Loud, brash and (worst of all) boring, Jan de Bont's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel is a misfire in nearly every way. The sets look pretty, though.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2024

A bloated experience full of ineffective scares that rely entirely on lackluster visual effects. The impressive cast fails to get you to invest in anything happening in this haunted house.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2023

...a good/bad movie that contains the ruins of an interesting film...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2021

There's little about this film that isn't daft in the extreme.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 24, 2020

With director Jan de Bont (Twister) at the helm of this terror-filled tale, there were no doubts it was going to be a wild and interesting ride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2020

Reduces Shirley Jackson's disturbing portraiture into a puzzle box with the solution written on the outside.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 25, 2020

The men who made this movie forgot one simple rule of horror: It is what we don't know, and what we cannot see that leaves us quaking in our boots.

| Feb 26, 2020

The movie soon swerves off course. And by the end, it degenerates into the standard special-effects orgy, with Taylor mouthing schmaltzy Hollywood action-movie catchphrases

| Oct 14, 2019

...an adaptation that manages to fare even worse than its subpar source material.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 7, 2018

With lackluster effects and no atmosphere, this is a horror that horrifies in the wrong way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2018

A ghost has to work overtime to haunt Hill House...the best-that-money-can-buy technology of The Haunting shows how little you can make of too much.

| Mar 2, 2018

None of the frights or special effects is any great shakes.

| Nov 28, 2017

The bombastic overkill that helped make De Bont's Speed 2 the most disappointing sequel of the decade is in full bloom here.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2014

Unfortunately, the film's sets and special effects overwhelm its plot and cast.

| Aug 13, 2011

High-tech remake is dumb and overblown.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

When you're not yawning at the digital ghosts, you're watching a cast of fine actors dogpaddling in cliches and terrible dialogue.

| Original Score: F | Sep 17, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Director Jan De Bont tries to impress us with an increasing onslaught of special effects, but forgets that we really just want to be scared.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003