The changes to the story were mostly superficial, and the adaptation generally mirrors the novella's tone, creating unease and horror through distortions of reality, not producing a "screaming-banshees-and-horrible-corpses style of ghost story".
The changes to the story were mostly superficial, and the adaptation generally mirrors the novella's tone. Critic Matthew Baylis observed that the film creates unease and horror through distortions of reality, and is not a "screaming-banshees-and-horrible-corpses style of ghost story".