An American Haunting (2006)
12 %
Reviews Counted: 65 Fresh: 8 Rotten:57 Average Rating: 3.6/10
Consensus:
Well, it looks good. But wasn't it supposed to be scary?
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Theatrical Release: May 5, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $16,235,040
Synopsis: Based on true events that took place in Tennessee during the 1800s, An American Haunting tells the story of the only documented case in U.S. history (validated by the State of Tennessee) in which a spirit caused a person's death. With over 20 books written on the subject, and a town that still... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'Arcy
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it becomes haunted by the unwelcome presence of heavy-handedness, making it seem more like a busy domestic melodrama (with a ghost) than a truly unnerving chiller.
07/02/07
Takes the most documented ghost story in history and doesn't create one truly scary moment.
03/24/07
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12/30/06
This is proof that it doesn't take lots of bloody gore, big special effects or jump-at-you moments to scare jaded audiences.
08/23/06
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06/03/06
Although [director Solomon] has some great ideas, they are limited, and we are therefore treated to repeats of the same basic scenario over and over again until the effect becomes tedious.
06/03/06
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.
06/03/06
It really is fun to watch yet another oddball turn by Sutherland, and a marginally restrained one from Spacek. It's just not that fun.
06/03/06
Unoriginal and unrelenting, this gothic ghost story invests too much time in banging doors and billowing drapes and not enough in its characters.
06/03/06
Disappointing horror film which fails to generate any suspense or horror and is occasionally downright laughable.
06/03/06
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.
06/03/06
An American Haunting utterly stultifies the thrilling Bell Witch legend on which the film is based; the most disturbing ghost here is the wraith of opportunity lost.
06/03/06
Labeled by some as 'America’s Greatest Ghost Story,' the legendary Bell Witch gets herself another movie and the result is far from America’s Greatest Ghost Movie.
06/03/06
A collection of cheap jump-scares and tacky clichéd imagery that we've seen a million times before.
06/03/06
The film isn't that frightening simply because we've seen this sort of 'girl attacked by demon' material countless times before.
05/25/06
Writer-director Courtney Solomon manages to cast a modern spin on the story, but it is one that could be regarded as the least imaginative explanation possible.
05/24/06
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