haunted ( 2007 film )
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thank you for the kind words about the blog 🙂 i hope your haunted hospital sells, and gets turned into a great haunted attraction .
“where' er we tread' tis haunted, holy ground. ” - lord byron
line is pointing us to. the most famous haunted hotel in history, the overlook, and in the movie we’ve all been fooled by the master; it isn’t haunted at all. unbelievable !
there are no critic reviews yet for musallat (haunted). keep checking rotten tomatoes for updates !
overall, the haunted casino is not worth your time – skip it, and watch something else .
you can find haunted (1995) on filmous. com, great site / source. haunted is one of my favorites. the debbie wiseman score alone! i think it will make your list !
catapulted by its successes across the atlantic, “the orphanage” will play in american theaters after christmas. not only is the motion picture produced by del toro, but “the orphanage” is also spain’s 2007 academy awards nominee for best foreign film .
the haunted hospital, methinks, will ultimately become the only “haunted hospital museum” in colorado, if not the region. it will just take the right buyer with the right imagination and a little bit of cash .
a group of friends were haunted respectively with a supernatural forces due to their faulty deed against a little snake .
i am legend (2007), starring will smith, is the currently the biggest horror film of all time at uk cinemas, with £25. 9m (unless you count the twilight franchise, which is really a vampire romance with some action thrown in) .
haunted forest has nothing to offer, gives up half way through the movie, and fails in every way possible .
even as haunted hotel king movies go, 1408 is certainly no shining. not even the tv - movie version .
a woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted .
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his most significant contribution, however, has been annabelle, a haunted porcelain doll first seen in the conjuring (2013) .
after a fallow period, australian filmmaker james wan resurrected the creepy toy trope to huge success with billy, the jigsaw killer' s puppet in saw (2004) and its sequels, as well as in dead silence (2007) .
a young couple grieving the recent death of their daughter move to the countryside where they are haunted by their tragedy and a sinister darkness .
a few movies that i enjoyed were let’s scare jessica to death (1971), crowhaven farm (1970), the other (1972), nightmare aka voices (1973), ghost (1990), haunted (1995), haunter (2013), premonition (2007), after. life (2010), and many more…almost as many as i’ve listed here if anyone is interested .
nbc – “today show” – the feature was “most famous haunted hotels. ” the story of josephine and jacques begere and their son maurice was mentioned .
an amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $ 1, 000, 000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past .
the stephen king horror film had one of the most controversial endings of all time .
what happens in room 217 in the novel happens in room 237 in the film .
six friends sneak into a haunted house the night before it opens for halloween, only to find that their evening of fun has turned into their worst nightmare .
stanley kubrick’s film is a mirror image of the novel and he hides what he' s done by answering the interviewer’s questions about the film with what happens in the novel .
on nov. 21, 2007, a supernatural horror film premiered that involved a bunch of people trapped in a supermarket while an ominous mist blocked their escape. based on the 1984 novella by stephen king ,
the mist
raked in over $ 25 million domestically, and over $ 57 million worldwide, according to box office mojo. clearly, it was a success .
a film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends .
there is nothing good about this film. nothing. there are no pros, just a big steaming pile of cons. by far, this is possibly the worst horror film to come out in the last few years; an unfortunate title appropriate for an imitation horror film .
every thing in haunted forest has been done better somewhere else. although i expect repetition in horror films, the extent of it in
haunted forest
is abysmal. the trite plot isn' t the only problem; it' s everything else in relation to it, as well. usually if a film is lacking in a particular area, something else makes up for it. that way, if the film is terrible, than the viewer can leave with ,
well, at least the dialogue was funny ,
or
well, at least the actors were hot .
haunted forest has nothing to offer, gives up half way through the movie, and fails in every way possible .
what happens in a red vw in the novel happens in a yellow vw in the film .
“redrum” appears in the novel inside their bathroom. in the film it appears outside their bathroom .
the final chase takes place inside the overlook in the novel, not outside like the film .
a bit stupid in theory, yet perng mang: the haunted drum is precocious enough to embrace its sophistication as a means to maul your eyes with gruesome terror in pinpointed doses .
my wife likes ghost and haunted house movies best of all and since i own quite a few of the films it would seem that her introduction to horror will continue quite nicely .
but there is one enduring horror trope that can have grown men and women gnawing at their fingernails when things go bump in the night: the creepy, haunted child' s toy .
i watched a film years ago called the haunted. was a tv film based on a true story made in 1991. it’s available to watch on you tube. it’s about a family called the smurls who move into a house that is occupied by evil spirits. a bit dated i grant you but still okay on a cold night watched with the lights out and the fire on .
guy gaster, who took over as north carolina' s interim film commissioner this summer, said the state is still working to put the rules for the new film and television grant program in place .
the film was designed for use with the navigational cinema technology which allows the viewer to choose between two ways the story can go at certain times within the film, ultimately featuring 96 different story possibilities .
all box office numbers below were taken from the film’s domestic total gross as listed on box office mojo .
generations of hotel guests and staff have regularly experienced haunted events that would cause even the staunchest skeptic to take pause. this haunted hotel in new orleans had a restaurant door that opens almost every evening and then closes again, even though it is locked. an elevator that stops on the wrong floor, leading a curious couple down a hallway that grows chilly and reveals the ghostly images of children playing .
– best. ghost. movie. ever. this film’s effectiveness comes from the fact that the haunted protagonist is a smart, pragmatic, mature, manly man – john russell – who is played beautifully by the great george c. scott. if that’s not enough for you, there’s that creepy wheelchair too .
– a good movie that takes a fresh approach to about half of its content. (it’s a strange blend of familiar, even tired, haunted - location tropes combined with innovative characterizations .) sadly, i never really connected emotionally with any of the characters, so i wasn’t drawn in as much as i should have been. that said, it was great fun for me to see a haunted hotel film. because of this movie, i wonder about the intentions of certain obviously single guests that check into my
oh yeah, a 70s classic not on your list is burnt offerings, with karen black. it’s more a haunted house movie than a ghost movie – you’ll see what i mean if you see it !
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in the film danny has his seizure at their apartment outside the overlook. in the novel it’s inside the overlook .
in the film the shed where the snowmobile is stored is attached to the overlook. in the novel it isn’t .
in the film dick hallorann talks to danny inside the overlook. in the novel they’re talking outside in his car .
the story of a young couple haunted by mysterious forces and there looks to be a heavy possession element as well. the calm life of suat and nurcan is broken when they begin to be scared by supernatural creatures .
the reason the torrance’s can see what appear to be specific guests from the hotel’s past will really surprise you and i discuss this in a later section
is the overlook haunted or does it
shine
? .
. at first i thought i had a problem with her visions because there seem to be actual “ghosts” in one of them. i can’t say that the overlook isn’t haunted if i can’t explain what this vision is .
( at around 1h 13 mins) in the end, ariel refers to the evil events leading up to the fire in the asylum as taking place over 50 years ago. the sequel takes place in either 2000 / 2001 (if that trivia entry is actually true) or 2007 and the fire occurred in 1931, which is actually a span of 69 - 70 or 76 years .
, 2007). an old orphanage, an abandoned lighthouse, a dank cave, a trail of seashells, a kid who wears a creepy sackcloth mask — these are a few of my favorite things, especially when they’re combined in a mystery - thriller with supernatural overtones. this movie has plenty of eerie scenes and some real gut - punch moments, but it’s also a surprisingly touching story .
north carolina joined the film incentive fray in 2005, although its tax credit program has taken different forms over the years .
the question north carolina now faces is whether the new grant program is sufficient to prevent a wrap on its film industry .
wendy is also severely beaten in the novel. in the end of the film she’s never touched by jack at all .
. stanley kubrick, through dick hallorann, tells us exactly what' s going on in the dialogue of the film .
i’ll check into youtube. i am constantly amazed by how much stuff is out there that i’ve never heard of … even within this one niche of haunted stories. i’ll never see them all! but i’m gonna keep trying .
based on a real, supposedly haunted
raggedy ann
doll that can be visited in a museum in connecticut, annabelle - an altogether darker prospect than chucky - is regarded by many as the creepiest doll in cinema history .
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the night before a local haunted house opens for halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out. their... see full summary »
the movements i’ve shown are an important part of the film. it’s so obvious and skeptics have to ignore the pictures and dialogue and put a 180 degree spin on what stanley kubrick placed in his film so that wrong explanations will somehow fit. tony ;
orr' s business is among those that have been disrupted by a shift north carolina' s film industry that is just beginning .
and brings it to new heights as he keeps indians continuously in our site in the film. he even has wendy refer to the
a haunted orphanage, a mass murder gone awry, a hidden basement, a kidnapped child, and an eerie, ghost - filled cave. think this batch of scenarios will provide the basis for the next unbearably dull horror flick? think again .
i’m also building a list of animation movies with a good spooky edge: coraline, igor, monster house, paranorman, frankenweenie, hotel transylvania, corpse bride, nightmare before christmas and the haunted mansion (not animation bur still a must) .
the legislature comes back in january ,
said johnny griffin, director of the wilmington film office. like others in the business, he is hoping the exodus of film crews and lack of productions choosing north carolina will once again spur top policy makers to action .
in this film stanley kubrick has either used his ability as a director to deceive, or to show us how easy it is to deceive. you decide which is right as it’s not what he left out of his film, but what he kept in that’s important .
renowned horror novelist mike enslin believes only in what he can see with his own two eyes. but after a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he has no real proof of life... afterlife. but enslin' s phantom - free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious dolphin hotel for his latest project ,
ten nights in haunted hotel rooms .
defying the warnings of the hotel manager, the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. another bestseller may be imminent, but first he must go from skeptic to true believer - - and ultimately survive the night .
perng mang: the haunted drum works only because the horror scenes are so grotesque they redeem the film which tries to be too clever with its love - from - beyond theme, which you see all of it a mile away. the film is nonetheless nicely filmed, the gore and zombie makeup is quite good and overall it’s set at a smooth pace. its best attribute is the established a state of calm to a very quirky horror story where if you bang the drum, it’s likely to bang you back and hard…
cusack, my favorite actor of all time, in a another top notching film. i thought his performance in t his was great .
this atrocious film begins when matthew inherits his uncle’s rundown casino. (little does he know, though, this casino is haunted by five mediocre ghosts .) these ghosts, ranging from gangsters to card dealers, begin pulling matthew and his irritating friends into rigged games of black jack and roulette. will they win and walk away free, or will they lose their lives over a card game ?
– john houseman, melvyn douglas, fred astaire, and douglas fairbanks jr. – this film is worth watching if only to marvel at the ridiculously appealing cast of aged leading men. they make the young actors in the film almost invisible, even despite the full frontal nudity .
but viewers will also come away with something unexpected from a scary movie: a touching film about growing old and staying young, and the powerful bond between mother and child. the film, which makes clear allusions to j. m. barrie’s “peter pan, ” becomes, at its finest, a potent fairytale for adults. “pan’s labyrinth, ” anyone? producer guillermo del toro’s fingerprints are evident throughout the entire film .
it started when five people agreed to spend one night in a haunted house... what began as an evening of fun a harmless scares in exchange for one million dollars to anyone who stayed the night - - and survived - - soon turned into a night of terror. years later, several more people risk their lives in search of a cursed statue of baphomet, a relic worth millions that will come at the cost of their souls. now, the terror begins when the doomed return to house on haunted hill
. a masterful deception that i know will make the heads of a lot of my readers explode. stanley kubrick helped perpetuate stephen king’s brilliant creation but he makes the answer to the question of whether or not the place is haunted quite obvious in the dialogue, it
wendy’s visions are also because of her special ability, and not because the overlook is haunted or exerts any exotic powers. and she isn’t going crazy. she sees what’s happened there in the past. listen again to the words of an expert on the subject ,
if you think about it the visions in this movie are the only occurrences that would lead us to believe the overlook may be haunted, or is exerting any supernatural powers. this is what the director wants us to believe but his dialogue tells us something different .
00: 24 minutes into the film. jack discovers the gold room for the first time (exactly 1: 24 minutes in duration) .
“how did you know we called him' doc'? ” in the film wendy says this line. in the novel jack says it .
who do you think stanley kubrick is referring to when he has dick hallorann say this? there are only five main characters in this film .
is taken by stanley kubrick and made into a cornerstone of his story because the scrapbook in his film is where the
ghosts
reside .
at the film premiere in minot, north dakota, when bobby said
welcome to north dakota ,
the audience broke out in laughter .
today, when most horror films seem to follow senseless plots that provide more blood than brains (“saw iv, ” anyone ?), films like “the orphanage” show how much the american horror - film industry has to learn from writers like sergio sanchez, who crafted the film’s excellent script .
what on earth does that mean? the word view means opinion. “the shining” is his film and he only has an opinion, doesn' t he know? or is he carefully avoiding certain questions about his film by talking about the novel, which is worlds away from his movie ?
in the movie this is all inverted, as jack writes nothing at all. he just copies the same plagiarized nonsense over and over. stanley kubrick is so clever; jack isn’t a writer at all in the film. he makes the scrapbook in the film another book that should definitely ,
the final pathetic words spoken by jack torrance in “the shining”, and stanley kubrick has him speak them in reverse. heeelllppp meeeee. a perfect chilling end to his film’s dialogue. two words (like the word “redrum”) brilliantly hidden and like his entire film, only understandable when reversed .
stanley kubrick makes this so obvious but how and why did the indians get there? the “shine” in the movie is not the same as the ‘shine’ in the novel. as i noted before stanley kubrick created a film that’s symmetrical. the red calumet can appears behind dick hallorann’s head at precisely: 27 minutes from the beginning of the film and the same cans appear behind jack’s head precisely: 27 minutes from the end of the film .
the 2 words “notgnivots” and “redrum” are both precisely positioned reflections eventually seen from opposite sides of wendy’s mirror, equidistant (: 35 minutes) from the center of the movie. stanley kubrick shows us with precision that he has indeed edited the time codes to come out the way he wished and that he has indeed inverted stephen king’s novel. this must have been the most difficult cinematic feat for stanley kubrick to accomplish. it was a lot of work to set up similar scenes at equidistant spots in this film. there are several other occurrences that are time symmetrical in “the shining” and i’ll mention them again at appropriate times in this article. the red calumet can appears behind dick hallorann’s head as danny “shines” to him in the storeroom: 27 minutes from the beginning of the film. the same cans appear behind jack’s head at precisely: 27 minutes from the end of the film as he “shines” and talks to grady. the visions of the bloody elevators are an omen of death. when danny sees his vision of the bloody elevators it’s: 11 minutes into the film and wendy sees dick hallorann’s dead body at precisely: 11 minutes from the end of the film. wendy has the exact same vision of the bloody elevators: 08 minutes from the end of the film and at precisely: 08 minutes into the film mr. ullman tells jack about the grady murder suicide. at: 59 minutes into the film jack has a dream about killing his family and at: 59 minutes from the end of the film we first see grady who tells jack to kill his family. jack looks into the hedge maze miniature at: 40 minutes into the film and wendy looks into “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” at: 40 minutes from the end. wendy uses the radio at: 49 minutes into the film and jack destroys the radio: 49 minutes from the end. jack throws the ball: 37 minutes into the film and wendy holds the bat: 37 minutes from the end. 1: 09 minutes into the film wendy tells jack about the woman and at: 1: 09 minutes from the end of the film the woman touches jack. : 13 minutes from the end of the film wendy has a vision of the 2 gentlemen in the room and at: 13 minutes from the begining of the film danny talks to the pediatrician .
stanley kubrick inverts all this and as i mentioned before danny never sees the word “redrum”. don’t forget what tony tells us in the film’s dialogue ,
stanley kubrick subtly does something else that helps explain much of the movie. in the film jack speaks 2 of the ghost’s lines from the novel ;
just thought of some oldies, the screaming skull is a 1950’s b & w film that i was impressed with, though i can’t completely recall the story right now. and then there is an amicus film the skull, which i remember to be rather good, lee and cushing star in it .
now the reason i’ve brought all this up is because it has everything to do with the title of this section; whether or not the overlook is haunted. it' s so important because it proves who has the ability to “shine” in the movie. like dick hallorann said ,
a sharp and well paced horror film with heavy overtones of grief, anguish, and horrors of the real world that we sometimes unfortunately can never conquer .
1: 42 minutes into the film. the first time wendy discovers what' s in jack’s novel (exactly: 24 seconds from when we first see
beautifully shot with a great score, the perfume of the lady in black is a dreamy, unsettling film where nothing is ever as it seems. the wonderfully named mimsy farmer plays sylvia, a scientist haunted by melancholy and hallucinations. she’s never quite recovered from her mother’s suicide, and when she goes to a party where talk turns to witchcraft and human sacrifice, her sanity starts to unravel. but are her problems really all in her head, or is there something else going on? the film doesn’t reveal its secrets until the very end, when all that creepiness pays off spectacularly .
have you seen the unseeable? it’s about a thai woman who goes out trying to find the father of her unborn child, and ends up at his other lover’s house which is very very haunted. it probably doesn’t make the top 13 but something about it has stuck with me .
it may take a little time for you to digest all this. even though i don' t, you may still believe with all your heart that the overlook hotel is haunted. well there may be a glimmer of hope you can hold onto. in the dialogue stanley kubrick infers that there’s something else that may be haunted. i didn’t mention this in the section about “things that move” but one of the biggest and most obvious continuity errors in “the shining” is their breath. there are scenes taking place in sub zero temperatures but you can’t see their breath, the
spooked, the guests start recounting their own stories of the uncanny, each more unnerving than the last. well, except for the one about the golfers, but that one’s just there for light relief before the film hits you with the scariest ventriloquist’s dummy ever committed to film. just excellent, all round .
hi, patrik. you’re very welcome. i checked netflix for haunted (1995) but they don’t have it yet. i’ll keep an eye out for a cable listing or a dvd in the bargain bin. thanks for the the heads - up … it sounds like a great cast .
– by the time i saw this film (on dvd, in september 2012) i’d all but given up on contemporary horror and taken refuge in older movies. after watching the orphanage, i gushed about it here. this is the film that made me realize that great horror is still being created, it’s just that you might have to look a little harder and further afield for it than you did in the past. (this film is in spanish. )
like many of the best comedies and tragedies, this weimar - era silent film understands how each mode is often a hair' s breadth from the other .
unfriended
tries some truly radical techniques, but the triteness of the film' s story itself prevents it from ascending to the pantheon of cinema greatness .
the north carolina film study has
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clouse said after reviewing the handfield study. previously, a 2010 louisiana study showed the biggest such impact, estimating a $ 1 invested to $ 5. 37 in economic activity return .
ah! another good catch by a reader. i’d forgotten about this film. yes, it’s quite good and i’ll add it to the list. thanks !
one of the best ghost film list i’ve seen. you basically covered everything worth covering. i wish you would watch ‘whistle and i’ll come to you’. it’s a ghost film if there ever was one. you can buy it on amazon under the incorrect title of ‘whistle and i’ll come for you’. highly recommended .
at exactly one quarter into the film, : 35 minutes, we see jack’s reflection in wendy’s bedroom mirror and the word “stovington” is inverted on his shirt .
( page 6, chapter 1) when you read the novel the guy in the film looks nothing like him. here’s stephen king’s two descriptions of derwent ,
but there’s something else! stanley kubrick adds one more brilliant little touch at the end of “the shining” that must be mentioned. you hear it every time you view the film but i bet you’ve never ‘really’ heard it. the final words spoken in the film; something borrowed from “the exorcist” and we never would have known about it if a poster hadn’t mentioned this to me. lightningscream suggested that i, “should watch the film in reverse. kinda’ like reverse speech. ”
the killer toy resonates so profoundly because of the cognitive dissonance involved in the idea of a child' s cuddly toy going rogue, according to film experts .
haunted forest is clearly a rip - off of recent east asian horror films like ringu or kairo. the long - haired, vengeful female ghost is typical for most east asian horror films and is taken from ancient folklore and legends. rarely do you see it in western films, unless it' s a remake. clearly haunted forest wanted to the milk the popularity of j - horror, but its influence here is too obvious and trivial. the lack of originality keeps the ghost from being truly scary and most viewers will simply roll their eyes since they' ve seen it all before .
i saw vhs was mentioned; the last clip in that is a neat haunted house bit, but if you want a very cool ghost story, skip the first movie and go right for the first clip in vhs2. the rest of the movie is great fun too and gets quite insane .
then it becomes frightening clear that stanley kubrick has hidden 2 of the most incredibly chilling words i’ve ever heard in a film. hearing them has totally changed the end of the film for me. the anguish and despair cuts right through and the more you listen to it the more disturbing it becomes (click here) .
i’m a little surprised to see one of the creepiest haunted movies in recent years not included here – ‘session 9’ (2001). so much whacked out actual stuff was happening on the set (shot at the abandoned danvers state hospital) that the spooked out performance of the cast wasn’t just acting… .
it looks like a film that could help out what' s initially been thought of as a very mixed august slate of releases ,
robbins told afp .
for example, there' s a scene where satinka' s body is pulled from the sacred tree. wait, this sounds familiar. oh yeah, there was a similar scene in ringu where sadako' s body is pulled from the well. of course, in haunted forest it' s less cathartic .
3) the shot of jack entering room 237 has a specific time code that places it exactly half way between the beginning and the end of the story. i' ll discuss it later in this section and also in the section ,
is the overlook haunted or does it
shine
?
.
to ray van horn, i wish i could have stumble upon your little infanous critic of this film, but nevertheless, im gonna state some corrections nearly a decade late. my one and only statement would be that your commentaries and assumptions are all based on your lack of knowledge of the film and the cultural environment it was made in. it is however understandable since your approach of such work is limited to the very systematic exposure you’ve had with similar film (s). yours truly, le baantiti
has a cameo in this movie. john cusack stars in this film which is based on a stephen king short story. you’d think i’d adore it, but it’s a little too special effects - heavy for my taste. i love reality bending in books, but it’s hard to portray it well on film. there is much to know
and you must see this independent film i just rented called “deadly presence”…. . if you like your ghost stories understated, creepy, claustrophobic, try to see it… .
1: 24 minutes into the film. the party scene when jack meets delbert grady for the first time (the entire scene lasts exactly 9: 21 minutes) .
stanley kubrick makes sure that we never see danny inside room 237 and this is the main reason i know he never enters the room in the film. i showed before
the colors yellow and red are another important part in the understanding “the shining”. i' ve included pictures below to show how stanley kubrick uses them in this film .
dick hallorann’s character is a true hero; he never lies or deceives anyone in the film yet what he says in the dialogue is not believed (click here) .
, dr. vannacutt is performing a vivisection on a patient while a nurse films him. in the previous film, there was a second nurse who was assisting him .
i wonder if this critic ever amounted to anything? and who does he think he is anyway, insulting the way a moviemaker chose to alter his source novel? especially when, he' s obviously clueless about exactly how well hidden and brilliantly stanley kubrick did this alteration *. stephen king’s novel has gone down in history as one of the greatest american horror stories ever but with all due respect, if it wasn’t for stanley kubrick’s “shining” i believe only serious readers would know of stephen king’s story or the overlook hotel. if you don’t agree i’d challenge you to sit down with a couple of beers and watch his miniseries, originally aired on abc, before you post a comment on this blog. if we only had that miniseries and didn’t have stanley kubrick’s film it might have been the end for “the shining”, as there wouldn’t be very much to discuss. it’s the mystery in this masterpiece that keeps people coming back for more. stanley kubrick has turned the overlook into the most famous haunted hotel in history – and in his film it isn’t even haunted at all. this is the real beauty of this film, the brilliant deception .
the imitation horror film has zero originality, zilch creativity, and not a single unique bone in its body. unlike the remakes that attempt to bring something new and updated to a film, or the gore hounds that try to push boundaries, the imitation is just a copy of a copy; like a red - headed twin nobody wants .
del toro’s visual flair is in full effect here, and every frame of this film (even the scary ones) are stunningly beautiful to look at. it’s a treat .
2: 12 minutes into the film. wendy' s vision of the old bloodied gentleman saying, “great party, isn’t it” (exactly: 12 seconds in duration) .
if you look closely in the film he' s not a guest at all, he' s the maître d' jack meets as he first walks into the party .
interesting reading, i think it' s fun when you can pick out some movies and really break it down to it' s smallest part. (i use to do that when im seriously bored). maybe it sounds a bit conspiracy over your theories, but it' s fun to read anyway. i can share you with a very strange thing that happend to me. my best friend collin died on the hospital, the 12th october, 2007, 18: 30pm in cancer. it was a rainy day, so bad it only can be. i was born, the 12th october, 20: 07pm. the week before i was traveling with a ferry over to the mainland. i had the ticket number 1830. my starsign is cancer. he was in the hospital room 450 when he died. the day before, i recived a receipt that had 450 12 2007 1830 on it' s bar - code. just to mention it, my father and mother names are actually jack and wendy... my name is ofc not danny, my name is moon. and i can' t shine: )
the amityville horror is the haunted house story. if you were only ever going to watch one haunted house movie, it should be this one, because this is the archetypal story: a family moves into a house where horrible murders happened, and then bad things happen to them. it manages a lot of things later imitators didn’t, though, which is that it makes the lutzes’ decision to buy the house make sense, and also builds the horror slowly, so that they almost don’t notice when the things going wrong in the house switch from annoying niggles to outright horror. if you’ve moved house in recent memory, this one’ll hit you where it hurts .
it’s chilling, this. the way director mike flanagan plays with reality, building unbearable uncertainty through camera angles and false memories, makes this film both incredibly scary and impossibly sad .
how come nobody mentioned “the haunting of the seacliff inn”? maybe it’s a tv film, no idea. comes close to the changeling, mood - wise. i love it .
“it stood vacant until the end of world war ii, when it was purchased and completely renovated by horace derwent, millionaire inventor, pilot, film producer, and entrepreneur .
annabelle just has such a rich history ,
36 - year - old swedish director david sandberg told reporters at a preview screening at the los angeles film festival this week .
in the interview mr. ullman tells jack about the grady murders and i get the feeling he would also be proud and mention it if his hotel were haunted too. after all he was quite truthful with jack and did mention several horrible murders that happened there. wendy would have loved to hear that. the place is haunted. neither mr. ullman nor dick hallorann mentions “ghosts” because it isn' t until jack arrives that the hotel becomes “haunted” and if that' s an incorrect assumption on my part; prove it. both dick hallorann and mr. ullman have been there for years and neither says a thing about “ghosts”. dick hallorann is one of the true heroes of american literature, he risks his life for wendy and danny and in the film he gives his life for wendy and danny. he’s a classic hero in every sense. yet some believe that he somehow knew something more, and didn’t want to tell danny the whole story. he doesn’t want to scare young danny so he tells him nothing about the crazy woman in one of the rooms who’s going to try to kill him. think about it for a minute, this is an utterly ridiculous and unfounded assumption. like i showed before with the nicknames, he only tells danny what he knows. but how can this be so? how can he not know about room 237? he lives in what everyone believes to be a haunted hotel and he also has a supernatural ability that would enable him to see it’s previous guests running around ?
chiefly a one - woman show (if you only count characters with flesh), the film’s achievement depends greatly on rueda’s successful portrayal of laura. rueda, who received heavy accolades for her role in the 2004 oscar - winner for best foreign film “the sea inside, ” once again carries through with force, and powerfully depicts laura’s internal battles and emotional decay .
director ja bayona makes every shot count; the movie is visually beautiful as well as fantastically sinister. it' s a bona fide horror film but the ending might make you cry .
than at exactly three quarters through the film, 1: 45 minutes: 35 minutes from the end, tony sees another inverted word, “redrum” for the first time in a vision .
i mentioned this in a previous section and you may be wondering how i’m so sure that danny doesn’t go into room 237 in the film. in the dialogue wendy tells jack this ,
and stanley kubrick kept them in our sight throughout the entire film by showing artwork in the overlook and the indian on the calumet cans behind jack and dick hallorann’s heads in the storeroom .
inspired by a reoccuring nightmare director david robert mitchell had in his youth, it follows is a clever, freaky take on the slasher movie, featuring, well, a sexually transmitted ghost. maika monroe plays a young woman haunted by a shape shifting spectre after a sexual encounter who slowly but relentless trails her everywhere - the film plays with the audience expertly, making us guess whether background characters could really be the monster. ultra modern and highly effective, this one will leave you jumping at shadows long after the credits roll .
henchman' s question about costs and benefits was at the heart of many legislative debates this summer as industry proponents battled to save the existing program. they pointed to a study by robert handfield, a professor of supply chain management at north carolina state university. the research, which was sponsored by the motion picture association of america and north carolina' s regional film commissions, concluded that for every $ 1 spent in film and television credits the
the film and television industry generated $ 1. 52 of tax revenue and $ 9. 10 of direct spending .
in other words, the study concludes the film and television credits spur so much economic activity that the taxes on that additional work repays the state in full for its investment .
and he would have thrown a freudian sized tantrum trying to analyze jack’s daydream in the film. stanley kubrick placed all the clues right there in that one single picture. freud who? he mocked him and his “theory”, and it’s clear he showed the genius of freud the same respect he showed the genius of stephen king; and that' s absolutely none at all. it appears there’s only room for one genius in stanley kubrick’s world and that’s him. hmmm…. . veddy interesting! he brilliantly reversed everything of importance that he read in preparation for making this masterpiece. as i mentioned earlier he even shows us a mirror image of, “hansel and gretel”. it’s obvious right from the start what he' s done to the novel as he reversed the color of jack’s vw that brought them to the overlook from red to yellow and then reversed the color of the snowmobile from yellow to red. he used stephen king for the basic story, a few characters, and the overlook (the most famous haunted hotel in history that wasn' t haunted at all in the film), and he used freud for a very clever and much loftier deception. he was baiting some of his film clique, and he used dr. sigmund’s star power to dupe them .
still, by all accounts, iowa' s film and television industry is modest compared to north carolina' s. and boosters for the industry say they hope the state chooses another direction .
i didn’t read through all the comments here but maybe somebody mentioned lets scare jessica to death? this 1971 thriller has a couple of good jolts and effective scenes. its a film about vampires and ghosts. the original, made for tv, 1989 the woman in black deserves mention, particularly to fans of the haunting, the innocents and the others. a classic and unforgettable film
. this sentence is so important and stanley kubrick utilizes it twice in his film. in the novel the manager lures jack into the basement where he decides to write a novel about the overlook
, and one of them has the power to “shine” the images he’s seen from the hotel’s past directly into the other’s minds. but no one is there except the torrance family and their invisible doubles. it’s brilliant how stanley kubrick gave each cast member an ability that makes it appear to the audience that the overlook is haunted, when it actually isn’t .
people are in 2 camps when it comes to who or what is controlling things in “the shining”. at this point i’ve mentioned it several times and it should be no secret that i believe stanley kubrick’s overlook is not haunted (and i believe he' s the only director that could pull something like this off without anyone suspecting). this idea came to me after reading stephen king’s novel and my belief is not a theory as the dialogue taken from the film and the alterations he made to the novel are exact and can' t be ignored ,
some interesting things occur randomly in life (click here) but so many precise time codes occurring in a film in the scenes where characters are filmed in mirrors didn' t happen by chance .
this is how i knew jack was “shining” images into the other’s minds. stanley kubrick puts it in the dialogue. look closely at what danny says just before the first vision in the film ;
and came up with a unique and ingenious way of hiding this in his film by using what appear to be common continuity errors to mask what he was doing. remember stephen king tells us ,
an early example of the found footage genre, the blair witch project has been aped and parodied by everyone and their grandma, but there’s something unsettling about it that hasn’t quite gone away. most of the film is improvised; the actors are really filming the scenes themselves, working from a loose outline of the plot, but without prior knowledge of what half the scares were going to be. that ambiguous ending lets you make up whatever explanation you like for the events of the film, which means whatever the scariest thing you can think of is, that’s what the film is about.
haunted ( turkish : musallat ) is a 2007 turkish horror film directed by alper mestçi about a young turkish guest-worker who it is haunted by dark visionsin berlin . the film , which opened nationwide on november 16 , 2007 was one of the highest-grossing turkish films of 2007 . 
haunted (turkish: musallat) is a 2007 turkish horror film directed by alper mestçi about a young turkish guest-worker who it is haunted by dark visionsin berlin. the film, which opened nationwide on november 16, 2007 was one of the highest-grossing turkish films of 2007.
haunted (turkish: musallat) is a 2007 turkish horror film directed by alper mestçi about a young turkish guest-worker who it is haunted by dark visionsin berlin. the film, which opened nationwide on november 16, 2007 was one of the highest-grossing turkish films of 2007.