The Haunting of Julia

1977

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 3491 3.5K

london, england based on novel or book loss of loved one haunted house haunting mental breakdown

Plot summary

After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.

Director

Richard Loncraine Photo
Richard Loncraine

Top cast

Nigel Havers Photo
Nigel Havers as Estate Agent
Robin Gammell Photo
Robin Gammell as David Swift
Ann Mitchell Photo
Ann Mitchell as Woman in Park
Anna Wing Photo
Anna Wing as Rosa Fludd
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1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by enw 7 / 10

They just don't make them like that anymore!

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 7 / 10

spooky Mia

Julia Lofting (Mia Farrow) is struggling after a tragedy. Her daughter chocked to death. Her desperate intervention failed to save her. Her wealthy husband Magnus is unhelpful. She leaves him and buys her own posh London house. Mark Berkeley (Tom Conti) is her friend. She fears harassment from Magnus, but the house is actually haunted.Mia Farrow is just spooky in her pixie cut. It's nine years after Rosemary. She has the same haunted frailty. I would like more ghost action and earlier. The girl doesn't appear until the end. As it stands, it's more a personal internal character study than a horror movie. It's atmospheric, but it's never scary. It is odd that the film didn't get its American release until years later. It's very 70's.
Reviewed by Johan_Wondering_on_Waves 7 / 10

Pretty good and unfortunately also overlooked

Well I haven't seen too many movies starring Mia Farrow. Her most famous role is probably as Rosemary in Rosemary's Baby in which she performed greatly. It was a pleasant surprise to see her in the main role. 9 years later she doesn't seem to have aged much. And here she also carries the movie. And again it revolves around a child of hers. Trying to get over the loss of her daughter Julia leaves her husband and goes to live on her own. What she doesn't know is that the house holds a dark secret. She starts to see visions of a girl that looks a lot like her own daughter. As she is trying to reveal this mystery with the help of people knowing bits of info about the past inhabitants of the house, bad things start to happen to people around her. I must have missed a few things as I didn't understand Julia's actions sometimes. Reading some opinions here it's more clear to me now and I must applaud the writer for it's cleverness. It's based on a book which probably explains things a bit better than the movie. Very overlooked which it really shouldn't be.
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