Yesterday I read the novel, the 200 pages in one afternoon. It is intriguing, it has atmosphere, it entertains. It just feels like a classic Henry James ghost story from Victorian/Edwardian times.
Now I've just seen the trailer of the film here, and what a disappointment. It looks terrible. They tried to do a horror period piece by recurring to every cliché from a modern horror film. It sucks, really. Daniel Radcliffe looks totally miscast, I guess they meant to make him look like an adult Harry Potter. And why do they insist on using trendy camera shots -tilts, zooms, exaggerated tracking shots- to film a period story like it is a modern one instead? I had enough. Thank god for the movie trailers, because sometimes they save you precious time.
Now I've just seen the trailer of the film here, and what a disappointment. It looks terrible. They tried to do a horror period piece by recurring to every cliché from a modern horror film. It sucks, really. Daniel Radcliffe looks totally miscast, I guess they meant to make him look like an adult Harry Potter. And why do they insist on using trendy camera shots -tilts, zooms, exaggerated tracking shots- to film a period story like it is a modern one instead? I had enough. Thank god for the movie trailers, because sometimes they save you precious time.