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The Haunting (1963)
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Heavy pounding and pressure on a bedroom door make Hill House feel active without providing a creature to explain it. Robert Wise keeps the visitors' reactions and the building's skewed spaces in a tense relationship, so looking harder offers no dependable answer. The knocks can be loud and startling, but they sustain an unseen presence rather than repeatedly clearing the tension. Eleanor's desperate wish to belong makes the house's attention especially troubling.
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About The Haunting
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…