I just got back from watching this movie and I highly recommend it.
Despite a PG-13 rating, it manages to actually be a lot scarier than many R-rated movies I've seen lately. it does a wonderful job at building suspense. While it does have a few jumpscares, for the part part it seems to want to lure you into thinking they'll be a jump scare and not delivering it and you just keep waiting, building tension until they finally do catch you by surprise with something else.
The movie does a wonderful job at translating those weird creepy images from the book. The Pale Lady in the Red Room is an especially disturbing sequence with all the logic of a nightmare.
I think this could easily be a Halloween classic in years to come.
I went to see it with my daughter and we loved it!
Quotehe Pale Lady in the Red Room is an especially disturbing sequence
haha yep I was thinking the samething, that part... truly scary!
i have the boxset of books, love them, and am patiently( okay that's BS, i am NOT patient much) waiting for the dvd to show up from netflix.