My fav Halloween movie has always been The Haunting, 1963, derived from Shirley Jackson’s novel, The Haunting of Hill House.
Yes, i just watched it, posting this during too break up my tension of fear as I did. I had heard ‘breathing’ in my room after reading that book. I held my breath, finally could not any longer, and then it seemed to stop, so I let out my breathe in a light long sigh...and heard it then ‘mimmick’ my sigh in the corner of the room in a loud long loud imitation of my sigh and my blood ran cold. Don’t know what it was. Teen imagination? It was so long ago but I remember it vividly and the frozen fear that immobiiized me in my bed.
That book scared the heck out of me and then the movie come out and it was so well done, but it scared what minuscule parts of ‘the heck’ were left.