Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch..Legendary director Robert Wise helmed this iconic horror classic, based on the novel The Haunting of Hill House by queer author Shirley Jackson.
It also happens to feature one of the earliest–and most respectful–depictions of lesbianism in Hollywood history.The Haunting follows the experiences of a small group of supernatural enthusiasts that spend a weekend together in a supposedly haunted house.
Dr. John Markway (Richard Johnson) believes he can use the house to prove the existence of an afterlife and assembles a team of misfits to investigate.