**SPOILERS** After they were flooded out because because of the winds and rains of Hurricane Agnas the Smurl's, Jack & Janet, together with their three children and in laws moved into a new home in Pittston Pa. and almost from the first day strange things began happening to them. Noises objects moving around and disappearing even strange forms appearing out of nowhere and then moving all over the house. This made the family feel that the house was haunted by something or some one that lived there previously.
The eerie events in the house became so nerve racking that Janat went to see the Wallaces who specialize in investigating haunted houses. After a thorough investigation the Wallace's tell the startled Smurl family members that their home is haunted by demonic forces and that only a sanctioned exorcism by the Church can force these evil spirits out.Trying to get the church to sanction an exorcism is better said then done since the Catholic Church hasn't been in the business of exorcisms for almost one hundred years.
Based on a true story that states at the end of the movie that after a church sanctioned exorcism in 1989 of the Smurl home. This after they were driven out by the forces of evil, and the hundreds of curiosity seekers and news reporters, from their old home in Pittston the evil sprites that haunted them were finally gone for ever. That statement is a little hard to take since the movie "The Haunted" was filmed in 1990 and released a year later in 1991! How were the movie makers so sure that the Smurl's were never bothered by these evil entities again? Since when is two year considered to be ever again? Couldn't they, the makers of the movie have waited at least ten years to make the movie about the Smrul's troubles? If by then nothing happened to them to make that statement?
Among all the people trying to help the Smurl's get rid of the evil spirits out of there home the most ridicules was Father Kent. Coming on the scene late in the film Father Kent walks right through the hundreds of reporters and townspeople camped outside the Smurl's home as if he were Moses parting the Red Sea and leading the Israelites across it to dry land. You would have thought, like the Smurl's did, that he was going to put an end to the evil sprites who've been terrorizing them all throughout the movie. But all Father Kent did was spend a few days at the Smurl house, all expenses paid, and then just as soon as he came on the scene he disappears into the night? I was wondering if this father Kent was nothing more then a con-man trying to get a free meal, or meals, and a few night at a motel without paying. Then him leaving as soon as he could before the Smurl's realized that he was a fraud and had him thrown out of their home.
I have to say that the special effects in the "The Haunted" were pretty good for a made for TV movie. With a harrowing scene where Jack was attacked and possibly raped by this demon who kept changing it's appearance so often that it seemed that it couldn't make up it's mind of what face to put on.
The eerie events in the house became so nerve racking that Janat went to see the Wallaces who specialize in investigating haunted houses. After a thorough investigation the Wallace's tell the startled Smurl family members that their home is haunted by demonic forces and that only a sanctioned exorcism by the Church can force these evil spirits out.Trying to get the church to sanction an exorcism is better said then done since the Catholic Church hasn't been in the business of exorcisms for almost one hundred years.
Based on a true story that states at the end of the movie that after a church sanctioned exorcism in 1989 of the Smurl home. This after they were driven out by the forces of evil, and the hundreds of curiosity seekers and news reporters, from their old home in Pittston the evil sprites that haunted them were finally gone for ever. That statement is a little hard to take since the movie "The Haunted" was filmed in 1990 and released a year later in 1991! How were the movie makers so sure that the Smurl's were never bothered by these evil entities again? Since when is two year considered to be ever again? Couldn't they, the makers of the movie have waited at least ten years to make the movie about the Smrul's troubles? If by then nothing happened to them to make that statement?
Among all the people trying to help the Smurl's get rid of the evil spirits out of there home the most ridicules was Father Kent. Coming on the scene late in the film Father Kent walks right through the hundreds of reporters and townspeople camped outside the Smurl's home as if he were Moses parting the Red Sea and leading the Israelites across it to dry land. You would have thought, like the Smurl's did, that he was going to put an end to the evil sprites who've been terrorizing them all throughout the movie. But all Father Kent did was spend a few days at the Smurl house, all expenses paid, and then just as soon as he came on the scene he disappears into the night? I was wondering if this father Kent was nothing more then a con-man trying to get a free meal, or meals, and a few night at a motel without paying. Then him leaving as soon as he could before the Smurl's realized that he was a fraud and had him thrown out of their home.
I have to say that the special effects in the "The Haunted" were pretty good for a made for TV movie. With a harrowing scene where Jack was attacked and possibly raped by this demon who kept changing it's appearance so often that it seemed that it couldn't make up it's mind of what face to put on.