that simply don't make much sense. They have a reception for new orphans in the house but there was no follow-up to this. Was it just there to make their adopted son conveniently disappear? Near the end of the film skeletal remains are found, but no police follow-up? It's overly lengthy. I found the ending a let-down with an unbelievably happy resolution.