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An American Haunting (Unrated Edition) |
starring: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'Arcy, Matthew Marsh
directed by: Courtney Solomon
directed by: Courtney Solomon
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236201410
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
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Label: Freestyle Releasing
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Manufacturer: Freestyle Releasing
MPN: LGED20141D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Freestyle Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Freestyle Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: May 05, 2006
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Based on true events. Between the years 1818-1820 the bell family of red river tn was visited by an unknown presence that haunted the family & eventually ended up causing the death of one of its members. It was not until a manuscript was found in 1998 that the horrifying answer to what caused this was unveiled Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/05/2008 Starring: Donald Sutherland James Darcy Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Ur
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With its brisk 83-minute running time, An American Haunting is compact enough to be recommended as an occasionally spooky sampling of historical horror. Based on Brent Monahan's novel The Bell Witch: An American Haunting, which in turn was inspired by the only known case (from 1818-20) in which the U.S. government officially acknowledged a death by supernatural forces, writer-director Courtney Solomon's film is a well-crafted 19th-century case study involving Tennessee land-owner John Bell (Donald Sutherland), his worried wife Lucy (Sissy Spacek), and the terrifying abuse of their daughter Betsy (Rachel Hurd-Wood) by a malicious poltergeist. Intensified by excessive sound effects and a nerve-jangling score, these nightly hauntings won't scare anyone who's seen The Exorcist, and they grow increasingly repetitious even as Spacek and Sutherland make the most of their underwritten roles. Solomon (who previously brought Dungeons and Dragons to the big screen) seems more interested in visceral terror than fleshing out the details of this interesting story of dark secrets and child abuse, and his over-used bag of tricks includes time-lapse footage, flashes of negative images, black-and-white (to signal an imminent haunting), and a variety of physical effects designed to keep your adrenaline flowing. It works, to a point (although the present-day framing scenes are completely unnecessary), and An American Haunting makes a good double-feature with The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a far better film with similar subject matter. This good-looking, bleakly moody fright-fest is also noteworthy as the next-to-last screen credit for Adrian Biddle, the esteemed cinematographer of such high-profile hits as Aliens, Thelma & Louise, The Mummy, and V for Vendetta, the latter completed just prior to Biddle's fatal heart attack in December 2005.--Jeff Shannon
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- Great start, lame finish.Unfortunately, this video is a typical case of the industry's determination to turn every story into a sexually-repressed nightmare. Historically, BTW, Tennessee did not admit to any ghostly crime on this isssue; that is pure fabrication on the part of the movie studio. The Bell Witch is a mystery, for sure, but not along he lines of what is recounted here.
The performances are decent, Spacek and Sutherland particularly turning in strong performances. I found the dialogue appropriate ... Read More
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- Great MovieI would love to go visit this place. I think its a great movie, i loved it, it had very haunting effects, and it was amazing to see the past was also repeating inthe present.
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- such potential...This movie had such potential...
However it dropped the ball. Not only was it slow moving but the ending was't worth sitting through the entire movie.
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- The most original proposal about elusive suspense in this decade!The ancestral horror for the unknown has always been an effective formula, used over and over since the cinema emerged.
What I most liked about this film was precisely the essential factor which differentiates it from other similar films around this well known issue. The director makes use of the camera and a fabulous illumination to create the required atmosphere in which shadows and darkness convey the spectator to contribute unconsciously of the beating tension that features it. To ... Read More
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- One word...crapWhat I disliked about this film was the fact that it was turned from a movie about a haunting into a movie about child abuse. Not what I was expecting and not what I wanted to see.
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