The Haunting | Julie Harris, Claire Bloom

The Haunting | Julie Harris, Claire Bloom | The Haunting

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The Haunting

	The Haunting Julie Harris, Claire Bloom Warner Home Video, 2001 average customer review:based on 383 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a good scare

I first saw this movie on television in the mid 1960s and to this day, it is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. There is no gore, little in the way of special effects and very little violence. No cinematic tricks are really needed in this adaptation of the Shirley Jackson story. All of the fear comes from the unknown and unexplained and how each individual reacts to the phenomena that they encounter in Hill House. Just don't be confused by the remake made a few years ago. That movie lost the psychological edge of the original.

The Haunting

We received the movie in record time and it was in excellent condition. As far as the movie goes I think this original film by "Wise" is the best. It doesn't have wild special effects, but it certainly is scarry.Don't let the Black & White film turn you away it's a classic.

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Great Spooky Movie

Good, old fashioned, black and white horror film. No blood, no guts, no gore. Just scary and suspenseful.

Intriguing Ambivilance

This 1960s adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel, "The Haunting of Hill House" is one of the more disturbing ghost movies I've seen to date- not because of what you see, but for what you don't see. This isn't necessarily a movie about a haunted house, but a woman on the edge of a nervous break-down - is the house haunted, or have the internal demons of Elanor come out to play? Is the house an avatar of the original builder, a reclusive misogynist and repressed sex fiend with a punitive religious bent or just a convenient place for everyone's worst aspects to expose themselves? The fact that the film has no real special effects and is shot in black and white makes it even more unsettling, like a nightmare. The only thing that mars the entire picture is the end: the exposition at Elanor's death in the driveway should have been left out entirely as it ruins the rythmn of the nightmare dance between Elanor, the house, and her own "Victorian" past which reflects the WORST of that age.

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Pretty Good

This is, of course, a classic. It has a very nice atmosphere as well as a spooky one. I'm not going to say this is scary but more spooky than anything. The acting is good along with a good cast. I'm more of the type that likes to be scared watching a horror movie. This one didn't really scare me at all but I still think it deserves at least four stars. All and all, not a bad movie.

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