a few hauntings, pt. 3

house on haunted hill, 1999, remake of the 1959 movie(which was crap by the way; don't watch this. seriously. just don't. if you want vincent price, watch the thriller video).



i love the back story for this movie. but, then again, i love insane asylums. and this one has a mother of a back story. the patients went crazy. ice pick labotomies. creepy treatments.



and an even creepier picture that connects all but two people to the former staff.



this is a great scare and loads of fun.



the story is really quite simple, a rich, bored woman wants her birthday at haunted hill, the former insane asylum. her husband's computer, possessed, changes the list to children of the former staff and then, tortures them at the party. on the dvd, watch the special features with the real estate agent. it's fun and you'll have to make sure you recognize him from earlier in the movie.

a few hauntings, pt. 2

the haunting. based on the book by shirley jackson; released in 1999. it starts liam neeson, owen wilson, catherine zeta-jones, and lili taylor.



definately scarier than the book. the hidden rooms. the creepy mansion. the special effects. the creepy maid and crazy groundskeeper. the whole movie is just great and the location helped a lot. especially the creepy picture at the top of the stairs (shudders). i won't tell too much; but would recommend for a light and breezy scare.

a few hauntings, pt. 1

1999 was the year of the hauntings. house on haunted hill and the haunting(based on shirley jackson's haunting of hill house and renamed for the pictures because of the aforementioned movie).



today, we'll start off with the haunting of hill house.



i asked about it for the shining and i'll ask again, why was this book so scary? seriously, what did i miss? she just runs her car into a tree. there's nothing really scary about that.



the movie was WAY better. guess i'll have to review that next!