If anyone has doubts about the general mediocrity of Robert Wise's work as a director, "Audrey Rose" should remove them. It's a tensionless, tedious bore that fails to emotionally engage the audience. It has many of the same problems as "The Haunting", a slightly better (but still poor) film, most notably a loose and unfocused script. Long before the end of the film, you wish someone would defenestrate Ivy and set the /audience/ free.The '70s color cinematography is dreadful, with bright, generally flat lighting that rarely makes any attempt to set a mood or express emotion.Wise was pretty much an uninspired "hack" director. When the script and actors were good, he usually delivered a good film. When not, he contributed nothing of his own to fix the problems, or enhance the better elements of the material. I'm partly biased, because I don't believe in reincarnation, but a much better film could unquestionably have been made from this material.