Haunting

Pros: Fantastic production design
Cons: Awful acting, inane dialogue, weak script, and very poor pacing

The Haunting (1999 Remake): Dreamworks SKG/ Roth-Arnold Productions
Rating: USA: PG-13/ UK: 12/ Australia: M

Anyone who has been reading my reviews here at Epinions with any regularity knows that I always strive for depth....

Pros: Set design.
Cons: Everything but set design.

Quite a few epinioners (somewhere around 400) have chosen to write a review on Jan de Bont's The Haunting , so why have I chosen to proffer my thoughts? To be honest, I think it's mainly because I was so astounded by the sheer stupidity of the fil ...

Pros: pretty special effects, detailed mansion
Cons: Poor plot, poor characters, no real point, predictable.

I didn't like this movie. I thought it was extremely predictable and was basically a semi-coherent mess.
I picked this movie out in the video store to see if I could find a decent movie. It looked good--decent actors, possibly nice special...

Pros: Sound Effects and House are fabulously creepy
Cons: story is muddled, lacks detail and in the end is just plain bad.

It had a lot of promise....but in the end...it was like a slowly deflating balloon....flat in the end.

Let’s set the stage.

A remake of a 1963, black and white by the same name, The Haunting (1999) stars:

Liam Neeson as...

Pros: Great special effects and genuinely creepy.
Cons: Overblown -- collapses from its own weight.

American cinema has a questionable history when it comes to bringing inanimate objects to life. (Does anyone else remember The Car?) Yet seeing a ventriloquist dummy or a tree come to life can certainly scare the pants off of anyone if it is done...

Pros: Some of the annoying SOBs get killed.
Cons: That this was ever made.

The Haunting is like this really cool toy you've seen on TV, with all the gadgets and lights and sounds, but when you open the box and stick your hand in, it's nothing but moldy cheese and smelly poop. It's yet ANOTHER example of a big studio absolutely...

Pros: This Warning to the Unsuspecting Victims of Rentals, Purchasers, and the like
Cons: The Releasing of the Re-make

The ad blitz on this movie showed the better special effects boldly trotted out for maximum audience reaction. Amazing what that group of movie industry titans can do! Maybe, they get to test out their new 'toys,' showing off their 'stuff' for all of us...

Pros: Cast, special effects, concept
Cons: Script, direction, squandered potential

It's a movie like The Haunting that makes you want to turn on your kitchen oven to 450 degree and stick your head in and close the door. It's a movie so atrociously bad that's chock full of special effects and a preposterous script that can only make you ...

Pros: Based On A Classic
Cons: Something Got Lost In The Translation

I had a nightmare in which I was watching a terrible movie that wouldn't stop... it wouldn't end. It was a bad dream. It was like the proverbial trip to the dentist. I just wanted it to be over.

I couldn't figure out what was going on. It was...

Pros: good acting and special effects
Cons: ending is too abrupt

I had really wanted to see this movie, and I will admit that I felt a bit disappointed at the end. On the whole, though, it was well worth the money it cost to rent it.

The movie was very suspenseful but I was never really actually scared. I...

Pros: house has great special effects, characters are interesting
Cons: wrong plot line, bad remake of movie, no theme involved

The Haunting
Starring:
Liam Neeson
Catherine Zeta Jones
Owen C.Wilson

Supposed to be based on Shirley Jackson's The House on Haunted Hill


I was all excited when I went to the video store to...

Pros: Good Story Line
Cons: Not Scary Enough,but Still Not For Children

This movie is about a beautiful Haunted Mansion. Liam Neeson plays the Professor,who is also in the "New Star Wars-Episode 1".

It starts out where a Professor for sleep disorders has some people to go to this Mansion called...

Pros: storyline is interesting. Far better than most horror flicks.
Cons: does rely on some old horror ticks

There was a moment of hesitation when I was watching the trailer for The Haunting. I was seeing all these gothic images being narrated by the principal in Kindengarden Cop. Her voice, at least for me, was instantly recognizable, and for a moment...

Pros: Lili Taylor is good enough to get the Best Actress in Worst Movie award
Cons: The script is incoherent and pockmarked with cliches

I'd been warned.

I'd read the critics, heard the water cooler chatter, even browsed the epinions. "Stay away!" they howled like banshees. "Stay far away from this movie!"

But I was like the last remaining...

Pros: Thrilling Movie, Good Special Effects, Strong Cast
Cons: Plot is a little Weak at Times

I am the mother of two small boys so I very seldom get to go to the movies and see anything that is not rated G. I do however get to see movies at home by renting them now and then. I recently got to see The Haunting. I found this movie to be...