Well I was originally going to write up all this week's movies in one post, but there were too many of them. So here's the last of the Halloween movies that were saved on my DVR.
The Haunting. The remake had 100 times more special effects, but for my money the original was 100 times scarier. Seriously, I started watching this in the afternoon by myself, and I had to turn it off and wait for Georg to get home to finish. The plot is about the same in both movies and much of the tone and set design of the original was kept in the remake. Like the creepy statues everywhere, and the only really scary part of the remake (the scene early on when the two women hear pounding on the walls outside their room). But all that goofy stuff about Eleanor sacrificing herself to save the souls of murdered children was new to the remake. In the original the house just wants her because she's psychic, sort of like The Shining. The other woman (Catherine Zeta Jones's character in the remake) was dressed by Mary Quant, which was pretty cool.
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