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The Haunting
Haunting, The (1999)
Credits
Title: The Haunting
Directed by: Jan de Bont
Written by: David Self
Produced by: Jan de Bont; Donna Arkoff Roth; Colin Wilson; Susan Arnold
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Edited by: Michael Kahn
Production
Distributors: DreamWorks SKG
Roth-Arnold Productions
Released: July 23rd, 1999
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 113 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
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The Haunting is an American feature film of the horror genre, with a emphasis on the haunted house subgenre. It is a remake of the 1963 film The Hauning, directed by Robert Wise. The remake was directed by Jan de Bont with a screenplay written by David Self and Michael Tolkin. It was produced by DreamWorks SKG and Roth-Arnold Productions and released theatrically in the United States on July 23rd, 1999.

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Notes & Trivia[]

  • This film, as well as the original 1963 version, is based on the novel The Haunting of Hill House by author Shirley Jackson.
  • The tagline for this film is "Some houses are born bad".
  • Shots of Hill House were filmed at Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire, England.
  • Some studio shots were filmed at Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios in Manhattan Beach, California.
  • There are a total of twenty-nine credited cast members in this film. Eight of the cast members, which are not listed here, are the voices of the ghostly children.
  • A television series The Haunting of Hill House began airing on Netflix on October 12th, 2018. The program borrowed names from both characters from the book, as well as some of the actors, as well as general elements from the original story, but was otherwise a unique narrative involving the psychological ramifications suffered by the Crain family after having lived in Hill House for a brief period.
  • The Haunting was produced on a budget of $80,000,000. [1]
  • The Haunting grossed $91,411,151 in the United States. It grossed $85,900,000 in the international market. Its worldwide total gross was $177,311,151. [1]
  • At its widest release, The Haunting was screened in 2,881 theaters. [1]
  • The Haunting closed out of theaters on November 11th, 1999. It had been in release for a total of sixteen weeks (112 days).
  • This is Owen Wilson's eighth feature film role and his second film in the horror genre. He also played a sound engineer named Gary Dixon in the 1997 film Anaconda. Wilson's character died in that film as well.
  • While this may Lili Taylor's first foray into the haunted house genre, it will not be her last. Fourteen years after her work on The Haunting, she will go on to play Carolyn Perron in the ghostly period piece, The Conjuring.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Box Office Mojo; "The Haunting (1999)"; Total Lifetime Grosses & Domestic Summary.
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