236 - The Haunting

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The episode reviews the 1999 horror film 'The Haunting', directed by Jan de Bont and produced by Stephen Spielberg.

Send us Fan Mail What do you get when Stephen Spielberg wants to produce a blockbuster-style horror movie with Jan de Bont directing? You get 1999's The Haunting! Based on the famous Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Hill House, this incredibly 90's film follows a troubled woman invited to a sleep study at a spooky old haunted house in western Massachusetts. The reality, however, is that the doctor conducting the study is really writing a book on fear, and trying to get his guests to giv...

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Host: Fearless Films

Topics covered

• horror films
• film reviews
• Stephen Spielberg
• Jan de Bont
• 90s cinema
• adaptations
• psychological horror

Keywords

• The Haunting
• Stephen Spielberg
• Jan de Bont
• horror movie
• film review
• 90s horror
• Shirley Jackson
• Hill House
• sleep study
• fear

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Haunting, The Haunting of Hill House

Places: western Massachusetts

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