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Movies: The Haunting
The following is a movie I've watched and reviewed. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not selling DVDs. This is not a list of movies that tell you "the truth about UFOs". Simply said, I like movies. Each review is as simple and non technical as possible.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: March 29, 2006 10:20 PM
Full title: The Haunting.
Year: 1999.
Director: Jan de Bont.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern, Marian Seldes, Virginia Madsen, Todd Field, Alix Koromzay, Kadina Halliday.
Language: English.
Price: 9.99 €
Rating: 
Description: for over a century, the dark and forbidding Hill House has sat alone and abandoned...or so it seemed. Intrigued by the mansion's storied past, Dr. Marrow (Liam Neeson) lures his three subjects Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Nell (Lili Taylor) and Luke (Owen Wilson) to the site for a seemingly harmless experiment. But from the moment of their arrival, Nell seems mysteriously drawn to the house...and the attraction is frighteningly mutual. When night descends, the study goes horrifyingly awry as the subjects discover the haunting secrets that live within the walls of Hill House.
This is the remake of a 1963 movie, and it is quite good actually. This time, we see many more ghosts than in the original 1963 The Haunting. Ghost kids appear all over: behind curtains, under the covers, as sounds, as footsteps on the floor. We see even Crane at last. The sets are breathtaking: Hill House is such a wonderful place, antique, dreamy, yet scary at times. I'd love to live in there.
De Bont has followed some patterns from the original version: firstly the scene with Nell and Theo getting scared of something making strong noises and trying to enter the room, then Miss Dudley's speech about the house. Cold spots are there too. In this 1999 version, Nell is less psycho than in 1963. There are some moments that make you jum from your chair, like Luke's head being chopped.
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