If something terrible happens just out of sight, was it lions? Or something worse? Or nothing at all? The only necessary proof is that something terrible happened, and if you don't quite know what that terrible thing was, it's even scarier.
This, to my mind, is the most absolutely terrifying thing about the first movie adaptation of "The Haunting of Hill House" -- "The Haunting" with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom. You see nothing. Something is there. Something must be there, because something is holding Nell's hand in the dark, but it is never, never there when the lights come on.
The second adaptation, with Liam Neeson, is totally not even scary at all. What? Some fucking GHOSTS of MURDERED CHILDREN, are you kidding me? Pfah. The thing that has to be there but somehow isn't is WAY more frightening.
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This, to my mind, is the most absolutely terrifying thing about the first movie adaptation of "The Haunting of Hill House" -- "The Haunting" with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom. You see nothing. Something is there. Something must be there, because something is holding Nell's hand in the dark, but it is never, never there when the lights come on.
The second adaptation, with Liam Neeson, is totally not even scary at all. What? Some fucking GHOSTS of MURDERED CHILDREN, are you kidding me? Pfah. The thing that has to be there but somehow isn't is WAY more frightening.