Satisfied.

I know there is a lot of hate out for this movie but I thought all the creepy elements were so creative, the eyes forming in the glass above the archways, the fist coming through the door, the (granted, painfully obvious) bed spikes trapping her, statue in the fountain...the list goes on.

This may be the first movie that I've sat through that didn't leave me with a list of things they could have done but didn't. Even if the CGI is a bit dated (but not terribly, the use of fabric is a little shiny by today's standards and the final image of Hugh Crane wasn't the best...) I thought they played well within their limits. They made it so the effects would stand up for a few years anyway. They used shadows and smoke and dust to hide what the computer couldn't make perfect. And they tried mostly to animate only statues which are already fake. It's like a singer knowing what range to sing in without sounding terrible.

I'm certainly not saying it was well written or consistently well acted, only that it was inventive and actually pretty fun in a way.

One thing to note though: I haven't seen the original and since I saw this for the first time when I was probably 13 or 14 I didn't realize that it was a remake. These elements that I'm praising could have been in the original without me realizing it.

Final point I suppose is that most movies leave me feeling like so much more could have been done, like they didn't fully expand their ideas and I find that feeling to be very disappointing. I felt that this one satisfied me without overdoing it.

"Ah. Multiple exclamation points, the true sign of a deranged mind."