The Haunting (1963)
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Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is indeed haunted.
Cast
- Julie Harris
- Claire Bloom
- Richard Johnson
- Russ Tamblyn
- Lois Maxwell
- Fay Compton
- Valentine Dyall
- Rosalie Crutchley
- Diane Clare
- Ronald Adam
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- Oct 18, 2022
A house that was born bad and eats trauma for breakfast faces its biggest challenge yet: loud lesbian lodgers.
CinemaVoid 🏴☠️Jun 18, 2024In a world full of cheap jump scares and over-the-top gore, it’s refreshing to find a haunted house movie that relies on pure, intense atmosphere. Modern horror should pay attention.
CasperNov 9, 2020Eleanor really walked into Hill House and not even one second later said “I love my new forever home.”
Ashton - Dec 20, 2020
The queer subtext of this (not so much subtext in the trembling-in-bed scene) takes a "woman driven to madness" trope and adds a dimension of "the deadly closet" that makes this much more. It makes this a compassionate rather than piteous film. It makes the horrors run…
Sally Jane BlackOct 28, 2022nell asking theo if she’s married and theo being like “no” and then giving her That Look™…i’ve never heard silence quite this loud
eelyOct 21, 2014One of the most unsettling films of its time that has managed to hold up astonishingly well after all these years & still retains enough strength to surprise the newcomers, The Haunting is an incredibly tense, highly effective & intensely moody psychological horror that…
cinemasauron - Jan 3, 2021
Back in the 60s they didn’t have slashers yet so they had to make movies about how scary certain houses are. Some people still do this even though they don’t have to. They could instead make movies about people stuck in devices that force them to make awful choices. But…
Branson ReeseNov 6, 2017Like most kids, I wasn’t terribly fond of black and white movies. At that time in my life, I found them to be too slow, too calm, and most certainly not scary. Except for one. This movie terrified me as a kid and it was the only one of its kind that did it. It’s probably…
Tony the TerrorOct 1, 2022Spooktober III: The Haunting of the Blood October The haunting isn’t a house. The haunting has nothing to do with ghosts. The haunting is the repression that devours us inside. Shirley Jackson, who wrote the novel that the film is based on, briefed the screenwriter…
Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine
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- Richard Keel lovedThe Haunting
this is what you get when talented and creative people make genre films. camera angles that could be gimmicky create real unease. based on a Shirley Jackson novel, the psychology of the story elevates it. so visually and emotionally engaging with an unusually satisfying ending.
Hank Leet lovedThe HauntingOne of the most chilling and unnerving haunted houses movies out there, the atmosphere and cinematography added to the fear I felt watching it.
Asmodeus is "meh" onThe Hauntingit had some cool camera angles and pretty actors, but I didn't get too attached to the movie or the characters
- Adrian Prieto likedThe Haunting
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Metacritic
Robert Wise's 1963 black-and-white 'Scope translation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House was pretty effective when it came out, aided by Wise's skill as an editor.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
It's one of the most highly-wrought (indeed, overwrought) films ever made, with art direction, editing, sound effects, weird camera angles and lighting orchestrated to fill every frame with hints of the unsettling.
Ian Freer
Empire
Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Haunting (1963) (1963) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as G (General Audiences), so all ages are admitted.
How long is The Haunting (1963) (1963)?
The movie is 1hr 52min long.
What's The Haunting (1963) (1963) about?
Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is indeed haunted.
Who's the cast of The Haunting (1963) (1963)?
- Julie Harris as Eleanor "Nell" Lance
- Claire Bloom as Theodora "Theo"
- Richard Johnson as Dr. John Markway
- Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson
- Lois Maxwell as Grace Markway
- Fay Compton as Mrs. Sanderson
- Valentine Dyall as Mr. Dudley
- Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Dudley
- Diane Clare as Carrie Fredericks
- Ronald Adam as Eldridge Harper
Who's the director behind The Haunting (1963) (1963)?
Robert Wise directed The Haunting (1963) (1963).
Who produced The Haunting (1963) (1963)?
Robert Wise produced The Haunting (1963) (1963).
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