Horror film "The Haunting" to be screened October 4, 2013

Praised by Steven Spielberg as "the scariest film ever made"

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Still from the 1963 horror movie "The Haunting"

ALBANY, NY (09/17/2013)(readMedia)-- THE HAUNTING (United Kingdom/United States, 1963, 112 minutes, b/w, directed by Robert Wise) will be shown on Friday, October 4, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute as part of its Classic Film Series the screening is free and open to the public.

One of the most effective works of psychological horror cinema ever to appear on screen, this film is based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House, a touchstone of horror fiction. Director Robert Wise applies a theory of fear, revolutionary at the time, that audiences are more afraid of the unknown than of what they can see. THE HAUNTING is highly praised by a younger generation of directors, including Steven Spielberg, who considers it "the scariest film ever made," and Martin Scorcese, who placed it at the top of his list of the eleven scariest horror films in the Daily Beast in October 2009.

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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