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When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaSally Kirkland did the lion's share of her own stunts.
- GoofsAt the end when Janet is in the kitchen and thinks she hears her mother-in-law calling her name, she goes to the doorway and her sweater is not tucked in. When she turns around for the next full body shot her sweater is tucked in.
- Quotes
Jack Smurl: You better pray for me tonight hon'. Cause that is the only thing that is gonna keep me from killing somebody.
- Alternate versionsSome scenes of "The Haunted" were cut off the video version, but the scenes were included when the movie first aired on television:
- a scene where Jack and his father are watching football on television, right after the family moved in, and the television explodes;
- a scene where Kate, as a little girl, tells Janet, at breakfast, that she saw "people floating in her room" last night. Janet doesn't give any attention to her;
- a scene where Janet finds a strange stain in the new carpet she bought for the living room.
- ConnectionsFeatures Disorder in the Court (1936)
- SoundtracksAve Maria
Written by Franz Schubert
heard in church service
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excellent tv movie
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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- Keyser Soze-17
- Nov 15, 2000
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- The Haunted: A True Story
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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