Art: "The Haunting," 2011
More artwork from Toronto's Phantom City Creative, this time a glorious tribute to Robert Wise's 1963 adaptation of Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel "The Haunting of Hill House." An incredible and terrifying novel became remains one of the crown jewels of the horror genre, an exquisite and frightening film without monsters - except, of course, Hill House itself ... or at least whatever walks there.
Best known for classics like "The Sound of Music" and "West Side Story," Robert Wise seemed to have produced and directed "The Haunting" as an ode to his former mentor, a man for whom Wise served as editor and ultimately went on to direct his first feature films for while at RKO (sequel "Curse of the Cat People" and "Mademoiselle Fifi," both in 1944, and the Karloff/Lugosi period horror film "The Body Snatcher," based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story). Lewton's largely credited with the creation of cinematic psychological horror and Wise certainly put that approach to use in "The Haunting."
