Anyone else seen this? It's out on DVD now, and I rented it as part of my convalescence marathon. (I tell you, I've been bored silly this last week.)
I was discussing with Mad Dr. Jeffe while I was watching it how scary movie music is all the same--it's meant to manipulate you to be scared. But even so--it always succeeds with me. So that's one point in the movie's favor--lots of scary music.
Another thing I thought was really interesting was that it was really a Bluebeard tale. At the beginning of the story, the lady of the house gives the girl (Kate Hudson) a skeleton key that she says will open any room in the house--and upon exploring the house, which has no mirrors, she finds a hidden room in the attic with lots of voodoo (or rather, hoodoo) paraphernalia. And when she opens the door, she also opens a can of worms.
So, anyone else seen this? What did you think? I didn't expect to like it--it started out as your standard predictable horror flick. But it had a nice twist at the end that I sort of saw coming but didn't really get till it paid off at the end, and leaves you torn on which side you wanted to win.