 Robert Wise had been on a contract with MGM and owed them one more  film, so he brought "The Haunting" to them. They would only give him  1 million dollars to shoot the film, and Wise insisted that he  needed a bigger budget. In the end he brought the project over to  MGM in London, where they were willing to pay him 1.1 million, so he  accepted and decided to do the film in England.