The main issue I have with this film is the many confusing and unresolved elements on which I spent so long dwelling, in hope of some eventual explanation or resolution, that they served as a distraction from the main plot (if you can call it that). Some examples:
All in all it doesn't hang together well, the characters are too one dimensional and the ghosts too three dimensional to have much by way of spook factor.
- Adam the bookseller arrives at a large house where he has brought some rare edition for a client. It soon becomes clear that he and his client's wife (played by Louise Lombard) know each other, as they make very little effort to disguise their affection for one another, even though her husband is always hanging around in the background. What is never made clear is whether they are actually currently having an affair or if they are just old flames looking to rekindle their romance.
- They make no effort at all to tone down the flirting even when her husband is in the room, yet rather deludedly claim that he will never find out what's going on. I can't work out if this is just poor direction, because it simply doesn't ring true.
- When they visit the spooky house, supposedly empty, they seem completely unconcerned when a remote control car comes trundling across the floor. I mean, did they not think, "someone nearby must be controlling this"?
- Why exactly do Adam's mentally unstable brother and his pregnant wife move into the spooky house when they seemed to have a perfectly good house of their own?
All in all it doesn't hang together well, the characters are too one dimensional and the ghosts too three dimensional to have much by way of spook factor.