Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: dull

Perhaps the movie will prove a winner because the book cannot remotely claim the title. The work is often dull and barely kept my interest. None of the characters felt genuine or likeable in any sense, and I was left not caring what happened to the lot. From the ads on television, the film seems more of a horror flick than anything else, and the exclusion of much of the tedium in the novel might save it from a similar fate.