Product: The Haunting [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 3.0
Good to watch once, not twice
This movie is a stereotypical haunted house movie, with some amazing visual effects. It centers around four main characters, one is the artist, the other is the stuntman, another the woman that ends up going crazy in the end, and finally the one that brought them all there to do an experiment on fear. The movie starts very slow and takes about an hour to finally get into any sort of real fright or visual effects for that matter. It is not exactly scary, because several of the frightening moments are telegraphed, such as having a bed below several spikes on the ceiling, figure that one out! As good as the visual effects were, it would be difficult to watch the movie a second time, because of how telegraphed everything is. The story itself makes no sense to the average viewer, such as the coincidence that the woman going crazy just so happens to be the great grand daughter of the man that built the haunted mansion (Hill House) that they stay at. Rent this movie, and here is a warning, do not watch the TV trailers, because you will know everything that happens before it happens.