Beautifully filmed and extremely creepy English thriller/horror. Recommended viewing.

81.000

The attention whore was a blast.

Looks great, some interesting turns, but it fails to create the kind of sustained tension needed for the ending to have any real impact. Worth a watch, but only one, I think.

Was quite good apart from the constant internal monologue.

Really gets under your skin with the creepy photography and sound. It features some really creative shots and shadows and it's never quite clear where things are going, which helps with the suspense. The only real issue is a somewhat unlikeable lead, but the supporting cast makes up for it.

3/5

10-6-2010 proper acting and characters, but the story couldn't entertain me

The lead isn't half as interesting as the supporting cast, but it looks great, and there are some genuinely creepy moments.

A very tasteful and subtle gothic horror, though rife with 60s psychobabble and with a somewhat irritating lead. it has a very hitchcockian feel, recalling rebecca and vertigo strongly, but with a bit more camp and bit less raw acting power. the best part for me is Theo the lesbian psychic who reveals a lot about the odd status of women in the early 60s, but the film certainly laid the foundation of gothic horror as well, despite not being frightening at all.

There will never be a better looking Haunted House movie. I was captivated by the visuals from the second Eleanor rolled up and saw the house "looking at" her. Also, the way Theo's glares C their way into, and dominate, the A-B conversations going on in the foreground of scenes is fascinating. The internal monologue, though, comes dangerously close to being cheesy...but overall this was the movie that made me rethink what makes "horror" movies great, and I gotta respect that.

One of the best haunted house movies -- creepy, super atmospheric, and stunning, inventive camerawork.

This makes me hate that fucking remake even more than I already do, which is a lot.

I DON'T like horror movies. Gave score for the quality of this film. This is the scariest movie I have ever seen. Ever. Almost no special effects, and you can never be sure if any of it happens at all. Still scares me to this day.

An intensely eerie film, helped by the black-and-white cinematography, interesting characters, and experimental effects. It's not without it's flaws, namely the grating nature of Eleanor and the abrupt ending, but it achieves it's title as a milestone horror movie by being relatively smart and overwhelmingly frightening.

The Haunting has a creepy atmosphere and set design along with good utilization of voice-over in the vein of Psycho; however, it gets quite dull about halfway through and doesn't quite regain momentum.

Some genuinely spooky moments and it definitely creates an unsettling atmosphere. Some really fantastic camera shots and the script and plot are great. It was however, a little boring and uneventful, probably could of lost about 20 minutes of its running time to make it better.

I love creaking door/spooky house movies and this is probably the godfather of that genre. No serial killers, no torture porn, no buckets of bloods just a lot a shadows and ambiance. Unfortunately after 30 minutes I got bored and desperately wanted something to happen. Even the ending seemed a little anticlimactic.

What I like about this film is that it never relies on fake scares. It jumps right into the real stuff. There are a few spooky moments and some sense of atmosphere. But much of it is dull. The film doesn't have enough plot to fill its running time, so we get a lot of Julie Harris (an intensely annoying and tiresome performance) fretting over this and that. The stretches between the scary parts are so uninteresting. I did enjoy some of it, but I wish it had a more consistent air of tension.

A good ghost\psychological thriller that leaves it up to you to decide what really went on.

More is less. This is proof. If you can make it through some of the rather dull set-up, you'll be rewarded with a tremendously tense final act. Swear.

That never quite worked for me (any more than did the book).