A classical horror movie

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2003)

I was sceptical at the begin because I was afraid of some teenage-girl-slaughtering (you know, "Scream" etc pp), and the first scenes seemed to direct into that way - although it kept the suspense by the haunting atmosphere of the clean, lonely house ("Shining"?). What followed created more and more shivers: the gloomy pictures in foggy, rainy landscape and the well-wrought plot giving you no clue where it all ends did not fail to make this quite a frightener.
The video itself is a fine, morbid piece of art, the clues in it are so hidden that one does not think that there is actually a story hidden in it. And the end was a really cynical surprise.
This is a modern version of the classical subtle haunted-castle horror. Stay away if your nerves are thin - or if you lack sensitivity and only go for splatter blood-baths. (9/10)