i believe i be doom to never catch the wood all the way through and despite own a dvr and but i have now see most of it over two or three viewing . a troubled girl be send to a girl board school set in the wood and and from there her trouble only mount . she hear voice and witness nasty thing go on in school and keep get into it with a jealous adversary and and periodically exhibit trace of telekinesis and make various object stand on end and dance . in the end and which i be yet to see completely and her power link with those of two other school girl and keep three ancient witch from do something nasty and like swap body or something equally bad . the movie be slow go and moody and but genuinely scary . i understand the end dissatisfy many viewer . maybe some day i will find out why . agnes bruckner a the new arrival be the real focus of the film and and she give an amazing performance for a then 20 year old play a teenager . the wonderful patricia clarkson be the slightly mysterious school dean . the rest of the cast be pretty much unknown . the film and while american and set in connecticut and shot in canada and feel almost foreign and a if it be set in germany and for example . also and i be remind from time to time of argento witchcraft masterpiece suspiria and although there be no gore in the wood .