Alicia I love this movie so much

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Rainey Dawn The movie is a good film. Nothing wrong with the film but I think they dragged it out to much in the beginning with Julia moving, her new boyfriend (or whoever he is) and her soon to be ex-husband, barely any ghost stuff going on etc... even after the seance it dragged on to long. Then it became this film about Julia trying to find out who the kids are the medium talked about because she bought the house and found it highly important to know. Julia tracks down the people that used to live in the same house and their kids died there.This is basic ghost/haunting story without a lot of ghosts - really it is because it's more about Julia's husband and boyfriend plus her tracking down the people of the dead ghost kids.6/10

fullheadofsteam This movie can better be found under the title "Full Circle". First and foremost, it must be put into perfect perspective: it was released years AFTER the blockbuster "The Exorcist". Such perspective should provide the reasonable expectation of suspense and supernatural horror, and this movie falls so far short as to have deserved the shelving it got -- those reviews that hail it as great and thankfully resurrected from the vaults of overlooked films are off base, because this movie deserved to have been forgotten. Why? First and foremost is the painfully sluggish pace, as it moves so slowly as to border on absolute boredom and disinterest. Second, the unexplainably disengaged characters, most of whom are dispatched (as in killed) with unexplained relationship to, and peculiarly disconnected from the opening sequence and start of the movie. Third, there is really nothing frightening in the movie, just oddity at best. I wasn't scared once, not even once. The brilliant actor Keir Dullea was relegated to a character of no importance and so was completely wasted in this film. Then there is the element of story/script credibility, which comes into question when a character is killed in unoccupied house, after which days and weeks go by with no discerned stench of the dead body. Frightening? Hah! Far from it, and the ending was ultimately anti-climactic, and thereby unsatisfying.

Catharina_Sweden I did not find this movie a bit entertaining. In spite of the fact that many (TOO many) people die in appalling ways, there is no feeling of scariness, no thrills, no suspense, no atmosphere, and no jumps. When you finally get to see the ghost girl, in spite of all the evil things you know that she has done, you do not feel any fear.This movie OUGHT to be scary and entertaining, because it is about a ghost child in an old house, and there is also a mystery that Julia (the main character) is trying to unravel by visiting people who might know what happened thirty years ago... That is: just the kind of horror movie I would like. But - it falls completely flat.It is also difficult to understand. Too little is actually shown. You are left guessing. When I had watched it through I was not sure if I had understood the ending, so I had to go back and watch it a second time... Also when Julia's daughter died at the beginning, it was difficult to understand what was really happening. And at another point, when the ghost girl's toys could not be photographed, this was also not shown properly - I missed it at first and had to go back. You have to concentrate very hard at all times, and you often have to guess what is happening.Maybe some movie buffs prefer movies that are "difficult", but a horror movie, I think, should be entertaining first of all. It should be easy to understand what is going on, if not at first at least all questions should be answered later in a way that cannot be mistaken. If you try to make a horror movie into something else, it will unfailingly disappoint people who were hoping for something scary and thrilling that would make them forget about their own problems for a little while. After all, that is what movies - and especially horror movies - are for. It comes as no surprise, that this movie was a failure when it was first released.

dolly_the_ye-ye_bird What can I say? This is one of those perfect, horror films: No gore and no masked mass murderers...only faded memories of a past murder and a mysterious ghost who wants something. But who that ghost is and just what it wants is kept secret for a good part of the film. Mia Farrow is so good in this type of film. If you thought she was flawless in Rosemary's Baby, you ain't seen nothing yet! She plays a fragile and innocent Julia, who loses her daughter to a choking accident in the first few minutes of the film. We then learn that she and her husband are now separated, presumably because of the stress and tension caused by the loss of the little girl and Julia's short stay in a sanitarium following the tragedy. Julia takes a house in Holland Park and soon begins to sense that there is something in the house with her. Is it the ghost of her daughter or just her soon to be ex trying to push her over the edge so he can have her committed again? Is she really crazy? Or is it something more sinister?