The opening credits can be a bit creepy—with several tarot cards being displayed, showing several things that resemble death. Then we see the woman collapse from drinking the poison, culminating in the brief but still horrifying shot of Gracey's dead body hanging by a rope. Very brief, but still quite a shocker.
Master Gracey:[after reading Elizabeth's real letter] What's the meaning of this? Ramsley: Must we continue to listen to the ramblings of a lunatic? Master Gracey: But it is written in her hand! Jim: Yeah, it's written in her hand, explain that, Ramsley! Master Gracey: Well?! Ramsley: ...Your union was unacceptable. I tried to tell you, but you wouldn't listen. Master Gracey: So you killed her. Ramsley: I told you it would be a mistake to run away with that girl. Master Gracey: But I loved her! Was love my mistake?! Ramsley:YES!!! I tried to protect you. All these years, I've sacrificed for you. But what would you understand of sacrifice, duty, or honor? You loved her. Well, damn you. DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!
There is something about the ringing telephone in the middle of the empty secret corridor.
The scene where Jim walks through the corridor, and the way some of the portraits change. A woman turns into a tiger, and a portrait of Napoleon on his horse turns into a skeleton, complete with blood and muscles.
Sara's experiences throughout the film. Picture coming to an extremely isolated house with your family, then having to stay the night due to bad weather, getting into a fight with your spouse, and gradually realizing that the owner of the house is not who he claimed to be and that he obsessively believes you're his deceased fiancee — and the butler is not only encouraging him in this delusion, he's captured your children and is fully willing to kill them if you don't cooperate and marry his employer. All this is horrific enough without the fact that Sara's captors are ghosts.
