The house used in the film is located in Grantham, England, and is owned by the University of Evansville (Indiana). It is used by students that study abroad.
Stephen King wrote the first draft of the script. When this fell through, he re-worked it into Rose Red.
Liam Neeson nicknamed Catherine Zeta-Jones "The Welsh Gazelle", because they repeated a running take time after time, and he couldn't keep up with her.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Liam Neeson were so frightened on the set of that neither of them wanted to film there after dark.
This second adaptation of the book was going to be titled "The Haunting of Hill House", which was the original novel title. It was shortened back to "The Haunting" to avoid confusion with House on Haunted Hill (1999).