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	The Haunting (1963)
		Hill House, the eerie environment of The Haunting is unbelievable, vast staircases that seem to be be endless, towering walls with windows, that seem to be, and might actually be, starting at you, and an exterior that should have earned The Haunting an Academy Award for Cinematography.
		The Haunting is one of the most memorable films I've seen, capturing the terror that Hill House brings to these four people, simply, but quite effectively, using a moving, tense score, and the eerie atmosphere.
		The film's brief running time of 112 minutes could have been stretched into 212 minutes, and could have still been satisfactory, explaining more about the birth of Hill House, the hauntings of Hill House, and the future of Hill House.
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	The Haunting (1999 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Haunting is a 1999 horror film directed by Jan de Bont.
		Both films are based on the novel The Haunting of Hill House, written by Shirley Jackson and published in 1959.
		Main character Eleanor Vance has been forced to leave the house by her sister, Jane, but a phone call brings her attention to an experiment in insomnia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Haunting_(1999_film) (211 words)

	James Sanford reviews The Haunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 1963 "Haunting" remains one of the eeriest ghost stories ever filmed; though Wise never showed a single spirit, he and his cast created such an overpowering atmosphere of menace the movie is still potent today.
		The current "Haunting" comes from director Jan de Bont ("Twister," "Speed"), who is better known as a master of disaster and an orchestrator of special effects than as a craftsman capable of creating a mood piece.
		In the 1963 film, Harris' Eleanor was torn between returning the affections of Bloom's Theo, who was openly lesbian, and Johnson's Dr. Markway.
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	AfterEllen.com - Review of The Haunting
		The film received mostly negative critical reviews--largely around the over-use of computer-generated special effects and criticism that the movie just wasn't scary--but did okay at the box office.
		The rest of the film shows Theo most frequently running to the rescue of someone--usually Nell, but also some of the male characters--and she ultimately becomes Nell's protector as Nell becomes the target of the ghost's wrath.
		Ultimately, however, The Haunting is not a character-driven movie--unless you count the house as a character (which it almost is in this film)--and most of the screen time is taken up by characters reacting to the house's evil acts, not each other, so there isn't enough time to really develop any of the characters fully.
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	The Haunting Reviews
		When The Haunting arrived in theaters, all I kept hearing about was the overdone special effects and the fact that very often the unseen bumps in the night in a horror film are far scarier than those that you can put a face to courtesy of special...
		The 1963 thriller The Haunting (based on the book by Shirley Jackson) was a psychological thriller that creeped deep within the crevices of the human brain, exploring mental terror and ghostly happenings, seeing the film remade is frightening.
		Loosely based on the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House, and the 1963 film The Haunting, The Haunting is the first memorable haunted house flick since 1979's The Amityville Horror.
	www.killermovies.com /h/thehaunting/reviews (1164 words)

	Haunting, The - Review - Clumsy remake
		In the 1963 movie, supernatural investigator Dr Markway is researching the existence of ghosts, and visits Hill House, a mansion associated with a history of death and insanity.
		The supernatural manifestations are, for the most part, rationally explained away in the 1963 film, however, in the 1999 remake, the obvious and heavy-handed computer-generated effects cannot be so easily dismissed, especially as the film approaches its clumsy and preposterous conclusion.
		Va nce is an implausible character whose motives towards the end of the film become far from clear, and Taylor seems to have been as bemused by this as the film's audience would be.
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	The Haunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Haunting was filmed in Harlaxton and the nearby Belvior Castle during March and April 1999.
		As the film has just been released it is time to post some pictures of the filming and some related articles for sale from Amazon.com.
		This was the entrance to the Manor for the film.
	www.harlaxton1.freeserve.co.uk /the.htm (238 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The Haunting (1963)
		As a haunted house film, it starts beautifully--Wise lingers on an eerie fl and white shot of Hill House while narration tells us the creepy backstory, which is chock full of death--suicides, probable murders, early intimations that some spiritual force intertwined with the house itself killed people, etc.
		The first two scenes, described in my first two paragraphs, expressed classical horror atmosphere and classical sci-fi brewings in turn -- suggesting a film that would lead to an intriguing mix of the two genres; one that might have resembled "traditional" 1950's sci-fi horror but with Universal eeriness in place of AIP camp.
		This is really a film about relationships and the complex triangle (which at various times becomes a weak quadrangle) between Theodora, Eleanor and Dr. Markway.
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	Ghosts in the Movies
		Topper (1937)—A comedy with decidedly nonthreatening ghosts, this film delighted theater audiences and removed tales of hauntings from the familiar creepy castles and the wild-eyed people with psychotic impulses that had become overly familiar in the horror films of the 1920s and 1930s.
		The film is extremely subtle in presenting the spirits, and therein lies much of its power to seize the imagination and to provoke genuine chills.
		The Haunting (1963)—This film has become a classic with horror film buffs and serious psychical researchers, both of whom laud director Robert Wise for choosing to use subtlety in the manner in which he presents the ghosts in this adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (1959).
	www.unexplainedstuff.com /Ghosts-and-Phantoms/Ghosts-in-the-Movies.html (1176 words)

	The Haunting: A Comparison Study of the Modern and Classic Drama
		This is however not the case with the 1999 remake of "The Haunting", starring Liam Neeson and Lily Taylor.
		Despite this, you still come away with the suggestion that the house was still haunted for some of the occurrences.
		While the story line of the classic film had been incorporated, it was brought to a halt very early on rather than carried through to the end.
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	The Haunting (1963)
		Wise chose to shoot the film in fl-and-white at a time when fl-and-white film stock was almost entirely a thing of the past and it is an artistic choice that only serves to heighten the atmosphere.
		slammed the film for what it concluded was overt homophobia - based on one scene where Harris reacts in revulsion, saying she doesn't like Bloom's 'type' - blowing the entire almost never stated aspect of the film (and what is only one character's reaction after all) into the entire reason for dismissing it).
		was remade as The Haunting (1999), which is possibly one of the worst remakes of all time.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/haunting63.htm (623 words)

	The Haunting (1999)
		The Haunting (1963) is one of if not the greatest of all horror films - a haunted house story where all the ghosts exist inside the audience's own head, where nothing is seen, everything entirely suggested.
		The middle of the film drags the story to a standstill to introduce a backstory about Hugh Crain having imprisoned children from his mill in the house.
		The ending turns into a laughably banal wrapup wherein Eleanor discovers she is (yes!!!) really Hugh's grandchild and becomes the deliverer of the children's ghosts, Hugh's ghost is dragged down to Hell to be judged and Eleanor dies and her spirit is seen going off into a glowing hereafter.
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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.
		The film tells the story of several people, two of them psychically "sensitive," assembled in an old New England mansion with a troubled history and an evil reputation.
		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.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9910/27/haunted.house (1152 words)

	This Old House - page 1
		Filming began in November of 1998 at the Raleigh Studios complex in Manhattan Beach, California, and then moved to a continuous series of enormous Hill House interiors built within the cavernous "Spruce Goose" domed hangar in Long Beach.
		Asked if he discussed the 1963 film with De Bont, Lindenlaub recalls, "Jan thought it had aged a bit in terms of the visual look, and therefore would not be such a great reference.
		For example, if an entire film is shot with green-tinted lighting, the effect may seem imposing at first, but the eye will adapt, and after a while the audience won’t even see the green anymore.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/aug99/house/pg1.htm (1411 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Haunting (1999)
		DreamWorks' 1999 release of the haunting is a loose adaptation of the 1963 film by the same name.
		The film is presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic aspect ratio and is visually perfect.
		The effects are wondrous and I was truly amazed at their quality, and their seamless integration into the film, but at the expense of telling the story, which is never a good thing.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thehaunting.php (1304 words)

	DVD Times - The Haunting (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Haunting is based on Shirley Jackson's novel 'The Haunting of Hill House' and concerns a Dr John Markway who is an anthropologist and psychic explorer who has hired Hill House to perform 'experiments in the supernatural'.
		The Haunting is a film that has little concern for the viewers safety, as it were, and enjoys toying with them.
		The Haunting is a film which deserves the status of horror classic.
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	The Cold Spot -- The Haunting (1999)
		Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House already received a good, faithful adaptation in 1963's The Haunting, so I wasn't bothered by the idea that Speedy director Jan De Bont was going to take his adaptation in another direction.
		Watching this film, I feel as though the people who made it have lost all faith in their audience's ability to be scared by the unknown--so they show us everything, and made a movie that was juuuust this side of boring.
		All the haunted house tricks are remarkably obvious and blunted, the characters are bland (with the exception of Owen Wilson's Luke), and there are plot holes the size of Texas.
	www.theflagship.net /coldspot/h/haunting-99.html (885 words)

	Amazon.com: The Haunting (1963) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Certain to remain one of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is antithetical to all the gory horror films of subsequent decades, because its considerable frights remain implicitly rooted in the viewer's sensitivity to abject fear.
		The genius of The Haunting lies in the restraint of Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding, who elicit almost all of the film's mounting terror from the psychology of its characters--particularly Eleanor, whose grip on sanity grows increasingly tenuous.
		The Haunting is a rather faithful adaptation of Jackson's dark and spooky novel.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Haunting [1963]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Made in 1963 The Haunting is one of the best-ever movie ghost stories and was adapted from Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House.
		I watched this film aged 8 years old on the BBC on a late saturday night in the 1970's, and it is a film that has stayed with me for years as the best 'horror' film ever made.
		The scene in The Haunting where a central character is standing in a doorway looking up at the ceiling and a 'creaking wood' sound with visual distortion was used as an effect by Sam Raimi in Evil Dead 2 (which is another great film, although for different reasons).
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	THE HAUNTING Movie Review - HauntedHouses.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A remake of its 1963 predecessor, "The Haunting" is a character-driven, psychologically suspenseful, subconsciously scary film that documents three insomniac patients' experiences in the haunted Hill House as one of them attempts to unveil the macabre secret brooding behind the nightly paranormal activity.
		Deeply rooted in the cognitive powers of the subconscious and the imagination, "The Haunting" is a remake of the 1963 film and Shirley Jackson novel that allows one's imagination and primal childhood fears to build the suspense within the film.
		Set in New England in contemporary time, the film begins with a quick introduction to the protagonist, Eleanor (Lili Taylor), and her dire situation after her sick mother passes and her relations attempt to strip her from her home and only chance at security.
	www.hauntedhouses.com /movies/haunting2.htm (1314 words)

	FilmHead.com
		This film is based on the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, which was previously filmed in 1963 by Robert Wise.
		What he doesn't expect is that the house is really haunted by the original master, and the spirits of children who were killed there over a hundred years ago.
		An interesting note: this film was originally going to have the same title as the novel, unlike the 1963 film, which was also called The Haunting.
	filmhead.com /reviews/thehaunting.html (621 words)

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		But flexing her acting muscles doesn't seem to be a prerequisite for her portrayal of Theo, a sketchy figure whose bisexuality is revealed in a weak attempt to provide some character dimension.
		When Eleanor begins to hallucinate early in the film, the audience knows that she will be a key figure in the nightmare to come.
		But the real star of the film is the house itself, looking like a cross between Xanadu, the isolated mansion in "Citizen Kane", and the creepy abode of the Addams Family.
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	CNN - Review: Effects don't help un-scary 'Haunting' - July 23, 1999
		Otherwise we'd have no film, would we, since the house is really the main star and if there were a story to steal it would have stolen it.
		The 1963 version of this same story is so much better because its director Robert Wise, lacked the technology to make his "Haunting" into a festival of effects.
		Taylor is a fine actress who has been seen mainly in independent films such as John Waters' "Pecker" (1998), "I Shot Andy Warhol" (1996), and 1994's "Cold Fever." It's a shame she chose this vehicle for a venture into the mainstream.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9907/23/review.haunting (848 words)

	EI > Reviews > The Haunting (1999)
		The Haunting was originally a small budgeted film from 1963 with the same name.
		The entire film spends too much time building up its climax and when it's supposed to pay off here and there, it relies too much on convincing the audience that special effects will work better than the story and this is a major miscalculation.
		The fate of the characters in the film's last act is the true testament as to just how bad this film is. You can always judge a good or bad film by how much you care about what happens to the major players.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/thehaunting.php (724 words)

	The Cold Spot \| Audio \| "The Haunting" (1999) OST, Jerry Goldsmith
		Orchestral soundtrack to the 1999 film The Haunting, the second adaptation of Shirley Jackson's book The Haunting of Hill House.
		Nothing like this was in the 1963 film (with the possible exception of the score for Eleanor's introduction), and I don't remember a carnival being in the book, either.
		If the film is half as good as the music that accompanies it, it will be fantastic.
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	Le Feu follet / The fire within / Will o' the wisp / 1963 / film review / Louis Malle / Maurice Ronet
		Louis Malle’s bleakest film is this haunting portrait of a wreck of a man quietly counting down his last few hours before his well-planned suicide.
		Like any great artist, Malle projects his own traumas into his film, and it is interesting to speculate how much of the director there is in the film's principal character, a disillusioned writer for whom suicide offers the only mechanism for achieving a life with meaning.
		The film’s melancholic tone and rigorous lack of sentimentality is beautifully underscored by Erik Satie’s piano music.
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	The Haunting
		Based on the Shirley Jackson novel "The Haunting of Hill House", which was also previously made into the 1963 film classic "The Haunting".
		Initial - For its time in 1963, "The Haunting" was a creepy classic and somewhat of a precursor to the more FX-filled and ultimately superior 80's flick "Poltergeist".
		The main character is so insecure you wish she die as quickly as possible, the body count is extremely low, the pace is slow and none of the scares work anymore.
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