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Originally Posted by RollinFan
I'm not a fan of "The Legend of Hell House", it's too similar to "The Haunting of Hill House", to the point that it feels like watching the same movie over and over again.
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) - Classic Hammer film. Better than most.
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Originally Posted by Roiffalo
"The Haunting of Hill House"? That's a new one to me. I was thinking how much it was like "House on Haunted Hill", one of my favorite movies. I still loved this one though because they're both still very different films. HoHH you are never told for sure if the house was haunted because of Price and his wife's drama through the whole thing, you assume on and off that it is but it is never made clear. LoHH it is very clear there are ghosts about, and this house is indeed haunted. It's like the HoHH remake if that movie hadn't been complete garbage.
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The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 novel by author Shirley Jackson. The film The Haunting (1963) is a fairly faithful adaptation of the novel.
The film The Legend of Hell House (1973) is based on the American novel Hell House by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay.
Personally, I find the two films very different. They both deal with "investigating the supernatural" in a "haunted" mansion, but the tone is very different. Haunting is softer and psychological, where Hell House is very blunt.
RollinFan, you maybe thinking of Burnt Offerings (1976) by Dan Curtis being too like Hell House?