blackberrybabe As a Twilight and Pattinson fan, I was extremely eager to see The Haunted Airman. After it was over I wondered what the hell I just saw.The film version of the book, The Haunting of Toby Jugg by Dennis Wheatley, is very choppy and confusing. Each scene gets stranger as it progresses and its running length, seventy minutes, is not enough to justify a conclusion. It was as though director Durlacher decided to just end it because he couldn't think of anything else. Robert Pattinson plays Jugg and he is the best thing in this movie. This was the first non-Twilight film with him in it that I saw that PROVED he is an actor. He is absolutely breathtaking and you can clearly see his descent into madness. He realizes that his lover, Julia, has turned against him and the only person he can trust is himself. This sets off a chain of events that will lead to a tragic end.Pattinson does very well playing a paraplegic; he drags his legs around convincingly and shows his humiliation when he has to be sponge-bathed by a nurse (Melissa Lloyd). His wheelchair fits the time, the old ones that were run manually and he moves fast! When Toby wants to get away, there is no stopping him. It is a brilliant performance and Pattinson shines.The second reason, if there are others, to see this short film is Rachel Sterling. She plays the beautiful aunt-in-law of Toby's who starts a relationship with Dr. Burns and pulls away from him. Sterling is gorgeous and you can see the chemistry between them; it is as though they really WERE the characters and the strain of the relationship is evident…especially at the end.Other stand out performers include Julian Sands as Dr. Hal Burns. Although the run time is short, you learn quickly that he is the one driving Jugg slowly mad. He is slime and Sands pulls it off perfectly. When he steals Jugg's letters, I was ready to throw something at the screen. Sister Sally Grant is played by the spectacular Melissa Lloyd. She shines in this role. She appears to be Jugg's friend and confidante, but it's clear whose side she's REALLY on. I would recommend this movie for the acting but nothing else. It is good to watch near Halloween if you want to feel your skin crawl and jump over every shadow or spider. Pattinson makes this film worth it.

cate_gorski YES, THERE ARE MASSIVE SPOILERS IN THIS POST.Does it matter? ..... no.No, no, and no. One hour and ten minutes of my life and a dollar and ten cents that I will never get back.Not to say it didn't have a certain... theoretical something. But Barney on a cracker, it was bad! Movie! You are supposed to have a PLOT. Not a series of oft-unintelligible images framed by a well-regarded actor, a pretty older gal and a semi-hot teen heartthrob who is famous for acting intensely disaffected. Or is that disaffectedly intense? Whichever one, he does. For the whole movie.I rented this thinking: hey, young Leo DiCaprio wasn't at all bad when he had leeway to ACT (even before Aviator, in which he was rather awesome). I liked Pattinson as Cedric Digory well enough. I think I'll give the shiny vampire kid a chance.*sob* Oh, I rue the day...To add insult to injury (do those TV lawyers do pro-bono for intellectual bludgeoning?), every time I thought something would HAPPEN... it turned out to either be a 'dream' (ARGH! CHEAT!!) or some never discussed again empty plot point.Except for the suicide. Who then comes back. To... haunt him? Give friendly advice with a mute child from... the bombing??? I JUST watched this dreck an hour ago and I have NO IDEA.Save yourself the agony: it's not the actors faults (probably), the script should have been tossed on the 'interesting but only for a short story' pile, the director should have called in sick (it might have been better! Julian Sands would have been, I'll wager), and the cinematographer... needs to STOP WATCHING MICHAEL BAY FILMS. Not EVERY SCENE that you want to be DRAMATIC needs to be filmed by HAND by a person suffering chronic Jazz Hands Syndrome!! Sorry to get so shouty, but... OK, any movie that starts with the Vienna Spooks Choir "AAAAAHHHH!"ing spookily as the camera pans through spooky trees to a spooky house while using a spookily blue filter (for almost the entire bloody movie) needs to be shot. Erm, never shot. Yes. Never shot.My tuppence.

Gertrude Fletcher NOTHING HAPPENED IN THIS MOVIE!!! I figured it was just a slow starter and kept watching. Then the credits started rolling. ????? Neither the character development or the plot have any substance. I came into this with no bias (i.e., I am not a crazy Twilight fan but I wasn't going to discount this without cause). There really is no point in watching this movie. I didn't find it unbearable and torturous as some other reviewers did, but honestly there was nothing to be gained from having seen it. The best thing I can say about it is... at least it wasn't 2 hours long. There is so much emotion that could have been tapped into considering the subject matter... this really fell short. I would not recommend this to anybody except a preteen girl who isn't really watching the movie anyway, just staring at the average looking actor who plays a crappy sparkly vampire elsewhere.

bob-rutzel-1 Toby Jugg, an Airman, is sent to a convalescent home to recuperate from wounds suffered in the War. He slowly loses his mind in the home.I took this DVD out because of Robert Pattinson who was great in TWILIGHT (also a great movie) and he was a Vampire. His picture on the box looked like he might be a Vampire. I watched the movie and kept waiting for the Vampire within him to emerge. Before you start in on me, consider how Mr. Pattinson was made up to look on the box. Like a Vampire, right? Same with the movie. He still looked like a Vampire considering the make-up, the dark scenes and hesitant dialogue. I waited in vain. Boo Hoo.The movie lacked tension, suspense and should have had more paranormal stuff sprinkled around. All the dark scenes and black birds didn't contribute anything toward anything scary or any suspense. The acting by all was fine and included another range for Mr. Pattinson. Actually, the whole story was kind of boring, draggy and the relationships with his Dr. Burns (Sands) and his aunt Julia (Stirling) were not well defined and all was left to our imagination. Hmmmm, now we have to work at things…….Besides this not being a Vampire movie, was there anything else that didn't seem right? Why yes, glad you asked. Toby is in a wheel chair all the time and we see him on the first floor of a mansion-like house. We also see him on the 3rd floor. How did he get from one floor to another? I saw no ramps or an elevator. And, I felt I was misled into thinking this was a Vampire movie -- Probably because of the success of TWILIGHT, and his picture on the DVD box. I am sure all that was intentional. Am positive. I better start reading the DVD boxes from now on. Where do you go to find a good Vampire movie these days? Guess I have to wait for TWILIGHT 2. Violence: Yes. Mostly war stuff, bombings; and something else at the end. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.