A haunted house story that is worth it! Based on the book The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, this classic black and white film is well worth seeing. For its time, it was as overtly lesbian as a movie could be. Eleanor is possibly possessed, and later destroyed, by the house, after meeting her house-mate, the sexually-adventurous Theodora. These women are part of a paranormal investigation team brought out to uncover the mystery of the house.
The ghosts of this story are never outed as real or not, but the orientation of the characters is. The director openly discussed the fact that he wanted to make the obvious lesbianism in the novel more apparent in the movie, but decided it would better reflect the book to have it be very subtle, but obvious to those that were ready to accept it.
