![]() ![]() ![]() One character, Eleanor, repeatedly calls the house “vile” and Dr. The accidents are attributed to the house’s malice, apart from any phenomena of haunting. When Hugh Crane built his house in the 1870’s, his first, and then his second wife, died immediately, in different accidents in the house. But the haunted house in The Haunting started killing on its own before these events occurred. And his daughter Abigail died in the house, an old woman, because of a paid companion’s negligence. True, the movie implies that its owner, Hugh Crane, was sadistic and twisted. But Hill House in The Haunting is different. The 1963 film, The Haunting, is based off Shirley Jackson’s book The Haunting of Hill House and also details the occurrences in a haunted house. In Hell House corruption festers for years, leaving the house insidiously haunted. In a previous post about Richard Matheson’s Hell House, I posted about a house that was evil because it contained evil. Imperial Talker on “Take a sad song, and make it…
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