Title: An American Haunting
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: Donald Sutherland stars in this movie, amongst others, and I guess it was a pretty big deal when it came out. It is under the After Dark Films series outside of the 8 Films To Die For fest.
Introduction: I got this DVD from the library for free, thank Godzilla.
Location: It’s in a house, a school and the woods. It’s also set in the past, so it looks all like how stuff looked before there was electricity or whatever.
Plot: A girl is being haunted or something. Did you see The Exorcism of Emily Rose? Yeah, it was kind of like that.
Acting: It’s not bad, but that’s the least of this movie’s problems.
Production: It looks good. It nails that whole Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow vibe it was probably going for (but comes off feeling like it ripped it off).
Sex/Nudity: Nope, these are the days when it was a scandal to show your ankle.
Special Effects: This movie isn’t blood and guts, it’s a girl thrashing around on a bed. This is not the type of movie I am into at all.
Overall Verdict: At one point, the teacher refuses to believe that the girl is having trouble sleeping because she’s being haunted by a ghost. So teach, he goes to her house and spends the night to see if this is all for real or not. Needless to say, he saw what everyone else had been seeing. So if this guy is a teacher in a time before modern medicine and he believes what’s happening is real, of course everyone else should believe it too.
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