An American Haunting !!! “Christian Horror”

An American Haunting is a 2006 American thriller film written and directed by Courtney Solomon. Based on true events that took place in Tennessee during the 1800s, The film tells the story of the only recorded event of a human being dying from a spirit,

It stars Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood and James D’Arcy. The film was previewed at the AFI Film Festival on November 5, 2005 and was released in U.S. theaters on May 5, 2006. The film had an earlier release in the U.K. on April 14. The movie was panned by critics and audiences and performed poorly at the box office.

In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy’s school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.

The scariest part of An American Haunting is how Sutherland and Sissy Spacek, playing his wife, got roped into this project. Neither role reflects their stellar careers, especially Spacek, who got her last Oscar nod for 2001’s In the Bedroom, which now seems like a lifetime ago.

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