Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.
You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.
Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.
I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.
Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.