Wonderful character development!

the audience applauded

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Excellent but underrated film

In this TV horror, Mia Farrow plays Julia Lofting, a wealthy American woman living in London, who separates from her husband and moves into an old house in Kensington after the untimely passing of her daughter. But, as soon as she moves in, she sees apparitions of a young girl and believes it is her daughter, until being told otherwise.It is a dreary movie with a dark setting, poor acting, and muffled dialog - you could hardly make out what the actors were saying. The soundtrack was dreadful, pacing was slow, and the suspense was all over the place. Grade D-

The movie is a good film. Nothing wrong with the film but I think they dragged it out to much in the beginning with Julia moving, her new boyfriend (or whoever he is) and her soon to be ex-husband, barely any ghost stuff going on etc... even after the seance it dragged on to long. Then it became this film about Julia trying to find out who the kids are the medium talked about because she bought the house and found it highly important to know. Julia tracks down the people that used to live in the same house and their kids died there.This is basic ghost/haunting story without a lot of ghosts - really it is because it's more about Julia's husband and boyfriend plus her tracking down the people of the dead ghost kids.6/10

A woman (Mia Farrow) is in shock. Her little girl chokes to death despite Mia's attempts to help her. She leaves her husband (Kier Dullea) and moves into an old house to be her own. Then she starts seeing a ghost who is an evil little girl.This is well-done and serious with good acting...but it just doesn't work. It moves VERY slowly and drags out everything to a ridiculous degree. Also it's very quiet and moody. When I saw it I was fighting to stay awake. Even worse the appearances of the little girl ghost aren't frightening at all--they're just dull. Too slow and somber to work. It's based on a book by Peter Straub. The book is MUCH better than the movie.

Also known as The Haunting of Julia, which is the title under which you can find it on Netflix Instant, which is about the only place where you can see it. This is a forgotten British haunted house flick from the late '70s (actually not released until 1981 in the United States). Mia Farrow stars along with her Rosemary's Baby haircut. In the prologue, her young daughter starts choking on an apple and Farrow, in a panic, tries to slice into her throat with a knife, thus making sure she's quite dead. Haunted by guilt, she ends up leaving her husband (2001's Keir Dullea) and moving into an old mansion in London. She soon realizes she's not alone. The film follows basic genre beats for the most part - appliances get left on, Farrow gets curious about the house's history, discovers its grisly past, does some investigations, etc., etc. It's not too interesting, really, but it has some good moments, notably its fantastic final moments, which are so good I would almost recommend the film for that alone (it's fairly short at 97 minutes). Farrow is fine, and Dullea isn't bad, but the rest of the cast, made up of mumbly Brits, is incoherent. I also really loved the score by Colin Towns.