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Somewhere I read this movie was in the category "Horror". That’s why I hesitated to see it.
I’m glad curiosity got the best of me, and I managed not to spill my popcorn, because I ate it before the movie.
Grace (Nicole Kidman) is a stunning Grace Kelly look alike. She’s spectacular as the anxiety-ridden mother of two young children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley). Both have a disease which afflicts them fatally if they’re subjected to daylight. The time period is 1940s post WWII.
Grace takes the children to the family’s dilapidated countryside mansion on one of the Channel Islands, to wait for her husband, Charles (Christoper Eccleston), to return from the war.
Continuous fog, no electricity, curtains always drawn, and every door to be shut and locked are only a few of the effects to flavor this story.
A large mansion needs servants, of course. In this story there are three strange servants, Ms. Bertha Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), Mr. Tuttle (Eric Sykes) and Lydia (Elaine Cassidy).
The entire cast is excellent and convincing. I was kept on the edge of my seat, and though I suspected some answers, it was a surprise ending.
Just see this movie. Or I might let something secret and dark out.
Highly recommended suspense thriller!
Written by: Judith Fox
Reviewers Rating: 8
Reader's Rating: 7.93
Reader's Votes: 52
Added: 3-Jun-2002
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