Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Mia FarrowJulia Lofting
- Keir DulleaMagnus Lofting
- Tom ContiMark Berkeley
- Jill BennettLily Lofting
- Robin GammellDavid Swift
- Cathleen NesbittHeather Rudge
- Anna WingRosa Fludd
- Edward HardwickeCaptain Paul Winter
- Pauline JamesonClaudia Branscombe
- Peter SallisJeffrey Branscombe
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
The Haunting of Julia is an instance of the perfect blending of role and performer, with Mia Farrow cast as a young woman who may be either the victim of a ghostly possession or slowly disintegrating into madness. [26 Aug 1990, p.4] - 70
Variety
Film has a fairly tight script which, in first half at least, builds up scary tensions nicely. There's a performance by Mia Farrow which is somewhat reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby, and enough supernatural trappings to please those who are fascinated by the occult. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Filmed and released in England in 1976 as FULL CIRCLE, this movie flopped badly and went unreleased Stateside until 1981, when it was unveiled under a new title and still failed to find its audience. - 60
Washington Post
Filmed in velvety browns, with shafts of sunlight filtered through old windows, The Haunting of Julia is a definite cut above the current horror movie cliche, but yet not up to the classic psychological ghost-story level it aims at. - 50
Time Out
The narrative, from a story by Peter Straub, juggles ambiguously - if not carelessly - with themes thrown up and better developed in The Turn of the Screw, Don't Look Now and Rosemary's Baby... But there is much to commend in Farrow's performance, complemented by Colin Towns' softly chilling score, which is more than can be said for Conti and Dullea. - 40
The New York Times
Based on a novel by Peter Straub, The Haunting of Julia manages to draw on every horror movie cliche imaginable and still make very little sense.
