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| | The Haunting . Austin Chronicle . 08-02-99 |
 | | D: Jan De Bont; with Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern, Marian Seldes, Virginia Madsen, Alix Koromzay, Todd Field. |
 | | Silly me. Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House gets the full effects-laden, end-of-the-century treatment from action director De Bont (Speed, Twister), which essentially means more computer-generated phantasms and a much, much louder audio track than Robert Wise's superlative 1963 version. |
 | | Unfortunately, De Bont has wedged so much bang-pow drivel in his film that it ends up being about as tantalizing as a desiccated Gummi Bear. |
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