The Haunting, 1963. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn. SYNOPSIS: A paranormal investigator gathers together a group of people to spend a night in the ominous Hill House as part of an experiment to determine if the building is haunted, oblivious to the terror that awaits them. […]
UK trailer and poster for Australian horror The Haunting
Ahead of its home entertainment release this coming Monday, 4Digital Media has debuted a UK poster and trailer for the Australian horror The Haunting (a.k.a. The School); check them out here, along with the official synopsis… When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive […]
The Greatest Ghost Stories Ever Written
In time for Halloween, Sean Wilson takes a look at some of the most delightfully ghoulish and flesh-creeping stories ever put to paper. The Turn of the Screw Author Henry James described his own sensational chiller as a ‘pot-boiler’ but it’s clearly so much more than that. A deeply unnerving tale of a young governess […]
It’s Okay To Prefer A Remake, Really
Edward Gardiner on why it’s okay to prefer remakes… If it’s not a sequel, it’s a remake. Always a hot topic in film discussion, the phenomenon of film remakes is something many of us still can’t entirely wrap our heads around. It’s been going on for decades, to varying degrees of quality, but only in recent […]