Country: USA and Canada
Colour system: NTSC
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 1 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Local title: the haunting

Audio: French, English
Subtitles: French, English, Spanish
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): 65194

Only on this edition:
Excerpts from Robert Wise's copy of the screenplay, with handwritten comments (in "Stills gallery")
Additional section in the "Features" menu: "Things That Go Bump in the Night" essay
Additional section in the "Features" menu: Cast and Crew

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror!

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"It was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad." The place is the 90-year-old mansion called Hill House. No one lives there. Or so it seems. But please do come in. Because even if you don't believe in ghosts, there's no denying the terror of "The haunting."
Robert Wise returned to psychological horror for this much admired, first adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The haunting of Hill house." Four people come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it? The answer will unnerve you in this elegantly sinister scare movie. It's good fun. (Pauline Kael, "5001 nights at the movies").

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: France
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 4, 5)

Local title: la maison du diable

Audio: French, English, Italian
Subtitles: French, English, Italian, Arab, Dutch
Hearing impaired: English, Italian

Catalog number (reference): Z7 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

Vous pouvez échapper aux fantômes, mais pas à la terreur !

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

Pour poursuivre ses expériences de parapsychologie, le professeur Markway réunit un groupe de personnes dans un vieux manoir réputé hanté. Dès la première nuit, les hôtes du professeur sont terrorisés par des bruits insolites. Eleanor est au bord de la dépression et le professeur lui conseille de partir. Elle refuse, prétendant que la maison la retient.

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Belgium (French)
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 4, 5)

Local title: la maison du diable

Audio: French, English, Italian
Subtitles: French, English, Italian, Arab, Dutch
Hearing impaired: English, Italian

Catalog number (reference): Z10 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

Si vous ne croyez pas aux fantômes, comment expliquer votre peur ?

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"Ce fut dès le début une maison diabolique, une bâtisse construite sous une mauvaise étoile." Ce lieu, c'est Hill House, un manoir vieux de 90 ans. La demeure est inhabitée, c'est du moins ce que l'on croit. Mais ne restez pas là, entrez. Car si vous ne croyez pas aux fantômes, comment expliquer votre peur de "La maison du diable" ? Avec ce premier film tiré du roman de Shirley Jackson "La maison du diable de Hill House" (*), Robert Wise a su réaliser un petit joyau d'horreur psychologique. Quatre personnes viennent étudier au manoir les phénomènes surnaturels. Ou serait-ce la demeure qui aurait attiré au moins l'une d'entre elles ? A vous de découvrir la réponse en regardant ce thriller subtil et sinistre.
(*) Incorrect title. The title of the french edition of the book is "Maison hantée" (before 1999) and "Hantise" (after 1999)

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Belgium (Dutch) and Netherlands
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 4, 5)

Local title: the haunting

Audio: French, English, Italian
Subtitles: French, English, Italian, Arab, Dutch
Hearing impaired: English, Italian

Catalog number (reference): Z9 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

Ook al geloof je niet in spoken, hoe verklaar je dan je angst?

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"Het was een duivels huis vanaf het begin, een huis geboren onder een slecht gesternte." Die plaats is Hill House, een landhuis van 90 jaar oud. Er woont niemand, of daar lijkt het op. Maar kom gerust binnen. Want ook al geloof je niet in spoken, hoe verklaar je dan je angst voor "The haunting"? Robert Wise maakte met deze eerste verfilming van Shirley Jackson's "The haunting of Hill House" een pareltje van psychologische horror. Vier mensen komen naar het huis om er bovennatuurlijke fenomenen te onderzoeken. Of heeft het huis minstens iemand onder hen naar zich toe gelokt? Het verbijsterende antwoord krijg je in deze subtiele, sinistere griezelfilm.

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Italy
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 4, 5)

Local title: gli invasati

Audio: French, English, Italian
Subtitles: French, English, Italian, Arab, Dutch
Hearing impaired: English, Italian

Catalog number (reference): Z8 65194

Remark:
There is an incredibly ugly moiré effect on the original cover. I'm sure it's an original disc and not a counterfeit because it has a Warner hologram sticker. And the picture disc looks absolutely normal, when I compare with the other editions. This moiré effect makes the scan really bad. I didn't apply any filter on purpose because it would blur the image. I guess the local studio didn't have the original artwork and re-scanned it from somewhere. Or the print shop applied an incorrect setting somewhere. Anyway the result is really bad.

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"Un thriller sovrannaturale che lascia senza fiato"

"È sempre stata una casa maledetta sin dall'inizio, una casa nata male". Si tratta di una vecchia villa di 90 anni chiamata Hill House. Nessuno ci vive, o cosi almeno sembra... Ma, per piacere, evitate di entrare. Perché anche se non credete ai fantasmi, non è possibile sottrarsi al terrore de GLI INVASATI. Robert Wise ritorna all'horror psicologico in questo tanto ammirato primo adattamento cinematografico del romanzo di Shirley Jackson, GLI INVASATI. Quattro persone entrano nella casa per studiare i suoi fenomeni sovrannaturali. O forse è la casa che ha richiamato uno di loro? In questo film horror sinistro ma con classe, la risposta vi snerverà fino all'ultimo. Da cardiopalma!

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Germany
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 5)

Local title: bis das Blut gefriert

Audio: German, English, Spanish
Subtitles: German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Icelandic, Swedish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish
Hearing impaired: German, English

Catalog number (reference): Z5 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

In der alten Villa "Hill House" soll es nicht mit rechten Dingen zugehen: Das Haus sei verflucht und durch und durch böse, heißt es. Nachdem es zu mysteriösen Todesfällen gekommen ist, wollen vier Menschen, darunter ein Professor, die übernatürlichen Phänomene des Spukschlosses untersuchen. Niemand wohnt dort Angeblich ...
Mit dieser berühmten ersten Verfilmung von Shirley Jackson "Spuk in Hill House" lieferte Regisseur Robert Wise ("Der Leichendieb") ein Meisterwerk des subtilen Grauens ab. 1999 wurde dieser "für die Entstehungszeit überdurchschnittliche Gespensterfilm" (Lexicon des internationalen films) unter dem Titel "Das Geisterschloss" neu verfilmt.

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Spain
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 5)

Local title: the haunting: la mansión encantada

Audio: German, English, Spanish
Subtitles: German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Icelandic, Swedish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish
Hearing impaired: German, English

Catalog number (reference): Z4 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

¡No podràs evitar sentir terror!

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

Desde el principio fue un lugar maldito. La mansión, construida hace 90 años, se encuentra deshabitada... o eso parece. El director Robert Wise regresa al cine de terror con la primera y más notable y aclamada recreación cinematográfica basada en la célebre novela de Shirley Jackson.
Cuatro personas se adentran en la mansión encantada para investigar sus poderes sobrenaturales y descubrir por qué sus moradores siempre han perdido la vida.
Incluso si no crees en fenómenos paranormales no podrás escapar del terror en "The Haunting: La mansión encantada"

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: UK
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 4, 5)

Local title: the haunting

Audio: French, English, Italian
Subtitles: French, English, Italian, Arab, Dutch
Hearing impaired: English, Italian

Catalog number (reference): Z1 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror!

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"It was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad." The place is the 90-year-old mansion called Hill House. No one lives there. Or so it seems. But please do come in. Because even if you don't believe in ghosts, there's no denying the terror of "The haunting."
Robert Wise returned to psychological horror for this much admired, first adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The haunting of Hill house." Four people come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it? The answer will unnerve you in this elegantly sinister scare movie. It's good fun. (Pauline Kael, "5001 nights at the movies").

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Japan
Colour system: NTSC
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 2 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2)

Local title: the haunting, (sorry I cannot read or write japanese)

Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese (movie), Japanese (commentary)
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): DL 65194

Only on this edition:
Subtitles for the Bonus commentary by director Robert Wise, screenwriter Nelson Gidding, Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror!

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

(sorry I cannot read or write japanese)

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Australia
Colour system: PAL
Sound: Mono (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Zone: 4 (in practice, the disc is encoded for the zones: 2, 4, 5)

Local title: the haunting

Audio: French, English, Italian
Subtitles: French, English, Italian, Arab, Dutch
Hearing impaired: English, Italian

Catalog number (reference): 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror!
Recommended for mature audiences 15 years and over
Horror theme

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"It was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad." The place is the 90-year-old mansion called Hill House. No one lives there. Or so it seems. But please do come in. Because even if you don't believe in ghosts, there's no denying the terror of "The haunting."
Robert Wise returned to psychological horror for this much admired, first adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The haunting of Hill house." Four people come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it? The answer will unnerve you in this elegantly sinister scare movie. It's good fun. (Pauline Kael, "5001 nights at the movies").

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Singapore
Sound: Mono

Audio: English
Subtitles: (none)
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): 50903

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror!

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"An evil old house, the kind some people cal haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House and whatever walked there, walked alone." Thus begins one of the most chilling, most frightening, truly unforgettable horror films ever.

Dr. Markway is an anthropologist with a special interest in psychic phenomena who wants to try a true exercise in terror. Intrigued by the legend of Hill House, he invites two women, psychic researchers, to join him in his adventure. Mrs. Sannerson, who has inherited the old mansion, is suspicious of Dr. Mayway's intentions and insists that her young nephew Luke go along with the group. Luke is skeptic about the supernatural, until he enters Dr. Marway's eerie world.

The classic forerunner of such films as 'Poltergeist' and 'The shining', 'The haunting' is a hair-raising screen rendition of Shirley Jackson's riveting gothic novel, 'The haunting of Hill House'. Like Luke, you may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny the terror of 'The haunting'!

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Philippines
Sound: Mono

Audio: English
Subtitles: (none)
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): 65194C

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"An evil old house, the kind some people cal haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House and whatever walked there, walked alone." Thus begins one of the most chilling, most frightening, truly unforgettable horror films ever.

Dr. Markway is an anthropologist with a special interest in psychic phenomena who wants to try a true exercise in terror. Intrigued by the legend of Hill House, he invites two women, psychic researchers, to join him in his adventure. Mrs. Sannerson, who has inherited the old mansion, is suspicious of Dr. Mayway's intentions and insists that her young nephew Luke go along with the group. Luke is skeptic about the supernatural, until he enters Dr. Marway's eerie world.

The classic forerunner of such films as 'Poltergeist' and 'The shining', 'The haunting' is a hair-raising screen rendition of Shirley Jackson's riveting gothic novel, 'The haunting of Hill House'. Like Luke, you may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny the terror of 'The haunting'!

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: USA
Sound: Mono
Aspect ratio: 4:3 Pan and Scan

Audio: English
Subtitles: (none)
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): ML100903

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"An evil old house, the kind some people cal haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House and whatever walked there, walked alone." Thus begins one of the most chilling, most frightening, truly unforgettable horror films ever to be put on celluloid.

The classic forerunner of such films as 'Poltergeist' and 'The shining', 'The haunting' is a hair-raising screen rendition of Shirley Jackson's riveting gothic novel, 'The haunting of Hill House'. Its premise is simple: Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic research, wants to try want he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. He's heard about the reputation of Hill House, which claimed the lives of several of its young inhabitants, and invites two carefully selected assistants to join him. The one thing they have in common is experiences with the supernatural. Mrs Sannerson, who has inherited Hill House, insists that her young nephew, Luke (Tamblyn), go along with the group so that nothing improper can go on between the unmarried women and the handsome Dr. Markway. The young nephew is a skeptic until he enters the eerie world of Hill House. Like him, you may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny the terror of 'The haunting'!

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: USA
Sound: Mono
Aspect ratio: Widescreen (unknown exact ratio)

Audio: English
Subtitles: (none)
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): ML104605

Only on this edition:
English original trailer

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"An evil old house, the kind some people cal haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House and whatever walked there, walked alone." Thus begins one of the most chilling, most frightening, truly unforgettable horror films ever.

Dr. Markway is an anthropologist with a special interest in psychic phenomena who wants to try a true exercise in terror. Intrigued by the legend of Hill House, he invites two women, psychic researchers, to join him in his adventure. Mrs. Sannerson, who has inherited the old mansion, is suspicious of Dr. Mayway's intentions and insists that her young nephew Luke go along with the group. Luke is skeptic about the supernatural, until he enters Dr. Marway's eerie world.

The classic forerunner of such films as 'Poltergeist' and 'The shining', 'The haunting' is a hair-raising screen rendition of Shirley Jackson's riveting gothic novel, 'The haunting of Hill House'. Like Luke, you may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny the terror of 'The haunting'!

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Japan
Sound: Mono
Aspect ratio: Widescreen (unknown exact ratio) (I assume it's correct because I cannot play it for the moment)

Audio: English (I assume it's correct because I cannot play it for the moment)
Subtitles: Japanese (I assume it's correct because I cannot play it for the moment)
Hearing impaired: (none) (I assume it's correct because I cannot play it for the moment)

Catalog number (reference): PILF 2412

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

(sorry I cannot read or write japanese)

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: UK
Colour system: PAL
Aspect ratio: Widescreen (unknown exact ratio)
Studio: MGM/Turner
Release date: 1995
Sound: Mono

Audio: English
Subtitles: (none)
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): S054605

Remark:
This edition is supposed to contain 3 collector's cards. Mine was sealed and empty.
I've been confirmed by other fans that, for some obscure reasons, the cards are missing in some sealed editions.

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"An evil old house, the kind some people cal haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House and whatever walked there, walked alone." Thus begins one of the most chilling, most frightening, truly unforgettable horror films ever.

Dr. Markway is an anthropologist with a special interest in psychic phenomena who wants to try a true exercise in terror. Intrigued by the legend of Hill House, he invites two women, psychic researchers, to join him in his adventure. Mrs. Sannerson, who has inherited the old mansion, is suspicious of Dr. Mayway's intentions and insists that her young nephew Luke go along with the group. Luke is skeptic about the supernatural, until he enters Dr. Marway's eerie world.

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: UK
Colour system: PAL
Aspect ratio: Widescreen (unknown exact ratio)
Studio: MGM/Turner
Release date: 1995
Sound: Mono

Audio: English
Subtitles: (none)
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): S054605

Remark:
This edition contains 3 two-sided collector's cards.
The main side is a picture, the other side is a printed text.

Card Haunting facts:
† Robert Wise was the director of a very diverse set of movies, amongst them several of the keystones of intelligent horror & science fiction film-making - 'The Andromeda Strain', 'Audrey Rose', 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' and the first incarnation on the large screen of the Star Trek story. He also directed grandma's favourite movie - The Sound Of Music' and 'West Side Story'.
† Film-maker, author, doctor, and one man renaissance, Michael Crichton drew upon his experience on set when Wise filmed his novel 'The Andromeda Strain', when making his debut as a film director with 'Westworld', taking many tips from the experienced director.
† Russ Tamblyn plays the sceptic nephew in the film, though he later threw off this scepticism of the supernatural in his role as the doctor in David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks'.
† The extraordinary effects were created with the revolutionary use of infrared film stock, which had to be specially flown over from Belgium.
† The house used in the film can be found just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon
† Lois Maxwell plays the wife of Dr. Markway. She is famous for her role as the luckless suitor of James Bond, the long suffering Miss Moneypenny.
† Claire Bloom was discovered by Charlie Chaplin for his masterpiece Limelight, in 1952.
† In true Scooby Doo fashion, the technicians working on the film experienced many spooky creaking sounds and doors suddenly closing... whilst they were working to recreate spooky creaking sounds and doors suddenly closing... Shaggy! Daphne!

Card The haunted house:
A staple of the horror novel, the horror film and indeed the flimsy premise for the long running 'Scooby Doo' programme, where every week the Mystery Machine would pull up outside an old mansion / castle / funfair (delete as appropriate), is that of the haunted house.
The prerequisite for a haunted house story on film is a starring role for the house itself, which is preferably built in the Gothic or Edwardian style. The architecture of the 17th century is preferred, but anything up until Victorian time may be considered suitable. Furnishings? Brocade, velvet and oak floors would pass, set off with a few essential accessories: a huge fireplace, sets of mediaeval armour and wrought candelabras. Horror film-makers and set designers go to great lengths to procure exactly the right building for the film, and The Haunting' was no different as Wise and Boulton scoured England & Wales for weeks to find a manor house that could pass for the Hill House, a New England mansion where three mysterious deaths have occurred. The local legend about the Hill House is that evil surrounds it, having being 'born bad'. As the malevolent spirit isn't seen in the film, much of the dramatic tension had to come from the set itself, further emphasising the need for a ghostly presence from the house itself.
Interestingly the use of the building as a central character has continued up until the present day as witnessed by the star turn from the Fox building in 'Die Hard' and the forthcoming film based on Philip Kerr's novel 'Gridiron', about a clever skyscraper.

Card The haunting:
Cast
JULIE HARRIS ... Eleanor Vance
CLAIRE BLOOM ... Theodora
RICHARD JOHNSON ... Dr. John Markway
RUSS TAMBLYN ... Luke Sanderson
LOIS MAXWELL ... Grace Markway
ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY ... Mrs. Dudley
FAY COMPTON ... Mrs. Sanderson
VALENTINE DYALL ... Mr. Dudley
DIANE CLARE ... Carrie Fredericks
RONALD ADAM ... Eldridge Harper

Behind The Camera
Director ... ROBERT WISE
Screenplay ... NELSON GIDDING
... based on a novel by SHIRLEY JACKSON
Music ... HUMPHREY SEARLS
Director of Photography ... DAVID BOULTON
Production, Designer ... ELLIOT SCOTT
Special Effects ... TOM HOWARD F.R.P.S.
Editor ... ERNEST WALTER

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

"An evil old house, the kind some people cal haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House and whatever walked there, walked alone." Thus begins one of the most chilling, most frightening, truly unforgettable horror films ever.

Dr. Markway is an anthropologist with a special interest in psychic phenomena who wants to try a true exercise in terror. Intrigued by the legend of Hill House, he invites two women, psychic researchers, to join him in his adventure. Mrs. Sannerson, who has inherited the old mansion, is suspicious of Dr. Mayway's intentions and insists that her young nephew Luke go along with the group. Luke is skeptic about the supernatural, until he enters Dr. Marway's eerie world.

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...

Country: Japan
Colour system: NTSC
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Studio: MGM/Turner
Release date: 2000
Sound: Mono

Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese
Hearing impaired: (none)

Catalog number (reference): WG 65194

Here is the text that can be found on the front cover

(no text)

Here is the text that can be found on the back cover

(sorry I cannot read or write japanese)

click here to see the galery with front, back, disc and other pictures...