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An American Haunting
Directed by
Courtney Solomon
PG-13
2005
83m
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5.0
12%
35%
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An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface.
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Cast of An American Haunting
Donald Sutherland
John Bell
Sissy Spacek
Lucy Bell
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Betsy Bell
James D'Arcy
Richard Powell
Matthew Marsh
James Johnston
Thom Fell
John Bell Jr.
Zoe Thorne
Theny Thorn
Gaye Brown
Kathe Batts
Sam Alexander
Joshua Gardner
Miquel Brown
Chloe
Vernon Dobtcheff
Elder #1
Shauna Shim
Anky
Madalina Stan
Ethereal Girl
Philip Hurd-Wood
Partygoer
Vlad Cruceru
Richard Bell (aged 4)
Alin Rosca
Joel Bell (aged 10)
Andrei Serban
Joel Bell (aged 6)
Isabelle Almgren-Doré
Jane Powell
Susan Almgren
Elizabeth Powell (Mother)
Howard Rosenstein
David Powell (Father)
Courtney Solomon
Entity Voice (voice)
Lila Bata-Walsh
Little Ghost Girl
An American Haunting Ratings & Reviews
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The dark force behind this movie is the relentless power of cliche.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
It's never an encouraging sign when a horror movie based on a true story fatally lacks the verisimilitude of, say, Alone In The Dark.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There's a dark, abiding mystery at the center of An American Haunting, and it's how on earth major stars such as Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek were talked into appearing in this film.
New York Times
Nathan Lee
Things go bump in the night in this 19th-century ghost story, but it's the bump of emptying seats, as audiences flee in boredom, that will haunt you for days.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
This is the type of movie that you should be getting for free on television.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
For anyone aware of this poltergeist tale, or who bothers to look it up, the victim's identity will come as no surprise, and a horror movie without a surprise is no horror movie at all.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A standard, creaking, fake-spooky ghost story...
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Using alleged 'actual events' as a template, writer-director Courtney Solomon fashions a crafty mystery with a lot of joy-buzzer jolts sliding through its somber mood.
Zap2it.com
Daniel Fienberg
A Post-Colonial Scooby-Doo, as respectable actors in perfectly pressed costumes run up and down stairs avoiding unseen spooks. The director stands in the corner yelling "Boo!"
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
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.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
Takes the most documented ghost story in history and doesn't create one truly scary moment.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
This is one of the more annoying, irritating, obnoxiously un-scary scary movies in recent memory.
Associated Press
David Germain
The impassioned performances make you care what happens to these people, even when the film's noisy overindulgence makes you almost wish their home would collapse on itself like The Fall of the House of Usher.
Slate
Grady Hendrix
It's not a true story. If lying is the latest trend in American pop culture (cf James Frey, Kaavya Viswanathan), then An American Haunting is on the cutting edge.
Observer
Rex Reed
Call it The Exorcist Meets Poltergeist, and head for the shelves at Blockbuster, where it will undoubtedly turn up soon.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
A wasted opportunity -- especially since the events as reported scarcely need embellishing.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
An American Haunting takes the spurious "based on real events" claim to new extremes
Variety
John Anderson
A well-made, good-looking movie it is, but between the non-stop tumult and the sense of deliberateness about its period authenticity, An American Haunting produces a lot of screaming, crying and cruelty, but not much drama.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Translating a legendary ghost story to the screen, writer-director Courtney Solomon crafts a quality horror piece from strong performances and effects.
Sacramento News & Review
Jim Lane
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.
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