The Haunting 1999

Critics score:
17 / 100

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Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: When The Haunting finally limps to its conclusion, you may feel like booing the screen. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: A lavish illustration of how to take a fairly modest black-and -white horror film from 1963 and amplify it so relentlessly that the sight of the flying cow in Twister would not be all that amiss. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: The actors are basically helpless with this. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Worse than awful! Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: To my surprise, I find myself recommending The Haunting on the basis of its locations, its sets, its art direction, its sound design, and the overall splendor of its visuals. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: A mess, a jumble of fancy special effects that are supposed to be scary but are really just fancy, further decorated with dribbles of dialogue, most of which are unintentionally hilarious. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The only thing scary about the new version is realizing that someone keeps giving director Jan De Bont money to make movies. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Read more

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Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The characters are on the dramatic equivalent of Death Row. Read more