i have just watch this film and i have to say it be downright bizarre . not the plot i like fantasy story and will try to get hold of a copy of susan cooper book now i have read such great thing about it on here . no and it be something else that ruin the film for me while the sense of it be totally disembody . and it wasn not just about the director have parachute an american family in to please u audience . at one point i turn to one of my companion and say that the most un english of english village i have ever see . give that i live in an english village and i kind of know what it should have look like . watch the credit and it all become clear represent the film be make in romanian . note to film make people represent romania look nothing like england . not one bit . one of my friend almost guess it during an ariel shot of the village when she say it look a bit german doesn not it . it seem picky but it one example of how the character of the novel be suck out of the film . i would sit and watch the dvd of 28 day later the previous night represent now that a film not afraid to be british that still go down a storm in the state . it can be do .