I've never seen The Innocents or read The Turn of the Screw but I'll have to check those out. I've seen The Haunting, and I think you've really captured the essence of that and the whole 'haunted house' genre. Everything seems to be the kind of obsessions of the protagonist taking form, and of course you can't have as entertaining a haunting without a fairly neurotic personality, heh.
It reminds me of a video game series that I'm going through called Silent Hill. The series is named not for a specific house, but an entire town; but the town acts like an inflated version of the haunted house. Each game has a different protagonist, and the town itself, the monsters and such that you run into, all kind of change with each one. The second game, especially, is really all about people who have sinned and committed murder, and how they can't move past that--so the town, for them, exists as the reminder/punishment of what they've done. Though as different protagonists have awful creepy things happen in the town, there's a lot of indication that there's some actual external supernatural stuff going on.
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Date: 2005-10-16 10:38 pm (UTC)It reminds me of a video game series that I'm going through called Silent Hill. The series is named not for a specific house, but an entire town; but the town acts like an inflated version of the haunted house. Each game has a different protagonist, and the town itself, the monsters and such that you run into, all kind of change with each one. The second game, especially, is really all about people who have sinned and committed murder, and how they can't move past that--so the town, for them, exists as the reminder/punishment of what they've done. Though as different protagonists have awful creepy things happen in the town, there's a lot of indication that there's some actual external supernatural stuff going on.