Atmospheric and scary

Rating: 8/10 (15 February 2012)

This is scary, most certainly, and it had members of my audience screaming out loud at times. It's very atmospheric and almost totally visual which is unusual in this age of loud noise on the screen. Is this a new trend, with 'The Artist' also being (almost) silent? This quiet challenged me more than the usual noisy films do as really had to watch carefully. Blink and you miss it.
There were some oddities though: I couldn't quite work out the time of year it was supposed to be as sometimes it looked like late autumn and other times quite summery. Another thing was the certificates: the adoption certificate stated Ms Alice Whatever - this title would not have been used in the late 19th century in England. Also there was way too much information on the death certificate - poetic licence, I suppose, but these details detract a bit from the whole.
Daniel Radcliffe made quite a convincing young father and is well on his way to saying goodbye to Harry Potter. But I did groan a bit at the beginning with the long shot of the steam train ... I thought we were on our way to Hogwarts.