The Haunting (1999) – Filmsack Show Notes

INTRO

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This week on filmsack we find ourselves in THE HAUNTING of our lives when we get an unsolicited curly cable kitchen phone call from HBO Max: Max to open up our “dead as mama media” to the classifieds of Horror/Fantasy from 1999 and finger our way down to an ad for a Scooby Doo without the Doo style mansion sleepover party adventure and all it cost is 5 gallons of gas to cure our well earned insomnia. and we would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids and your stupid dog. This movie really needs a stupid dog and a hungry stoner and all we got was Owen Wilson. Wow.

Anywho, I’m your housekeeper. Breakfast is ready at nine. I don’t stay after dinner …. not after it begins to get dark. … I live in town … with my lover groundskeeper Bruce Dern,….nine miles, that how far it is to watch me and Bruce Dern get dirty after keeping it clean all day. Sooo there won’t be anyone around if you need help from groundskeeper Bruce Dern and myself….in the night…in the dark…naked…touching parts ..hiding stuff in stuff …now enjoy your creepy haunted cherub head shelves…they like to watch. I won’t tell you how I know … but it involve Bruce Dern. in the night… in the dark… naked… touching parts

Randy, hand me my eye cup! My eye is starting to bleed. gross!

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BRIEF

This horror tale focuses on visitors to the secluded mansion of Hill House who have been called to the isolated location by Dr. David Marrow (Liam Neeson) as part of a study on insomnia. However, Marrow is really investigating fear, and he plans to scare the subjects, including the introverted Nell (Lili Taylor) and the seductive Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Unfortunately for Marrow and everyone staying at Hill House, the manor is actually haunted by an evil spirit out to torment its guests.

Rated: PG-13
1999 ‧ Horror/Fantasy ‧ 2h 5m

LINKS

IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171363/

WIKIPEDIA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_(1999_film)

Rotten Tomatoes – https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_haunting_1999

TVTropes – https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheHaunting1999

WHERE TO WATCH

HBO Max – https://play.max.com/movie/6a88b03a-6a2a-47a5-85d4-1d83eaa72918

MORE WAYS TO WATCH – https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-haunting

TRAILER/CLIPS

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SHOW NOTES

Mom is dead. I have been here for 11 years…and the will says your shitty sister and family get to make all the calls.
Kicking her out of the home…giving her the 20 year old car…and deducting it.
You can come live with us and watch your shitty nephew.
Sweet Mama Cane.
A place for everything…and everything a place…except you..you got no place.
Elanor help me…I got to pee.
Quick…to the Yellow Kitchen Phone and the newspaper… Research sleep disorder…900 a week.
Heading up to Hill House.
We need some suspectable people.
Primordial fear responses… bringing on insomniacs
You don’t tell the rats they are actually in a maze…come on.
Gawd..this was 1999 and she is using a corded phone, newspaper ads and paper maps….is 1999 that long ago.
Love the music in this movie. Very Hitchcockian stuff.
BRUCE DERN! I didn’t see that coming…. groundskeeper DERN.
Why do you need so many chains? What is it about fences…
Come stay at my remote mansion/castle of Hill House…a great place to take a nap…not drafty at all.
Hello..Misses Dudley…hello…
Dr. Marrows….group
It’s make the dinner or answer the door…can’t do both.
Do those griffins have breast? Look at the pecs on this things.
I see you got a painting of the wolverine in the hall…hello bub.
First visitors to the house since Mr. Crane died… FRASIER!
Breakfast is at 9. I don’t wait. I leave before Dark…not after it gets dark. in the night. 9 miles…we couldn’t hear you… no one will come any nearer than that…in the night…in the dark…enjoy your cherub head shelves…dust them…it is a real pain.
Everyone calls me Nell.
Small price to pay…for such savage kicks… hello late 90s early 00s
I do have an apartment of my own….until mom died…
Based on the gates of hell…by Rodan
The kids are trapped in purgatory! and demons…that hold onto your soul….I was there for 11 years. All ye who stand before these doors shall be judged.
Literal Hall of mirrors.
Let’s go into the carousel room and dance…
We are rats…in a maze…
Just a bad sleeper…tosser…turner.
3am is when it happens…have you ever watched late night TV..
Food, Water, Shelter (SEX) and Sleeeep
Working with Mary over the next 5 years.
She would wake up in the middle of the night…bang with her cane on the wall. I still hear it.
King Crane….owned textile mills. He wanted a house of children. He built the home for the wife and kids…but all the kids died and the wife…he became a recluse.
Mary and her tiny little cup of blood and tears. Such a crier.
Popping Pez like candy
yep…all those kids heads turned…and I am sleeping under spikes…I’m out.
Tossing balls in the hall.
Coming Mother…WAIT A MINUTE!
Nope…Door Banging is a no starter for me….
The ghost that brings the cold.
It’s in my room…Must be a lady ghost only…
Probably just the plumbing.
She seems like she sleeps pretty well other than being woken up by ghosts..
Sleep in a haunted house for 900 a week…hmmm..in 1999 money?
This Hugh guy was all about the child labor.
I am going to shut this giant door and give you a little privacy to do your weird ass puzzle.
Did you see what she was wearing?
The most dangerous Flue
Look at me. I’m not confused.
Welcome Home Eleanor.
Is this one of your sick jokes Luke?
Who wrote this?
Eleanor, Luke and Theo and the doc Marrow.
Oh violets! Someone must have died.
I waiting all my life for an adventure…and all it cost was 5 gallons of gas.
I can be a victim or I can be a volunteer..
Keep your damn feet under the covers moron!
Bloody footprints to follow.
The Ledger…read the ledger…in the study.
Spiral Staircases are creepy.
Man Woman Child…12 yrs…11 years…strike ’em out.
The blood led me to the bookcase.
Nell don’t let nobody touch her…much less some creepy weirdo dead kids doing her hair.
home is where the heart is
Carolyn was the 2nd wife.
What is that smell? is it a door with a fist?
You can never hide a secret.
She is in a Fugue state
Group fear and hysteria.
I can’t believe you aren’t going to look
The science of fear…why people act the way they act…feel the way they feel.
turn the lights on and the ghosts goes away.
He is an angry hill house.
Across the hall of watcher and books as stepping stones.
That is some fast acting pregnancy
It’s not going to hold your weight Liam
Jump from your safe place to the not so safe place.
I think this house is trying to kill me!
The first time I talked to you was here at the mansion.
We got to crash the gate…let’s crash the gate.
Eleanor…I’m borrowing your car…TO CRASH THE GATE! Owen Crash the Gate Wilson
Carolyn was my great great grandmother.
I have to stay for the children.
He’s not going to let you go.
Naty Liam Neason Cut.
Come on. Let’s burn it down…
Luke lost his head.
You play hide and seek with him…that is why he built the house.
House of lies…floor of bones.
It’s about family…its my family grandpa and I’ve come home.
Purgatory is over…you go to hell.
Did you find out what you wanted to know doctor?