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The Haunting (1963), a review by Jimmy

Title: The Haunting (1963)

Genre: Horror
Director: Robert Wise
Rating: G
Length: 1h52
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: English, German, Portuguese and Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish

Stars:
Julie Harris
Claire Bloom
Richard Johnson
Russ Tamblyn
Fay Compton

Plot:
"It was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad." The place is the 90-year-old mansion called Hill House. No one lives there. Or so it seems. But please do come in. Because even if you don't believe in ghosts, there's no denying the terror of The Haunting.

Robert Wise returned to psychological horror for this much admired, first screen adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Four people come to the house to study it's supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it? The answer will unnerve you in this "elegantly sinister scare movie. It's good fun" (Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies).

First time I've watch this film, sure I know it by reputation since it is a highly praised classic. Yes, it deserves its reputation but don't expect a scares a minute film filled with blood and death (if this is what you want watch the uninspired remake). In effects horror those days was more psychological and leaded by scripts catching your attention from beginning to end. Of course when you had an excellent director, a good cast of theatre actors, a good script and a beautifull black & white cinematography (WB really did a good job with that release) most of the time you get a good film. I like how they tell the story of the house in the beginning (they tell us everything in a very short time). The only thing I feel would had made it a better experience for me would have been to watch it on a better sound system as the sound is important in that film.

Highly recommanded

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(From Jimmy's - 2013 Ooctober Horror Marathon on October 22nd, 2013)

The Exorcist, a review by Dragonfire

The Exorcist

My Thoughts

I did get a review posted on Epinions.

The Exorcist

(From Dragonfire's Halloween/Horror Marathon 2009 on November 1st, 2009)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
5.22 Children of Time
WriterDirector: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Gary Frank (Yedrin Dax), Jennifer S. Parsons (Miranda), Davida Williams (Lisa), Doren Fein (Molly), Brian Evaret Chandler (Brota), Marybeth Massett (Parell), Jesse Littlejohn (Gabriel)

The Defiant crew land on a planet, where they meet descendents of themselves. As it turns out, they will catapulted back two hundred years when trying to leave the planet and crashland there.
Now they have deal with the dilemna that avoiding the accident which brings them back in time would result that the colony of 8000 people will never have existed.
A well executed episode which I always enjoyed.

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(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on November 17th, 2011)