The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 horror film directed and produced by Robert Wise, adapted by Nelson Gidding from Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House. It stars Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. The film depicts the experiences of a small group of people invited by a paranormal investigator to investigate a purportedly haunted house.
Plot
Dr. John Markway narrates the history of the 90-year-old Hill House, which was constructed in Massachusetts by Hugh Crain as a home for his wife. She died when her carriage crashed against a tree as she approached the house for the first time. Crain remarried, but his second wife died in the house from a fall down the stairs. Crain's daughter Abigail lived in the house for the rest of her life, never moving out of the nursery room. She died calling for her nurse-companion. The companion inherited the house, but later hanged herself from a spiral staircase in the library. Hill House was eventually inherited by a Mrs. Sannerson, although it has stood empty for some time.
More details
author | Nelson Gidding |
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contentLocation | Massachusetts |
director | Robert Wise |
editor | Ernest Walter |
events | supernatural |
genre | horror thriller |
keywords | cold spot cry discover even first time follow hanged herself inherit laugh living room married mental instability morning move out nursery open paranormal activity perspective poltergeist rescue second wife sing spiral staircase string suicide think trap door voice want warn young girl |
musicBy | Humphrey Searle |
producer | Robert Wise |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
theme | ghost lgbt-related psychological horror psychological thriller |