After watching this I thought that "The Others" was a knock off that just wasn't as scary. And before you get upset I understand that the plots were different but the basic premise was the same. This was a much better film in so many different regards. I would recommend this one over The Others in a heartbeat.
" This birth of the miraculous, was so stunning, it almost seemed blasphemous to gaze upon it."
Nah 'The Others' ripped off 'The Innocents'
"Flatly My Dear, I Don't Riverdance"
The 'Others' was better...this movie had to resort to alot of special effects at the end(especially the dumb spinning around scene where they killed the old lady)...the 'Others'was done with much more restraint and believability...it just seemed to get too silly at the end...I was disappointed.
share"Journey to the Unknown" aka "Out of the Unknown" has an episode titled "Poor Butterfly" in which a man (Chad Everett) who has purchased a classic Bugatti is invited to a masquerade party at a grand English estate. There, he meets Rose, a beautiful, luminous girl in a butterfly outfit (Susan Beacham). They fall in love, and she begs him to take her away immediately. He tells her he needs to get fuel for the car and will be back for her. However, he is unable to fulfill that promise. When he receives help the next day, he learns that there was a party back in the Twenties at which everyone was killed when the house was set on fire by lightning strikes. He also learns that his car once belonged to the girl's fiance, who did not attend the party that night, arriving when it was too late. Rose was trying to change the outcome but failed. When he returns to the estate, he finds it destroyed by fire. The episode originally aired May 19, 1969, as Episode 6 of Season 1. I vividly recall watching it then. It now airs
Having seen the "Poor Butterfly" episode at least 20 times, I thought of it immediately when he went to the estate, especially with the many fire references. So, there was no mystery for me because this has been done before, minus nudity and sex, on a TV episode. Maybe James Herbert saw that and was inspired to write the basics of what became the novel "Haunted" (1988).
I like "Haunted", which I had never seen before, as it always aired on Cinemax, which I don't have. I watched it twice today. It truly doesn't achieve the melancholy of "Poor Butterfly".
~~MystMoonstruck~~
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Yes, I'm aware of that, but I'm saying that the story of "Haunted" is very much like that of "Poor Butterfly". I was not referring to "The Others" at all because this forum focuses on "Haunted".
"The Innocents" and "The Others" have children in common though Henry James' novel and most film versions are far better than "The Others".
"Haunted" is much more like "Poor Butterfly" than "The Others".
~~MystMoonstruck~~
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That's OK. We often get confused about who is addressing whom on these forums. Net communication is tricky indeed!
~~MystMoonstruck~~
Actually this is an old premise. I saw a Broadway play back in the late 1960s with Julie Harris and Richard Kiley and it was called "voices" and it was the same premise
the main characters of play Harris and Kiley thought they were being haunted by a family. They found out in the end that they were the ghost haunting they people they originally thought were haunting them.
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