A Haunting - Seasons 1-4
by Paranormal Activity
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Actor: n/aDirector: Paranormal Activity
Brand: Timeless Media Group
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 66454
Studio: Timeless Media Group
Product features:
- HAUNTING, A-SEASONS 1-4 (DVD MOVIE)
Movie Reviews of A Haunting - Seasons 1-4
Movie Review: Pattern Recognition
Summary: 5 Stars
Nov 10, 2009
A few comments left out from the original posting...
First, a complaint:
Enough with the Warrens! As the favored go-to duo from the paranormal 70s on I realize my neighbors (and subsequent protege Zaffis) carried lots of cred (not to mention all sorts of baggage). But half a dozen episodes where they come to the rescue?! One cringes every time they step over another threshold to pronounce the place riddled with E-vil. What Dr. William Roll was to Unsolved Mysteries (I also recommend their ghost episodes DVD set - see reviews),
Ed (God rest his soul) and Lorraine W too predictably were to A Haunting's producers.
Sadly there will be no new seasons of this quite respectable if rather simplistic but charmingly low-rent series. Overall the stories reveal far more than they do separately - which I should have more clearly stated as my original point concerning pattern recognition.
Some rather droll examples:
Gee, dad, you never seem to notice the stuff we do, yet you've been acting awfully weird lately. Or hows about: There's just something odder and more threatening about those shadowy looking things - I thought we were just dealing with some lonely folks who haven't reconciled themselves to passing on. Finally, that perennial favorite: Gosh, after months if not years living in this creepy place while trying to avoid accepting the reality of our situation we couldn't help wondering why things just kept going wrong in our lives, our attitudes and behavior until it suddenly dawned - hey, we're really being influenced by... some kinda haunting!
Repeat viewings of most of these episodes prove quite worthwhile.
Particularly effective and deserving of special mention is the editing of sounds and images - through which most of the unsettling atmosphere and scares are conjured.
Techniques which, in most current knockoff horror junk, usually appear way too lookatme MTV gimmicky or Ghost House schlockish: electronically distorted whispers, groans, shriekings and creakings, as well as the whole modern arsenal of flashy grotesque cutting, defocusing and sickly color temperature tricks, are actually put to quite effective and even tasteful use. Much credit is due the directors, production and technical crews, I am sure they have gone unsung for far too long. Likewise much of the acting, which is more effective because of the rather commonplace casting (which is not to disparage their often praiseworthy efforts). One particularly noteworthy presence was the fellow who portrayed the psychic in Dark Forest.
As far as the often criticised similarity between many of these stories: pattern recognition. kiddies! The truth of any event, especially those which appear anomolous, only becomes evident when it is repeated often enough to reveal its inner workings to those with the objectivity and true skepticism to acknowledge it. Which, of course, is not to say that we are talking about documentaries here. Every haunting is obviously jazzed up, simplified, reconfigured, even dumbed down for general audience consumption. But overall they are quite worthwhile and, for those of us not already so fried by the usual amped-up teen horror fare, genuinely spooky. Maybe in time the series can be brought back from the dead. Until then, as Arch Obler used to say, lights out....
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