An American Haunting (Unrated Edition)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 24, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek & Rachel Hurd-Wood | |
Performer: | Matthew Marsh, Howard Rosenstein, Lila Bata-Walsh, Miguel Brown, Shauna Shim, Thom Fell, Sam Alexander & Gaye Brown | |
Directed by | Courtney Solomon | |
Edited by | Richard Comeau | |
Screenwriting by | Courtney Solomon | |
Composition by | Caine Davidson | |
Produced by | Christopher Milburn & Courtney Solomon | |
Director of Photography: | Adrian Biddle |
Entertainment Reviews:
Takes the most documented ghost story in history and doesn't create one truly scary moment.
UGO
Rating: 2/5 --
Director Courtney Solomon's script is a catalogue of the standard Exorcist-style special effects, hammered home by Caine Davidson's musical score, one of the most irritating and nerve-wracking assemblies of noise in movie history.
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Sacramento News & Review
Rating: 2/5 --
Unoriginal and unrelenting, this gothic ghost story invests too much time in banging doors and billowing drapes and not enough in its characters.
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BBC.com
Rating: B+ --
This is proof that it doesn't take lots of bloody gore, big special effects or jump-at-you moments to scare jaded audiences.
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Hollywood.com
Rating: D --
It's never an encouraging sign when a horror movie based on a true story fatally lacks the verisimilitude of, say, Alone In The Dark.
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AV Club
Rating: 1.5/4 --
There's thunder and lightning and wall-to-wall music. But it still doesn't add up to much of a movie.
Newark Star-Ledger
This allegedly true tale of demonic possession is weighed down by period detail and ponderous storytelling, which soon get the better of its Exorcist-inspired levitations, flying crucifixes and noisy poltergeist activity.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Based on the book AN AMERICAN HAUNTING by Brent Monahan, this horror movie uses a current-day setting (the year 2006) as a framing device for a ghost story dating back to 1817 Tennessee. Inspired by manuscripts documenting the only spirit-caused death in U.S. history, the film stars accomplished actors Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland as the mother and father of Betsy Bell (Rachel Hurd-Wood), an adolescent girl tormented by a mysterious spirit haunting the Bell family home. The spirit is thought to have been sent by Mrs. Batts, a witchlike neighbor who, after having a bitter dispute over property rights with Betsy's father, John Bell, put a curse on John and his daughter. Even though John Bell was the one at fault, it is his daughter who bears the heaviest burden of this spell, being thrown about her room nightly, slapped, and even sexually abused by the mystical force in question. Most of the film takes place in the home, where Betsy's parents, a local priest, and a local schoolteacher (with whom she has a flirtatious relationship) try their best to exorcise the demons away. While the film never fully explains what the spirit is or where it came from, it does propose one disturbing theory near the end that involves the hysterical nature of young female sexuality. But despite being used as a means to connect the present-day story with the 1817 events, this theme is only vaguely hinted at as the story unravels.
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- Sales Rank: 21,655
- UPC: 012236201410
- Shipping Weight: 0.2/lbs (approx)
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