Product: The Haunting [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 4.0
Scary with the right equipment
As most of the other titles in my DVD-collection, this is a horror movie and such films won't win that many Oscars. This isn't a complicated or "deep" movie, if you want something like that you should look elsewhere. This is more of a scary, "cuddle-up-together-with-your-sweetheart-movie" - and as such it's great. "The Haunting" is a film that should be watched late at night with the lights turned down low and the sound turned up a bit and if your setup lacks Dolby Digital, it just isn't the same (this is the movie that made me buy a Pioneer DTS/DD surround system - it actually gets kind of corny without surround.As I mentioned earlier, this movie isn't very deep when it comes to the plot, but a movie that really takes advantage of the DVD-system - the picture is crisp and clear with great detail while the sound knocks you out (mainly with the massage you'll get from the subwoofer) and scares the socks of you (I got goosebumps at the Dreamworks logo before the movie even had started) with all the ambient sounds, loud sudden cracks, sounds of lost souls etc.Even if you're not the greatest fan of scary movies, this is a great product to use when you're showing of your home entertainment system - it clearly shows the advantages of separate surround channels.