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Originally posted by allmykids
I have not seen this but I want to. I'm sure I would love it!!

A lot of people didn't like it. It was sort of cheesy .. and weird beyond belief... But I enjoyed it. *shrugs* Stephen King. And the accident in the beginning was completely based on his own.. Down to why the driver hit the guy ..

I did not see the last three eps because I was in the hospital myself having a baby but what I did see I really liked.

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Originally posted by Ninja Moo
A lot of people didn't like it. It was sort of cheesy .. and weird beyond belief... But I enjoyed it. *shrugs* Stephen King. And the accident in the beginning was completely based on his own.. Down to why the driver hit the guy ..

I did not see the last three eps because I was in the hospital myself having a baby but what I did see I really liked.

So was your hospital Ghost free???

I was too drugged to notice!!

It was ardvark free, I can tell you that.

Re: Best Haunted House Movie?

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Originally posted by Stingy Jack
I have seen a lot of haunted house movies, and have always been disappointed by them. They never seem to live up to what I would expect a haunted house to be like! Most of them rely too much on over-the-top special effects, and take no time to develop any sense of creepiness (The Haunting, Rose Red, 13 Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill (the original was okay)). Even the ones that do a good job with atmosphere, really blow it on the actual hauntings (The Legend of Hell House, The Haunting of Hill House). Is there one I have not seen that is actually good? I like the stereotypical haunted house stuff. Not a sprawling mansion, but a good sized victorian home that is in great disrepair and located on a lot that is overgrown with dead trees. Cobwebs in all the corners, dust all over everything. Moans, groans, rattling of chains, pictures with moving eyes, corpses appearing in closets and disappearing shortly afterwards. That sort of thing.

Would you settle for a short story set in an abandonned hospital?

Not that i am writing anything like that......:D

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Originally posted by zwoti
nope the haunting based on the novel by shirley jackson. the storyline is basically that of the remake...just done properly

Yeah, the novel is The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson. That's the one I am talking about. The remake, titled simply The Haunting, was based on the original Haunting of Hill House.

I watched the Amityville Horror just the other day, because it had been so long since I had seen it. I like the house, but again, the hauntings are pretty tame. The blood dripping from the walls was cool, and the pig-like demon in the window was freaky ... but it seemed to be more about the husband going bonkers than the house actually being haunted. I have never seen any of the sequels, though.

If there was a movie based on Edward Bulwer-Lytton's short story "The Haunters and the Haunted", then you might be getting close to the type of film I've been waiting for.