>I'd seen it as a teenager, and I was not a fan of horror films, and
>to prove the point it scared the bejeebers out of me. The scariest part of
>'The Haunting' was that the audience never saw the monster. That's what
>kept the intensity of the fear going throughout the movie.
About the only film of that period that's more unsettling is SECONDS, with (of
all people) Rock Hudson. It's a terrific film, marginally speculative fiction,
but it'll utterly leave you with the heebie-jeebies.
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