![]() ![]() The coffin was covered with white silk and edged with a thick white frill wreaths of flowers surrounded it on all sides. The birds were chirruping under the window, and in the middle of the room, on a table covered with a white satin shroud, stood a coffin. The floors were strewn with freshly-cut fragrant hay, the windows were open, a fresh, cool, light air came into the room. He was reluctant to move away from them, but he went up the stairs and came into a large, high drawing-room and again everywhere-at the windows, the doors on to the balcony, and on the balcony itself-were flowers. He noticed particularly in the windows nosegays of tender, white, heavily fragrant narcissus bending over their bright, green, thick long stalks. A light, cool staircase, carpeted with rich rugs, was decorated with rare plants in china pots. A fine, sumptuous country cottage in the English taste overgrown with fragrant flowers, with flower beds going round the house the porch, wreathed in climbers, was surrounded with beds of roses. He kept dwelling on images of flowers, he fancied a charming flower garden, a bright, warm, almost hot day, a holiday-Trinity day. Perhaps the cold, or the dampness, or the dark, or the wind that howled under the window and tossed the trees roused a sort of persistent craving for the fantastic. But one image rose after another, incoherent scraps of thought without beginning or end passed through his mind. He was not thinking of anything and did not want to think. ![]() There was a cold damp draught from the window, however without getting up he drew the blanket over him and wrapped himself in it. “It’s better not to sleep at all,” he decided. Check out the original instead.He got up and sat on the edge of the bedstead with his back to the window. I'm afraid there are no real thrills or creaks in this old haunted house monstrosity.only groans. Everything in The Haunting is overdone and overblown. And the climax is a phantasmogoric mess.but things had gone terribly wrong long before that. ![]() No, we get some visual effects to SHOW US what we're supposed to be afraid of.and you know what? As wonderfully realized as they are.the visual effects come off as sort of silly. We can no longer use our imaginations, feel that horrible dread of fear of the unknown. But, the crime of all crimes is that the horror is shown to us. In the end, the always wonderful Lili Taylor is the only performer to escape with some dignity.and that's just barely. But, the script puts it's fine actors to the test.asking them to deliver the kind of stilted dialogue that is only spoken in movies. Yes, Eugenio Zannetti's production design is jaw-dropping the movie is wonderfully photographed and composer Jerry Goldsmith can never EVER do wrong. Well, subtlety, where are you now!!? My fears have manifested.a promising movie has gone wrong. ![]() Surely, with such a talented cast intact.De Bont and company will not ruin a film, who's original was a fantastic and frightening movie that understood the delicate art of subtlety. When I first heard news of a remake of Robert Wise's 1963 film, "The Haunting", I had a fear that it would be ruined by an abundance of summer-movie sized visual effects. ![]()
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