La maldición
The Haunting
Director:
Jan de BontGuión:
David SelfCámara:
Karl Walter LindenlaubMúsica:
Jerry GoldsmithReparto:
Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern, Marian Seldes, Alix Koromzay, Todd Field, Virginia Madsen, M.C. Gainey (más)Streaming (4)
Sinopsis(1)
Desde que fuera construida hace 130 años, la Casa de La Colina, un edificio tan gótico como tenebroso, se levanta solitaria y rodeada de múltiples leyendas y rumores que hablan sobre muertes trágicas. Intrigado por el pasado de la mansión el Dr. David Marlow forma un equipo con otras tres personas: Theo, una exuberante bisexual, Nell, mujer sensible que acaba de escapar del control familiar, y Luke Sannerson, el cínico del grupo, para ir a la deshabitada casa y realizar un estudio sobre la naturaleza del miedo. Y la casa se encargará de despertar el miedo de sus inquilinos. (Universal Pictures España)
(más)Reseñas (4)
Si ves The Haunting (La guarida) no como una película de terror, sino como una historia de fantasmas para toda la familia, no te disgustarás. Como superproducción de terror con un reparto estelar, es un fracaso.
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If I accept the strange idea of putting insomniacs in an abandoned mansion as part of research and turn a blind eye to it, this film still can't be considered either a good ghost story or a horror movie. It does have a nice soundtrack and EXTRAORDINARY sets, similar in impact and size to those you see in old Universal horror films, and the film is appropriately bathed in them for the first hour, but that's where the positives end. What happens in the last 40 minutes or so is something I've perhaps never seen in a high-budget studio film, which are usually thought over in dramaturgical detail. That sequence of bad creative decisions where everything that could go wrong did. The logic and common sense of all the characters went to hell, there's confused running hither and yon and screaming like little kids, and despite the already advanced CGI capabilities at the time, it has far worse visual effects than films a few decades older. Sure, the fault is already in the script, the central (poorly acted) character played by Lili Taylor and her backstory, but de Jan de Bont's shoddy craftsmanship doesn't add anything to it.
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I promise I'll listen to my friends next time they give me advice like "Don't watch The Haunting, it's stupid, a waste of time". God, that WAS stupid. To the point it surprised me. A horror movie that's not scary... mysteries that aren't mysterious... actors who barely act at all...basically crap. One star for the design of the (un)haunted mansion, the second for Goldsmith's music, which does make something out of the zero atmosphere here and there. But there's not much there.
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