The 1963 version of this film managed considerable chills and thrills WITHOUT resorting to silly special effects. This awful re-make is an example of Hollywood at its laziest. They've taken the basic premise (a scientist enlists two young woman and a skeptical young man to participate in his overnight study of a haunted mansion) and stuffed it full of loud, obnoxious special effects. Director Jan De Bont doesn't know the first thing about suspense in film. With any good horror movie, the imagination of the audience is the most powerful tool in a filmmaker's arsenal- Hitchcock, Craven, Carpenter, and Shyamalan all know this. Unfortunately, the dreadful 1999 version of THE HAUNTING never even tries to engage our imagination; it's too busy piling on the CGI.
Review of The Haunting
