History Film / TheHaunting1999

* BedsheetGhost: Wait until you see the child ghost's body in the sheet.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The ghost children from the bedsheets and curtains.

''The Haunting'' is a 1999 remake of Robert Wise's [[Film/TheHaunting1963 masterpiece]] with LiamNeeson, LiliTaylor, Owen Wilson, and Catherine Zeta Jones.

* JerkAss: Nell's sister. After their mother dies she evicts Nell because she can't make rent, and offers her the choice of becoming a live-in-nanny or pretty much living on the streets. Then she gives her an old car like it's an act of immense charity.

* ThighHighBoots: Theo dons a pair from Prada (Milan, not New York!) in her early scenes. As she tells Nell, "They're killing me...Small price to pay for such savage kicks."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WesCraven and StevenSpielberg were both attached to direct at one point and StephenKing wrote the first draft of the script. Craven pulled out to direct ''{{Scream}}'' and King would later rework his original ideas for the script into ''RoseRed'' but Spielberg ended up staying on as his DreamWorks distributed.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WesCraven and StevenSpielberg were both attached to direct at one point and StephenKing wrote the first draft of the script. Craven pulled out to direct ''{{Scream}}'' and King would later rework his draft into ''RoseRed'' but Spielberg ended up staying on as his DreamWorks distributed.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the guests was telling them there's more to the story of the house, but then a harpsichord wire suddenly broke and cut her eye.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Early on, Theo and Nell comment on the beauty of the house. Luke cynically remarks that he thinks it was all PR and that Hugh Crain was really some mean old tycoon who worked kids like slaves in his textile mills. Ironically, he's probably the closest to the truth at that point.

Nell, Luke and Theo are invited to Hill House to partake in a sleep study directed by Dr. Marrow. The frightening old house seems to have a life of it's own and terrifies the participants with strange happenings in the night.

* BiTheWay: In the original, there's a ''vague'' sense of LesYay between the two female leads. The original had [[ValuesDissonance good reason]] to keep it purely subtext, but times change.. In the remake, Theo is openly bisexual and [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous]], casually mentioning as one of her first lines that she has both a boyfriend and a girlfriend. During the rest of the story, she keeps making overt but benevolent and rather chivalrous attempts to seduce Nell. This may have been helped along by the fact that right after first resisting her advances, the first thing Nell does is show her her bedroom...

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Early on, Theo and Nell comment on the beauty of the house. Luke cynically remarks that he thinks it was all PR and that Hugh Crane was really some mean old tycoon who worked kids like slaves in his textile mills. Ironically, he's probably the closest to the truth at that point.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the guests was telling them there's more to the story of the house, but then a piano wire suddenly broke and cut her eye.

* GeniusLoci: The House is a particularly frightening one.

-->'''Neil:''' Whoever did it... it's cruel.

* MissingTrailerScene: there's a brief scene when Nell and Theo are exploring the house and discover false doors that open up to brick walls.

* SpookyPainting

''The Haunting'' is a 1999 remake of Robert Wise's [[Film/TheHaunting masterpiece]] with LiamNeeson, LiliTaylor, Owen Wilson, and Catherine Zeta Jones.

* ClosedCircle: The gates are locked every night when the Dudleys leave and, as in both the book and the original movie, they stay in town since "no one will come any closer than that" and "they couldn't even hear" if they needed help. In a concession to the modern setting, Dr. Marrow has a cell phone for emergencies (and he uses it to call the hospital before Tom leaves with Mary), but this is, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy conveniently enough]], broken during Marrow's rescue of fugue-state Nell from the rickety wrought-iron staircase.

* TheVoiceless: Only one of the two assistants spoke more than a line or two, not that they're relevant to the story anyway. Lampshaded, perhaps, by the character having the same first name as his actor.

* ThighHighBoots: Theo dons a pair from Prada (Milan, not New York!) in her early scenes. As she tells Nell, "They're killing me...Small price to pay for such savage [[GroinAttack kicks]]."

* JerryGoldsmith

* UncannyValley: The statues of the children.

* FridgeHorror: Read a little deeper into the supernatural side of the movie. Crane didn't play with the kids when they were alive - he killed them in the house when they were young, and kept building rooms for them, and having statues and carvings made of them. All so they would be there even after his death. The house is a giant soul jar.