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A bastardization of the original. It's a movie made more for adults than children. Wrought with political innuendo, woke messages and lackluster performances. The CGI dwarves are an abomination. Save your money and time and rewatch the original.

Absolute woke trash. Has nothing to do with the reality of the time period. Another attempt by woke Hollywood to cram their deceitful agenda driven narrative down your throats. Stay away. Far far away.

Very well done when it comes to set visuals and it was well acted. But there are too many moments of stupidity and instead of being scary it made me laugh out loud several times. The “ghosts” are nothing like ghosts but silly and hilarious looking ghouls that you might see in a horror parody movie. Several unbelievable moments, like a 100 lb women manhandling a 250+ lb man and being able to smash his head repeatedly into a sink until it breaks, So she’s obviously some sort of superhero or something? The female lead is so stupid it takes her forever to figure out that they mean her harm and want only her money. She is pushed off a second floor and smashes violently on the rail and floor, but no worries, she’s ok. Oh wait the doctor says she has a broken leg that he had to set, but that doesn’t stop her from running around like a track star. The doctor knows these people are murderers, but doesn’t alert anyone else and decides he’s going to walk through a blizzard, by himself to rescue her. He shows up with no weapons at all and just thinks they are going to let him walk out the door with her, really? The good doc is stabbed under the arm and when the knife is pulled out it spurts a tremendous amount of blood, obviously a severed artery, but no worries, he’s ok. The evil man has a change of heart ( what took him so long, he’d already killer several women), but no matter, he’s really a good guy you see. He asks the doctor a good place to stab him. Why doesn’t he just not stab him and take care of his evil sister? But he gets stabbed in the abdomen (no good place to be stabbed there) and despite two mortal stab wounds he’s still able to walk out of the place. Right. The end scenes are what really ruins this show. They are out in the snow fighting and somehow manage to start a steam engine with no fire in the freezing cold. Yeah right. Then the worst. The evil sister is killed, and the evil guys ghost appears, and our lady is still in love with him, even though he has killed numerous women and stole thier money, is married to and is f*king his sister, got her pregnant which resulted in an deformed baby, is responsible for her fathers murder, but ya know, she still loves the guy. WOW, at least she is committed! Really really stupid. Don’t waste your time.

A movie dripping in irony. A leftist trope on illegal immigration and how inherently evil wealthy people are and how wonderful all the immigrants are. Ironically stars and was made by extremely rich Hollywood leftists.

Glad I only spent 3.99 to see this, but even so I feel like I got ripped off. A seemingly random series of scenes that are disjointed and with characters that you have no idea who they are or how they play into the story, but are supposed to have some deep metaphorical meaning. Right. The equivalent of today’s modern art where “artists” throw paint at canvas and create “masterpieces”. After spending over two hours watching you find out it was only a dream. Many of the supposedly deep metaphorical scenes are really cringe and sometimes downright stupid, and are difficult to watch. If you have an extra 2+ hours of life to waste, go ahead, be my guest. As someone once said, “putrid, really putrid”.

I tried, and I tried, but I just couldn’t do it. I suspended disbelief over 5 episodes, thinking somehow it had to get better, alas it defeated me. Absolutely and ridiculously stupid. If you have a room temperature IQ, this show is for you. Watch it, I’m sure you’ll love it. For the rest of humanity, stay far far away, as this show will bring you down to its own level and beat you. There are so many inconsistencies, unbelievable moments, and just plain stupid things in this show that I would need a phone book’s amount of space to list them all, so I won’t try. The movie Airplane made far more sense. The real puzzle is, how can someone make something so ridiculously stupid?

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** Well acted and the sets and cinematography were excellent, however the film was beset by several flaws that contributed to the 2.5/5 rating. These are: -The bizzare opening/closing on a film set. Whats the point? All it does is take away from immersing oneself in the story. -There was no chemistry developed between the nurse and the journalist at all. In fact, there was no indication of any attraction until they spontaneously have sex. Even after that there's no development of their relationship or that they even like each other. In fact, the newsman's character was a bit of a dud. Same can be said for the nun, she's kind of pointless in the story. She is portrayed as not caring about the child, except for the end whe she was needed to explain how the child escaped. -The story is very slow and fairly boring. You are kind of hoping for some sort of supernatural element regarding the girl, but when you find out she's just being fed (or not and dying) it takes any real suspense out of the story. -In typical Hollywood fashion, Christian's are portrayed as fanatical, crazy zelots that have no redeeming qualities. This trope is getting old. -They did a very poor job at making you believe the girl is starving. Except for a little make-up she looked fine, and except for the very end acted quite normal. - It was hard to believe that the panel of men would want to continue the observation of the girl until she dies. Once the girl was getting very sick what was the point? She obviously wasnt some sort of miracle at that point so why continue, especially when the nurse reveals how she was being fed. Additionally, as they point out, they could be legally liable for her death. Why didn't they think of that before her "apparent" death? -The acceptance by the family and the group of men regarding the fire was just a bit too convenient. There would have been some remains left after the fire, probably bones and at least teeth. Also, one would think that the nurse would have carried the girls body out of the house and not just let it burn inside. She stated she was with the girl as she supposedly knocked a lamp over, so she just left the girls body to burn inside? Not a believable story. -The nurse is an optiate addict, but seems to have or show no ill effects from it whatsoever. -When the nurse starts to see the girl beginning to starve, why would she continue her "obervations" up until the point of her death? Doesn't make sense at all. A nornal person would have quit, and provided the story to the newspaper man to expose it, and also have contacted the authorities. By her actions she is contributing to the childs death.

A very poor adaptation loaded with woke garbage. A disgrace to Poe and the original story.