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rjcman
Average? you got be joking…the camera angles are superb…and those last words…beautiful
Micaela FM
Along with its brilliant cinematography, this film has a great atmosphere and is truly suspenseful, being smart enough to not show a lot and leave us in doubt over what is real and what is part of Eleanor's psychosis. The end is very anticlimactic and Dr. Markway's constant supernatural talk was a bit annoying to me, but overall it is a great film, one of the best I've seen in the horror genre.
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Robert Wise returns to his roots with 1963's The Haunting, a horror film that is more evocative than showy, a slicker version of the kinds of movies he used to make with Val Lewton at RKO. Though it trades on the trope of spending the night in a haunted house, nobody needs to do it to get their inheritance or anything (though one of the characters is its heir). Wise suggests supernatural happenings without special effects, usually through the performance of the actors, in particular the disturbed Julie Harris character, whose creeping madness feeds the house's spirits (my only real complaint is our hearing her thoughts, which for the most part, feels unnecessary and old-fashioned). Claire Bloom is also great as a snarky, sophisticated woman whose ESP-assisted guesses are often right, and flip side of Harris' wallflower. But the real star is the atmosphere. Hill House is a wonderful and complex set, and Wise shoots it with odd angles, shadows, and diopter focus tricks. Beautiful too look at, it suggests more than it shows, so you do a lot of the work yourself. And that's a great trick.