The Haunting Page #2

Synopsis: A remake of the classic 1963 movie "The Haunting" about a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated house. Through the course of the night some will unravel, some will question, and all will fight for their lives as the house fights back.
Director(s): Jan de Bont
Production: DreamWorks SKG
  3 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
16%
PG-13
Year:
1999
113 min
623 Views


INT. NELL'S KITCHEN - DAY

Nell rams through the door into the small kitchen, spotless, empty.

And then bursts into tears. Shaking, she digs in her back pocket

and pulls out a FINE FILIGREE NECKLACE. Her mother's. It's from

an age gone by.

Clutching the necklace, she goes back out the door.

INT. LIVING ROOM, NELL'S APARTMENT - DAY

Nell crosses the living room straight for the closed French doors,

the glass obscured by gauze curtains. She throws them open and

enters --

INT. SICK ROOM - DAY (CONTINUOUS)

-- what once was a dining room. Transformed into a sick room.

Drawn shades. Dim. The first traces of dust.

Nell lingers in the doorway a beat, daunted.

A perfectly made bed. The PILLOW, however retains the IMPRESSION

of a head. Lodged between the bed and a nightstand, a CANE. On

the opposite side of the bed is a plastic toilet. I.V. stand.

Shrouded white shapes.

On the wall above the bed, a framed needlepoint counsels: A PLACE

FOR EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE. A bit of wisdom. A way

to live a life.

A way Nell has lived for too long. Seeing it galvanizes her into

movement. She goes to an old armoire, a medicine chest, opens it,

removes a BOTTLE OF TYLENOL WITH CODEINE and marches out.

INT. LIVING ROOM, NELL'S APARTMENT - DAY

Nell closes the doors on the chamber of horrors, exhales. She has

been holding her breath.

INT. NELL'S KITCHEN - DAY

Nell sits at her tiny kitchen table, water glass and Tylenol in

front of her. The necklace dangles from her fingers. She stares,

mesmerized by it. Then she undoes the hasp. The clothes line

outside BATTERS louder --

-- and, defiant, Nell puts the necklace on. She closes her eyes.

Silence. The battering has stopped. A BEAT. And then the PHONE

RINGS. Nell opens her eyes. The phone RINGS. Keeps ringing.

Nell, feeling the drug, finds her way to the phone and picks up.

NELL:

Hello? Yes, this is Eleanor.

-- Where? Yes, it's right here.

Nell listens for a long moment. She picks up the classifieds,

flips through. And there it is:

TROUBLE SLEEPING?

WANTED - RESEARCH SUBJECTS. $900.00/.WEEK + RM.&BD. @ BEAUTIFUL

OLD HOUSE IN BERKSHIRES. PSYCHOLOGY STUDY.

END MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE

INT. PSYCH OBSERVATION LAB - DAY

The lab feels more like the video center of a security office than

a psychologist's laboratory. Two banks of black and white monitors

give us images of men and women, different ages, different races,

wired to electrodes. They are taking psychological tests, although

we never see the Testers. The subjects are working through

variations on object manipulation and pattern recognition tests.

There are subtle differences between the two banks of monitors. On

the left, the subjects are all twitching at exactly the same time,

on the right, the subjects are also twitching, but in no

discernible sequence. The subjects on the left are better able to

concentrate on their tasks. The subjects on the right keep

stopping, and going over what they have done.

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David Self

David Christopher Self (born January 8, 1970) is an American screenwriter best known as the author of the screenplays for the films The Haunting, Road to Perdition, and The Wolfman. more…

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