When you become a parent for the first time, you whole world seems to be turned upside down in a flash. It is not longer about you, it’s always about the baby. One of the worst things that can happen to a parent is losing the baby during birth or shortly there after. One of the top reasons babies die within the first six months of their lives; crib deaths. There are many reasons why this happens, the most common is putting the baby face down and being that they cannot turn over, they suffocate. The Haunting is a film that revolves around a women, one that happens to be a pediatrician that loses a child to crib death. However, what she experiences is far more worse than just the death of a child.
Traumatized by the loss of a child to crib death, Francesca moves with the family out to a new home in the country to help her with the loss. However, the house hold a dark secret and Francesca begins to experience things, visits from ghost and hearing baby cries. When she begins to investigate, she realizes that she is not allowed access to attic or the cellar of the home, when she asks the family what is down there, they forbid her to check it out. What she finds there may be more than she is prepared for.
Confusion, that is the only word that I can use to describe this film. It is a foreign film, and I really hate to read subtitles, but being that I can’t speak the language I had no choice. The story confused me in the fact that I did not know if the baby that died was Francesca’s or belonged to the family. Obviously she felt guilty about the death, being a pediatrician; however I can’t see why a doctor would place the blame on themselves. The story as a whole was hard for me to follow, and yes I even did stray from the television a few times as I began to get bored by what I was watching. The film as a whole is slow paced. The effects in the film are sometimes scary, but the ghosts look like something one can create with a cheap editing program. It is not an overpowering film that sucks you in.
The DVD has a few special features such as The Making of The Haunting, a Spanish Language Audio Track and the trailers to all eight of the Fangoria Frightfest films. There are tons of ghosts stories that look and feel the same as this film. This film has nothing new or original to offer horror fans. I found it to be well photographed and edited, but as a whole the film just fell flat on it’s face.
– Horror Bob
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