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(1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten Page   1   "it becomes haunted by the unwelcome presence of heavy-handedness, making it seem more like a busy domestic melodrama (with a ghost) than a truly unnerving chiller."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel "Great scary atmosphere, but the film's loud sound effects, repetitive thrashing-about scenes, and overpowering music just about drove me nuts."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C- "The frights are few and the moment of horrific revelation is a big letdown in writer/director Courtney Solomon's cinematic treatment of Brent Monahan's novel "The Bell Witch: An American Haunting.""   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The girl has a crush on her teacher and a flirty classmate (Sam Alexander). But eventually this plotting seems a distraction, or a means to blame the victim. "   Common Sense Media   Cynthia Fuchs 0.5/4 "Boggles the mind with how many things it gets wrong."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C- "Just a lot of loud noises designed to make you jump."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/5 "Regardless of what you may think of Donald Sutherland, and Sissy Spacek, An American Haunting is yet another light weight PG-13 film that poses rather well as an honest to goodness horror film."   Film Threat   Felix Vasquez Jr. D- "The only real mystery about this nineteenth-century Exorcist is what could have possessed Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek to agree to star in it."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/5 "Although [director Solomon] has some great ideas, they are limited, and we are therefore treated to repeats of the same basic scenario over and over again until the effect becomes tedious."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/10 "The film isn't that frightening simply because we've seen this sort of 'girl attacked by demon' material countless times before."   Screen It!   Jim Judy "[F]rightfully dull..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "An American Haunting takes the spurious "based on real events" claim to new extremes"   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1.5/5 "Writer-director Solomon simply can't generate any actual suspense. Although he certainly tries."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2.5/5 "Spacek and Sutherland could do work like this in their sleep ... and now we have the proof."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 1.5/5 "Plays as if it had been directed instead by Anchorman's mentally suspect weatherman, Brick 'LOUD NOISES!' Tamland"   eFilmCritic.com   William Goss 1/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 16) of 16 OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten Page   1