sorry and but zemeckis be no hitchcock . this movie pay great homage to other film ( see others review ) and have several unsettling and subtly horrific shot and but be otherwise pretty bland fare . i recommend wait till it come out on video so you can fast forward past the many uninteresting and unnecessary filler scene . by the time the tension actually increase and you may find yourself waaaay past caring . spoilersmichelle pfeiffer give a good and varied performance ( much good than in wolf ) and in contrast to harrison ford humdrum husband . which be interest and since norman be suppose to be a brilliant scientist . he do nothing in the film to even be consider bright and imo . he seem very tranquilized ( yawn ) until the hahahahaha and i be a killer and youre next bit . i will take anthony perkins or even vince vaughn norman any day of the week compare to this passive loser . the film wasn not awful and but several thing make me chuckle out of sheer disbelief . the first time claire see the ghost in the bathtub and before norman run in after her scream and it take what and 5 second for the whole tub to drain . then and later and it take forever for the water to drain past her nose when her magic toe pull up the plug . and what faucet do you know that will cut 80 % of the water supply after only a quarter turn . it wouldn not have be a laughable if the ghost have be involve and but this be not even hint at . . . and the cliche continue . . . this movie take forever to advance the plot and and the silly and obvious red herring involve the next door neighbor be pretty irritate . the slow pace of the film felt like the dredging of a lake bottom . too bad the film body do not surface a little sooner .