The film starts quietly and then very quickly it gets really terrible but unfortunately this doesn't carry on. Mia Farrow is fine but the story moves very slowly and although Tom Conti is okay he doesn't have enough to do. It was a shame that there is nothing unsettling or even creepy, although it is rather different, Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) is really scary and the seance in that one is stunning. I also thought that The Haunting (1963) is similar and really good and Don't Look Now (1973) a bit different but amazing and as well this one begins with the lost child. The Legend of Hell House (1973) is very good although The Changeling (1980) is another film where the house is too big for a ghost story. Whilst on other films I have to mention Secret Ceremony (1968) with Mia Farrow and Elizabeth Taylor many don't like it but it is really unnerving.
Review of The Haunting of Julia
