Product: The Haunting [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 1.0
It was even worse than I the reviews said
I'll admit I rented this movie, for one specific reason. Catherine Zeta-Jones. Sorry, but she couldn't do anything to help it out. Are there some interesting special effects sure, but I have seen too many movies to be dazzled by special effects alone. This was a poor imitation of the early Vincent Price black-and-white. I read somewhere that Liam Neeson was embarassed about his performance in Star Wars. What about this one? The plot was so thin, in the original Vincent Price offers people money for them to stay the night in house if they can brave it; in this one Liam Neeson tells the people who are insomnia sufferers that he is experimenting on their disordering really masking that it is a experiment on fear. Here's one of the real kickers about the movie. The main character is Lili Taylor, not Catherine Zeta-Jones or Neeson. I can only imagine this had something to do with the salaries. If you are expecting to see Zeta-Jones all throughout the movie, you won't. It is more than a cameo but is definitely a supporting role. If you would rather see Lili than Catherine then you are one in a few, and if Catherine does not even appeal to you then this movie has no redeeming qualities. Stay away.