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The Haunting (1963)

G 08/21/1963 (US) Horror 1h 52m

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You may not believe in ghosts but you cannot deny terror.

Overview

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

Robert Wise

Director
Shirley Jackson

Novel
Nelson Gidding

Screenplay

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Julie Harris

Eleanor Lance
Claire Bloom

Theodora
Richard Johnson

Dr. John Markway
Russ Tamblyn

Luke Sanderson
Fay Compton

Mrs. Sanderson
Rosalie Crutchley

Mrs. Dudley
Lois Maxwell

Grace Markway
Valentine Dyall

Mr. Dudley
Diane Clare

Carrie Fredericks
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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

90%

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on September 12, 2023

A simple film with a basic script, but which scares us in such a way that it still has an influence on horror productions today.

Movies about haunted houses? Whoever saw one of them, saw them all… right? I like to think not. And this film is probably the grandfather of a good number of them! Currently forgotten due to the passage of time, the film had a much weaker remake in 1999, and I believe that it is itself a rewrite of “House on Haunted Hill”, released three years earlier, in 1959, and which also has already deserved a new production in recent years. The impact of this film on the... read the rest.

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