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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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- 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)
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Better than the book...
I really liked this movie, which was based on a book by the same name...the true story of a family terrorized by demons in their Pennsylvania home. Strangely, I found the characters in the movie to be much more likeable than the actual people in the book, with the exception of the grandma (Louise Latham) who bugged me to no end with her whining. The film appears to be very loosely based on the book, however, as most of this type of "true story" films are...many events were left out entirely or embellished upon heavily to make it more sequential. One of the funniest things was the casting of the fairly attractive (and relatively youthful) Diane Baker as Lorraine Warren...if anyone has seen the real Lorraine and Ed Warren, you will see what I mean. (Perhaps as co-writers of the book they had some sort of hand in the casting...?) All in all, it's not an Amityville Horror, but a pretty good made for TV movie that's worth watching.
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- elsbed-1
- Oct 18, 1999
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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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