Robert Wise’s The Haunting remains one of the creepiest haunted house films ever made, despite the fact that you never actually see a ghost. Instead, it’s all shadows, creaking doors, ominous wallpaper, and the fragile unravelling of Julie Harris’s nerves. What Wise delivered wasn’t a carnival of scares, but a psychological chamber piece that still…
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The Haunting (1999) – Review
In 1963, Robert Wise helmed an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, which was a wonderfully executed psychological thriller with subtle horror aspects. Flash forward to 1999, when Jan de Bont, the director of Twister, helmed a new take on the novel, one that didn’t bother with pesky little things like subtlety.