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The Haunting

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The Haunting (1999)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:3

Rotten:20

Average Rating:3.2/10

Consensus: Sophisticated visual effects fail to offset awkward performances and an uneven script.

Runtime: 2 hrs 23 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Jan DeBont (SPEED, TWISTER) remakes Robert Wise's subtle and terrifying 1963 haunted house tale as a computer-effects laden thrill ride. A professor (Neeson) and three subjects (Zeta-Jones and... Jan DeBont (SPEED, TWISTER) remakes Robert Wise's subtle and terrifying 1963 haunted house tale as a computer-effects laden thrill ride. A professor (Neeson) and three subjects (Zeta-Jones and indie heroes Taylor and Wilson) spend an night in an old house with sinister secrets for the sake of a sleep disorder study...but no one gets much sleep. Based on Shirley Jackson's novel. [More]

Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor

Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor

Director: Jan de Bont

Director: Jan de Bont
Producer: Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff Roth, Colin Wilson
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

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Kenneth Turan
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An overpriced mess!

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So breathtakingly bad, so unintentionally funny that it could take on the status of a camp classic.

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Charlie McCollum
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A passable piece of summer hokum, but it underlines how difficult it has become to make an effective horror movie.

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Desmond Ryan
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The characters are on the dramatic equivalent of Death Row.

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Desson Thomson
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Washington Post
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There are few truly frightening moments in the film, little tension or real sense of menace, and the camp humor that is suggested in early scenes dissipates fairly quickly.

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James Berardinelli
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A lavish illustration of how to take a fairly modest black-and -white horror film from 1963 and amplify it so relentlessly that the sight of the flying cow in Twister would not be all that amiss.

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Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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If you crave horror, you're better off seeing The Blair Witch Project a second or third.

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Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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The actors are basically helpless with this.

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Jeff Millar
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Houston Chronicle
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Shockingly lethargic!

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Kevin Maynard
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Worse than awful!

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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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In The Haunting, the moviemakers succeed in something very difficult: creating a haunted house with real personality and terror.

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Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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The only thing scary about the new version is realizing that someone keeps giving director Jan De Bont money to make movies.

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Mick LaSalle
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Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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When The Haunting finally limps to its conclusion, you may feel like booing the screen.

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Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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This film relies on special effects instead of suggestion, plot instead of mood, and explanation instead of mystery.

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