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Original title: American Haunting, An
Release Date
• USA: May 5, 2006
Budget USD 14,000,000
BoxOffice: $16.2M
Official Website:
An American Haunting Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for intense terror sequences and thematic material.
Running Time
1 hour, 31 minutes
Country UK, Canada, Romania
Production Companies
AfterDark Films, MediaPro Pictures, Midsummer Films, Redbus Pictures, Remstar Films, Sweetpea Entertainment
Studio Freestyle Releasing
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Other Titles
• An American Haunting (2005)
• An American Haunting - The Billwitch Story
• Cauchemar américain
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Horror
Tagline: Possession Knows No Bounds
Plot: Between the years 1818-1820, the Bell Family of Red River, Tennessee was visited by an unknown presence that haunted the family and eventually ended up causing the death of one its members. Starting with small sounds around the farm, and the sighting of a strange creature with piercing yellow eyes, the sounds escalated into full brutal contact with certain family members, causing psychological and physical torment. The attacks grew in strength, with the spirit slapping, pulling, dragging, and beating the Bell’s youngest daughter, Betsy. The Bells searched for rational explanations and ways to rid their house of this entity, but to no avail as the spirit began to communicate with them through sounds, and eventually multiple voices that sounded like the wind.Fearing that the haunting was caused by a local woman—branded a witch—who had put a curse upon the family as a result of a land dispute, the Bells tried desperately to find ways of getting rid of the woman’s curse, yet the attacks and disturbances only escalated. It was not until a personal journal of the matriarch of the Bell family, Lucy, was inadvertently discovered—along with Betsy’s doll—generations later in the attic of one of their descendants that the horrifying and shocking answer to what caused the haunting would
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Courtney Solomon
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| James D'Arcy
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