The plot, please!

Rating: 5/10 (3 March 2002)

I thought I would get frightened watching this, and must admit that I shivered three times, but was this all there was? This is a film that looses tempo several times. The screw ought to be turned and turned and turned, but it isn't. This is too slow narrated.
If it was a parody on Hitchcock of the 40s it would be rather splendid, because it is played in a 40s manner, especially by Nicole Kidman, who is doing one of her best performances. This also goes for Fionnula Flanagan and the actors must have had lots of fun during the making of this film.
The plot doesn't hold together however. Definitely not. Nothing should be said about the ending, more than it's cheating and disappointing. Besides it's too much fog outside the house, it's too much spooky victorianism all around, it's too much walking in corridors, which would be all right in an parody, but this isn't.
You are not that frightened you're supposed to be.