A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.
- Director
- Writers
- David Self(screenplay)
- Shirley Jackson(novel "The Haunting of Hill House")
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- David Self(screenplay)
- Shirley Jackson(novel "The Haunting of Hill House")
- Stars
- Awards
- 4 wins & 14 nominations
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Kadina de Elejalde
- Rene Crainas Rene Crain
- (as Kadina Halliday)
Karen S. Gregan
- Psych Patient #2as Psych Patient #2
- (as Karen Gregan)
- Director
- Writers
- David Self(screenplay)
- Shirley Jackson(novel "The Haunting of Hill House")
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
A remake of the classic 1963 movie "The Haunting" about a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated house. Through the course of the night some will unravel, some will question, and all will fight for their lives as the house fights back. —PofRules
- Taglines
- A Jan de Bont film
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for intense horror sequences
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaStephen King wrote the first draft of the script. When this fell through, he re-worked it into Rose Red.
- Goofs(at around 43 mins) The curtains of Nell's room clearly aren't long enough to cover the bed as shown during the first night at Hill House.
- Quotes
Eleanor "Nell" Vance: Purgatory is over, you go to hell!
- Crazy creditsAt the beginning, the music from Dreamwork's studio is not heard. Instead we hear the strange noises from inside Hill House.
- Alternate versionsThe trailer features two little scenes which were not used in the final film. In the first scene, which was probably cut from the sequence where Eleanor and Theo go through the house for the first time, they find a door, which they open, only to find a brick wall. The second scene is a piece of dialogue between Eleanor and Theo. Eleanor asks "Have you ever kept something to yourself because you were afraid?" to which Theo answers "All the time."
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Stanley Kubrick Tribute (1999)
Top review
Suspenseful and frightening terror movie about a haunted mansion
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 . Hill House is a hundred-year-old haunted mansion , it is the setting for chosen group . The haunted house has an evil history with tragic accidents, suicide, and human misjudgement. It seems which the scary mansion has been the place of several killing deaths . A psychologist scientist (Liam Neeson) is a Pyschic researcher who assembles a group with histories linked to the paranormal. As three people are lured to an eerie mansion deceived for fake pretenses realized by a psychological researcher . Nell (Lili Taylor) was the subject of unexplained poltergeist activities as a child. She also is riddled with pain over her mother's death. Theo (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a clairvoyant who befriends Nell at Hill House. Owen Wilson plays a cynical and Bon Vivant sent to make sure that the property is not affected by the researchers. Together the group explore Hill House and their own insecurities and finally face off the evil that inhabits with hair-raising results .
Mindless and average film is packed with thrills, intrigue, suspense, horror and lots of interminable screams with no sense. However , this is an inferior version that relies heavily on the impressive special effects courtesy of ILM - Industrial Light Magic- , George Lucas owner . High budget makes for big scary scream-feast and frights . 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. Supposedly based on Shirley Jackson's creepy tale titled ¨The haunting of Hill House¨, it has little in common with the novel . Stirring and exciting musical score fitting to terror by the veteran maestro Jerry Goldsmith . Very good and colorful cinematography by Karl Walter Lindellaub . Director Jan De Bont created a taut drama where the real question is who is haunted and who may be unstable.The picture is middling realized in his third-time as director by Jan De Bont, a successful cameraman (Basic Instict, Die Hard) and Paul Verhoveen's ordinary photographer and occasionally director (Speed , Twister). The film will appeal to Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones fans. This is a chilling adaptation from Shirley Jackson's novel based on an assortment of ghouls and ghosts and gets a mediocre rating . It turns out to be a chiller with all the FX budget can be created , being lavishly produced ,but also contains several scenes in little sense and no logic.
Mindless and average film is packed with thrills, intrigue, suspense, horror and lots of interminable screams with no sense. However , this is an inferior version that relies heavily on the impressive special effects courtesy of ILM - Industrial Light Magic- , George Lucas owner . High budget makes for big scary scream-feast and frights . 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. Supposedly based on Shirley Jackson's creepy tale titled ¨The haunting of Hill House¨, it has little in common with the novel . Stirring and exciting musical score fitting to terror by the veteran maestro Jerry Goldsmith . Very good and colorful cinematography by Karl Walter Lindellaub . Director Jan De Bont created a taut drama where the real question is who is haunted and who may be unstable.The picture is middling realized in his third-time as director by Jan De Bont, a successful cameraman (Basic Instict, Die Hard) and Paul Verhoveen's ordinary photographer and occasionally director (Speed , Twister). The film will appeal to Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones fans. This is a chilling adaptation from Shirley Jackson's novel based on an assortment of ghouls and ghosts and gets a mediocre rating . It turns out to be a chiller with all the FX budget can be created , being lavishly produced ,but also contains several scenes in little sense and no logic.
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Box office
- Budget
- $80,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $91,411,151
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $33,435,140
- Jul 25, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $177,311,151
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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