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Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Izzy Adkins The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

marinanenna120 This movie was certainly interesting to say the least. Although I have not seen Rose Red, i thought it was an okay movie. To clarify some of the comments that were made about this movie, The film DOES explain the disappearances of the characters indirectly. The characters that disappeared had either a close relationship to Ellen, or had something to do with her husband (who had a very large sexual appetite). Rose Red is more or less a spirit controlling the house that was quite fond of Ellen. The house grew to love Ellen. The mysterious happenings occurred so that Rose Red could get her to see that her husband was really a shaky and unfaithful character. They also occurred because the house wanted Ellen to remain fond of only Rose Red, which is why April disappeared as well. Basically, Rose Red grew jealous of Ellen's and April's relationship. Sukeena never disappeared, Ellen's husband just had her put in jail after April disappeared thinking that she was the cause.With certain horror movies, every detail, every word should be payed attention to, otherwise you will have questions afterwards.

dbaleckaitis Do not bother; the wifey made me watch. I had nightmares from the horrible plot which never develops; just rent these movies instead: Poltergeist, Burnt Offerings, House. The acting is OK at best, maybe more believable if there was some background to work with, but NOT.Even though its made for TV I have to say they should have done much better.The cast, location and props are well done but without character development and a plot with background information... It kills this movie in it tracks. Two words, Keep away

jmcgee-1 The Diary of Eleen Rimbauer is creepy by all means,but an alright film to add at that.The Diary of Ellen did what (The Others) did, make a scary ghost story without any gore.The problem is that this is a prequel and it dosen't answer a lot of qustion to led to the first one, Stephen King's Rose Red. Rose Red was scary and had you on the edge of your,but the acting was alright(in which this one improves on).It made us wonder what the hell is wrong with the house.This calls for a prequel=the origin of a film or television show. The Diary showed Ellen,the original owner of the house and controler.And how the house became evil.It dosen't really show how the house got evil,but the evilfulness and sex addition of Ellen's husband and the events the house does to them. The acting was surperb,I mean all actors was excellent.Steven Brand who played Ellen's husband stole the role and film,with his wicked sideburns. So you want to be creep out,buy it,but it's still alright.

tom sawyer The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer was supposed to be the prequel to answer some of the questions about Rose Red's history from last years mini-series. Instead, it seems like Rose Red answers more questions about The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer. The story and acting were well done and pretty easy to follow. To say the least, it does keep your interest. It starts out with the building of Rose Red and how there was a nurder the day the a young and engaged Ellen Rimbauer first lays eyes on the place. The Diary of ER was entertaining, it still left a few unanswered questions and a wanting for more. My first and perhaps biggest complaint was the fact the place and the atmosphere seemed foreboding and dark, there was not as much a supernatural element to it as Rose Red. People disappeared in it, but if I recall correctly one was a famous lady who disappeared. Instead we get to see the horrors of how much a philandering, sex addicted and possibly sypohilis infected bastard John Rimbauer was and how everybody he slept with then disappeared in the house. He was basically the worst seen being in the Rose Red mansion. The movie also came up short in that it stopped before Ellen and her faithful friend from Africa also disappeared or had something happen to them in the house. There was not the horror or even suspense element that had been in Rose Red.The house's history had been made somehow less scary than what it had been in the subsequent movie that followed it. Like, I said the movie was decent, but it left you wanting more of everything. It was lacking in detail and horror. It was a decent movie about a mysterious place and the sadness suffered by a women with a sex addicted and philandering husband but little else. A little more hooror and suspense, not to mention detail would have been nice.