They forget that the original film
version of «The
Haunting» (based on Shirley Jackson's truly terrifying «The
Haunting of Hill
House») worked so well because
of what the audience didn't see.
Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel The
Haunting of Hill
House gets the full effects - laden, end -
of - the - century treatment from action director De Bont (Speed, Twister), which essentially means more computer - generated phantasms and a much, much louder audio track than Robert Wise's superlative 1963
version.