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  • An American Haunting is entertaining enough as well joey on Apr 16, 2008

    What's Wrong With Horror? Please Scare Me Hollywood! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Haunting is a prominent motif in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.

    The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski: Questions 2008

  • Daphne: Haunting is the perfect word to describe it.

    Little, Big by John Crowley 2008

  • Me, I think The Haunting was a much scarier movie.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Fred Kiesche 2009

  • Me, I think The Haunting was a much scarier movie.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009

  • House on Haunted Hill, though, is strictly confined to the realm of cliche, despite some wonderfully ghoulish dialogue by screenwriter Robb White, whereas The Haunting is a full-fledged adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House, complete with gorgeous narration of that book's opening paragraph: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Greg Tannahill 2009

  • While The Haunting is a landmark ghost film, it's style is at times far, far too brash and at odds with it's ghosts and most definitely at odds with the delicate, sinewy prose of Ms. Jackson's novel.

    It's definitely definitive! Arbogast 2009

  • Where I like Hell House more, The Haunting is a more perfect, iconic ghost story.

    Ghost Poll! Arbogast 2009

  • The Haunting, which is fabulous and which I certainly had in mind while I was writing

    unknown title 2009

  • The Haunting, which is fabulous and which I certainly had in mind while I was writing

    unknown title 2009

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