the haunting be a film that boast a really creepy house and good effect work and sound work and a cast that seem to believe that everything around them be real and that house . there be scene that make you jump and and the sinister aspect of what go on at hill house in the past and i find interesting . there be genuinely creepy moment in the film and i like the way the ghost manifest themselves in sheet and curtain and the house itself . jerry goldsmith score give it the right atmosphere and the sound design have voice pop up around you . what i wish could have happen be for something a little more intense . jan de bont have a pg 13 rating to contend with and i think that he hold back a little too much . poltergeist scar me silly when i saw it many year ago and and it still hold up . the haunting could have use a few more scene of pure terror . the end be for me and a little anticlimactic . overall and i enjoy it . the acting be good and there be moment that make you jump . i just wish it scar me more .