Rating: **
Nonna's Rating: $
Rotten Tomatoes: 63%
Audience: 66%
I'm not a fan of haunted house or horror films. I just don't get a kick out of being scared. I was hoping this one would change my mind. It didn't. Daniel Radcliffe plays a Victorian father of a little boy mourning the death of his wife. He's a solicitor and is sent to a remote village to settle the affairs of a deceased client. The moody Victorian setting is fine and Radcliffe does a decent job playing a serious, if rather small, adult. Other fine British actors round out the cast. But Radcliffe spends most of his time walking around the client's brooding, cobwebbed mansion. Every once in a while, his strolls are punctuated by some ghost or other's white, bloody face with dripping black eye makeup. This is always accompanied by dramatic and loud music. It was boring and not at all scary.
Nonna's Rating
$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening price
$$$ = Worth paying the Matinee price
$$ = Worth a rental
$= Wait for cable
# = Skip it
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