hnhovitz Any genre can potentially deliver trauma triggers, but if you turn to horror to escape by kicking up a "safe" adrenaline response, you need to know that the below movies will not have the same effect as watching Chucky prance around the room. There's plenty streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime this month and all year long to satisfy your need for a scare—one that allows your mind to stay contained within the world of the film. If you have trauma in your past, steer clear. I'm going to save you some time and anger. This is essentially a clean rip-off of 'The Entity' down to the execution of specific scenes. Only, it's supposed to be a ghost story, so that in itself is the spoiler: in the final few minutes, is it revealed that instead of a supernatural entity, the daughter is being "haunted" by her father, and by haunted, they actually mean raped....repeatedly? And the daughter is a ghost now? Or is she alive? It's all too frustrating for words. Bottom line: this "twist" does nothing to support half of all proceeding scenes in the movie. It makes them largely impossible to have taken place, but it's largest offense is dealing with this subject matter in such a haphazard, sloppy, and reckless way that I would bet money on the fact that none of the actors signed on to do this movie based on a script containing the ending we ultimately saw. We can only hope that one of the results of the #MeToo movement is that nothing like this sack of garbage will ever make it past the slosh pile and into production again.

Davis P An American Haunting (2005) is a fairly weak film. The acting is pretty mediocre, even laughable at certain moments. Sissy Spacek was really the only actor that I thought did a pretty good job. Donald Sutherland was surprisingly weak and seemed kinda lazy in this film, which is surprising, he usually does a pretty good job in his movies, but not this one. This movie isn't all that scary really, some of the sequences are actually more funny than scary, which is always bad for a horror movie. There is one sequence in particular where a character is slapped around, and it just looks so horribly cheesy and fake that it kinda makes you laugh. The child actors just aren't good either, they're acting is wooden and completely Fake. The effects are just alright, honestly nothing dazzling. This films plot is very very unoriginal and cliché. There really isn't anything new to see here that you haven't already seen before, and there definitely isn't anything of any good quality. The "scary" scenes that are supposed to scare you do nothing whatsoever, they just leave you scratching your head and wanting a whole lot more. An American Haunting could've been so much better, I mean so much better, it wasted its potential. The writing and directing were also pretty weak, the dialogue was cheesy and very cliché. Do yourself a favor and don't see this poor horror film, there are much better horrors to enjoy that are higher quality. 1/10 for An American Haunting.

Maz Murdoch (asda-man) "An American Haunting" is the type of film a bunch of twelve year olds at a sleep-over would find scary. To everyone else who has seen truly scary horror films, this is absolutely nothing. "An American Haunting" is extremely poorly done with a blaring, dramatic score that plays throughout every scene which really does nothing for the scares. The film seems more like a remake/parody of the first forty minutes of "The Exorcist" with a little girl being tormented by demons in her bed. It literally does not progress from there. After that its one scene after another of the camera floating around all the characters faces whilst weird sounds play in the background. It's a scary film that's disguised.Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek give convincing performances and the 18th century setting is don well but nothing else. It's a very dull film that tries to construct a load of "jump scares" together or presenting countless sequences as a dream which can become very irritating. The film does have an unexpected twist that could've been really clever if the film was played out completely differently! In the film's context it doesn't make any sense. "An American Haunting" is the type of film that thinks it can terrify an audience by saying it was based on a true story. I found it to be extremely weak. Go and see "The Exorcist" instead for a far superior film. At the start the girl had a poster for "Monster" which is also good, go and see that instead.

Wizard-8 With a title like, "An American Haunting", many viewers won't be surprised that Canadians were involved with its production. And knowing that Canadians were involved, they will have probably concluded that the movie is bad. And they would be right. I guess the production values are okay for a movie without a Hollywood blockbuster budget, but there is pretty much nothing else positive I can find here. The main problem is that there is almost no plot - it's just one ghost attack after another, with little to nothing to advance the story between these attacks. And the ghost attacks themselves are not the least bit scary. The filmmakers try to juice things up with frenzied camera movements and screaming, but this fails to liven these parts of the movie. And what does the modern day prologue/ending have to do with the bulk of the movie? The only interesting thing the movie teaches us is that ghosts like to repeatedly slap people in the face.