CHILD'S PLAY After Mom's suicide, Dad (Robert De Niro) moves with Emily to a remote woodland house. That's when the hostile ''Charlie'' starts making his presence felt. Is he real? Is he a ghost? Or is he a projection of Emily's emotionally disturbed mental state?

CHILLING MOMENT When a cop asks her what's in the picture she's drawing, Emily says, ''You. Dying.''

WHY SHE SCARES US Ever since her starring role opposite Sean Penn in I Am Sam (2001) at age 7, Fanning has seemed eerily like a little adult. But her dyed-brown locks and thousand-yard stare in this movie indicated a new level of unchildlike gravity.