The Haunting (DVD) Reviews

SUMMARY Nell, a reserved, emotionally unstable woman used to care for her now deceased mother. She accepts an invitation to stay in an old house as an experiment, seeing it as the perfect chance to spread her wings and become more open to new things. At the house, she meets another invitee, Theo, as well as Doctor Markway, who is ...  Read the complete review

From what I have read on here some of these reviews have got muddled up with the god-awful re-make, which has reduced what should be a uniform five star rating. For the record, my review is most definitely centred on the classic 1963 chiller. Based on Shirley Jackson's equally scary and atmospheric novel, "The Haunting of Hill ...  Read the complete review

Robert Wise's 1963 The Haunting is, I'll go ahead and announce right here and now, one of my favourite films of all time. Complex, intelligent, layered, beautifully shot, wittily written - whatever one's criteria for judging the merits of these things, The Haunting meets it, shortly before scaring the very pores out the skin... The ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Having seen “The Haunting” the other night on TV I thought I’d review it for you all seen as I’ve not already done so. I guess by the name of the film you’ll be able to hazard a guess as to its content. Go on, take a wild guess. What’s that I hear? Goldfish? No you plonker, its about ghosts, ...  Read the complete review

Continuing my current theme of reviewing movies 'after the fact' because I know how popular it is, I thought I'd review something which was on TV last week. Once again, don't blame me if you wasted two hours of your life needlessly or reeeeally wanted to see it but missed it, y'all are just as capable of reading the TV guide as ...  Read the complete review

It was Halloween so I thought I would rent a creepy film to watch, so I went and got ?The Haunting?. I hadn?t actually looked on websites before hiring this as I usually do, I just went for it, and my theory about checking up on movies before renting them held itself up proud as sadly, ?The Haunting? which is a horror failed to be scary and failed ...  Read the complete review

Ok! a lot of you wanted more! Here goes... In 1963 (I think) a black and white film entitled 'The Haunting' came out. It was about a group of people who are sent to stay in a house as part of a ghost study. Of course they did in this film. Yet the true masterpeice was that special effects didn't exist as they do ...  Read the complete review

The horror movie industry has been relatively slow, lately. The times of Friday the 13th (oh, last friday by the way), Halloween and the likes have clearly passed. All that is left are horror-spoofs like the Scary Movie I and II. Right? Think again. They are still being made, only not with mind-boggling dumb plots and even worse (and ...  Read the complete review

The general opinion among many of Jan de Bot’s ‘The Haunting’ is not very good at all. In fact his name has been associated with quite a few poor films, Speed 2 to name just one. This 1999 film is based on the book by Shirley Jackson and is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name. For many like myself who have never read the ...  Read the complete review

Last night, 'The Haunting' received its premier on Sky television, and with little better to do with my Easter Saturday evening, I sat down to watch it. I remembered the film receiving a lukewarm response from critics upon its release back in 1999, but was curious to find out just how bad the movie was. I have previously seen the 1963 ...  Read the complete review

The Haunting stars Catherine Zeta Jones, Liam Neeson, Owen Nelson and Lili Taylor. At the beginning of the film, we find Elanor, a young woman who has just lost her house, as her Mum died and left the property to her sister. After a huge argument with her sister, Elanor recieves a strange phonecall. It tells her to look at an advert in ...  Read the complete review

When you're remaking a movie, as Jeremiah Figgs-Nottle is very prone to say, you've got to make something new or dave27 will give you a right slagging off. Like Madonna's very dubious recreation of Don McLean's classic 'American Pie' single, this remake of a black and white cult horror classic from the 1960's ...  Read the complete review

How? How could they so aggressively ruin such a classic horror film? I'm almost at a loss for words. 'The Haunting' was a wonderful film, the direction, atmosphere and quality so beyond reproach. I fail to understand how this modern retread can be so bad. In case you haven't seen the original (and you really should, believe ...  Read the complete review

The Plot: Neeson’s Dr. David Marrow is that most cinematic scientists: The sweaty-browed kind, whose insatiable quest for useless knowledge clouds his short-term judgement. Hence, his bright idea to lure three insomniacs to the gigantic Hill House with the promise of a sleep-disorder studies. In reality, he is studying fear. Imagine the ...  Read the complete review

Jan de Bont has something of an up and down career in film making.The cinematographer turned Director hit the big time with speed,then found He was contractually tied to its uninspired sequal.Then came Twister a rollercoaster ride of awesome effects but the film lacked character development. The Haunting is both a step forward and ...  Read the complete review

I have just watched this film, having hired it out for the night on DVD. I was intrigued by the title of the film 'The Haunting' which should have been self explanatry. I have glanced at the titles of other opinions on this film, and that alone (I havent read the opinions yet) tells me that other dooyooers were not best impressed! Well ...  Read the complete review

This was no great horror film, in fact it put me to sleep on numerous occasions due to boring story and the lack of imagination. It was however visually stunning, using the height of technology to make the ghosts and stuff. But this didn't in any way compensate for the bad acting and terrifyingly bad script. The jist of ...  Read the complete review

I looked in the other reviews of this film and saw that nearly all of them didn't like it. Well I did! I didn't see anything wrong with the film. OK, so it's a little unrealistic but so is The Matrix yet we all loved that film! The Haunting stars Catherine Zeta Jones, Liam Nelson, Owen Nelson and Lili Taylor. It's about a ...  Read the complete review