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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 15660
Released: August 21, 2001 |
| Our Price: $24.88 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Professor David Ash (Aidan Quinn) is skeptical of the supernatural, yet he is invited by elderly Nanny Tess Webb (Anna Massey) to investigate paranormal goings-on at her country estate. When Ash arrives, he meets her three adult children (Kate Beckinsale among them, who becomes his future love interest) and the family doctor (John Gielgud), all of whom deny anything is going on and claim that Nanny Tess is merely hallucinating. Yet after spending some time there, the professor begins experiencing unexplainable visions that only Nanny Tess, and often only he, sees. Furthermore the ghost of his sister, who died as a child in a drowning accident, begins to roam the estate. Is he imagining it and going mad? Or is the house truly haunted? Adapted by Tim Prager from the James Herbert novel, Lewis Gilbert's highly memorable film is a brilliant haunted-house tale with chilling scenes and an exceptional plot twist. --Bryan Reesman
Haunted (Full Screen) Reviews:
You get a wonderful glimpse at a young Ms. Kate Beckinsale!! 
2009-12-23 - This movie is set in the early 1900s making it feel old from the very beginning. It has a slow start, but it quickly picks up. One must keep up with certain happenings of the movie, because the movie will all come together at the end. Kate Beckinsale is nude throughout the movie, but nothing too graphic or vulgar in anyway. I think an underlying theme to this movie is water and fire. If you notice, there is a great deal of water and fire going on. People in water and houses on fire. One last thing to note, this movie is not for everybody. Some people may be quite disturbed or offended by the outcome of the movie. Enjoy it!
Awful movie 
2009-10-06 - I was so excited to watch this movie and really wanted to like it but I'm afraid I can't recommend it to anyone. The novel is one of my favorite ghost stories. I know that when a book is made into a movie that some things have to change but this was awful. They left out what I thought to be the best and scariest parts of the story. The story in the movie has very little to do with the novel. It was a waste of almost 2 hours.
Thanks MOVIES2 for the fast delivery of this great ghost story! 
2009-09-28 - I have this film on VHS ,Great plot and story line..Glad i now have it on DVD.The first time i saw this movie , i liked it`s English touch/style .Thanks
Five stars
2009-08-11 - I'd been looking for this video for sometime, i was overjoyed when i found it. I had it before on vhs but it had gotten messed up.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thin Plot - Good Acting
2009-07-20 - I find myself conflicted writing offering this review. I found the movie entertaining and the plot with some mystery (not a bad ending), yet the premise for the plot seemed to derive from a combination of formulas used many times over. Still, other than some seemingly unrealistic, or unsensical events, the movie does captivate interest. On to some of the details (contains spoilers)...
Overall, the casting and actors'perfomances provide a solid anchoring of a quality production (Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, et al). The scenery was well chosen, but I wonder if more dramatic lighting would have set a more frightening mood. Most scenes seemed too well lit. Also, in some of the more dramatic moments that should have created a more drastic reaction, the object of the 'scare' was opaque or in the periphery. I draw reference to the scene where the professor emerges from the house of the family doctor/confident, where he seems to spy something that captures his bewilderment. The camera pans over a scene on a hill where, seemingly, nothing is worth notice! I had to reexamine the scene and freeze to capture the existence of the ghost of the little girl standing off to the far side and blurred. Other scenes left me scratching my head as to the reality of the situation. In one sequence, Kate brings Aidan to a small house on the property, which, supposedly, her mother loved to spend time. While there, a rocking chair starts rocking, to little comment or notice from the two! Also, how did a supposed ghost drive the car to pick up the professor at the train station (unobserved) or around the property? Why didn't the nanny reveal her situation earlier, in fuller detail? All of these things (and more) could have been addressed better with a more thorough scrutiny of the plot by the director.
This film is worth a view and you will find it entertaining, but don't place credence in the comparison to such supernatural classics as 'the changeling','the legend of hell house', and 'ghost story', it isn't even close. 'Haunted' is an upgrade from 'the others' and a few others, but not a classic. The shame is, with a little more attention to detail and mood setting filming technique, it may have been.
