It isn't often at all that a director will treat his audience to the actual making of a haunted house. I should say that this film is not for the faint of heart, and it is not for any viewer who has any problem at all with perversity of any kind. Perverse a'plenty, folks! So, we have a decrepit stone Georgian mansion, a "family" of weirdos, and a girl who doesn't know head from tails. This is a classic Gothic film, Mystery, and, yes, Slasher all rolled into one. No jump scares, though, which usually makes or breaks a film for me, though I will still watch The Innkeepers and a few others, jump scares and all. Ever really wonder what the "prequel" of a haunted house is? This film will give you some idea. Briefly, a wealthy man impregnates one of his servants, and the entire house staff are asked to raise the child--a little girl. Finally, the man's wife commits suicide. The girl grows up and leaves home. She comes back because of an accident which has taken over 90% of her memory. She believes the servants are her father, mother, brother, and sister--until the butler lets her in on the truth. The rich man had been cruel to his servants, so when they found out that she had been in a severe accident which wiped away her memory, and that she was coming back home, they brought a plan of revenge into action by killing the landowner and pretending to be her family. In a final twist, it is discovered that the woman laying her mother is really her mother--the woman raped by her real father, resulting in her being born to begin with. Oddly, the revenge is taken out on the child who was raised wealthy even though she was the daughter of the servant woman. (James Cosmo performs a career-killer when he rapes the girl in front of her real mother and the other servants.)