Excellent.....superbly eerie and thought provoking.

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 2000)

No wonder this film was the peoples choice winner.....American Beauty is really high class but this picture is a work of pure art. Virtually every moment of the film is spooky and I for one have never felt so many tingles in my back.....indeed after watching this movie on video I double checked that all the doors were locked in my home(not that that will save me)......the biggest star in the movie is of course the child actor....and the actress playing his mum is a close second. The director ought to have won the Oscar as he has this uncanny knack of making ever scene in the film filled with tension and anticipation and the climax is brilliant.... What ought to be a lesson to all other film-makers is that both in the direction and writing the movie is not overdone and in many scenes slightly under-stated giving an air of reality and realism to this scary and thought provoking masterpiece.