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The Haunting (1999)

The Haunting
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The Haunting film poster
Directed by Jan de Bont
Produced by Donna Roth
Colin Wilson
Susan Arnold
Screenplay by David Self
Michael Tolkin
Based on The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
Starring
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Edited by Michael Kahn
Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures
Release date
  • July 23, 1999 (1999-07-23)
Running time
114 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $80 million
Box office $177.3 million

The Haunting is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Jan de Bont. The film is a remake of the psychological horror film of the same name. Both of them are based on the 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. The Haunting stars Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson and Lili Taylor. It was released in the United States on July 23, 1999.

Eleanor "Nell" Vance (Lili Taylor) has cared for her invalid mother for 11 years. After her mother dies, her sister Jane (Virginia Madsen) and Jane's boyfriend Lou (Tom Irwin) eject her. Nell receives a phone call about an insomnia study, directed by Dr. David Marrow (Liam Neeson) at Hill House, a secluded manor in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, and applies for it. At the house, she meets Mr. and Mrs. Dudley (Bruce Dern, Marian Seldes), a strange pair of caretakers. Two other participants arrive, Luke Sanderson (Owen Wilson) and Theodora (Catherine Zeta-Jones), along with Dr. Marrow and his two research assistants. Unknown to the participants, Dr. Marrow’s true purpose is to study the psychological response to fear, intending to expose his subjects to increasing amounts of terror. Each night, the caretakers chain the gate outside Hill House, preventing anyone from getting in or out until morning.


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