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Old 04-27-2005, 01:38 AM
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The haunting of Hill House

Has anyone read Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House? Excellent book and rather creepy. It really does stick in your mind like the original black and white Robert Wise movie from 1963...
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Old 04-27-2005, 08:35 AM
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I read it when I was sixteen, I think. And yes, it is a great book and a great movie. Really, I think that the '63 version of The Haunting is one of the best book to screen films I have ever seen. There was a lot of respect paid to the material.
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that movie, to me, is THE scariest movie ever. I would like to read the book, that and the amitivile
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Old 04-29-2005, 07:49 PM
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that movie, to me, is THE scariest movie ever. I would like to read the book, that and the amitivile
I think it is definitely one of the scariest movies ever made, because it leaves so much up to the viewer. The book leaves so much up to the reader. You can interpret it in different ways. And it is very effective in that way, I think.
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