The Haunting (1999)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

4.5/10   

Regisseur:

Jan de Bont

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Shirley Jackson (novel)
David Self (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

23. Juli 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller | Mystery

Werbezeile:

Some houses are born bad

Plot:

When Eleanor, Theo, and Luke decide to take part in a sleep study at a huge mansion they get more than they bargained for when Dr. Marrow tells them of the house's ghostly past.

Plot Keywords:

Knife | Old House | Haunting | Blood | Sculpture

Auszeichnungen:

2 wins & 9 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A truly awful cinematic horror show

Besetzung

Lili Taylor	...	Eleanor 'Nell' Vance
Liam Neeson	...	Dr. David Marrow
Catherine Zeta-Jones	...	Theo
Owen Wilson	...	Luke Sanderson
Bruce Dern	...	Mr. Dudley
Marian Seldes	...	Mrs. Dudley
Alix Koromzay	...	Mary Lambetta
Todd Field	...	Todd Hackett
Virginia Madsen	...	Jane
Michael Cavanaugh	...	Dr. Malcolm Keogh
Tom Irwin	...	Lou
Charles Gunning	...	Hugh Crain
Saul Priever	...	Ritchie
M.C. Gainey	...	Large Man
Hadley Eure	...	Carolyn Crain

Alternativ:

Maldición, La (USA: Spanish title)
The Haunting of Hill House (USA) (trailer title)
The Legend of Hill House (USA) (working title)
Geisterschloß, Das (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense horror sequences.

Länge:

113 Min | Switzerland:112 Min

Land:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS-ES | Dolby Digital EX | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #36806) | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Belgium:KT | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-14 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | Philippines:PG-13

Drehorte:

Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England, UK

Firma:

DreamWorks SKG

Dies und das:

The house used in the film is located in Grantham, England and is owned by the University of Evansville (Indiana). It is used by students that study abroad.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Nell is in the greenhouse she can briefly be seen to be wearing shoes

Dialogzitate:

Luke: [as noises come from chimney, he goes under it and yells up] Hello, Santa!

Querbezüge:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in "HBO First Look: The Haunting (#6.6)" (1999)

Soundtrack:

Home Safe

A truly awful cinematic horror show

CGI effects have lifted many a drab action flick to satisfactory levels, but their use in this horror remake is laughable. The makers took one excellent 1960s psychological horror film and remade it as a tired, emotionless wreck (just as I felt on leaving the cinema). Characters are one-dimensional and the viewer is left wishing them untold misfortune as the film stumbles from one cliche to another. This is one film that Catherine Zeta Jones, Liam Neeson et al would be forgiven for wishing that it could be computer graphically erased from their CVs.