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Jason Hall recommended Come and See (1985) in Movies (curated)

 
Come and See (1985)
Come and See (1985)
1985 | Drama, Thriller, War
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Klimov’s film is an unflinching examination of evil and embraces the surreal in places, while serving up dirty doses of realism in others. The barn burning sequence is the most haunting scene I’ve seen on film."

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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
1939 | Fantasy, Musical

"The Wizard of Oz, the witch was always haunting me, the green witch, the Wicked Witch of the West, so Wizard of Oz was also a huge impact film in my childhood, as well as Pinocchio."

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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey
2000 | Alternative, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
9
8.3 (4 Ratings)
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Rolling Stone's 431st greatest album of all time
Superb album, featuring the awesome Good Fortune and This Is Love and the surprising, haunting This Mess We're In, featuring Thom Yorke. Great rock songs with strong messages.
  
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
2016 | Horror
Patrick Wilson (2 more)
Vera farmiga
Madison wolfe
Watched last night good scary movie not all horror movies need gore but just as effective with jump scares instead and there's plenty of them as I've already seen the nun and learnt about her backstory and knew about the Enfield haunting already. The stand out star goes to madision Wolfe who plays janet the daughter at the center of the haunting amazing young actress. Some point gonna watch the third conjuring movie devil made me do it
  
The Haunting  (1963)
The Haunting (1963)
1963 | Horror
The Haunted House
The Haunting- is one of the best horror movies of all time. Its scary, spooky, haunting, terrorfying, horrorfying and more.

The Plot: Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor (Julie Harris), a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora (Claire Bloom), who has ESP, join John and the mansion's heir, cynical Luke (Russ Tamblyn). They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.

From the great novel- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

In 2010, The Guardian newspaper ranked it as the 13th-best horror film of all time. Director Martin Scorsese has placed The Haunting first on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time.

The film was remade in 1999 by director Jan de Bont, starring Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson, but that version was heavily panned by critics and audiences. Dont watch that film, but instead watch this masterpiece.

I would highly reccordmend this movie.
  
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler | 1992
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"The masterful Anne Tyler again steals away with the most incredible story of a family unraveling and unfolding with the truths of resentments, failures, jealousy and beauty. Such a thing to behold is Anne Tyler at work. Haunting"

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Glenn Ligon recommended Yes, Chef: A Memoir in Books (curated)

 
Yes, Chef: A Memoir
Yes, Chef: A Memoir
Marcus Samuelsson | 2013 | Biography
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"Marcus is a friend but until I read his haunting memoir I hadn’t realized how extraordinary his journey was. How does a refugee from rural Ethiopia end up a world-class chef? Read the book and find out."

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The Seventh Ward (The Haunting #2)
The Seventh Ward (The Haunting #2)
Patrick Logan | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Horror, Paranormal
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4.0 (1 Ratings)
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Disappointing Direction for the Series
The series title, 'The Haunting' led me to believe that the series would be centred on a haunting - or even hauntings (multiple) - but it really isn't.

The writing feels rushed, it's poorly edited with inconsistencies, and seems to 'borrow' a lot from other writers and stories.

I wasn't sure whether to continue with the series, given how disappointed I was with this book, but given that the whole series was included in the Kindle Unlimited subscription, I decided to give the writer the benefit of the doubt.
  
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Hallettatme (9 KP) created a post

Aug 2, 2018  
So I just read I am I am I am by Maggie Ofarrell and it was beautiful....

I then read the immortalised by Chloe Benjamin and it was haunting.

Seriously, I am in awe of these two most recent reads.
     
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Yoshi (40 KP) rated The Lovely Bones in Books

Oct 29, 2018  
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold | 2002 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.3 (66 Ratings)
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My biggest beef with this book is that the plot didn't really seem to go anywhere and has too many unresolved problems. They never catch the killer, never find her body, and Susie's restless spirit is still probably haunting her family.