Ernest R. Dickerson

The DP and director on the fantastic potential in image-making/-seeing, learning to photograph the world, and the possibility of a Demon Knight sequel.

The Haunting

The question of possession looms over The Haunting (1963), with regards to both Hill House, the labyrinthine Victorian mansion in which most of the action takes place, and the film’s story, an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s now-canonical 1959 Gothic The Haunting of Hill House that’s remarkably faithful in plot, if not in spirit.