You never want to rip into actors. They're a sensitive bunch. They do a job that brutalises the soul at the best of times... And yet I really struggle with Daniel Radcliffe.

It seems to have been made by people who couldn't decide if their film was a horror flick, a whodunit, or a Hellboy knockoff.

Only in spurts does the film achieve an outre flavour of pop Gogol.

Horror and supernatural aficionados should seek a bloody fairytale elsewhere.