Monday, December 17, 2012

Perpetual black terror

Had the makings of a proper traditional horror film - the set-up of an isolated orphan school in the English countryside in 1921 was right on the money - but it really offered nothing but a confusing attempt to combine The Others and The Sixth Sense. Listening to Jean Sibelius's Finlandia during one of the last scenes of the film was the most remarkable thing of them all.

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More twists than a barrel of pretzels

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