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The Haunting of Hill House; By Shirley Jackson
Topic Started: Jun 4 2014, 06:42 PM (129 Views)
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First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
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I haven't read Shirley Jackson's book yet (but still intend to), but I have seen the 1963 film by Robert Wise, and I have to say it, but I absolutely love the movie, it is quite possibly my all-time favorite haunted house movie alongside The Shining. I believe these two films should be used as prime examples of how to make a proper haunted house movie, one that uses psychological terror, as well as the lack of any visible ghosts, to frighten us, rather than relying on stupid jump-scares. Specifically in The Haunting we are never shown anything supernatural, only implied, going for the "less-is-more" rule, unlike nowaday's ghost films that show the ghosts, even using CGI for them, one example being the 1999 House on Haunted Hill remake (which admittedly I do enjoy, too). I am especially looking at you, 1999 Haunting remake, you garbage movie. Sometimes it is much more scarier by not showing the monster.

But yes, Robert Wise's The Haunting is a crowned jewel in the haunted house subgenre, and deserves its place in any top-10 lists alongside The Shining, The Changeling, The Innocents, and even The Orphanage.

And as for its 1999 remake (from the director of Speed and Twister), I haven't even bothered watching it, but after watching clips of it on YouTube and the Nostalgia Critic's review, and I can tell I won't like it, mainly because it has CGI ghosts, ruining the entire point of the 1963 film. Yes I know it has a good cast like Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson, and the remake's Hill House does look beautiful, but I cannot forgive it for disgracing what made the original so scary. And that one scene where a stone lion's head heads up to Owen Wilson and chomps his head off? (bullshit)
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And P.S., does a separate forum for its 1963 film adaptation exist anywhere on this website? Has anybody made one yet? If it hasn't yet, I would happily make one for everyone. ;) :)

Dr. John Markway: "An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for ninety years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there... walked alone."

"Some houses are born bad."
Edited by Bad-Hat Harry Bean, Jan 28 2018, 05:44 AM.
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Oh man, I had already posted a threat on that forum already, back in February. Oops! I'd completely forgotten about that, my memory might be getting a little faulty here, mushy. Oops! :P
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