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WatchingGrey House, youll probably be inclined to agree, though thats not necessarily a bad thing.

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How scary isGrey House?

That probably depends on your feelings about the innate creepiness of young girls.

While the girls tend toward artifice, Mantello gets good naturalistic performances from the adults.

She can set even a dud of a line spinning by delivering it with the right lumbering resentment.

The scariest thing Ive seen in a theater was probablyDana H., with its overwhelming sense of dread.

But it was also fun to see the production swing so hard at genre tropiness.

Grey Houseis at the Lyceum Theatre.