Stepping into the Bear Cave for the first time is Jay Gravatte, and he brings with him this week another classic horror film, the original The Haunting from 1963, directed by Robert Wise. Brilliantly shot, with fantastic performances, this psychological and supernatural thriller makes bold use of sound and bizarre angles to terrify the bejeezus out of the characters spending the night in the most haunted house in New England (and do a great job of keeping the audience on edge, too)! With the tortured inner monologue of the heroine, cramped sets and skewed camera angles, an out, chicly dressed psychic lesbian, and one rickety and wobbly spiral staircase, The Haunting basically defined the haunted house movies for decades after. Holding a place in our guest host's heart (and firmly in his top five horror films), this adaptation of Shirley Jackson's ...