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movie review - The Haunting

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2000.05.20

Actually pretty terrifying at times, this is about a small cast of people invited to spend the night in a crazy old mansion, supposedly on a study about insomnia. Two of the characters disappear quickly, and there's a beheading, and I shall say no more. It's pretty much standard Hollywood fare, and not a bad ghost story.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov