[shibumi]

We all found “The Haunting” memorable and a true classic in the horror genre.

It’s interesting to note that this place in our memories was earned without a single hacked-off limb, no hideous creature that took six hours in make-up and a special effects team to create and not even one little explosion with bodies and parts thereof flying through the air.

The real key to horror is and always been in the mind.

But of course to do that today would be nearly impossible, requiring as it does, real actors with talent, scripts with depth and directors with vision.

[Sans-Culotte]

We all found “The Haunting” memorable and a true classic in the horror genre. It’s interesting to note that this place in our memories was earned without a single hacked-off limb, no hideous creature that took six hours in make-up and a special effects team to create and not even one little explosion with bodies and parts thereof flying through the air. The real key to horror is and always been in the mind. But of course to do that today would be nearly impossible, requiring as it does, real actors with talent, scripts with depth and directors with vision.

Jack Clayton's The Innocents is equally effective, IMO.

[TheOldLady]

Well said, Sensei.