The Jonestown Haunting

20202020
1h 25m

IMDb RATING

2.7/10

408

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Crime Drama Horror

A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.

IMDb RATING

2.7/10

408

YOUR RATING

- Andrew Jones
- Andrew Jones(story)
- Sharron Jones(story)
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Trivia
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement established by The People's Temple, a cult under the leadership of Reverend Jim Jones, in northwestern Guyana. On November 18th, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. It was the largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until September 11, 2001.

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1/10

Misleading Title

I could see this as a film school final project, because it has everything that a film requires, but none of it works at the right time. The acting was a bit wooden, although the actor who portrayed Rev. Jim Jones was fairly good. There are no supernatural elements present, save for the inward journey that Sarah takes to make peace with herself and sense out of a horrible tragedy. The roadside preacher could be seen as a literary Virgil, guiding the viewer through the mindset that the People's Temple hope to encompass, but ultimately strayed from. The story was original, in a sense, but at the end, they jumped the shark.

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