

The Haunting
You may not believe in ghosts but you cannot deny terror.
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.1M
- Box office
- $1M
- Language
- English
- suicide
- experiment
- based on novel or book
- alcohol
- insanity
- halloween
- haunted house
- disappearance
- black and white
- orphan
- nervous breakdown
- house of horrors
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)G21 Aug 1963
- TheatricalG22 Aug 1963
- PhysicalGVHS1 Jun 1990
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical28 Mar 1963
- Physical12VHS3 Aug 1995
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical14 Feb 1964
- PhysicalMDVD29 Jul 2003
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1025 Aug 1963
GermanyDE
- Theatrical163 Jan 1964
ItalyIT
- Theatrical31 Oct 1963
NetherlandsNL
- Physical12DVD8 Oct 2003
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1631 Jul 1964
SpainES
- Theatrical1221 Aug 1963
Frequently asked questions
The Haunting was released on 28 March 1963.
Audience reviews
4- N10/10
Nutshell
5/16/2020
Many years ago little nutshell asked Mommy and Daddy for permission to stay up and watch this movie. He soon regretted it, as this bone-chilling ghost story nearly caused the young lad to soil his shorts, and it would be several more days until he could fall asleep with the lights out. Even today, I can't watch this movie in an empty house with the lights off. It's just too damn scary. Robert Wise had one of the m…
- J10/10
John Chard
10/4/2020
And whatever walked there, walked alone. The Haunting is directed by Robert Wise and adapted to screenplay by Nelson Gidding from the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House. It stars Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn and Lois Maxwell. Music is by Humphrey Searle and cinematography by David Boulton. Hill House has a troubled history, death, either by accident or by suicide, has …
- F9/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
9/12/2023
**A simple film with a basic script, but which scares us in such a way that it still has an influence on horror productions today.** Movies about haunted houses? Whoever saw one of them, saw them all… right? I like to think not. And this film is probably the grandfather of a good number of them! Currently forgotten due to the passage of time, the film had a much weaker remake in 1999, and I believe that it is itse…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
12/29/2024
The wealthy "Crain" builds a gothic mansion in a remote part of New England where he plans to house his new wife and daughter. Mysteriously, she doesn't survive long enough to ever move in and as we skip forward almost a century, we find the house bleak and run-down and now inherited by a distant relative of the daughter. It's this house that "Dr. Markway" (Richard Johnson) is determined to investigate. He has convin…
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