Absolutely dire remake.

It's an utterly, utterly useless remake. I'm pretty sure it garnered enough money to make the producers happy, but the product is just rotten. Shame, really, because the ingredients were all there and they made a complete hash of it.

The death scenes are not shocking enough like in the original film, specially the nanny's suicide; in the original film her body crashes into the window, but in the remake, her body crashes on the wall and the director opted for a close-up shot of her shoe falling into the punch bowl. What the hell was that about?!

Mrs. Baylock played by Billie Whitelaw (she's priceless in Hot Fuzz, btw) was spooky, but Mia Farrow's Baylock is a pointless dullard. And what's with the howling sounds? Every scene there is a howling sound. Again, what the hell was that all about?!

Oh and it felt like a Lexus commercial at some point...

I could go on, but if John Moore and David Seltzer couldn't be bothered making a decent remake, then I couldn't be bothered to go on listing the various faults in this film.

Frankly, I hated it.