now and again and a film come around purely by accident that make you doubt your sanity . we just finish study the novel and northanger abbey and at school and decide to refresh our memory of this unexciting piece of humourless garbage with the bbc adaptation . the funny thing about northanger abbey be that it actually make you want to kill yourself . the film be nothing like the book and for example and the subtly evil character seem to have be turn into transparent stereotype . john thorpe look like a leprechaun on acid while isabella play the role of slut . catherine and the main character and be the most depressingly stupid and irritate actress on god earth ( she look like a coffee addict and her eye be like basketball ) whilst mr tilney look and act like a retired porno stunt double . the plot go completely off the rail at certain point of the film and i do not know what the hell the director be think when for no reason at all and a 7 year old black kid who we have never meet before take the main character out of the abbey and start cartwheel in front of her . yes and that right and cartwheel . nonsense of this kind be occasionally interrupt by catherine fantasy in which she be be carry around a cathedral by an ogre . northanger abbey be basically visual euthanasia so if you want to murder your bos or something like that and bbc have basically discover a new way to kill someone . northanger be a barely laughably bad film . don not watch it unless youre in a padded cell .