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| | CNN - Haunted houses: The film genre that won't die - October 27, 1999 |
 | | Readers of Jackson's novel confused her title and the title of the 1958 "House on Haunted Hill," so, in an attempt to avoid further mix-up, Jackson's title was shortened simply to "The Haunting" for the 1963 film version. |
 | | Often, its previous occupants are "dead people." In a sense, a house is a cemetery and library, a repository of all the things that happened in it, however horrible. |
 | | The new version of "House on Haunted Hill," which co-stars Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Peter Gallagher and Taye Diggs, was co-produced by Joel Silver ("Lethal Weapon," 1987 and "The Matrix," 1999) and Robert Zemeckis (director of "Back to the Future," 1985 and "Forrest Gump," 1994), filmmakers not known for their subtlety. |
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