over-hyped rubbish

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2001)

Having read comments by other subscribers, I can only assume they're relatives of the cast trying to drum up business because,in my opinion it's athird rate melodrama! It uses every known cliche of so-called "spooky" films including gloomy old house surrounded by fog,a cemetery in the front garden (which no-one appears to have noticed), pianos that play themselves and doom-laden servants - including Eric Sykes who could not be taken seriously in this type of part by anyone in the UK - a masterpiece of miscasting! Frightening it was not, relying on a few loud noises for a "jump" factor and even these corny effects failed to keep my wife awake as she dozed off halfway through the film! As to the so-called shock ending, well this became patently obvious long before then and whilst the cast made the best of the trite dialogue it still rates as a turkey that barely justifies it's "12" certificate.