If Hitchcock had ever done a haunted house flick, this is how he'd do it - by endlessly playing around with his favorite dumb gimmick of nobody-believes-me which is basically the same as his thriller innocent-man-accused-of-a-crime shtick.
THOPS spends way too much screen time milking that cow; after a while it becomes very tiresome and annoying, not to mention repetitive: 1. Woman gets harassed by ghost, 2. Woman complains to husband, 3. He says she's crazy, 4. Go back to 1. Over and over, for 80 MINUTES! That's how much of the movie is stuck in a rut, playing like a broken record. You can use that shtick for only so long before you're forced to stretch logic and go into far-fetched territory - which is why Hitchcock loved that gimmick, because he didn't give a hoot that his movies were illogical and absurd.
I prefer films in which a plot develops rather than stagnates, hits a wall. Enough already! Get on with the bloody story! And that's why the film lasts two hours, which is way too long for horror films, because it's stuck in a daft loop. Stupider still, the conclusion offers zero explanation: who is the ghost? Why did he kill and harass? Nope, sorry, the lazy film-makers copped out. There are some good, eerie scenes which save the movie from uselessness.
And let's have an actress with actual cleavage. This female character is supposedly in her last trimester and yet the actress is as flat as a board. Perhaps that's why the ghost is so angry.
THOPS spends way too much screen time milking that cow; after a while it becomes very tiresome and annoying, not to mention repetitive: 1. Woman gets harassed by ghost, 2. Woman complains to husband, 3. He says she's crazy, 4. Go back to 1. Over and over, for 80 MINUTES! That's how much of the movie is stuck in a rut, playing like a broken record. You can use that shtick for only so long before you're forced to stretch logic and go into far-fetched territory - which is why Hitchcock loved that gimmick, because he didn't give a hoot that his movies were illogical and absurd.
I prefer films in which a plot develops rather than stagnates, hits a wall. Enough already! Get on with the bloody story! And that's why the film lasts two hours, which is way too long for horror films, because it's stuck in a daft loop. Stupider still, the conclusion offers zero explanation: who is the ghost? Why did he kill and harass? Nope, sorry, the lazy film-makers copped out. There are some good, eerie scenes which save the movie from uselessness.
And let's have an actress with actual cleavage. This female character is supposedly in her last trimester and yet the actress is as flat as a board. Perhaps that's why the ghost is so angry.