the haunting

[cains]

4 psychic researchers go and spend a week in hill house.A "House that was born bad". What they find there will terrify them beyond their wildest dreams and will scare you like you have never been scared before. This film has no special effects,you don't see anything but this film is the ultimate study in psychological and unseen terror. Filming it in black and white gives the film an edge and makes you feel terror and a sense that something nasty and very unpleasant is just about to leap on you from the dark.At certain points in the film you are sitting on the edge of your seat waiting to see something that never appears, which helps to build on your sense of impending doom and belief that there is no escape from the nightmare of Hill House. I am now 35 but after watching this I still won't sleep with my door shut.Don't watch this alone-you have been warned. Avoid the 1999 remake but watch this if you dare. 10/10


I dont care what anyone says this is scariest movie ever-discuss

[Trader47]

Hey cains...circumstances dictated a brief posting hiatus for me...I'm not sure now where I posted last, LOL, but it seems likely that if I appeared to have abandoned anyone in mid-conversation it would have probably been you, LOL, and if that did happen, sorry about that.
I guess I DID probably say enough about this movie earlier, but I'll agree with you once again on it anyway, LOL. I'm sure it's obvious that scariness is in the eye of the beholder, but I do think this movie is one of the best examples you could find of the way real spookiness has to be created...FIRST, a film has to absorb you with either it's story, it's characters, or at the very LEAST the overall mood and atmosphere it creates...I think without at least one of these elements present in your own mind, it's essentially impossible to care about a movie enough to be particularly spooked by it, no matter how many special effects or violent splatters it may contain, LOL. For me at least, The Haunting is one of those relatively rare films that is pretty great on all three of these levels, and pays off with a brilliantly ambiguous and truly haunting conclusion. It'd probably be fairly obvious to anyone who's read even a few of my posts here that I've seen a WHOLE lot of horror movies over the years. This one remains one of my favorites.

[cains]

Hey cains...circumstances dictated a brief posting hiatus for me...I'm not sure now where I posted last, LOL, but it seems likely that if I appeared to have abandoned anyone in mid-conversation it would have probably been you, LOL, and if that did happen, sorry about that.
I guess I DID probably say enough about this movie earlier, but I'll agree with you once again on it anyway, LOL. I'm sure it's obvious that scariness is in the eye of the beholder, but I do think this movie is one of the best examples you could find of the way real spookiness has to be created...FIRST, a film has to absorb you with either it's story, it's characters, or at the very LEAST the overall mood and atmosphere it creates...I think without at least one of these elements present in your own mind, it's essentially impossible to care about a movie enough to be particularly spooked by it, no matter how many special effects or violent splatters it may contain, LOL. For me at least, The Haunting is one of those relatively rare films that is pretty great on all three of these levels, and pays off with a brilliantly ambiguous and truly haunting conclusion. It'd probably be fairly obvious to anyone who's read even a few of my posts here that I've seen a WHOLE lot of horror movies over the years. This one remains one of my favorites.

Thats ok,i was feeling a bit lonely here as noone else seems to come on here to docuss movies very often.
i have wat i call a swiss cheese memory,full of holes lmao so i completely for got posting it b4.
i think the real scary thing about this film was not wat u saw but what u didnt see.i always pick up new things each time i watch it.
i watched it yesterday and ,remember the scene when she was holding the invisible hand and hraerd the girl crying in the room next door,it suddenly hit me that the film was stating ,tho very subtly what hugh was actually doing to doing to his daughter.
another good thing about this film was the good use of angles and shots of dark corners.
The Haunting has be my fave horror of all time tho only slightly ahead of the original Psycho.
btw i actually loved the Gus Van Sant almost shot for shot remake,of Psycho, but that is for another time

[Trader47]

btw i actually loved the Gus Van Sant almost shot for shot remake,of Psycho, but that is for another time

Ugh...one of our seemingly fairly rare disagreements on that one, then...we SHOULD talk about that one later though, LOL...Van Sant's a great filmmaker, and...oh well, later, LOL.

i have wat i call a swiss cheese memory,full of holes lmao so i completely for got posting it b4.


Oh well, you didn't actually...you just posted a poll and I jumped in and started rambling about this film incessantly, LOL...I think that's ONE of the sort of things that endear me to so many people online, LMAO. :rolleyes:


i think the real scary thing about this film was not wat u saw but what u didnt see.i always pick up new things each time i watch it.
i watched it yesterday and ,remember the scene when she was holding the invisible hand and hraerd the girl crying in the room next door,it suddenly hit me that the film was stating ,tho very subtly what hugh was actually doing to doing to his daughter.
another good thing about this film was the good use of angles and shots of dark corners.



Yeah, I completely agree with you on all of that....I think the scene you described is one of the spookiest and most shocking in the film...and the way it's pulled off, it completely misdirects your attention...you know, it seems at first to be playing with the not so subtle sexual vibes that Cleo has been giving off...and then, blam, the light goes on and the bed is all the way across the room, something I'd completely forgotten about until that light goes on, and what a shock it is when you suddenly see it, LOL...and yeah, then the way that and so many other happenings SEEM to relate directly to Hugh and the whole past scenarios...but can also have entirely DIFFERENT interpretations and meanings attached to them...agh, I really could go on about this film all night, it works in truly brilliant ways. Always so cool to grok with others on a film like this, LOL. :D

[cains]

Ugh...one of our seemingly fairly rare disagreements on that one, then...we SHOULD talk about that one later though, LOL...Van Sant's a great filmmaker, and...oh well, later, LOL.



Well even the greatest film critics disagree.i will post reveiws on the original and the remake and ten we can have a major disscussion but as you said we will diiscuss that later



Oh well, you didn't actually...you just posted a poll and I jumped in and started rambling about this film incessantly, LOL...I think that's ONE of the sort of things that endear me to so many people online, LMAO. :rolleyes:

ah wasnt actually sure lol





Yeah, I completely agree with you on all of that....I think the scene you described is one of the spookiest and most shocking in the film...and the way it's pulled off, it completely misdirects your attention...you know, it seems at first to be playing with the not so subtle sexual vibes that Cleo has been giving off...and then, blam, the light goes on and the bed is all the way across the room, something I'd completely forgotten about until that light goes on, and what a shock it is when you suddenly see it, LOL...and yeah, then the way that and so many other happenings SEEM to relate directly to Hugh and the whole past scenarios...but can also have entirely DIFFERENT interpretations and meanings attached to them...agh, I really could go on about this film all night, it works in truly brilliant ways. Always so cool to grok with others on a film like this, LOL. :D

yeah, the film was full of sexual vibes also between between Nell and dr Markway .i notice it in the little touches between them especially when he rescues her off the pararpet and at the end when he grabs her on the ladder.i loved the way Robert Wise stated things that were abit taboo in the 60's without actually stating any thing at all. a bit like Alfred hitchcock in the origanal Physco which we will majorly dicuss some other time.
if you want another great Robert wise film then try and see old B/w film "The Curse of the Cat people" which is more sentimental but oh so moving ,starnge tho as the title is totally missleading
i am not sure but didnt he direct "the sound of music" which btw i cant stand.if so then even major directors have slip ups

[Trader47]

if you want another great Robert wise film then try and see old B/w film "The Curse of the Cat people" which is more sentimental but oh so moving ,starnge tho as the title is totally missleading
i am not sure but didnt he direct "the sound of music" which btw i cant stand.if so then even major directors have slip ups

Yeah, Robert Wise did direct Sound of Music, and although he did a number of well-known films, many of which were and still are considered classics by a whole lot of people, I'd hazard a guess that SOM is the best known and most loved of all his work. So in some ways, the surprises just keep right on coming with you, LOL...We discussed our mutual love of musicals earlier, and I also share your view of Wise as a great director...but I ALSO share your opinion of Sound of Music, LOL...I always have found that film to be virtually unwatchable. Inexplicable, LOL.

And about COTCP....that has to be one of the most inappropriately titled films of all time, as well as one of the strangest sequels ever made, LOL. The title HAS to have been done by some studio suits who wanted to capitalize on the popularity of Tournier's original film, and convince audiences they were going to see a horrific sequel. Curse is actually about as far from a true horror film as you can get, but it IS a real strange one, and extremely visionary, especially for the time it was made. It's a really beautiful movie to look at, and still one of the most fascinating and evocative portraits of a child's fantasy world I've ever seen on the screen. One of those genuine classics that has sadly been all but forgotten now, but I think stands with Wise's best work.

[cains]

Yeah, Robert Wise did direct Sound of Music, and although he did a number of well-known films, many of which were and still are considered classics by a whole lot of people, I'd hazard a guess that SOM is the best known and most loved of all his work. So in some ways, the surprises just keep right on coming with you, LOL...We discussed our mutual love of musicals earlier, and I also share your view of Wise as a great director...but I ALSO share your opinion of Sound of Music, LOL...I always have found that film to be virtually unwatchable. Inexplicable, LOL.

i know it may sound a bit odd but after thye horrible Talent contest in SOM and tehy were escaping across the mountains i almost wished the Germans would catch them
apart from Barb Wire with Pamela Anderson i think SOM is top of my most hated films ever







And about COTCP....that has to be one of the most inappropriately titled films of all time, as well as one of the strangest sequels ever made, LOL. The title HAS to have been done by some studio suits who wanted to capitalize on the popularity of Tournier's original film, and convince audiences they were going to see a horrific sequel. Curse is actually about as far from a true horror film as you can get, but it IS a real strange one, and extremely visionary, especially for the time it was made. It's a really beautiful movie to look at, and still one of the most fascinating and evocative portraits of a child's fantasy world I've ever seen on the screen. One of those genuine classics that has sadly been all but forgotten now, but I think stands with Wise's best work.

i also think COTCP is a beautiful insite into the world of child fantasy and makes you think,when the child actually sees her friend at the end,that perhaps imaginary friends may not be so imaginary after all.

I saw COTCP years ago late one night and haven't seen it since,shame as it is a forgotten classic

[Trader47]

i also think COTCP is a beautiful insite into the world of child fantasy and makes you think,when the child actually sees her friend at the end,that perhaps imaginary friends may not be so imaginary after all.

I saw COTCP years ago late one night and haven't seen it since,shame as it is a forgotten classic

Imaginary friends ARE real, man...you just gotta know how to look for them...it's easier for kids, at least for the ones who're lucky enough not to be born old, because it takes awhile for the rules to solidify and cement the blinders in place. Look at the nearest lightpost in the right way, though, and sooner or later you might see a pookah leaning on it. :D ;)

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Or just a bright dot imprinted into your eyes...heh.

[Trader47]

LOL...Probably be best if you don't look too hard, then...sounds like you'd probably just end up with some potential eye damage for your trouble.