if you have ever read the haunting of hill house, the shirley jackson novel, one of the greatest ghost stories ever written, there's a lot of that in this. i think one of the problems is it has been marketed slightly as a horror film, as a chiller. it is not. it is absolutely not a horror film. it's a psychological drama, which happens to have a ghostly edge, and you can read pretty much the whole film in one of two different ways. i liked it. i liked the fact that it lets the pot simmer rather than boil. it's paced very moderately, it takes its time, it tells its story in an orderly fashion, but you get this growing sense of disorder. there's a couple of really terrific performances in it, i think particularly ruth wilson, who is absolutely great. my only worry is, i think some audiences might grow slightly impatient if they go, thinking it's going to be a ghost story, it's going to be a chiller, which is why when you say is it a ghost story, yes, but no. it's — you can read it in a number of ways, but i thought it was rather well done, and rather impressive in a very low—key, very un

my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot. it's j

if you have ever read the haunting of hill house, the shirley jackson novel, one of the greatest ghostghtly as a horror film, as a chiller. it is not. it is absolutely not a horror film. it's a psychological drama, which happens to have a ghostly edge, and you can read pretty much the whole film in one of two different ways. i liked it. i liked the fact that it lets the pot simmer rather than boil. it's paced very moderately, it takes its time, it tells its story in an orderly fashion, but you get this growing sense of disorder. there's a couple of really terrific performances in it, i think particularly ruth wilson, who is absolutely great. my only worry is, i think some audiences might grow slightly impatient if they go, thinking it's going to be a ghost story, it's going to be a chiller, which is why when you say is it a ghost story, yes, but no. it's — you can read it in a number of different ways, but i thought it was rather well done, and rather impressive in a very low—key, very understated fashion. it's very spare, isn't it, the way it's — the script is quite stripped back. it

if you have ever read the haunting of hill house, the shirley jackson novel, one of the greatest ghostt. it is absolutely not a horror film. it's a psychological drama, which happens to have a ghostly edge, and you can read pretty much the whole film in one of two different ways. i liked it. i liked the fact it lets the pot simmer rather than boil. it is paced very moderately, it takes its time, it tells the story in an orderly fashion, but you get this growing sense of disorder. there is a couple of really terrific performances in it, i think particularly ruth wilson, who is great. my only worry is, i think some audiences might grow slightly impatient if they go, thinking it is going to be a ghost story, it's going to be a chiller, which is why when you say is it a ghost story, yes, but no. it's — you can read it in a number of ways, but i thought it was rather well done, and rather impressive in a very low—key, very understated fashion. it is very spare, isn't it, the way it is, the script is quite stripped back? it builds up tension. you get a sense something is wrong but you are no