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I saw this in a well-lit room with my (extremely cynical) girlfriend, who doesn't really "do" films, so this may have ruined the atmosphere a little. Having said that, I laughed out loud at the first two deaths, especially the Monty Python-esque dragging-with-legs-kicking-into-the-attic bit, which is never a good thing with a horror film. However, the scene where the seemingly unrelated tangential character is dragged...somewhere as she's hiding under her bedclothes fucked me up good and proper - because of course the first place you hide when you hear a noise at night is now no longer safe. Also, the last scene was genuinely terrifying, because the timing seemed to be exactly that of a nightmare. I've not seen anything so frightening as that scene before, and it left me unwilling to be alone in a dark room for a week or too. Other than that, the lack of a plot did, indeed, add to the atmosphere, but some of the special effects seemed rather overdone (most notably the full reveal on the zombie thing on the stairs), and made the supposedly dramatic scenes mildly ridiculous.
Perhaps the ghost(s) were using the old woman as bait in order to lure carers into the house? |
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