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Creepy!!!PsychoKlown11 August 2005
I'm a horror movie buff (if you've read my other comments you'll know) and since i watch a lot of these i find it increasing harder to get scared which is why i welcomed this little beauty because it seriously sh*t me up! This is because the movie doesn't just give you a CGI ghost and tell you what it wants and why, instead it plays on the unknown which is the scariest thing. The low budget means the effects are no match to Hollywood blockbusters but just the shadow of black fire appearing in kitchen makes up for this because after all the simple things can have a better impact. Another scary factor is that even after the family have the ghosts exorcised and move house the shadow STILL follows them where-ever they go and considering this was based on a true story it's frightening to think this could happen to you!!! The most of the actors do an OK job playing the terrified family with the exception of the dad, he doesn't look bothered about what's going on even after he's been raped by the demon! This will interest people who love the supernatural but sceptics will obviously say it's crap.
But i think it's a great film and everyone should see it, but not on your own in the dark on Halloween like i did ha! ha!
But i think it's a great film and everyone should see it, but not on your own in the dark on Halloween like i did ha! ha!
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excellent tv moviePermalink
Keyser Soze-1715 November 2000
The Haunted is probably the only tv movie that wasn't terrible. In fact, it's one of my favourite movies, period. The plot is simple (and TRUE). The Smurl family movies into a duplex on chase street, and strange things start happening (a hammer disappears, dripping water, whispering etc.), and the family disregards it as nothing. And it is nothing compared to what happens later on. The main focus of the haunting activity is Janet (played by Sally Kirkland), who is looked at funny after she voices her theory that there may be ghosts in the house. Once they learn (from demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren) that 3 spirits and a demon infest their house, that's when the real terror begins, and at the risk of revealing too much, I'll stop there. I first saw this movie when it came out in 1991, and it scared the hell out of me (I was only 10 at the time), but for years I was waiting for it to come back on tv. when it finally did, I still loved it. This is a movie I wish they'd air on tv more often, and I still can't wait till it comes on again. Don't be expecting a big budget House on Haunted Hill or The Haunting remake with this one though, it moves more along the lines of The Changeling, The Blair Witch Project, and the original The Haunting. By that i mean, you rarely 'see' the visitors, but just mostly the things they do. This is an effective horror method that's hardly used, but believe me, it works. Unless you're into garbage like Urban Legend, you should find The Haunted an excellent movie, with good acting, and great scares.
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I really liked this moviePermalink
Carescent20 September 2001
I really liked The Haunted (tv-movie) & every time it is on I watch it. I scare really easily so I was scared while I watched it. I also thought that Sally Kirkland did a good job with her role as well. I love movies about the supernatural & the paranormal whether they are true or made up, I like them all.
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you see this film, you'll rest a bit uneasy that night!Permalink
jester-3021 October 1999
A fantastic and atmospheric horror film which relies more on psychological terror than special effects and typical hollywood formulaic scares. It's based on a true story which was investigated by the Warrens and made into a pretty convincing book. Though the movie is obviously 'toned down' for tv, the horror grows from an expertly directed series of scenes which portray a strengthening tension and increasing level of stress in the characters who are plagued by terrible circumstances. It's well done. A good friend o mine was actually one of the Warren's students, and I've dealt with them professionally in the past, so I can assure you they're not kooks. For example, they are high on the list of people law enforcement uses to advise on crimes of an extraordinary nature. This is serious business.. and trust me, you see this film, you'll rest a bit uneasy that night! Cheers!
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Its a good spooky movie!Permalink
Movie Nuttball29 September 2002
I have seen this movie many times and its a good one!It has good acting,great chills,thrills and it is hard to believe that happened.I recommend all ghost and horror fans to rent this!I enjoyed it and I think you will to!
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Spirit-tease.Permalink
lost-in-limbo29 May 2008
Straight-to-TV, inspired by true events hokum
well that's what I thought I was getting myself into. However this dramatised case is a surprisingly eerie, bizarre and downplayed supernatural case that can get under our skin because the actual performances (the Smurls family) are sympathetically portrayed. The normal plot mechanics of the haunted house sub-genre are evident, and the atmosphere isn't particularly striking as it hangs there. You might think that if you see one, you've seen them all. But the predictable material does get more compelling further down the track, before coming to an unfulfilled abrupt conclusion that wraps it up. Everything (from the performances to the script) is done straight-face, with very little in the way of hysteria and humour. Patchy, but it works for most part. It heavily relies on story and mood, than say big special effects and lashing thrills. Although there's something just spooky about those reappearing spirit manifestations. Sally Kirkland and Jeffery DeMunn are capably good in the lead roles of Janet and Jack Smurl. Robert Mandel's crisply well-judged direction and Richard Bellis' hovering score added to the above-average production. I see plenty of jabs about the slow, ponderous pace, but I didn't feel it was that sluggish. Far from it. Slow, but not dull.
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I guess you had to be there.Permalink
psycho-dj8 October 2001
I was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, PA. I was in high school when this was going on. There was a story in the local papers like everyday. It was so weird. Some believed the Smurls and some, of course, did not. Personally, I believed them for the most part. Why would anyone subject themselves with the kind of ridicule they had to endure? Not to mention my personal experiences with the supernatural (which are stories within themselves). This movie may not be a very good movie (however, I wouldn't say it was bad either), but it was frightening to me, because I was relatively close to the true story. One of my best friends lives in West Pittston, in fact the next street over from where the Smurls once lived. Although I didn't know the Smurls personally, my friend did. She used to be good friends with the oldest daughter and went to high school with her. My friend had told me stories about their house that she remembered from before it became public knowledge. She had been over the house many a time. She claims to have witnessed some strange goings on there, however nothing major. Some strange things even allegedly went on at her house after she was over there. As to how much truth there is to the Smurls' claims, I don't really know. As far as the movie is concerned, it's not great, but not half bad for a TV movie. It was spooky whether or not one was close to the actual events or not. As I've heard many Northeast Pennsylvanians complain about how they mispronounced Wilkes-Barre; that is one thing that makes me squirm probably more than anything else in the film. I realize for people living anywhere else, they would not know.but if your making a film revolving around any city, you'd think the filmmakers would make an effort to get it right. I've heard people from the area pronounce it different ways, but not 'Wilkes-Bar'! 'Wilkes-BERRY' (most common) or Wilkes-Bear-Ah.even Wilkes-BEAR. It may seem trivial, but it's rather cringeworthy to the natives of the area. And the set they used; they made it look like some 'happy-swell-meadows' neighborhood. It looks nothing like that..it's much more urban. All the houses are close together. I do realize that having room to shoot is a factor in making a movie, but this was way more suburban than it was. There was one night just a few years ago, I drove past the old Smurl house to show some out of area friends. That night after I got home, the lamp in the room I was staying in at my parents house just started flickering out of nowhere. My father checked it out but found nothing wrong with the lamp or the circuit. Qhite bizarre. One thing that sticks in my mind about this movie is the fact that they had the same pattern of sheets that I do!!! Freaky!!!! Overall, this movie was far from a great ghost story flick, but it was spooky, and I may only feel that way, because I was in that area when these things were allegedly happening. That's why I say, 'I guess you had to be there'.
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The WarrensPermalink
katzrule211219 November 2006
I loved the movie. It was scary, not overdone in terms of special effects, and had what I believe to be a strong element of truth. The actors who portrayed the family were believable and likable, which added to the possibility that hauntings may actually occur, and that they might actually occur to nice, normal people. This possibility actually increases the 'creep-factor,' because if it can happen to that nice, all-American devoutly Catholic family, it can happen to anyone! On the negative side, though, I don't put as much stock in the self-proclaimed demonologist duo, the Warrens, as some (what with all that unfortunate Amityville-being-a-hoax business). Their involvement in the case makes me think 'hoax.' But the film itself was worthwhile and good for a nice scare--regardless of whether or not it was a hoax.
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A well done TV-made paranormal story.Permalink
OllieSuave-00724 July 2018
This was a nicely-done TV movie about a family whom, after moving into a duplex, experiences terrifying paranormal activities.
While ghost movies featuring haunted houses are a dime a dozen, this TV movie actually captures the tension and suspense that steadily built up to terrifying thrills as the movie progresses - from the female lead being the only one hearing noises to the entire family experiencing Poltergeist-like events.
The movie also uniquely touches different aspects surrounding the paranormal experience, from psychology to faith, and from the annoying press to full-fledged exorcism.
Overall, a well done TV movie with decent acting.
Grade A
While ghost movies featuring haunted houses are a dime a dozen, this TV movie actually captures the tension and suspense that steadily built up to terrifying thrills as the movie progresses - from the female lead being the only one hearing noises to the entire family experiencing Poltergeist-like events.
The movie also uniquely touches different aspects surrounding the paranormal experience, from psychology to faith, and from the annoying press to full-fledged exorcism.
Overall, a well done TV movie with decent acting.
Grade A
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Limp retelling of a true storyWarning: SpoilersPermalink
May contain minor spoilers (just in case).
I live about an hour away from West Pittston, where these events took place. Also, I live on one side of a duplex (or, as we call it here, a double block). When I first saw this movie of the week, these details gave it a special significance for me..which quickly dissolved.
This could have been an entertaining piece, but it is brought down by the usual TV trappings--not the least of which are annoying kids and old people. The hymn-singing, impossibly over-functional characters are entirely unbelievable. Everything is lethargically photographed (on videotape, it seems) and accompanied by a standard TV-family-in-peril score. There is no momentum at all; any attempt to build tension is hampered by dull handling. The big moments are more silly than scary. Who can forget the infamous scene where Jeffrey DeMunn is raped by a succubus that resembles Divine on a bad day? Then, the irritating grandmother encounters a ghost while vacuuming, prompting my mother to ask, 'Why doesn't she just suck it up in the vacuum cleaner?' Sure, my mom wouldn't make it as a parapsychologist, but Granny trying to Hoover up a demon would certainly have done something to relieve the tedium. I won't reveal the ending, but I don't think I'd be spoiling anything if I did.
Maverick supertalent Sally Kirkland is utterly wasted, flying through the air and tossing potholders on a frantic quest for holy water. She deserved a lot better, even though she's the only aspect that makes this worth sitting through. Interestingly, she is given the job of conveying two big inaccuracies. First, she mentions coming from 'Wilkes Bahra'; Wilkes Barre is pronounced with a flat A, as anyone who lived there would know. Secondly, she mentioned a hexagram as the devil's sign. Hexagram? The Star of David? Who was funding this thing?
The Haunted will never be mistaken for The Haunting (1963). It isn't really worth seeking out, but it might be worth seeing if caught on TV, if only for some unintended laughs and Kirkland's valiant attempt to redeem the proceedings. Just, please, keep your expectations low.
I live about an hour away from West Pittston, where these events took place. Also, I live on one side of a duplex (or, as we call it here, a double block). When I first saw this movie of the week, these details gave it a special significance for me..which quickly dissolved.
This could have been an entertaining piece, but it is brought down by the usual TV trappings--not the least of which are annoying kids and old people. The hymn-singing, impossibly over-functional characters are entirely unbelievable. Everything is lethargically photographed (on videotape, it seems) and accompanied by a standard TV-family-in-peril score. There is no momentum at all; any attempt to build tension is hampered by dull handling. The big moments are more silly than scary. Who can forget the infamous scene where Jeffrey DeMunn is raped by a succubus that resembles Divine on a bad day? Then, the irritating grandmother encounters a ghost while vacuuming, prompting my mother to ask, 'Why doesn't she just suck it up in the vacuum cleaner?' Sure, my mom wouldn't make it as a parapsychologist, but Granny trying to Hoover up a demon would certainly have done something to relieve the tedium. I won't reveal the ending, but I don't think I'd be spoiling anything if I did.
Maverick supertalent Sally Kirkland is utterly wasted, flying through the air and tossing potholders on a frantic quest for holy water. She deserved a lot better, even though she's the only aspect that makes this worth sitting through. Interestingly, she is given the job of conveying two big inaccuracies. First, she mentions coming from 'Wilkes Bahra'; Wilkes Barre is pronounced with a flat A, as anyone who lived there would know. Secondly, she mentioned a hexagram as the devil's sign. Hexagram? The Star of David? Who was funding this thing?
The Haunted will never be mistaken for The Haunting (1963). It isn't really worth seeking out, but it might be worth seeing if caught on TV, if only for some unintended laughs and Kirkland's valiant attempt to redeem the proceedings. Just, please, keep your expectations low.
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'Maybe you've been watching too many of those horror movies.' Dull as dishwater.Permalink
poolandrews11 March 2006
Warning: SpoilersThe Haunted starts with a load of scrolling text that claims the film is based on true events blah, blah, blah you know the sort of thing. It's 'Halloween 1955' & Janet Smurl (Sally Kirkland) remembers her childhood & the spooky stories that surround a house in her town. Jump forward to 'August 1975', Janet & her husband Jack (Jeffrey DeMunn) their two young daughters & Jack's Mum & Dad Mary (Louise Latham) & John (George Wallace) move into that very same house. At first things go well except for a few minor harmless unexplained occurrences. Now jump forward to 'March 1985' when the real trouble begins, Janet has had a further two daughters but things take a sinister turn for the worse. Janet begins to hear voices, she sees a ghost, electrical fires & all sorts of paranormal phenomena that gradually gets more & more threatening. The Smurl's seek help from the Church but they refuse to perform an exorcism, then they turn to psychic detectives & finally the press in a desperate attempt to rid their house of the ghosts & stop the family from being driven apart.
Directed by Robert Mandel I thought The Haunted was a dull supernatural horror film. The script by Darrah Cloud is based on a book co-written by Janet & Jack Smurl (probably the real ones!) & offers nothing new or exciting to the haunted house horror sub-genre, one of my least favourite type's of horror films. I've always found these type's of films really dull & predictable, I mean people hearing sinister voices, things opening & closing on their own, lights exploding & lots of boring melodramatics involving the break down of a family unit, it's all here, it hardly gets the pulse racing & The Haunted does nothing to distinguish itself from loads of other boring haunted house tales. The origins of the ghosts are almost left totally unexplained as is the throwaway line that puberty (the two daughters grow up which is why it takes 10 years before the serious stuff starts to kick in) in someway gives the spirits their powers & you can't help but feel if they had just moved it would have saved a lot of trouble & emotional anguish on their parts! Having said that I suppose on a certain level it's watchable, the character's are OK, it moves along at a sedate pace but it's never excruciatingly boring & the supernatural activity is not too overblown or silly. The Haunted does what it sets out to do I suppose, it's far from the best or most exciting film ever but I've seen worse & I can't really criticize any specific part of it other than personally didn't really like it. Average at best.
Director Mandel turns in a really lifeless film, it's bland, forgettable, flat, does not have one single scary scene in it & lacks any sort of atmosphere. The house chosen is just so ordinary & the film never builds or sustains any sort of tension or threat. The Haunted feels more like a family drama/soap opera as much as it does a horror, since I was hoping for a horror I can't say anything else other than I was disappointed by it.
Technically this made-for-TV film lives up to that billing, the whole film feels & looks like the cheap TV film that it most definitely is. It's competently made & that's the best thing I say say about it, just don't expect a visual treat! The acting was decent enough but I don't particularly remember anyone from it in either a positive or negative way.
The Haunted is an adequate ghost film, it didn't do anything for me but I will concede that maybe there is an audience for a film such as this out there, somewhere. If you like dull soap opera melodramatics in your films then The Haunted is for you, if however you like decent horror, atmosphere, scares & a bit of excitement then I suggest that The Haunted most definitely isn't for you.
Directed by Robert Mandel I thought The Haunted was a dull supernatural horror film. The script by Darrah Cloud is based on a book co-written by Janet & Jack Smurl (probably the real ones!) & offers nothing new or exciting to the haunted house horror sub-genre, one of my least favourite type's of horror films. I've always found these type's of films really dull & predictable, I mean people hearing sinister voices, things opening & closing on their own, lights exploding & lots of boring melodramatics involving the break down of a family unit, it's all here, it hardly gets the pulse racing & The Haunted does nothing to distinguish itself from loads of other boring haunted house tales. The origins of the ghosts are almost left totally unexplained as is the throwaway line that puberty (the two daughters grow up which is why it takes 10 years before the serious stuff starts to kick in) in someway gives the spirits their powers & you can't help but feel if they had just moved it would have saved a lot of trouble & emotional anguish on their parts! Having said that I suppose on a certain level it's watchable, the character's are OK, it moves along at a sedate pace but it's never excruciatingly boring & the supernatural activity is not too overblown or silly. The Haunted does what it sets out to do I suppose, it's far from the best or most exciting film ever but I've seen worse & I can't really criticize any specific part of it other than personally didn't really like it. Average at best.
Director Mandel turns in a really lifeless film, it's bland, forgettable, flat, does not have one single scary scene in it & lacks any sort of atmosphere. The house chosen is just so ordinary & the film never builds or sustains any sort of tension or threat. The Haunted feels more like a family drama/soap opera as much as it does a horror, since I was hoping for a horror I can't say anything else other than I was disappointed by it.
Technically this made-for-TV film lives up to that billing, the whole film feels & looks like the cheap TV film that it most definitely is. It's competently made & that's the best thing I say say about it, just don't expect a visual treat! The acting was decent enough but I don't particularly remember anyone from it in either a positive or negative way.
The Haunted is an adequate ghost film, it didn't do anything for me but I will concede that maybe there is an audience for a film such as this out there, somewhere. If you like dull soap opera melodramatics in your films then The Haunted is for you, if however you like decent horror, atmosphere, scares & a bit of excitement then I suggest that The Haunted most definitely isn't for you.
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Not exactly Poltergeist, but it's goodPermalink
Falcon-514 January 2000
Fairly good acting with well done special effects and a very good story. The story is about 3 (spirits/ghosts) and 1 demon trying to break up a family. The story claims to be fact based except for a few time frames. You need to see the end of the movie and read the follow up notes to understand what happens where the film leaves off. If you where expecting the Poltergeist you will not find anything quite that intense, but fact is stranger than fiction, and this is based on fact. You may have trouble sleeping after seeing this one.
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One of the greatest made-for-TV thrillers!Permalink
Renaldo Matlin24 February 2002
I couldn't believe my eyes. After 5 years on the IMDb I finally came across some user comments so mindblowing that they really (I mean really) got me stunned! I have no idea what's up with American TV-viewers, but when it comes to the treatment of this extraordinary TV-movie US narrow-mindedness seem to reach new levels! A big movie and TV buff, I've seen just about every TV-movie worth watching since the mid 1980's and will say this, hand on my heart: THE HAUNTED freaked me out like there was no tomorrow!
A personal favorite since I recorded it on tv some ten years ago, and as I've shown it to a handfull of friends and family members over the years I can tell you - and this is the God honest truth - ALL of them got scared stiff! (maybe the people who didn't get it watched it with the lights on, or were suffering from narcolepsi?)
The sheer psychological drama, the constant threat from the unexplained horror lurking around really gets under your skin. The feeling heightened to horrific levels when knowing that it's supposedly based on facts! Now I consider myself somewhat of a skeptic, but I couldn't help thinking over and over again 'What if? Could any family really be crazy enough to cook up a sick story like this, turning their property into a three-ring-circus for journalists and TV-reporters!?' As opposed to big screen classics like THE EXORCIST and POLTERGEIST this made-for-TV-movie felt *real* up to the point that it (as written earlier) freaked me out.
Back to some of the negative user comments in here, I can not think of another reason for them to trash it then for the fact that THE HAUNTED - all though bristling with chills - still feels like a based-on-a-true-story movie-of-the-week. I guess it's not action-packed enough, and they do not take to the human aspects of the story. Do they really believe that a real life ghost story would be anything like POLTERGEIST or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET? The many creepy sequences in THE HAUNTED are not about knife-wielding maniacs who haunt our dreams, it's about little things that go bump in the night: like the sound of someone bathing coming from the bathroom you KNOW is empty, or whispers from your pillow late at night (yes, your pillow! Imagine that the next time you go to bed). THE HAUNTED is a television masterpiece in all it's beautiful simplicity, with some effective performances from the likes of Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham and Joyce Van Patten.
If you won't believe me, or the 6,1 average rating (which, considering all the negative user comments is positive), then believe Leonard Maltin. The best known movie critic in the world (next to Roger Ebert) has definitely seen his share of movies and even he rates THE HAUNTED as 'Above Average' and calls it a 'surprisingly effective thriller'.
That's right folks, it truly IS, to quote another user comment 'the scariest TV-movie EVER!'
A personal favorite since I recorded it on tv some ten years ago, and as I've shown it to a handfull of friends and family members over the years I can tell you - and this is the God honest truth - ALL of them got scared stiff! (maybe the people who didn't get it watched it with the lights on, or were suffering from narcolepsi?)
The sheer psychological drama, the constant threat from the unexplained horror lurking around really gets under your skin. The feeling heightened to horrific levels when knowing that it's supposedly based on facts! Now I consider myself somewhat of a skeptic, but I couldn't help thinking over and over again 'What if? Could any family really be crazy enough to cook up a sick story like this, turning their property into a three-ring-circus for journalists and TV-reporters!?' As opposed to big screen classics like THE EXORCIST and POLTERGEIST this made-for-TV-movie felt *real* up to the point that it (as written earlier) freaked me out.
Back to some of the negative user comments in here, I can not think of another reason for them to trash it then for the fact that THE HAUNTED - all though bristling with chills - still feels like a based-on-a-true-story movie-of-the-week. I guess it's not action-packed enough, and they do not take to the human aspects of the story. Do they really believe that a real life ghost story would be anything like POLTERGEIST or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET? The many creepy sequences in THE HAUNTED are not about knife-wielding maniacs who haunt our dreams, it's about little things that go bump in the night: like the sound of someone bathing coming from the bathroom you KNOW is empty, or whispers from your pillow late at night (yes, your pillow! Imagine that the next time you go to bed). THE HAUNTED is a television masterpiece in all it's beautiful simplicity, with some effective performances from the likes of Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham and Joyce Van Patten.
If you won't believe me, or the 6,1 average rating (which, considering all the negative user comments is positive), then believe Leonard Maltin. The best known movie critic in the world (next to Roger Ebert) has definitely seen his share of movies and even he rates THE HAUNTED as 'Above Average' and calls it a 'surprisingly effective thriller'.
That's right folks, it truly IS, to quote another user comment 'the scariest TV-movie EVER!'
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Very effective ghost storyPermalink
pyewacket2-471-6582016 April 2013
If you are expecting a gory, violent horror film look elsewhere because this is not it. This is an effective, nervy, creepy piece which relies on making the viewer feel uncomfortable. The acting is good for a TV movie and for the time has passable effects. The script whilst adequate is not earth shattering. All in all, sit alone in a dark room and watch this. Sure, you may laugh at the dated nature of all old TV movies but once finished, leave the lights off for a few minutes. Bet that shadow over in the corner starts to look like something else :-) There are similar ghost films. Some are better. Some are worse. Give this little gem a try - you won't regret it.
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Creepy as hellPermalink
iviewolfe7012 August 2006
This film has no gore or slashing etc , but what makes it so unbearably creepy and extremely chilling, is that it is based on a true story. The atmospheric music , the ghostly voices, and the fact that there were kids (innocents) involved, were enough to send goosebumps through me and the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. You can imagine what this family are going through and know that you would probably act the exact same way should anything similar happen to you. Now i'm not freaked out by ghouls and goblins, gore and most horrors in general, so to have something so simply written and acted out , scare me, was in two words 'awesomely refreshing'. The film seems a lot older than it is, i think it is because it dispenses with all the glitz and glamour of stereo-typically directed Hollywood films and doesn't spend millions of dollars of special effects so watch it with an open mind knowing this is probably as real as it gets, this is more simple and unbelievably realistic. (Only three other films have given me the same shudder rating, 'The Entity',with Barbara Hershey, Amityville 2 , the possession', and 'The Excorsist'). These events really did happen and were documented and reported on, so they should strike the 'required fear' in us all. Who knows, one day , it could happen to you. You have just got to see this film. Great work. I think more films should be made from the experiences of others and then many more films would have the same effect on me and other Horror Fans and realists as this masterpiece did. Even the everyday Christian Family are not immune from supernatural phenomenon. Enjoy!
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Makes The Amityville Horror Look Like The Haunted MansionPermalink
wolfmans_got_nards8 May 2006
This gem of a movie has everything in a horror movie. Storyline, scares, spooks, everything! If you eventually get to find this movie, you are going to love it, and I'm sure you will want to know more about the Smurl family after watching it, so I suggest you buy the book.
The book has a lot of insight on all the things that really happened, and the movie is based very cleverly on the book.
So please don't miss it. You will be robbing yourself of some really good Halloween entertainment.
It was showing on the sci-fi channel for a few months so I was lucky enough to catch it again and again, and eventually recorded it because I loved it so much. I don't want to say anything about the movie, its best if you watch it, not knowing what to expect!
10/10
The book has a lot of insight on all the things that really happened, and the movie is based very cleverly on the book.
So please don't miss it. You will be robbing yourself of some really good Halloween entertainment.
It was showing on the sci-fi channel for a few months so I was lucky enough to catch it again and again, and eventually recorded it because I loved it so much. I don't want to say anything about the movie, its best if you watch it, not knowing what to expect!
10/10
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Better than the book..Permalink
I really liked this movie, which was based on a book by the same name..the true story of a family terrorized by demons in their Pennsylvania home. Strangely, I found the characters in the movie to be much more likeable than the actual people in the book, with the exception of the grandma (Louise Latham) who bugged me to no end with her whining. The film appears to be very loosely based on the book, however, as most of this type of 'true story' films are..many events were left out entirely or embellished upon heavily to make it more sequential. One of the funniest things was the casting of the fairly attractive (and relatively youthful) Diane Baker as Lorraine Warren..if anyone has seen the real Lorraine and Ed Warren, you will see what I mean. (Perhaps as co-writers of the book they had some sort of hand in the casting..?) All in all, it's not an Amityville Horror, but a pretty good made for TV movie that's worth watching.
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where is the DVDPermalink
jenowl1764 September 2014
I have seen this film its very creepy great haunting story and its suppose also to be a true story very unsettling that the church did not help them when they were practicing Christians they let them down they had to rely on the community for help don't know how much was Dramatised but I'm sure it is documented somewhere in the Parasycology community I was glued to it and thought the acting good she was very good at playing Janet Smurl and why is it that you can see it on you tube but not get on DVD you can get most things now come on someone in the Know get it on DVD people will buy it in droves there are lots of TV movies you can buy why not this one
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Entertaining..in a bad wayPermalink
darylspano23 December 2006
Notice that I did not rate this movie a 1. Although the movie is not entertaining, the experience I had watching it was.
About 30 minutes into the movie, I had my doubts about it. I was in a daze; confounded by the inconceivable character actions, silly dialog, and over-reactions to non-events and under-reactions to significant events. I wanted to turn it off. However, as I slung insults and random comments at the TV, my wife and kids started to laugh. They joined in, and we did enjoy each other's creative comments. We certainly had a number of laughs at the movie.
After about a half-hour of that, it started to get old. We got bored with slinging comments, and started to realize how truly un-entertaining the movie itself was. We (the kids and I) finally gave up and went about more interesting business. My wife hung in there and finished it. She briefed me on the ending (in a disappointed and monotone voice).
All that said, if the movie was made as part of an ad-hoc college film project, or otherwise put together by a group of friends, I would have to say it was reasonably well done. However, presuming it was written/produced by professionals, I really can't say it measures up.
About 30 minutes into the movie, I had my doubts about it. I was in a daze; confounded by the inconceivable character actions, silly dialog, and over-reactions to non-events and under-reactions to significant events. I wanted to turn it off. However, as I slung insults and random comments at the TV, my wife and kids started to laugh. They joined in, and we did enjoy each other's creative comments. We certainly had a number of laughs at the movie.
After about a half-hour of that, it started to get old. We got bored with slinging comments, and started to realize how truly un-entertaining the movie itself was. We (the kids and I) finally gave up and went about more interesting business. My wife hung in there and finished it. She briefed me on the ending (in a disappointed and monotone voice).
All that said, if the movie was made as part of an ad-hoc college film project, or otherwise put together by a group of friends, I would have to say it was reasonably well done. However, presuming it was written/produced by professionals, I really can't say it measures up.
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The Smurl SagaPermalink
sol-kay11 August 2005
**SPOILERS** After they were flooded out because because of the winds and rains of Hurricane Agnas the Smurl's, Jack & Janet, together with their three children and in laws moved into a new home in Pittston Pa. and almost from the first day strange things began happening to them. Noises objects moving around and disappearing even strange forms appearing out of nowhere and then moving all over the house. This made the family feel that the house was haunted by something or some one that lived there previously.
The eerie events in the house became so nerve racking that Janat went to see the Wallaces who specialize in investigating haunted houses. After a thorough investigation the Wallace's tell the startled Smurl family members that their home is haunted by demonic forces and that only a sanctioned exorcism by the Church can force these evil spirits out.Trying to get the church to sanction an exorcism is better said then done since the Catholic Church hasn't been in the business of exorcisms for almost one hundred years.
Based on a true story that states at the end of the movie that after a church sanctioned exorcism in 1989 of the Smurl home. This after they were driven out by the forces of evil, and the hundreds of curiosity seekers and news reporters, from their old home in Pittston the evil sprites that haunted them were finally gone for ever. That statement is a little hard to take since the movie 'The Haunted' was filmed in 1990 and released a year later in 1991! How were the movie makers so sure that the Smurl's were never bothered by these evil entities again? Since when is two year considered to be ever again? Couldn't they, the makers of the movie have waited at least ten years to make the movie about the Smrul's troubles? If by then nothing happened to them to make that statement?
Among all the people trying to help the Smurl's get rid of the evil spirits out of there home the most ridicules was Father Kent. Coming on the scene late in the film Father Kent walks right through the hundreds of reporters and townspeople camped outside the Smurl's home as if he were Moses parting the Red Sea and leading the Israelites across it to dry land. You would have thought, like the Smurl's did, that he was going to put an end to the evil sprites who've been terrorizing them all throughout the movie. But all Father Kent did was spend a few days at the Smurl house, all expenses paid, and then just as soon as he came on the scene he disappears into the night? I was wondering if this father Kent was nothing more then a con-man trying to get a free meal, or meals, and a few night at a motel without paying. Then him leaving as soon as he could before the Smurl's realized that he was a fraud and had him thrown out of their home.
I have to say that the special effects in the 'The Haunted' were pretty good for a made for TV movie. With a harrowing scene where Jack was attacked and possibly raped by this demon who kept changing it's appearance so often that it seemed that it couldn't make up it's mind of what face to put on.
The eerie events in the house became so nerve racking that Janat went to see the Wallaces who specialize in investigating haunted houses. After a thorough investigation the Wallace's tell the startled Smurl family members that their home is haunted by demonic forces and that only a sanctioned exorcism by the Church can force these evil spirits out.Trying to get the church to sanction an exorcism is better said then done since the Catholic Church hasn't been in the business of exorcisms for almost one hundred years.
Based on a true story that states at the end of the movie that after a church sanctioned exorcism in 1989 of the Smurl home. This after they were driven out by the forces of evil, and the hundreds of curiosity seekers and news reporters, from their old home in Pittston the evil sprites that haunted them were finally gone for ever. That statement is a little hard to take since the movie 'The Haunted' was filmed in 1990 and released a year later in 1991! How were the movie makers so sure that the Smurl's were never bothered by these evil entities again? Since when is two year considered to be ever again? Couldn't they, the makers of the movie have waited at least ten years to make the movie about the Smrul's troubles? If by then nothing happened to them to make that statement?
Among all the people trying to help the Smurl's get rid of the evil spirits out of there home the most ridicules was Father Kent. Coming on the scene late in the film Father Kent walks right through the hundreds of reporters and townspeople camped outside the Smurl's home as if he were Moses parting the Red Sea and leading the Israelites across it to dry land. You would have thought, like the Smurl's did, that he was going to put an end to the evil sprites who've been terrorizing them all throughout the movie. But all Father Kent did was spend a few days at the Smurl house, all expenses paid, and then just as soon as he came on the scene he disappears into the night? I was wondering if this father Kent was nothing more then a con-man trying to get a free meal, or meals, and a few night at a motel without paying. Then him leaving as soon as he could before the Smurl's realized that he was a fraud and had him thrown out of their home.
I have to say that the special effects in the 'The Haunted' were pretty good for a made for TV movie. With a harrowing scene where Jack was attacked and possibly raped by this demon who kept changing it's appearance so often that it seemed that it couldn't make up it's mind of what face to put on.
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Can ghosts make you a believer?Permalink
michaelRokeefe7 November 2006
Warning: SpoilersThis made-for-TV horror/ghost story is suspenseful, somber, sometimes slow and at times far from believability. THE HAUNTED is partially based on a book by Jack Smurl and eyewitness testimony. In the mid-1980s, a Pittston, Pennsylavania family..the Smurls..start noticing things are just not right with their home. Not really believing in spirits, Janet Smurl(Sally Kirkland)is forced to realize and has a hard time convincing her husband Jack(Jeffrey DeMunn), until minions of Satan go to work slamming doors, smashing household items and bedeviling with imitation of family voices. Spooky and scary? Just a bit.
The cast also features: Joyce Van Patten, Diane Baker, John Mallory Asher, William O'Connnell and Louise Latham.
The cast also features: Joyce Van Patten, Diane Baker, John Mallory Asher, William O'Connnell and Louise Latham.
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true storyPermalink
My boss is actually the niece of the Smurl famiy. Today at work the fact that it's 6/6/06 came up and we were discussing scary movies, and she mentioned that there was a book and movie about a haunted house in her family. She mentioned the name and I looked it up online and brought up the story here: http://www.warrens.net/smurl.htm We sat there and read it and she kept adding things to what that website said, about how she had also experienced weird things in the house as a child when she'd go to visit. She was listing off names before I even read them, and events before I read them- then when we looked at the pictures, she was telling us where rooms were, etc.. so for any of you 'non believers'- believe it, because it's a true story.
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BandSAboutMovies7 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Jack and Janet Smurl of West Pittston, PA say that a demon was in their house for nearly 15 years between 1974 and 1989, despite the denials of the Catholic Church, psychologists and scientific skeptics. Luckily, they had Ed and Lorraine Warren on their side, who encouraged their beliefs and even helped them write the book that this movie was based on.
Sally Kirkland was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her work in this movie as Janet Smurl. Jack is played by Jeffrey DeMunn, who you may know as Dale from TV's The Walking Dead. Or if you're like Becca and never watched that show, you'll know him as the sheriff from the remake of The Blob.
Louise Latham from Marnie plays the grandmother and George D. Wallace - Commander Cody himself! - is the grandfather, who doesn't believe any of this is happening but has a great part where he fends off the media on the porch with a rifle.
Joyce Van Patten - the domineering mom from Monkey Shines - shows up as a neighbor, with Stephen Markle and Diane Baker playing the Warrens, way before The Conjuring series of films (I kind of Lorraine also appeared on Road Rules: All-Stars before Hollywood truly came calling). Keep an eye out for the reporter who collapses on the Smurl's front lawn - that's Lorraine.
The best part of this movie? The crazy way it visualizes the demonic presence as a black formless bit of nothing that has multiple voices. The funniest? There are numerous moments, but I kind of love that copyright issues meant that when the kids watch Lost In Space, they dubbed over the actor's voices.
Sally Kirkland was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her work in this movie as Janet Smurl. Jack is played by Jeffrey DeMunn, who you may know as Dale from TV's The Walking Dead. Or if you're like Becca and never watched that show, you'll know him as the sheriff from the remake of The Blob.
Louise Latham from Marnie plays the grandmother and George D. Wallace - Commander Cody himself! - is the grandfather, who doesn't believe any of this is happening but has a great part where he fends off the media on the porch with a rifle.
Joyce Van Patten - the domineering mom from Monkey Shines - shows up as a neighbor, with Stephen Markle and Diane Baker playing the Warrens, way before The Conjuring series of films (I kind of Lorraine also appeared on Road Rules: All-Stars before Hollywood truly came calling). Keep an eye out for the reporter who collapses on the Smurl's front lawn - that's Lorraine.
The best part of this movie? The crazy way it visualizes the demonic presence as a black formless bit of nothing that has multiple voices. The funniest? There are numerous moments, but I kind of love that copyright issues meant that when the kids watch Lost In Space, they dubbed over the actor's voices.
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Summary: Love Disney songs? And want to find some Disney Halloween songs for this Halloween celebration? Here’s a quick list of Disney Halloween songs for you, and you can also find the way to download these Halloween songs from YouTube.
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Well, you could save your time searching the Internet, because here’s a quick list for you.
There are also pointers on how to download the top Disney Halloween songs in the MP3 format.
Part 1: Top 10 Best Disney Halloween Songs
1. This Is Halloween
This number is from the movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas released in 1993. It features the folks of Halloween Town, the fictional town in the movie in a Halloween mood.
With music and lyrics by Danny Elfman, it is a mainstay at HalloWishes at the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland's Halloween Screams and the Haunted Mansion in Calaway Park.
It also makes its appearance in two sets of video games - Kingdom Hearts and Just Dance 3.
2. Heffalumps and Woozles
This Disney Halloween song was first featured in Winnie the Poohand theBlustery Day, the 1968 Disney film featurette.
It made a comeback in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which was a full-length movie released in 1977.
This song was a regular in the A Disney Halloween TV show, telecast yearly from 1983 to the late 1990s.
3. Put a Spell on You
This song is from the Disney movie Hocus Pocus.
Written by Jay Hawkins, it has music arranged by Marc Shaiman. Bette Midler performed the song.
During her 2015 Divine Intervention Tour, Midler performed the number donning a costume not much different from the one she wore in the movie.
4. Poor Unfortunate Souls (Little Mermaid)
This song is from Disney's animated film, The Little Mermaid presented in the Broadway musical style with a touch of Burlesque.
Pat Caroll sings it and the writing credits go to Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.
In the movie, Ursula the Sea Witch sings the song to Princess Ariel.
5. The Mob Song
The Mob Songhas its source the Disney movie The Beauty and the Beast released in 1991.
Written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, the song runs for three and a half minutes.
6. Friends on the Other Side
Randy Newman wrote this song from the movie, The Princess and the Frog.
Keith David who sang it also provided the voice for Doctor Facilier, the villain in the movie.
7. Hellfire
Tony Jay provided the voice for Judge Claude Frollo who sang the song in Disney's 1996 animated film,The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
This song has a dark tone and is perfect for a Halloween party.
8. It’s Halloween
This number is from the Disney Sing Along Songs: Happy Haunting at Disneyland a collection of video songs released back in 1988.
The collection centers around a Halloween party organized at the Haunted Mansion. After a great tricks-or-treats affair guests brace themselves for The Monster Mash.
9. Disney’s Halloween Parade
This number is a theme song created for the 2001 Tokyo Disneyland Halloween Parade.
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This is a popular song which was used for the Parade’s 2002 and 2003 versions.
Written by David Duffy and Jonathan Barr and Tom Rau composing the music, it remains one of the best Disney Halloween songs ever.
10. Halloween
Mike Himmelstein wrote and composed this song for the 2009 Tokyo Disneyland Halloween Parade.
It soon found its way into Villains Mix and Mingle at the Magic Kingdom and even at the Frightfully Fun Halloween Show at Shanghai's Disneytown.
Part 2: Disney Halloween Songs MP3 Download With DVDFab YouTube to MP3
Looking to heighten the next Halloween atmosphere with the above Disney-themed songs? Then go ahead and download them in the MP3 format.
Having the top Disney Halloween songs in the MP3 format will allow you to play them back in most digital media devices.
DVDFab YouTube to MP3 a versatile tool that allows you to convert these videos to MP3 within minutes.
The program which promises audio quality of up to 320 kbps is available for a free download.
Here are the steps to extract as MP3 of your favorite Disney Halloween music videos.
After installing the program, launch it and click on the Utilities menu.
Look for the YouTube to MP3 Downloader and click on it.
When a new window pops up, click on the + paste URL button.
Copy and paste the Disney Halloween song YouTube URL.
You may paste the URL of a playlist or an individual video.
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If you’ve entered the URL of a playlist, you still have the option to download selected songs.
Before pasting the URL, you can set the output folder where you wish your songsto be stored in.If don’t, DVDFab will save the downloaded files to C:Usersuser nameMusic.
Once you're satisfied with your preferences, click on the Download button on the bottom half of the interface.
Once download is complete, head to your chosen folder to pick up the converted MP3 of the Disney Halloween songs.
Take the YouTube MP3 Converter for a test drive today and gear yourself up for the next Halloween party by downloading the top Disney Halloween songs in MP3.
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