my name be john mourby and this be my story about paperhouse represent in may 2003 i saw alfred hitchcock psycho and i be very scared and deeply disturbed . i begin a frantic search for a film that be frighten in the same way . but none where satisfactory . amongst those tried and fail be the bird and night of the living dead and the silence of the lamb and the blair witch project and ring and the evil dead and the sixth sense and 28 day later and the texas chainsaw massacre and halloween and near dark and alien and peep tom and the cell and rosemary baby and don not look now and witchfinder general and friday the 13th and the omen . that should confirm i be desperate . long after i have stop search i find out about paperhouse . paperhouse be base on a favourite book that i own and call marianne dream . paperhouse have also come up in some of the book i have find on horror film and but they do not tell me about the link between book and film . i discover the truth while on the internet and i buy the film later that day . i thought paperhouse would not be faithful to the book and dull . unfaithal it certainly be but dull certainly not . it be the answer to my prayer marianne be rename anna in the film but most of the original story be the same . one day in school anna draw a house in her scrap book ( nothing remarkable about that ) then she become ill and every time she faint or fall asleep she find herself outside a creepy old house ( and i mean genuinely unnerve ) . more she also find that every time she put something new in the draw it appear in the dreamworld and eg an apple tree . anna draw into the dreamworld a rather sad boy name mark who apparently be a person in the real world . mark be a cripple but want to leave the house and obligingly anna draw in a lighthouse ( a place to go to ) but still the problem remain mark can not walk . so anna decides to draw her father in . she get her pencil out and get too work and but the outcome be deform and unsettling anna particularly dislike his eye . quote he look like madman . so anna try to rub him out and start again and but the pencil prove indelible ( that mean nothing can be rub out ) . then anna lose her temper and cross out her father eye . i leave you too find out for you self the terrible consequence of the rash action . paperhouse truly be the british answer to a nightmare on elm street . the viewing of this film leave me shocked and upset . but i have find what i be look for after 2 year . the question be how dose the compare with psycho . answer and 1 the old dark house and 2 psychological parental fear and 3 a genuine shock and 4 and very scary music .