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The Haunting

1999

Jan de Bont

Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson ...

4.4

17,996

Horror Jan DeBont (SPEED, TWISTER) remakes Robert Wise's subtle and terrifying 1963 haunted house tale as a computer-effects laden thrill ride. A professor (Neeson) and three subjects (Zeta-Jones and indie heroes Taylor and Wilson) spend an night in an old house with sinister secrets for the sake of a sleep disorder study...but no one gets much sleep. Based on Shirley Jackson's novel.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The movie does not (...) succeed as a horror film. But it succeeds as a film worth watching anyway (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"In The Haunting, the moviemakers succeed in something very difficult: creating a haunted house with real personality and terror."	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Everything about the movie is overcooked creating a pantomime milieu rather than anything that could be genuinely unnerving (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"This lavish and at times scary movie is firmly committed to the notion that more is more."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A wannabe horror classic that turns deadly dull once the sense of anxious expectation wears off"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Haunting almost serves as a reverse image of a successful film, demonstrating by what it lacks exactly what is needed to do things right."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The scariest thing about The Haunting is how awful it is"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The only thing scary about the new version is realizing that someone keeps giving director Jan De Bont money to make movies."	NEG

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