USA, 1999
113m
35mm film, Technicolor, 2.35:1
Dolby Digital, Digital STS Sound, SDDS
An American horror film directed by Jan De Bont.
Plot Summary
Dr David Marrow leads a team of paranormal investigators to the supposedly haunted Hill House. One of them, the insecure and neurotic Nell, forms a psychic bond with the house that leaves her open to the forces that stalk the musty corridors. It soon becomes clear that none of them had any idea what they were dealing with as the haunting forces begin to make themselves felt and heard…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Jan De Bont
© 1999 DreamWorks LLC
DreamWorks Pictures presents A Jan De Bont film. A Roth/Arnold production.
Executive Producer: Jan De Bont
Produced by: Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff Roth, Colin Wilson
Associate Producer: Martin P. Ewing
Screenplay by: David Self
Based Upon The Haunting of Hill House by: Shirley Jackson
Director of Photography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Film Editor: Michael Kahn
Music Composed and Conducted by: Jerry Goldsmith
Production Sound Mixer: David MacMillan
Costume Designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Key Makeup Artist: Cindy Jane Williams
Key Hair Stylist: Judy Cory
Special Make-Up and Animatronic Effects by: K.N.B. EFX Group, Inc.
Special Effects Coordinator: John Frazier
Visual Effects Supervisors: Phil Tippett, Craig Hayes
Special Visual Effects and Animation by: Tippett Studio
Additional Visual Effects and Animation by: Industrial Light & Magic
Additional CGI Effects: CIS
Production Designed by: Eugenio Zanetti
Casting by: Randi Hiller
Cast
Liam Neeson (Dr David Marrow)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Theo)
Owen Wilson (Luke Sanderson)
Bruce Dern (Mr Dudley)
Lili Taylor (Nell)
Marian Seldes (Mrs Dudley)
Alix Koromzay (Mary Lambetta)
Todd Field (Todd Hackett)
Virginia Madsen (Jane)
Michael Cavanaugh (Dr Malcolm Keogh)
Tom Irwin (Lou)
Charles Gunning (Hugh Crain)
Saul Priever (Ritchie)
M.C. Gainey (large man)
Hadley Eure (Carolyn Crain)
Kadina Halliday (Rene Crain)
Alessandra Benjamin (psych patient #1)
Karen Gregan (psych patient #2)
Brandon Jarrett (psych patient #3)
Mary McNeal (psych patient #4)
William Minkin (psych patient #5)
Debi Derryberry, Jessica Evans, Sherry Lynn, Miles Marsico, Courtland Mead, Kelsey Mulrooney, Kyle McDougle, Hannah Swanson (children’s voices)
Alternative Titles
Az átok – Hungary
Biệt Thự Ma Ám – Vietnam
A Casa Amaldiçoada – Brazil
Castelul bântuit – Romania
Deemonite loss – Estonia
Das Geisterschloß – Austria, Germany
Das Geisterschloss – Germany
La guarida – Spain
Hantise – Canada (French), France
The haunting – Hjemsøgt – Denmark
The Haunting – paholaistalo – Finland
The haunting (La casa infernal) – Spain (Catalan)
The Haunting (La guarida) – Spain
The Haunting of Hill House – USA (trailer)
Haunting – Presenze – Italy
Hemsökt(Swedish) – Finland
Hjemsøkt – Norway
Hôntingu – Japan
The Legend of Hill House – working title
La maldición – Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, USA (Spanish)
A Mansão – Portugal
Nawiedzony – Poland
Paholaistalo – Finland (video)
Perili ev – Turkey
Posednuće – Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian)
Progonjeni – Croatia
Šmėklos – Lithuania
To stoiheiomeno spiti – Greece
Zámek hrůzy – Czech Republic
Zámok hrôzy – Slovakia
Το στοιχειωμένο σπίτι – Greece
Опседнутост – Serbia
Поседнуће – Serbia
Привид будинку на пагорбі – Ukraine
Призрак дома на холме – Russia
Свърталище на духове – Bulgaria
ホーンティング – Japan
द हौन्टिंग – India (Hindi)
鬼入侵 – Taiwan
Links
Remake of
The Haunting (1963)
Extracts included in
The Making of The Haunting (1999)
Remake It! Redo It! Sequel, Prequel & Reboot It! (2023)
References
Periodicals
- American Cinematographer vol.80 no.8 (August 1999) pp.30-34, 37-43 – illustrated article (This old house by David E. Williams); 36 – illustrated interview with Karl Walter LIndenlaub (Instant images by Bob Fisher); 44-51 – illustrated interview with John Frazier and Phil Tippett (Wall-to-wall horror by Ron Magid)
- Cinefantastique vol.31 no.7 (August 1999) pp.8-9 – illustrate article (The Haunting by Douglas Eby)
- Cinefantastique vol.31 no.9 (December 1999) p.62 – illustrated article (Cinema: The Blair Witch vs The Haunting: Suggestive scares upstage silly CGI by Steve Biodrowski)
- Cinefex no.79 (October 1999) pp.45-47, 53-54, 59-60, 121-122, 127-128 – illustrated article (The house that roared by Christine Sandoval)
- Creative Screenwriting vol.6 no.4 (July/August 1999) pp.32-37 – illustrated article ( Inner Demons, Flawed Protagonists & Haunted Houses in The Haunting & The Shining by Daniel S. Duvall)
- Empire no.121 (July 1999) p.106 – illustrated article (“Unmissable!”)
- Empire no.124 (October 1999) p.14 – illustrated review (New films by Ian Freer); 78-82 – illustrated interview with Jan De Bont (A Dutch of evil by Ian Freer)
- Empire no.129 (March 2000) p.46 – illustrated article (Reel news: scaring up business by James Mottram)
- Empire no.130 (April 2000) p.110 – video review (Home entertainment: videos to rent by CW)
- Entertainment Weekly no.483 (30 April 1999) pp.16-60 – illustrated preview (Summer movie preview
- Entertainment Weekly no.495 (23 July 1999) pp.22-25 – illustrated article (A shiver runs through it by Jeff Jensen)
- Entertainment Weekly no.496 (30 July 1999) pp.44-45 – illustrated review (This old house by Lisa Schwarzbaum
- Entertainment Weekly no.514 (26 November 1999) p.104 – illustrated video review (The Week by Mike D’Angelo)
- Fade In vol.5 no.2 (1999) p.15 – illustrated preview (Prevue by Andrew Roberts)
- Fangoria no.184 (July 1999) pp.12-18 – illustrated article (Ghosts with the most by Abbie Bernstein)
- Fangoria no.185 (August 1999) pp.46-50 – illustrated interview with Jan De Bont (Haunting housekeeping by Abbie Bernstein)
- Fangoria no.186 (September 1999) pp.32-35 – illustrated interview with Lili Taylor (A spirited performance by Abbie Bernstein)
- Film and Video vol.16 no.7 (July 1999) pp.21-23, 81 – illustrated interview with Jan De Bont (Scare tactics by Iain Blair)
- Film Review August 1999 p.38 – illustrated article (The Haunting by Ian Calcutt)
- Film Review October 1999 p.23 – illustrated review (The Haunting by Grant Kempster)
- Film Review Special no.27 Summer Blockbusters ’99 pp.30-31 – illustrated preview (Resident evil by Alan Jones)
- Film Score Monthly vol.4 no.8 (September/October 1999) pp.38, 42 – soundtrack review (Score: reviews of current releases on CD by Jeff Bond)
- Film-Echo/Filmwoche no.30 (31 July 1999) p.26 – review (The Haunting by Andreas Fuchs)
- Film-Echo/Filmwoche no.40 (9 October 1999) p.18 – illustrated interview with Jan De Bont (Bloss kein albernes Remake by Thilo Wydra)
- Journal of Popular Film & Television vol.30 no.3 (Autumn 2002) pp.166-176 – illustrated article (Thrice-told tales: The Haunting, from Novel to Film…to Film by Steven Jay Schneider)
- Legend no.29 (1999) p.34 – soundtrack review (CD reviews)
- Legend no.30 (2000) pp.10-12 – illustrated article (Haunted by the Haunting by Graham Vassie)
- Legend no.30 (2000) pp.8-9 – illustrated soundtrack review (The Haunting: An appreciation by Matthew Florianz)
- Movieline vol.10 no.10 (July 1999) pp.40-41 – illustrated article (Dark shadows by Jeff Book)
- Music from the Movies no.25 (Winter 1999) pp.33-34 – illustrated article (Film music review by Mikael Carlsson)
- Premiere no.272 (November 1999) p.60 – illustrated review (The Haunting by Eric Libiot)
- Premiere vol.12 no.10 (June 1999) p.58 – illustrated preview (The Haunting)
- Premiere vol.12 no.12 (August 1999) pp.74-76 – illustrated article (A-‘Haunting’ we will go by Kindra Peach)
- Realtime no.33 (October/November 1999) p.16 – illustrated article (Cinesonics by Phillip Brophy)
- Screen International no.1187 [sic] (4 December 1998) p.27 – note (International Production)
- Screen International no.1219 (30 July 1999) p.1 – illustrated note (Horror takes over US BO)
- Shivers no.67 (July 1999) pp.8-11 – illustrated interview with Jan De Bont (by Alan Jones)
- Shivers no.71 (November 1999) pp.18-21 – illustrated review
- Sight and Sound vol.9 no.11 (November 1999) p.44 – credits, synopsis, review (Review by Kim Newman)
- Sight and Sound vol.10 no.11 (November 2000) p.70 – note (Video reviews: retail by Geoffrey Macnab)
- Sight and Sound vol.10 no.12 (December 2000) p.61 – note (Video reviews: retail by Geoffrey Macnab)
- Sight and Sound vol.10 no.4 (April 2000) p.64 – video review (Video reviews: rental by Danny Leigh)
- Sight and Sound vol.11 no.2 (February 2001) p.61 – illustrated DVD review (Reviews: home movies by Danny Leigh and Geoffrey Macnab)
- Starburst no.250 (June 1999) p.13 – illustrated preview (The Haunting by Judy Sloane)
- Starburst no.254 (October 1999) pp.56-60 – illustrated preview (A fright to remember by Ian Spelling)
- Starburst no.255 (November 1999) p.63 – illustrated review (Movie reviews by Alan Jones)
- Starburst no.267 (November 2000) p.84 – illustrated video review (Reviews: videofile by Ian Atkins)
- Télérama no.2599 (3 November 1999) p.64 – review (Hantise by B.G.)
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.355 no.27 (8 December 1998) p.25 – credits (Films in Production by Brian Fuson)
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.357 no.2 (23 March 1999) p.23 – credits (Films in Production by Brian Fuson)
- Total Film no.30 (July 1999) pp.14-15 – illustrated preview (Trailers by Emma Cochrane)
- Total Film no.33 (October 1999) p.90 – illustrated review (New films by Yael Shuv)
- Variety 26 July 1999 p.34 – illustrated credits, synopsis, review (Film Reviews by Todd McCarthy)
Books
- The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Films second edition by John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh pp.176-178 – credits, review (by B.M. and J.C.T. [John C. Tibbetts]
- The Films of the Nineties: A Complete, Qualitative Filmography of Over 3000 Feature-Length English Language Films, Theatrical and Video-Only, Released Between January 1, 1990, and December 31, 1999 by Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn L. Nowlan p.242
- Horror Films of the 1990s by John Kenneth Muir pp.622-626
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film Sequels, Series, and Remakes Volume 2 by Kim R. Holston and Tom Winchester pp.125-126
