i have yet to read shirley jackson novel and something of which i have be mean to do for quite sometime . i be sure it have get to be scary than this film . i remember jump once when i watch it the other day and although i can not recall the scene . the special effect be great and i watch this on dvd and but i be sure in the theatre it must have be an awesome sight . after the first few special effect be do with i be wait for a story to develop . i figure this movie at the least have to be loosely base on the classic novel and so a good story should be there and but it wasn not . i be relegate to star at the gorgeous catherine zeta jones character throughout the movie basically because there be nothing much else to watch . lili talor be such a suck character . i do not like her one bit and something about whiny people . also and the guy in this film remind me of the cartoonish dudley doright with his voice and face . i could not relate to the character at all . quigon and ahem liam neeson do an admirable job try to get through this movie with some type of act . half to three quarter of the way i be just die to go see a campy friday the 13th or a scream queenish film . at least there be some type of entertainment value . if there be no story there at least they fill it up with gory death or attractive female . this have nothing . .