but, tonally, the film it's close to is sam raimi's original evil dead.ave blood and guts instead of custard pies. and in the case of this, what i really liked about it that it cracks along at a pace. quite often a comedy horror has a good setup, and then it will flag in the second or third act. when you get to the end, you think it is running its course. this actually accelerates in pace, and in the final act, in the cinema that i was in, i heard as much laughing and as much grimacing, that kind of response, as i have heard in any decent comedy horror recently. i thought it was really well done, it is really good fun, it doesn't outstay its welcome, there is not an inch of fat on it, and if you like comedy and you like horror, you'll like this. there was one line where somebody says, "oh, geez, you shot the maid!" and that shouldn't be funny, but it kind of is. it is, it is a ghoulish black comedy. but it's played very well. all right. the goldfinch, which is a very chunky book by donna tartt. you've read the book, right? yeah. did you like the book? i d