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Great Film overall

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

After moving into a new house, a family becomes convinced they are being haunted by malevolent spirits and turn to professional demon-hunters who must find a way of dealing with them once proved true.On the whole this is quite a lame and overall low-end haunted house effort. This here is mostly based around the fact that the film's origins give away its intensity, relying more on scenarios and tactics that are generally more acceptable to viewers without really going for the more traditional scares here. Focusing here on others claiming they heard foul language and voices throughout the house, listening to voices from inside their pillows or the walls as well as manipulating subjects around the room as the main form of supernatural activity here are really just not that scary here as these scenes are somewhat normal happenings in a house that are more useful as secondary tactics rather than the main focus. It lends the family into being really jumpy and quick to conclusions based on just a few random incidents that don't really warrant the kind of extreme reaction they undertake here, and that there's a rather repetitive angle that comes off here of them crying out for help after the incidents only for help to be denied and the pattern continues onward because of the lack of attention paid to their story. As well, the special effects here for the ghosts are really primitive and fake-looking, which detracts a bit from their presence with the misshapen black blobs used here for the ghosts being quite bad and lame. The finale is a bit of a cheat as well by cutting to the scrolling text instead of letting the action play out the way it would've been featured on-camera. That makes the fact that the later haunting throughout the house all come off as really entertaining and creepy, much more so than the initial encounters and being quite chilling as well. The tactics of with the pillows in their bedroom amplifying demonic whispers, the pounding footsteps and the levitating drawers in some rather intense scenes as well as the other intense confrontations throughout here that movie it up, though the main scenes here that move this one up are rather enjoyable. The first big scene here is the supernaturally-themed rape scene by the hallucinogenic ghost which finally gets the point across about the haunting, and the scene of the haunting being altered to the passersby on the street which is due to the loud, crazy sequence that certainly allows for the crowd on the street to see everything that's happening. Otherwise, there's not much else to this one.Rated R: Language, a Rape and Mild Violence.

This movie freaked me out. I live in Pittston, across the river from West Pittston. My parents always talk about how it was occurring around the time I was born. I have researched it a lot and I've ridden my bike over to see the house. The movie is pretty lame graphically (but hey it was 1991 so...). If I had seen this in 1991, I would have been really scared. Yeah, they make a mistake when they miss pronounce "Wilkes Berry" (thats how i say it).. Also, the street doesn't remind me of their street. It looks like a street thats farther down the block from there. My parents told me the part where all the news people are at their house and the church groups and ave maria plays reminded them of when they used to go drive past the house at night and seeing all the news and people there... Chaos. My dad was on CNN on the phone around the time of this and Larry King asked him if he was near the house and they talked about it. Overall, this movie is cool, with lame graphics, and OK actors.

I loved the movie. It was scary, not overdone in terms of special effects, and had what I believe to be a strong element of truth. The actors who portrayed the family were believable and likable, which added to the possibility that hauntings may actually occur, and that they might actually occur to nice, normal people. This possibility actually increases the "creep-factor," because if it can happen to that nice, all-American devoutly Catholic family, it can happen to anyone! On the negative side, though, I don't put as much stock in the self-proclaimed demonologist duo, the Warrens, as some (what with all that unfortunate Amityville-being-a-hoax business). Their involvement in the case makes me think "hoax." But the film itself was worthwhile and good for a nice scare--regardless of whether or not it was a hoax.

My boss is actually the niece of the Smurl famiy. Today at work the fact that it's 6/6/06 came up and we were discussing scary movies, and she mentioned that there was a book and movie about a haunted house in her family. She mentioned the name and I looked it up online and brought up the story here: http://www.warrens.net/smurl.htm We sat there and read it and she kept adding things to what that website said, about how she had also experienced weird things in the house as a child when she'd go to visit. She was listing off names before I even read them, and events before I read them- then when we looked at the pictures, she was telling us where rooms were, etc... so for any of you "non believers"- believe it, because it's a true story.