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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 310126" data-attributes="member: 8">[ATTACH=full]33838[/ATTACH]It certainly looks very Christmas with its warm, chocolate-y colour palette. The scarce shocking moments are incredibly effective (the dead body is actually more frightening than the idea of a serial killer, well, not so&nbsp; serial) and the effort to make it more than &quot;just a bunch of unfortunate, bland characters just happening to be in the same place&quot; is certainly appreciated.But the sum total is quite a different experience. My goodness, how it drags and plods, and it&#039;s not that the characters are so fascinating that I enjoy them out of the horror context.The lack of focus really made this a chore to sit through and there&#039;s very little to connect, certainly not enough to justify the final twist that doesn&#039;t feel like anything at all. Again, it&#039;s only the image of the dead girl in the attic that made my skin crawl, as it were.Generally speaking I would dismiss a miss as just a miss, but since a) it&#039;s from 1974 and b) there&#039;s too much in it that could have worked I&#039;ll allow myself to rate it more harshly.3/10</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 310126, member: 8"] [ATTACH type="full"]33838[/ATTACH] It certainly looks very Christmas with its warm, chocolate-y colour palette. The scarce shocking moments are incredibly effective (the dead body is actually more frightening than the idea of a serial killer, well, not [I]so[/I] serial) and the effort to make it more than "just a bunch of unfortunate, bland characters just happening to be in the same place" is certainly appreciated. But the sum total is quite a different experience. My goodness, how it drags and plods, and it's not that the characters are so fascinating that I enjoy them out of the horror context. The lack of focus really made this a chore to sit through and there's very little to connect, certainly not enough to justify the final twist that doesn't feel like anything at all. Again, it's only the image of the dead girl in the attic that made my skin crawl, as it were. Generally speaking I would dismiss a miss as just a miss, but since a) it's from 1974 and b) there's too much in it that could have worked I'll allow myself to rate it more harshly. 3/10 [/QUOTE]

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