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Summary: THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT HORROR FILMS OF 60'S AND 70'S
Review: THIS CLASSIC HORROR STORY WILL KEEP YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR COUCH. THIS BLACK AND WHITE FILM BUILDS SLOWLY INTRODUCING THE CAST AND WHY THEY HAVE COME TO THIS HAUNTED HOUSE. YOU NEVER SEE THE GHOST BUT WITH THE EFFECTS WHO NEEDS IT.
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Summary: still crazy after all these years......
Review: It's been 36 years since I've been affected "THE HAUNTING", and I will be affected for 36 more...IN THE NIGHT, IN THE DARK!. Just saw the modern day version and came away not totally dissapointed. But I felt an emptieness inside...this was not the old friend that scared my mind so convincingly back when I was about 7 years old without the fx, etc.The camera angles, shadows, music, character development, direction makes this film one of a kind!!!!
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Summary: Great story, not gory
Review: I got this movie a few weeks ago for my birthday. I watched it late at night (alone), and it was the scariest movie I have ever seen! It took me two and a half hours after watching it to turn my bedroom light off, and I left the T.V. on comedy shows all night! The best scene is the infamous "hand-holding"! Filled with spine-chilling scares and periods where you realize you haven't BREATHED in a while, "The Haunting" is an excellent film. Don't be fooled by the G rating.
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Summary: Excellent suspense movie, highly recommended
Review: This version of the movie is much better than the one currently in movie theaters. A must see for anyone who likes to be scared without a lot of violence and gore.
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Summary: Definitely the better of the two versions
Review: This version relied on good dialogue between the cast members. I was surprised that Robert Wise directed this movie because it is so different from "West Side Story". The movie didn't scare me. The noises and the dark shadows in my house after I saw the movie scared me! I like the premise of the original: Are there really haunted houses or are we so suggestible that we react to the unknown?There were a lot of subtexts in the movie: unrequited love, cynicism, materialism, classism (remember how the Dudleys felt about town people), lesbianism (I thought that was something the modern movie makers threw in), mental illness, etc. Those extra elements drove the movie. The reason the Blair Witch Project and this movie were so successful is that neither of them left you needless clues. During the remake, all I kept thinking was, they keep showing the pointed chandeliers- it's going to fall, the mural of the children- they're going to turn or speak or whatever. The characters never knew what was ahead-- and neither did you. The most effective part of the movie was not the cheesy sound effects but the fact that the camera captured many shadows but never captured a single room fully and well lit
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Summary: Scariest movie ever made!
Review: I first checked out this movie ten years back because my favorite horror writer Bentley Little had been raving about in in interview after interview. Indeed, it scared the hell out of me. Then I got older, went to college, got married, settled down. After I saw the de Bont debacle, however, I decided to go back and check out the Wise movie. It still holds up. There I was, a full grown adult male, with chills running down my spine and goosebumps on my arms in the middle of the day! This one is truly a classic.
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Summary: The original 'Haunting' still gives me goose bumps.
Review: I saw the remake of 'The Haunting' and although it did have it's moments it can not come close to the terrifying genius of the original movie. The original version preys on the viewers imagination and gives us such a fright without the use of special effects. The genius of the original movie is even though you may have seen it a number of times it still scares the daylights out of you.
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Summary: Proves ,once again, the original is still the best .
Review: The Robert Wise production of "The Haunting" scared me in 1963 and remains the best version of the Shirley Jackson classic story. Interestingly (to me at least), having met Mr. Wise at a screening of this film, he told me that the film that scared him as a youth was "The Cat and the Canary" from which many subsequent ghost and horror films "borrowed" techniques -the fluttering curtains, an arm reaching out to grab an unsuspecting character, etc. Mr. Wise has crafted a genuinely suspensful and creepy film here. Check out the costuming credit for a name about to burst onto the international fashion scene shortly after the film was released. This film is almost Hitchockian in its use of camera angles and suggestion rather than graphic depictions of what is scaring us. It works very well-the recent remake is all special effects and almost no atmosphere. Black and white can convey terror in a way color can't. Julie Harris and Claire Bloom are perfectly cast.
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Summary: better than the new one in theaters now!!!
Review: This haunted house story has four people who are investiagating a haunted house. They know it is haunted !!But by who or what? Eventually one of the group goes mad. The young man tries to leave ,but alas they are looked on the property !!The movie may be black and white but the suspense the actors make the movie creepy and spooky. The group eventually leaves the house after the mad person gets killed. There is very little special effects ,Jan De Bout take note!!!this movie is still scary and creepy may months after watching this video from the local library!!It is must buy!!Will this ever come to DVD?Someday I hope!!!other than that it is great and awesome movie!!!!
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Summary: An excellent rendering of a great novel.
Review: I just saw the remake. Forget about this film and forget about the novel and you'll have a good time, its not a bad flick. The Robert Wise film is much better, more atmospheric, in spite of almost no special effects (just a little visible breath in the cold spot and the "breathing" door) this is the version to own. Even if you have seen this film, please read the book. It is one of the finest pieces of writing to come out of this country in the last 50 years. Check out the first paragraph.
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