![]() ![]() ![]() Like Jackson’s book, or Wise’s film, Rose Red invests the characters with a vice grip of psychological horror, one that tightens as more unexplained things go bump in the night. Baxley and actors Nancy Travis, Matt Ross, and Julian Sands grapple with Seattle’s scariest haunted mansion. In the first three minutes of this three-part installment, Rose Red emerges as the far superior telling of the haunted house story, as director Craig R. Originally conceived as a theatrical release, with a pitch by King to Steven Spielberg in 1996 (Spielberg would go on to executive produce the awful 1999 The Haunting remake), Rose Red is a loose remake of Jackson’s story (and Robert Wise’s movie about it) that underwent changes to fit the miniseries format following the 1999 Haunting’s release. ![]()
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