In 1990, as reported by Entertainment Weekly, director Robert Wise legally blocked media mogul Ted Turner from colorizing The Haunting for broadcast television.

The tagline for the movie poster of The Haunting was "You may not believe in ghosts but you cannot deny terror!"

The magnificent English manor house that was used as the main location for The Haunting is now a high-end luxury hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon called the Ettington Park Hotel.

Famed horror author Stephen King wrote the introduction for a 2003 hardcover edition of Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House. He also writes at length about his love of the novel in his 1981 book Danse Macabre.

Lois Maxwell, the actress who plays Dr. Markway's wife Grace who pays an ill-timed visit to Hill House, is well known to movie going audiences as the original Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film series. She played the notable character in the first 14 Bond films from 1962-1985.

The Haunting was the last film that director Robert Wise ever made in black and white. Wise loved black and white and believed it was more effective for certain stories, even in the modern age.

Famous Quotes from THE HAUNTING

"An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored."

--Dr. John Markway (Richard Johnson) (VO)

"Scandal, murder, insanity, suicide. The history of Hill House was ideal. It was an evil house from the beginning. A house that was born bad."

-- Dr. John Markway (Richard Johnson) (VO)

"The dead are not quiet in Hill House."

--Mrs. Sanderson (Fay Compton), to Dr. Markway when he is trying to convince her to rent Hill House to him for his studies

"Only one way to argue with a woman, Doc. Don't."

--Luke Sanderson (Russ Tamblyn), to Dr. Markway

"Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Within, walls continue upright, bricks meet, floors are firm, and doors are sensibly shut. Silence lies steadily against the wood and stone off Hill House. And we who walk here walk alone."

--Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris) (VO)

Compiled by Andrea Passafiume