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This Movie Should Be Considered To Be "A Pathetic Comedy!!!"
In this sorry excuse for a Horror movie we see Liam Neelson who lures a group of insomniacs to a Gothic Mansion in the pretext that he will be assessing their various Sleep Disorders. Catherine Zeta Jones is beautiful as always but her character is a bisexual barbituate swallowing fashion victim who thinks that one of life's necessities is 'sex". Poor Catherine states' Do you ever feel that you are the only one at the party?". Stephen King once stated that' CHARACTERIZATION is all important in a Horror book or movie. If the viewer likes the characters then he or she will have some empathy with their fate. Sadly none of these people are very likeable and as a result you don't care about what happens to them. The special effects are (unintentionally ) very funny. Wood carvings of cherubs seem to come to life. This reminds me of my wild reckless youth where after consuming too much Jim Beam things started to shift and move too. I give this movie 5 stars because Catherine looks so good in it.

Furniture attacking the characters in a horror-movie...
...such as "The Haunting" is not a good idea, and despite its' talented cast and perfect locations (the haunted mansion is actually the main star of the movie!) this somewhat pale horror-piece only manages to entertain, and never reaches to its' main purpose; To scare the hell out of you!

A bit sad, it has potential. It starts out with an unpleasant atmosphere, which of course suits a good horror-movie -but the story is weak, the acting uninspired it seems, and what is Liam Neeson doing in such a part? He's a far too brilliant actor to waste his talent on a movie such as "The Haunting".

A shame, but on the plus side he is far from ruining the movie. If you are a fan of ghost stories this will probably get your attention, and personally I find it entertaining -but plot is weak. Story uninspired. I'd rent it before buying.

Possible spoiler;

As mentioned the lowpoint of the movie is one of the final scenes when the walls and roof in one of the bedrooms somehow transforms itself -and attacks the girl in the lead role. That was not scary, but stupid. And also the "wooden babyfaces" decorating her bedroom walls that suddenly starts to make expressions. How? And why? Some effects also were not that visually fit.

Other than that, no disaster -and worth seeing.

I'm all alone...Nobody liked this movie...But me. How sad.
To begin: Yes, this movie does not, in any way shape or form follow book. But (I think) it makes up for it in an equally good plot. I'm not a fan of scary movies. I don't like being scared. I like to laugh at the particularly funny lame scary movies, but I don't like being scared. This was possibly one of the only scary movies I appreciated getting scared in.

It begins with the main character, a woman who reminds me strongly of one of those mystic or hippy types who was a strange, outcast, talk-to-themselves kind of person as child. She gets a phone call asking her if she wants to join in this insomnia study thing. She obliges, mainly because she suffers from insomnia and wants to learn how to chase away the demons. We are then taken to this gorgeous house which (kind of) reminds me of the Biltmore Esate in North Carolina. From there creepy stuff starts happening. The acting in this was very good, but I think one of the annoying things in this movie was the stereotypical thing where all of the lady's buddies find her insane when she tells them creepy stuff is happening. However, I enjoyed this movie. It's not a movie that relies so much on visual scary effects (even though there are a lot of visual effects) as is does kind of psycological.

To stuff together: I really liked this movie. I enjoyed it. I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't read the above reviews. It's a good movie worthy of a try. Give it a chance, and methinks you might like it.

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