The Haunting

Theodora: Is this another one of your crazy hallucinations? Eleanor Lance: I'm not crazy! Theodora: Crazy as a loon! You really expect me to believe that you're sane and the rest of the world is mad? Eleanor Lance: Well, why not? The world is full of inconsistencies. Unnatural things. Nature's mistakes they call you for instance!

The Haunting (1963 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Dr. John Markway: You wait here, Grace. I'll go in and get your things, and then call the police. Grace Markway: No, no, no! No one must go back into that house again. Whatever's there might... Dr. John Markway: I'll be all right. The house has what it wants... for a while.

The Haunting (1963 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Mrs. Dudley: [Eleanor has just been shown her room after she arrives] I can't keep the rooms the way I'd like, but there's no one else they could get that would help me. Eleanor Lance: How very nice. Mrs. Dudley: I set dinner on the dining room sideboard at 6. I clear up in the morning. I have breakfast for you at 9. I don't wait on people. I don't stay after I set out the dinner, not after it begins to get dark. I leave before the dark. Eleanor Lance: Your husband? Mrs. Dudley: We live over in town, miles away. Eleanor Lance: Yes. Mrs. Dudley: So there won't be anyone around if you need help. Eleanor Lance: I understand. Mrs. Dudley: We couldn't hear you. In the night. Eleanor Lance: Do you have any idea when Dr. Markway... Mrs. Dudley: [cuts her off] No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one will come any nearer than that. Eleanor Lance: I know. Mrs. Dudley: In the night. In the dark. [Mrs. Dudley smiles and leaves]

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Dr. John Markway: It has taken 60 million years to develop the carnivorous biped you see before you, Luke Sanderson. Theodora: Let's see what kind of martinis it makes. Luke Sanderson: They should be pretty good. I majored in them at college.

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Dr. John Markway: Now. Which door? Theodora: [pointing to her right] That one. Dr. John Markway: Wrong. I've studied the map, it's this one.

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Theodora: [noticing the large sculptures] You know, this could be a family portrait of us. Eleanor Lance: Don't be ridiculous. Theodora: You're the companion, I'm Abigail, uh, grown up, and Markway could be old Hugh. Luke Sanderson: Where do I fit in? Theodora: The dog.

The Haunting (1963 film), CC BY-SA 4.0