The Haunting

Introduction and comments following The Haunting, 1963, from TCM's Dave Karger and horror movie expert and author David Skal.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Haunting, 1963.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Haunting, 1963.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Haunting, 1963.

Hiding his own anguish from the others, author and father David (Gunnar Bjornstrand) is treated to a play, composed for his return home, by his son-in-law (Max von Sydow), his mentally ill daughter (Harriet Andersson) and unstable son (Lars Passgard), in Ingmar Bergman’s Through A Glass Darkly, 1961.

A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there in The Haunting (1963), directed by Robert Wise (Telluride Film Festival honoree 1979).

New arrivals Eleanora (Julie Harris, narrating) and Theodora (Claire Bloom) get acquainted first with Hill House then with Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson) in director Robert Wise's The Haunting, 1963.

From the credits, spook researcher Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson) narrating the history of Hill House, with as much action as the whole remainder of the movie, opening Robert Wise's celebrated The Haunting, 1963.

Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson) and Luke (Russ Tamblyn), with highly-sensitive Theodora (Claire Bloom) and traumatized Eleanor (Julie Harris), who hears voices, as the house begins to pulse, in Robert Wise's The Haunting, 1963.