Very impressive piece of work

Rating: 9/10 (8 December 2001)

If you haven't seen it yet, get off this web page. There are spoilers all over it.
Really.
Okay. The intruders have gone. ;)
Loved it.
A proper film, confident in its own sense of pace and tone. Genuinely frightening - the kids all around who were chatting and giggling at the beginning stopped about halfway through and paid attention, and my wife actually bit me on the shoulder in the piano scene...
My only qualm was that the concluding revelation scenes were, I felt, a little overwritten - the film didn't need quite so much explanation. The audience can be trusted. For that reason only, a 9 out of 10.