The Haunting
The first rule of ghost movies is: don't show things happening, suggest them.
The rule is broken in this remake of the superior early film of the same title, which did observe the rule, and the consequence is that your eye is continuously distracted from the humans who've agreed to spend a night in the haunted house.
The house itself becomes the star, and the occult SFX are certainly spectacular as carvings in the cavernous hall come to life and invisible bodies insinuate themselves into the silk sheets of the heroine's bed.
One of those movies that keeps you looking, then rubbing your eyes and wondering why you ever bothered - the answer lies in the decor, which does more acting than the actors (Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bruce Dern).
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