Product: The Haunting [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 2.0
Haunting is Laughable
I've been into horror since I was a wee lad of 4 and my grandparents showed me the original Psycho (deffinatly a classic) and have been feeding myself for the past 23 years on any kind of horror I could get my hands on. Now that being said let me say this movie is completly laughable. Those not too discerning about horror movies might find it scary (My wife deffinatly did, but she has never really watched horror movies period). But those who savor and cherish the horror genre will find it best to stay away from this movie. The special effects are wonderful but poorly timed for scare factor, and the ending is completly pitiful and wraps absolutly nothing. The great evil is gone but how the survivors explain any of it to the outside world is totally left off and it is something QUITE noticable. Yyou have to wrap it up when only two people walk out of a house that 5 went in to, and the caretakers basically ask what happened. But do they? No they just end the movie right there. It leaves a feeling of incompletion to the story, and not the kind of incompletion that lends itself to a sequel. Needless to say if you are NOT a horror buff you'll probably enjoy it, those who love the genre however should best watch something else.