Amazon.com: Professor David Ash (Aidan Quinn) is skeptical of the supernatural, yet he is invited by elderly Nanny Tess Webb (Anna Massey) to investigate paranormal goings-on at her country estate. When Ash arrives, he meets her three adult children (Kate Beckinsale among them, who becomes his future love interest) and the family doctor (John Gielgud), all of whom deny anything is going on and claim that Nanny Tess is merely hallucinating. Yet after spending some time there, the professor begins experiencing unexplainable visions that only Nanny Tess, and often only he, sees. Furthermore the ghost of his sister, who died as a child in a drowning accident, begins to roam the estate. Is he imagining it and going mad? Or is the house truly haunted? Adapted by Tim Prager from the James Herbert novel, Lewis Gilbert's highly memorable film is a brilliant haunted-house tale with chilling scenes and an exceptional plot twist. --Bryan Reesman
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Rating: - Brideshead Underdeveloped
This is an odd movie. It's a fairly basic premise: a wealthy trio of dilettante siblings ask a cynical paranormal investigator (suffering from his own demons) to come and exorcise their beloved childhood nanny, who is plagued by ghosts and careening towards the boobyhatch. When he arrives at Stock Stately Home, things go (literally) bump in the night and suddenly the cynic is confronted with that which he has always decried. And et ceterah.
The first and most commendable thing about "Haunted" is that there's a very fine sense of creeping dread and several elegant scares to be had over the course of the first hour of this movie. Several scenes, not least the opening with its two very competent child actors, jump from the screen and speak to a very high standard.
Unfortunately, for every decent, well-filmed moment in "Haunted", there's a corresponding boring and/or unintentionally funny moment ... Read More
Rating: - Haunted - Very Predictable, but enjoyable.
I guess these movies with the twist on them is becoming old news, because I guessed from only a few minutes into the plot what the outcome was going to be, and I guessed it right. And my suspicions grew stronger as the movie unveiled a few more clues to it's final outcome.
However, even tho I predicated what was going to happen in the end, there was a few twist and turns that I could not work out, and kept watching to find out where it was going, and that was enough to keep me interested from start to end of this story of a writer who is invited to a house to meet an elderly woman who was the nanny of of the house's 3 children. (The people who owned the house, not the house itself)
She claims she has been seeing ghosts and the house is haunted. Yet the 2 brothers and daughter she has helped to raise all there lives think she is just crazy.
So this man who has written many ghost stories ... Read More
Rating: - An under-rated horror movie!
Yes, this is definitely one of the under-rated horror gems that is not your typical gorefest that is so characteristic of horror movies these days. A thrilling, subtle adaptation of James Herbert's novel - Aidan Quinn plays David Ash, a debunker of supernatural phenomena. David himself had a tragic incident in his life, losing a beloved twin sister when they were both very young.
At the behest of an old lady who previously worked as a nanny in an old country manor in the English countryside, Davod goes there to help her resolve the question of whether or not there are spirits haunting the manor.The strange happenings lead him to doubt first his own skepticism, and eventually his sanity. Things get further complicated when David finds himself falling for Christina [an alluring and enigmatic Kate Beckinsale] who is a member of the family that owns the house. Christina's and David's mutual attraction to each other face the ... Read More
Rating: - No ghosts please, we're British
I first saw this in 1999 when it was shown on TV and I taped it, mostly on a whim. At that time I had no idea who Kate Beckinsale was, and I'd never heard of Aidan Quinn. To be honest reading the film description of a guy who investigates a haunted house made me expect some kind of silly Poltergeist/ Nightmare On Elm Street type horror schlock movie.
So it was something of a surprise to see the first moments of the film, with an Edwardian lady seated at a piano playing a melancholy yet moving piano piece. Further in it became apparent that this certainly wasn't a blood and gore shocker. For anyone thinking of renting or buying this I don't want to give the plot away too much, but if you're expecting any blood or gore, move on immediately. This film is made of many parts. It has elements of a period drama (1930s English manor- very Agatha Christie) ghost story, and psychological drama.
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- Brideshead Underdeveloped
- Haunted - Very Predictable, but enjoyable.
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