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Summary: This movie insulted my intelligence...
Review: along with the new Starwars. It is one of those movies that you want your 8 bucks and 2 hours of your life back afterwards. The plot is lame. The psycho-thriller classic turns a flop & dumb special effects-fest. I recommend "the Matrix" "Taxi Driver (remastered)" etc. for your holiday viewing.
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Summary: Succeeds at a Ghost Story, Fails at Horror
Review: When I saw the trailer for The Haunting, I was expecting the film to be a "thrill-a-minute scarefest." When I went to see it, I left the theater feeling pretty disappointed in not feeling scared (in fact, I walked right over and saw Blair Witch for a 2nd time.) Now that The Haunting is on video (DVD specifically,) I wanted to give it another chance. After a 2nd viewing, I felt it was a good "old fashion" ghost story, but it still failed at being scary. This movie is Lili Taylor's movie. Her portrayal of a sweet, hopeless romantic is very convincing. Everyone else in the cast is along for the ride. Owen Wilson has to be one of the worst actors around. I would cringe everytime he was on screen. The story about the hill house was good, if not a little vague at times. There are many good scenes that are slightly scary, but none of it is terrifying. Even though her acting was solid, where was a scene where Lili Taylor was smelling something that was pretty laughable. The good: special effects, sound effects, story, Lili Taylor (most of the time.) The bad: most of the acting, some horrible dialogue. All in all, I can recommend this film because it is fun, has very little graphic violence and next to no profanity. I give the Haunting a B-.
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Summary: The Haunting
Review: I really enjoyed the remake of this movie. I thought it was well directed with great effects in it. It was more intense then the original. I think if you are a scary movie buff and enjoy a good ol fashion ghost storie this movie is a must see.
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Summary: A waste of time and money
Review: Good cast, high budget movie. The movie was supposed to concentrate on a group of 4 people (all insomniacs) who were going to stay in an isolated house, to test their reactions to pressure situations.Was it the lack of direction, the lack of story line, or the lack of interest from the actors that led this movie to become a flop ? Watching this movie was a chore. It was about as exciting as "The Avengers". There's not a lot that can be said, apart from save your money and get a better movie (The Sixth Sense was made on a cheaper budget & was far more exciting).
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Summary: Very sorry indeed.
Review: Not scary, not original, bad computer fx, bad acting and no suspense! What a waste of money...
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Summary: ABSOLUTLEY HORRIBLE
Review: How any sane, intelligent person(perhaps that explains it!) could recommend this overblown crap-fest is beyond me. Quite posibbly the worst horror movie ever made. Get the original 1963 version or read the classic novel--BUT, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON THIS TRAIN WRECK OF A MOVIE!
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Summary: lame Story But Scary
Review: Man I really liked this movie mainly because of the set designand the big budget special effects. It is based on the Shirley jacksonnovel which i am in the process of reading. I rented the original Haunting from 1963 it was ok the first hour was really good but the second hour it was kinda boring. But this came out and had to see it. The cast is first rate including, Liam Neeson,Lilly Taylor, Owen Wilson and Cathrine Zeta-Jones. All of which do there best but really the characters are underdeveloped which is a shame because if it had a better developed characters and still the same special effects it would probably gone over with critics alot better. But what we have fills the bill but it nedds some improvments.
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Summary: not-so-cheap thrills
Review: I'll agree with everyone that this movie wasn't really faithfull to the novel and would have fared better if it had relied on a more subtle approach to a good scare (like the '63 version and the Sixth Sense) instead of a special effects exravaganza but folks let's face it, this was a 'summer' movie and summer movies mean one thing... mondo special effects, huge budgets and big sound! I am a lover of all types of movies and summer movies with all their noise and CGI are an American tradition now just like baseball and apple pie and we should just enjoy them for what they are and stop complaining. Let's save the more intellectual films for the winter and spring months. Bring on the popcorn! Can't wait for The Haunting to come out on DVD.
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Summary: Poor plot
Review: The actors in the movie are a great bunch, but when the plot is very weak, you dont get very much. I mean Liam Neeson! Hes a great actor, but was very weak in this movie. it wasnt scary at all, the the end of the movie was bad. There was maybe one scary part, which was when a fake lookin skeleton popped up and made me jump. That was all. I dont recommend this movie to people who like scary movies, b/c it was a polar opposite.
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Summary: Awesome movie!! Scary and suspensful!!
Review: This was a great movie, I don't know why so many people hated it. This movie was scary, exciting and always had me on the edge of my seat! If you didn't like it, I have no idea why. You missed out on a great film. Some people are just to hard to please. Go see this movie. I'm telling you, you won't regret it!
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