This is quality
I'm so happy watching this

Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

My dad, sister, and myself watched this every year on Halloween along with the Shining. This scared me just as much and was engaging even as a little kid

this is ART
Who rates this under 4 stars I don't know why you watch films I'm sorry but I'm not sorry I'm so confused what people are missing so here I go

It has the best beginning and the best end and the best middle.

Julie Harris as Eleanor is so God damn good in this. Her voice-over has been etched into my being along with the perfectly atmospheric score. Quality desperation. I mean, you can almost smell it on her from the first time they show her and it just gets so much worse until you almost WANT the house to take her so she can just find peace. She may be crazy but I too wouldn't mind a humble set of stone lions at the front gate.

Route 238. At last I'm going someplace where I'm expected and I'm given shelter, and I shall never have to come back. I hope I hope I hope this is what I've been waiting for all my life...I'm going. I'm really going. I'm finally taking a step.

Certain scenes have always haunted me even though there are no real effects. In fact, probably because there are no real effects. When you can ground the experinces from movies in reality and use your imagination to fill in, things can feel so much more real than actually seeing anything. This is accomplished with extremely skilled directing in my opinion. Sounds and feelings and distorted angles just build and build and build until it's leaking with energy just as the house does.

Scenes that continuously haunt me include the "you're breaking my hand" scene (you know if you know) coinciding with the face but not face in the wallpaper wtf is that 😱 it's so well blended at first I used to wonder if there really was a face I was supposed to be seeing and then you feel insane like she does when it becomes more pronounced and it's so much fun. Adds a whole new level to the Yellow Wallpaper. But anyway. The noise in the hall, the warping of the walls, when she looks up and up and up at the window on the balcony. Just perfect, and makes me wish sometimes we found more creative ways these days to express similar things. Like we've gotten lazy. You don't need to show a ghost in the window to convey that the house is alive and possessed. good old camera work and noise and shadows and whatnot. But I won't go on any further about that

Add up all these wrong angles and you get one big distortion in the house as a whole

Shirley Jackson wrote the book in 1959 and it features two lesbians which took quite a bit of courage, I'm sure. The movie (1963) downplays that for obvious political reasons but still maintains a subtly sensual but bantering connection between the two women so they walked the line for sure.

A must see in a dark room with optional flickering candles

No one lives any nearer than town. No one will come any nearer than that - In the night... in the dark..