Corrected entry: We see Mr Dudley take quite a while to take the chains out of the gate. Later Dr Marrow closes the gate after Mary and Todd leave and he locks the gate almost immediately. A few scenes later we see the chains totally wrapped around the gate, although he didn't have time for it.
Hamster
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
1st May 2005
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The Nursery Room has been closed for more than a century, but there is a fairly modern telephone on a table.
12th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Theo's piece of curly hair appears and disappears from her forehead in the first evening at Hill House.
28th Jan 2006
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: After Liam Neeson gets glass in his hand, Lili Taylor goes to pull it out. Instead of calling her by her character's name, he says, "Just pull it out Lili."
28th Jan 2006
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Nell really must have been a psychic or something. Throughout the entire movie she suddenly knows things that she couldn't have known. Such as that Crane was a mill worker and employed children. This was only a joke made the night before by the blonde guy. Then she guessed she was the great granddaughter of Crane and then she knew that Crane built the house for the children to play hide and seek in. Where did she learn all this stuff?
Correction: Firstly Nell discovers that Crane employed children in a mill because she finds the big ledger in the secret room behind the bookcase. Secondly, Nell discovers she is related to Crane because of (a) the portrait of Caroline, who looks just like her and has the same necklace (b) the scene where Nell is shown to bear resemblance to Crane's previous wife in the Carousel Room. As the film develops we see how Nell gathers her information. If you took the time to watch the film closely you would know this.
Correction: In the movie, Eleanor is said to be Hugh Crain's granddaughter. That is not possible. Both of Crain's wives were killed, and his only daughter was Abigail. Abigail had no children.
Eleanor is the granddaughter of Carolyn. Carolyn was Hugh's 2nd wife.
11th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Nell is introduced to her room she touches some towels that are lined with the bed. In the overhead shot, they aren't. (00:14:05 - 00:14:55)
19th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: After Dr Marrow tells Nell that he didn't call her, she turns around and looks at the house, and almost all the lights turn on. the problem is that with the lights all turned on, you should be able to see something inside, even the curtains, at least, whereas you only see the windows light up.
5th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The long piece of wood laying on the painting which nell uses to whack the huge statue disappears randomly.
19th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Eleanor tells Theo, Dr Marrow and Luke that they have to leave the house, and they start running through the hallway. At some point of the race, the hallway is no longer the nursery room's but the hallway in front of Nell and Theo's room, which was on the other side of the house.
19th Oct 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Luke rushes to Theo's room to help them as they scream, Theo turns the lights on before she opens the door. However when they move to the bathroom to open Nell's door, there's no sign of Theo's bedroom lights.
7th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The curtains of Nell's room clearly aren't long enough to be over the bed as shown at the first night.
Correction: From this shot there is no way of telling if the curtains are or are not long enough; they look plenty long enough to me, and remember, this house is haunted, and the spirit of the child in the curtain could have easily changed the curtain in length in order to be able to transport itself onto Nell's bed.
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: While putting plastic on the window, we see some leaves outside that move away with the wind. That wouldn't be possible because the wind is coming from the opposite direction.
23rd Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: A crewman dressed in black is seen outside the window when Luke and Dr Marrow try to destroy the dining room's windows.
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Mrs Dudley first introduces Nell to her room, they get in through a door with a statue in front of it, coming from a long hallway. Later when they come to save Nell in the room they try to open the same door, but coming from an enormous hall.
11th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The clouds on the sky change between shots when Nell gets to the house.
19th Oct 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Theo, Marrow and Luke go to the Nursery room looking for Nell, the statue in the hallway follows them with its eyes.
27th Aug 2001
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The scene where the others really do see something supernatural for the first time, they barely react: there are hands coming out of the evil former house-owner's huge head above the haunted girl's bed. But as it is computer graphics added after the scene was shot, the others, coming to help the girl, do not even seem to notice the head.
4th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Notice as Theo climbs the stairwell, boots can briefly be seen on her feet, although she's supposed to be barefoot.
19th Oct 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The amount of broken glass that comes out of the window is incomparably more than the actual hole.
Correction: Yes, but this is deliberately emphasised - Hugh Kane's spirit is visible in the window when Nell smashes it, and then the glass which flies out is from him, not from the actual window - remember that this is a haunted house, and Kane controls it. As this has been mentioned before, "how do we know this glass isn't a ghostly illusion? Seems all that glass was gone when everyone else gets to the room."
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Mr and Mrs Dudley couldn't take care of Hill House, mainly for its size, not to mention the budget necessary to keep it as clean as shown.
Correction: Well, it wouldn't be impossible especially due to the fact that nobody uses it much and nobody lives in. The government or some type of local council might pay the Dudleys to keep it well maintained, or they may have obtained a grant/loaned sum of money to be able to fix it up and keep it well maintained and organized. Nothing is too impossible, and as the details of the Dudleys job given in the movie are very brief, the story behind the Dudleys job taking care of the mansion will only reamin a mystery, not a mistake.
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Correction: People do tasks at different speeds. Mr. Dudley was talking to Nell and slowing pulling the chains out, yet Dr. Marrow was in a hurry to get them out to the hospital.
Hamster ★