You can sometimes tell how good a horror film is by the amount of audience members who leave the cinema during the film. Half of the audience left last night. However this was because they "didn't come to the bloody cinema to read".
Its a shame they left as this French chiller is a bit good. There isn't much of a story - a couple are terrorised by unseen forces in their huge old house in the middle of a forest.
So far so cliché.
However, the beauty of this film is that it doesn't feel like horror by numbers, the digital photography, editing and lighting is excellent and the soundtrack is especially chilling. Where many horror films would give you the old "tense and shock" routine, this film goes for the "ramp up the tension and hold it there" approach.
Fans of the genre will love it.
7/10 - yet another reminder to not live in a scary house in a scary forest. Will people ever learn?
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