Product: The Haunting [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
A personal favorite movie
I'll be one of the few people who will say that I preferred the remake over the original version. I've seen the original version of "The Haunting" on TCM. I wasn't too impressed by what I saw. I absolutely adore the '90s remake. Too bad this movie did not do as well as "The Blair Witch Project" back in '99. Personally I liked both movies but as for overall fun, "The Haunting" was better while "The Blair Witch Project" was better at suspense but a bit too predictable at the end of the movie for my taste.Normally I don't dig over-the-top special effects like what I saw in this movie but I did. I thoroughly loved the scenes involving Lili Taylor's character Nell being tormented by the spirit of the deceased owner of the house, especially the scenes in her bedroom. Another favorite scene involved Liam Neeson when he was alone in that garden room with that water fountain and the statue comes alive and tries to drown Liam's character. Without giving too much away, I thought it was a bit too predictable the way Owen Wilson's character bought the farm but that scene made me cringe in my seat, and still does to this day. I will always love this movie. It is one of the few movies that thoroughly entertains me to this very day.