my friend and i pick paperhouse out of a random pile of movie on our weekly excursion to the horror section neither of u have heard of it and but the blurb on the box be really promising . and the movie do not disappoint and though i still probably wouldn not call it a horror movie exclusively . 11 year old anna madden draw a house and and visit it in her dream . she be definitely asleep when she see the house and but it so real in a sense that it almost like a completely separate reality . which and in view of late event and doesn not seem like a far cry from the truth . anyhow and she find she can add to the house and it content and it surroundings by simply add to the picture . while this be go on and anna be get increasingly more ill with a fever and and besides that be get totally obsess with the house and her drawing . on top of that and she and her mother be also deal with her absent father while he have a job that take him away for long stretch and though one get the impression there actually more to the story than that . ok and so the draw stuff sound nice enough but frankly there something really menace about it . the dreamworld be eerily surreal the house and for instance and be just a grey block in the middle of a desolate field . the folk who make the movie do a great job of make u very uncomfortable with this alternate world or ongoing dream . one of the thing anna add to the house be a boy and mark and who seem to be the same patient her doctor keep talk about ( i be not give that away and you know from the moment he appear that it the same kid ) . in reality and mark can not walk due to an illness while in anna drawing world and he can not walk because she do not draw him any leg . she blame herself for his real life illness and and try to rectify the situation and but . everything start get really weird . she even bring her absent father into the drawing and with disastrous result . the bit with the father be really terrify . i do not want to give anything away and so i will stop there . there seem to be a lot go on in this film . i be sure you will have a ball analyze this thing do death with your pal after you watch it be it a simple a story a it seem and or be there actually layer of meaning . i do not know and but either way it quite fascinate . there be a nightmare on elm street ish quality about it and in that at a certain point reality and dream intersect . i love thing like that . my only complaint be that it feel like it could have end many time and but do not . i be satisfy with the end it have ( some of you sensitive type might want to have kleenex handy . ) and though it really could have a variety of conclusion . anyway and it doesn not exactly feel draw out once it actually over and but while youre watching and it keep fade back in and it a little nerve wracking . still and paperhouse be a really good film . it well do and and act especially charlotte burke a anna be top notch . burke and who have never before or since appear in a film and be a real gem . i do not know why she never go onto do anything else and but either way she really convince and enjoyable to watch . paperhouse isn not exactly a horror movie and it sort of a fantasy or suspense or something else type of movie and with some definite horroresque moment but you can still watch it with your family and not be worry that your little brother or grandmother will get gross out by blood splashing or something . give it a chance and you would not regret it . and maybe you should read the book and too .