The Haunted

• Director: Robert Mandel
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Horror
• Movie Type: Haunted House Film, Supernatural Horror
• Themes: Demonic Possession
• Main Cast: Sally Kirkland
• Release Year: 1991
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

The Haunted is a Fox Network TV-movie purportedly based on eyewitness testimony. The story goes that in the mid-1980s, the Smurl family of Pittston, Pennsylvania began noticing something askew in their four-bedroom Victorian home. Apparently there are agents of Satan at work, bedeviling the family and smashing the crockery. None of the Smurls believes in ghosts--"until," as the ad copy for this film proclaims, "they have no choice." Since this film was shown on Fox, the "standards and practices" people were a wee more lax than they would have been on another network; hence the "Parental Discretion Advised" tag on the film's original telecast. The Haunted is some distance removed from believability, but stars Sally Kirkland and Jeffrey DeMunn seem to be having a high old time playing scared. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

John Mallory Asher - Joe; Diane Baker - Lorraine; Allison Barron - Katie; Gibby Brand - Reporter #1; Mark Chaet - Reporter; Jeffrey DeMunn - Jack; Sally Kirkland - Janet; Louise Latham - Mary; Stephen Markle; John O'Leary - Father Larson; Julie Payne - Annie; Michael Prince - Prayer Group Man; Joyce Van Patten; George D. Wallace - John; Parker Whitman - Herb; Cassie Yates - Dorie; Jake Jacobs - Father Kent; William O'Connell; Ashley Bank - Shawn; Michelle Collins - Erin; Claudette Roach - Reporter #2; Benji Thall - Kid

Credit

Heidi Kaczenski - Costume Designer, Robert Mandel - Director, Farrel Jane Levy - Editor, Richard Bellis - Composer (Music Score), Pamela B. Warner - Production Designer, Michael D. Margulies - Cinematographer, Daniel Schneider - Producer

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The Amityville Horror; The Exorcist; The Omen; Poltergeist; House on Haunted Hill; Dark Harvest

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