Truly grim - since the makers weren't interested in sticking to either the original plot or the characterisation it is hard to see why they bothered at all. Self indulgent, messy, with none of the eerieness or sense of fear and threat in the book and the 1939 version, you just don't care what happens to any of these people. Why a Victorian English peasant girl would talk with an Italian accent and wear what looks like a velvet riding dress is never explained, but that is just one of many anachronisms which show how half-hearted the makers' interest was. not even Peter Cushing can save it, hard though he tries.