Good but Radcliffe does not yet have enough maturity for this role.

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 2012)

Daniel Radcliffe has definitely grown up from his days as Harry Potter but I question whether he had grown up enough for this role.
The film is very good on the whole and is very much the sort of horror film I enjoy, lots of things to make one jump but without the boring and unnecessary gore.
I think that the scares were well placed and sustained, with good timing but they would all have worked just as well with any other actor.
It cannot be denied that Dan is a good actor but I did not think he was ready for this role; he does not yet appear to have the emotional depth or maturity and probably not enough experience of life to play the part of a young widower with small boy very convincingly at least not yet, and this film could have been so much better with a more mature actor.
A good effort but he is trying to run before he can walk.