- Slant Magazine has an interesting take on it .... An American Haunting takes the spurious "based on real events" claim to new extremes, proffering a ghost story that's been (as per the production notes) "validated by the State of Tennessee as the only case in U.S. history where a spirit or entity caused the death of a human being." What this really means is that the people of Tennessee circa 1818 — the setting for this tale of a family's problems with a malevolent demon — were an unreliably superstitious bunch, as Courtney Solomon's 19th-century film seems about as rooted in historical fact as his previous directorial outing, Dungeons & Dragons.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
This week's movies (1500 screens): An American Haunting - 36% positive reviews.
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