Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke,...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003
Stats: 864 reviews
Eerie haunted house story follows a paranormal investigator who gathers three people to a large estate to study the supernatural. Understated, low key and elegant, this horror film is based on the novel "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. Film remarkably builds ten...( read more)
A scientist arranges to spend a weekend in an allegedly haunted house with two assistants and its playboy heir to try and scientifically substantiate supernatural phenomena. Another horror classic from the golden age that shows that CGI may very possibly have been the death of th...( read more)
one of the best scary movies ever in my book cause you never see what's scarin' the bejesus out of you, BUT YOU KNOW IT'S THERE! i haven't seen it's equal yet. it's the original, the real deal, w/o the chainsaws, the serrated edged knifes, and w/o the buckets of red corn syrup....( read more)
Excellent old-school angst-ridden classic yet not really horror movie but classic still even though not completely horror while it could have been even if it's not.
Unsettling or disturbing is a term that gets thrown around a lot today. Usually in regards to Cronenberg or Miike or Irreversible.
This film a text book of how to achieve an atmosphere of menace and unease without showing a thing
Too dramatic but overall it was quite good, I enjoyed the classic cheesy story!
A bit over-dramatic, like many films during this time period, but entertaining overall. Richard Johnson plays a wonderful ghost hunter (as well as lending one of his lines to White Zombie's Super-Charger Heaven).
I just love the tension it built, the ambiguity, the mind-playing..The eeriness, its just so real, I felt like the house was sucking me in too..I must agree, that CGI is never appropriate to scare people this way. An amazing way that is. Please avoid the remake.
Confused with the G rating. Scariest film i have ever seen yet they allow the same audience as things like the spongebob movie to watch this. The MPAA is fucked up, unlike the British BBFC, who rate things appropiatly (it's a 12 here, and poltergeist, a PG in America is a 15 here). Don't let kids watch this.
the original, the real deal, w/o the chainsaws, the serrated edged knifes, and w/o the buckets of red corn syrup. and it knows what you're thinking. it knows cause it wants you, wants to be together with you...alone...in the dark...together...alone.
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