Rachela Muracka

This movie was a total waste of date night. While the beginning was intriguing, it withered away like a campfire story by a 12 year old. First problem: Austen is played by such a weak actor, a fact made worse by putting him next to the incredible Brian Cox. Second problem: the characters should not be afraid before the audience. Austen was freaking out before I was even tense, and I could hear the soundtrack. Show, don't tell. Third problem: puritans didn't wear corsets and an real example of that kind of brutalization is not recorded in that colonial panic. Don't reference history if you can't get it right enough for a moderately educated adult to swallow it. Fourth problem: aside from failing to scare me, the metaphysics failed to convince me. The only reasonable interpretation is that Cox was wrong, and she was no innocent, but a willing and malevolent conduit for evil. She certainly got a rotten deal from Satan for her soul. What was the point of her regeneration anyway? Also, a horror film might end on a funny note, I guess, but the last shot had me laughing *at* the film, nit with it.