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movie review - The Haunting

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a 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

Selfish leaders increase risk by placing themselves first. It's a fundamental mistake to assume that what is good for us personally is mutually exclusive to what is good for everyone. That kind of zero-sum game is for cowards, and in the end, we all pay the price for this type of latent, toxic leadership.

—Col. Eric G. Kail