A review of the DVD. There was a terrible remake of this film made in 1999, which a lot of people have reviewed in this category, but the image and synopsis suggest it's the old film we should be writing about here (I suspect two categories were merged at some point). This is a real classic from 1963, a very frightening ghost story adapted from Shirley Jackson's celebrated novel The Haunting of Hill House. It was made by M-G-M in Britain, and directed by Robert Wise - he'd cut his teeth on spooky Val Lewton horrors like The Body Snatcher before progressing to more mainstream work. His next film after The Haunting was The Sound of Music. A ...  Read the complete review

While not the scarefest that the original was, The Haunting remake of last year was a good looking film, with the house and its posessions lookng great, it was made for DVD. The film begins with three insoniacs answering an ad in the newspaper to help in an experiment that will shed more light on their sleeplessness. Dr. Marrow (Liam Neeson) is taking them to stay in Hill House, a gigantic mansion in New england, where in isolation he can study their behaviours. Nell (Lily Taylor) is wanting to come to get away from her life and the death of her mother, Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is here for the adventure while Luke (Owen Wilson) justs want to get some sleep. ...  Read the complete review

*Film only review* Ask someone to name a ride that will be in every fun fair and amusement park and people will probably start off with – a rollercoaster. However, after this the only other staple ride is the Ghost Ride/Haunted House. It must be noted that there are two distinct types of haunted house; the good ones and the absolute rubbish ones. Many a time as a small child in my local village fate I would go on into the haunted house to be confronted by aging models and screams emanating from aged and crackling speakers. However, visit somewhere like Euro Disney and you will see a top quality haunted house that has top of the range animatronics and jolly ...  Read the complete review

Well in my book there are two types of horror film. The psychological horror film, like Hitchcock, where tensions are created and a real sense of horror stays with you for days after the film. Unfortunately this film strays into the second category. It is a horror film not based on plot, not based on tensions, but purely based on effects and the hopes of a cheap fright. Did that make any sense to anyone other than me? The film wasn’t likely to live up to my expectations, as I have read the book and that was fab and I’ve seen the first film, I think that was made in the late 40’s – 50’s. Either way they both created a superb ...  Read the complete review

RELEASED: 1963, Cert.12 RUNNING TIME: Approx. 111 mins DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Robert Wise SCREENPLAY: Nelson Gidding MUSIC: Humphrey Searle MAIN CAST:- Richard Johnson as Dr. John Markway Julie Harris as Eleanor Claire Bloom as Theodora Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FILM ONLY REVIEW NB: ***It appears that several people here have reviewed the remake of this film rather than the original 1963 version, the latter being the topic of this product on Dooyoo. What I write below applies to the original film.*** Dr. ...  Read the complete review