The Haunting (1999)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 113m
Director: Jan de Bont
Cast: Liam Neeson, Lili Tyler, Catherine Zeta Jones, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern
Synopsis:
An academic determines to conduct experiments in fear on three volunteers who think they are signing up for research into their own insomnia. Unfortunately one of them has something to do with the sinister history of the mansion he has selected by its reputation to induce the necessary neuroses in his subjects.
Review:
A complete waste of $80 million, this unnecessary remake of a far more spookily effective classic substitutes risible special effects for suggestion, picturebook phantoms for unseen bumps in the night. There is even more of a spark between the lesbian characters of the original, despite the relatively relaxed conditions of the 1990s. The only thing they get right is that Owen Wilson is every bit as annoying as Russ Tamblyn.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 113m
Director: Jan de Bont
Cast: Liam Neeson, Lili Tyler, Catherine Zeta Jones, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern
Synopsis:
An academic determines to conduct experiments in fear on three volunteers who think they are signing up for research into their own insomnia. Unfortunately one of them has something to do with the sinister history of the mansion he has selected by its reputation to induce the necessary neuroses in his subjects.
Review:
A complete waste of $80 million, this unnecessary remake of a far more spookily effective classic substitutes risible special effects for suggestion, picturebook phantoms for unseen bumps in the night. There is even more of a spark between the lesbian characters of the original, despite the relatively relaxed conditions of the 1990s. The only thing they get right is that Owen Wilson is every bit as annoying as Russ Tamblyn.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 113m
Director: Jan de Bont
Cast: Liam Neeson, Lili Tyler, Catherine Zeta Jones, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern
Synopsis:
An academic determines to conduct experiments in fear on three volunteers who think they are signing up for research into their own insomnia. Unfortunately one of them has something to do with the sinister history of the mansion he has selected by its reputation to induce the necessary neuroses in his subjects.
Review:
A complete waste of $80 million, this unnecessary remake of a far more spookily effective classic substitutes risible special effects for suggestion, picturebook phantoms for unseen bumps in the night. There is even more of a spark between the lesbian characters of the original, despite the relatively relaxed conditions of the 1990s. The only thing they get right is that Owen Wilson is every bit as annoying as Russ Tamblyn.