Review of The Haunting (1999) by Sam N — 25 Jun 2012
A laughable and an uncorrelated movie. Dr. Morrow (Liam Neeson) who wanted to conduct a brain study/psyche study lacked tools of any kind. How could you study people without attaching those instruments on head to record brain waves? He didn't even do anything artificial in the house to scare these people.
It was all supernatural which he just happened to take for granted. Theo (Catherine Zeta Jones) pretends to be interested, surprised and terrified when the ghostly activities take place when her heart lied in getting into the pants of the plain goat, Nell (Lil Taylor) who herself was much more into turning lights off so she could be frightened and enlightened simultaneously by the stupid bed time stories narrated by the so seemed non-scary sculpture-children ghosts than trying lesbianism with Theo.
How the heck did she learn that she descended from the second wife of the castle owner/builder? Luke (Owen Wilson) was a tourist, who lacked any chemistry between him and Theo or between him and the ghost in the house for that matter.
He died in vain. Dialogues were banal and a great starcast was wasted just like the beautiful castle was on this disastrous attempt to scare people and pull them into a lame logic of freeing souls of the children.
This review of The Haunting (1999) was written by Sam N on 25 Jun 2012.
The Haunting has generally received mixed reviews.
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