The Haunting (1963)
Directed by Robert
Wise this film based on the novel “The Haunting of Hill House”
stars Julie Harries, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn.
Four people head to a house in the country to conduct a real
investigation into claims it is haunted.
This film may not have
the out right gory shocks modern audiences are used to but it's slow
burn of creepy psychological horror works well, especially the
protagonists arc fitting in with the larger story. While this may
very much be a genre film what you rarely see these days is a horror
film that takes more interest in it's characters than using them as
stand ins waiting to be killed off. There are a few good special
effects but not a huge amount that stands out in the execution as
remarkable.
4/5
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