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Directed by Robert Wise & Written by Nelson Gidding

Based on the novel: "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Black & White - English - 1 Disk - Extended Play - Rated PG-13

Running time of 96 minutes long -

Digital Tracks : Film Soundtrack

Analog Track 1 : Film Soundtrack

Analog 2 : An audio essay by Peter Cowie

First Printing 1990 - Manufactured by Pionneer Video Inc.

SYNOPSIS:

The Haunting is a 1963 British horror film directed and produced by Robert Wise, adapted by Nelson Gidding from Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House. It stars Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. The film depicts the experiences of a small group of people invited by a paranormal investigator to investigate a purportedly haunted house.

REVIEWS :

Writing in The Atlantic magazine, critic Pauline Kael called the film "moderately elegant and literate and expensive", but criticised Russ Tamblyn for being "feeble [and] cowardly-comic". She considered the film to be superior to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, also released in 1963, yet didn't consider it to be a great film. Bibi Andersson, who appears as if painted in faded water colours but still can emit small delicious glimpses of female warmth." Kael said of it, "It wasn't a great movie but I certainly wouldn't have thought that it could offend anyone. Yet part of the audience at The Haunting wasn't merely bored, it was hostile—as if the movie, by assuming interests they didn't have, made them feel resentful or inferior. I've never felt this in an audience toward crude, bad movies…

DID YOU KNOW?

Although Susan Hayward was reported to be in the running for one of the two female leads, Julie Harris was chosen for the role of Eleanor Vance. Wise had seen Harris on stage, and felt she was right for the part of the psychologically fragile Eleanor. Harris agreed to do the film in part because the role was complex and the idea of the house taking over Eleanor's mind was interesting. But she also chose it because she had a long-standing interest in parapsychology.

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