Make sure you have enough headroom for jumping out your seat!

Rating: 9/10 (18 February 2012)

Personally, I hate Harry Potter, so it was with some trepidation I decided to see this film, but I'm so glad I did.
It was very refreshing to see a horror film that went back to the old values of making us jump and avoided the more current trend of throwing buckets of gore at the viewer. This was a traditional horror that played more with our senses, expertly throwing something frightening at us in subtle ways that caught us of guard, so that even when we anticipated a jump to come, we were still caught out by the direction in which it came. This was mainly due to some expert direction in the cinematography, having different camera angles suddenly showing us something that a previous angle failed to pick up on even though it should have done.
It takes a lot to make me jump, but there were at least two occasions where I shifted in my seat and uttered a profanity! Go see it... you won't be disappointed. :)