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By James Powers (23) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 01 Nov 2018

When The Haunting digs into the internals of its story, summons its spirits and lets them play havoc with cold reason, it has a power and fervor…

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By J.r. Southall (44) for Starburst (899) on 09 Nov 2017

For the possible overuse of internal monologues and Julie Harris' overwrought but riveting performance as Eleanor, The Haunting still stands…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 06 Feb 2017

one of the most fascinating aspects of The Haunting is the multiple interpretations available for many events, which might be supernatural,…

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By Alan Jones (357) for Radio Times (2,421) on 06 Oct 2013

This is one of the best supernatural chillers ever made…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 28 Aug 2011

Borderline perfect…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 05 Sep 2009

The horror remains admirably attuned to the sense of solitude in a premature spinster…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 18 Feb 2008

An undeniably effective adaptation of the Shirley Jackson novel and one of the best haunted-house movies…

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By Variety Staff (1,156) for Variety (12,700) on 24 Sep 2007

The artful cinematic strokes of director Robert Wise and staff are not quite enough to override the major shortcomings of Nelson Gidding's screenplay…

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By Derek Adams (271) for Time Out (7,510) on 22 Sep 2006

What makes the film so effective is not so much the slightly sinister characterisation of the generally neurotic group, but the fact that [director]…

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By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 06 Nov 2004

Few filmmakers have drawn fright from nothingness as adeptly as Robert Wise did…

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By Bill Chambers (261) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 03 Aug 2003

To say that Wise's The Haunting is better than De Bont's The Haunting damns the Wise picture to faint praise I fear it deserves…

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By John J. Puccio (1,217) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 02 Aug 2003

it's what we don't see in The Haunting that makes it scary…

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 30 Mar 2003

Don't waste your time on the remake. Robert Wise's original film is the one to see and it's still chilling after all these years…

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By Rumsey Taylor (94) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 25 Sep 2002

The Haunting is a wisely sophisticated horror film of implication, subtlety, and restraint…

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By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Jul 2002

The very first response to What's a good haunted house movie…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 May 1997

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,…

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By Stuart Heritage (4) for The Guardian (2,969) on 29 Jul 1995

From a potentially creaky, cliche-filled premise (a gaggle of stereotypes are invited to a spooky old house where all is not as it seems),…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 Oct 1990

So it looks as though this film simply makes more goose pimples than sense, which is rather surprising and disappointing for a picture with…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Nov 1980

Sound effects, disorienting camera work, expert editing, and Humphrey Searle's discomfiting score all suggest, without showing, a horrible…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 30 Jun 1970

It's one of the most highly-wrought (indeed, overwrought) films ever made, with art direction, editing, sound effects, weird camera angles…

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