Product: The Haunting [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Very slowly, you are sucked into a nightmare!
I understand why there are a lot of people who say that this movie is not very scary. I think that the movie is too slow for that. Because Jan de Bont takes his time before the actual nightmare begins. And I'm glad he did, because you can't start with some gory killings right away. It just wouldn't be believable. So you have to be patient with this movie. But in the main time, the movie is still very interesting because of the beautiful and scary lookin' house and the stories they tell about it. Inside the house, everything looks great and big which also gives you the creeps.But there are still some pretty suspenseful scenes which keeps the movie interresting and sometimes you even jump off your chair(if you have the sound a bit loud, that is)."The Haunting" also contains some very cool looking effects and sounds which realy makes the house living! I especialy loved the wooden children who start to live!The performances of Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson are also great and all this makes "The Haunting" a movie wihch you just have to see if you have a bit patient and like not very gory horror movies, because this movie hardly has any violent scenes!