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Originally Posted by Sculpt
Also with The Haunting, I could see where you'd find some parts tedious, but that's where the subtleties of actors come in. In those 'slower parts', one has to really pay close attention to the subtle facial, voice and body postures of the actors - they're conveying a lot of subtext: how the Dr Markway feels about the vulnerable Nell, Theo flirting with Nell, etc; how that's shaping what's happening in the house, and how it's going to turn out. The characters are making the outcomes & story, not the entity of the house.
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The characters' motivations seemed too obvious to be called subtext. I hold firm that this film is a melodrama masquerading as a haunted house flick, which explains its mass appeal.