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'The Haunting'. I know I've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. That movie is terrifying. I'm talking about the old one, not the new Dreamworks crapfest. The lighting, along with the abundant shadow creates the insane house of horrors look, and the sound is top notch. The scene with the banging throughout the house followed by the "breathing" door is as scary as any film I've ever seen. The acting may have been a bit over the top, but it doesn't overwhelm the movie at all.
For most of the same reasons, I really enjoyed 'The Others'. Doubly scary is watching that movie in surround sound turned toward the loud end of your volume dial. The sound is as much a character as anything else in that movie, and you're cheating yourself if you don't hear all of it.
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