OH WHEN will this "twist" die... Please write to your MP and stop the boredom.

Rob DeNiro is psychologist David Calloway, whose daughter Emily (the ever-reliable Dakota Fanning) gets pretty dark after the suicide of her mum.

The pair move away to escape the murky memories but Emily gets no better.

In fact, she starts fraternising with an "imaginary" friend Charlie.

She thinks he's fun, but daddy's not so sure after he found nasty words scribbled in his bathroom.

Hide And Seek shifts around nicely until the end hoves into view, and for all Australian director John Polson boasts the film's intelligent, it damned well isn't.