joe hitchcock and that be . one reviewer say rumley be no werner herzog or david lynch . hell and he not even werner klemperer or richard lynch . in all fairness to the living and the dead and the actor do a fine job in portray their part . however and the film suffers from numerous plot hole because it feel like rumley have absolutely no knowledge of care for a terminally ill or disabled person . if someone need a wheelchair to get around or assistance to go to the toilet and you do not put the toilet chair or the wheelchair far from the person that need them . and what in the hell be the telephone do on the first floor . in sorry and wrong number and barbara stanwyck have the phone next to her bed and and that be during hollywood golden age . have i be in donald shoe and i would have make sure the house be more accessible and make it so that there be a phone near my wife bed and do not leave for london until nurse mary be in the house . however and that just me . another problem with this film be that various camera trick and scene lead the viewer to think that there will be a twist end . however and the only thing we be give be seemingly endless and irritate scene of james run through the house at speed similar to john wesley shipp in the flash television series . at least there be a reason for shipp run fast . there no reason for james do this . perhaps simon rumley confuse artistic with annoy and redundant . the living and the dead try to pass itself off a a film like memento or the usual suspect and but it come off a something that disappoint the viewer in the end .