![]() ![]() Very good and colorful cinematography by Karl Walter Lindellaub. Stirring and exciting musical score fitting to terror by the veteran maestro Jerry Goldsmith. Supposedly based on Shirley Jackson's creepy tale titled ¨The haunting of Hill House¨, it has little in common with the novel. Splendid Lili Taylor as a fragile, lovely youth who results to have unexpected ties to the creepy ghost, she's the only redeeming feature of this uneven movie. High budget makes for big scary scream-feast and frights. However, this is an inferior version that relies heavily on the impressive special effects courtesy of ILM - Industrial Light Magic-, George Lucas owner. Mindless and average film is packed with thrills, intrigue, suspense, horror and lots of interminable screams with no sense. ![]() Together the group explore Hill House and their own insecurities and finally face off the evil that inhabits with hair-raising results. ![]() Owen Wilson plays a cynical and Bon Vivant sent to make sure that the property is not affected by the researchers. Theo (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a clairvoyant who befriends Nell at Hill House. She also is riddled with pain over her mother's death. Nell (Lili Taylor) was the subject of unexplained poltergeist activities as a child. As three people are lured to an eerie mansion deceived for fake pretenses realized by a psychological researcher. ![]() A psychologist scientist (Liam Neeson) is a Pyschic researcher who assembles a group with histories linked to the paranormal. It seems which the scary mansion has been the place of several killing deaths. The haunted house has an evil history with tragic accidents, suicide, and human misjudgement. Hill House is a hundred-year-old haunted mansion, it is the setting for chosen group. It's a remake to long deemed one of the masterly crafted stories of horror ever brought to the screen ¨Haunting¨(1963) by Robert Wise, a gripping film which still packs a punch. ![]()
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