. . .Who would go to an unknown house like that? He wanted to debunk the thoughts of ghosts being there, but he went without a bit of research on the house first?
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
*smile*
don't go into the basement,
don't say I'll be right back,
and so on, with the horror film rules...
So much of the entire movie is, shall we say, *constructed* by the story's author, then brought to the movie in what is most likely a shortened and interpreted way, so it would hardly have to use logic. (even aside from the fact *it's only a movie" ...)
However, since he lived in England before coming to the United States, what I *thought* I saw was a vague recollection when he repeated the name of the place just after he read the letter. He may have been mistaken, but it seemed he had remembered it. And, since it was a letter, it had a return address, AND further contact had to be made to arrange for someone to pick him up at the train station as well, so we get back to my comment about the story being *shortened*.
Unfortunately though, even if there were either directions, dates and times in the original letter, that would mean it HAD to be written by the nanny, who was the one requesting help. Unless it was part of him being haunted, he did use a telephone once he was at the house, to talk to the woman *back home* at one point, so a phone conversation before he traveled would have verified where he was going, WITHOUT giving him any details about the house having a fire, etc., and that would have verified there WAS someone there. Again unfortunately, it gets a bit murky about how the ghost met him and brought him to the house...
Or else, he was already haunted by the ghosts when he read the letter requesting help...
what I *thought* I saw was a vague recollection when he repeated the name of the place just after he read the letter. He may have been mistaken, but it seemed he had remembered it.
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