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· Year: 2002
· Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
· Writer: Phil Penningroth
· Cast: Beau Bridges, Miguel Ferrer
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A reality-television crew investigates a haunted house in America's midwest.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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49
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 2.0 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 0.75 -GORE |
| 1.0 -HUMOR |
| 1.75 -SCARES |
| 2.5 -TENSION |
Fictional movies based on supposedly true hauntings are a tricky proposition. If you go too far into theatrics, the story loses its verisimilitude and winds up corny, like The Amityville Horror. If you don't have enough flourish, the result is vaguely uninteresting, like Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive. Then there's always the risk of turning out an Amityville II-class exploitation.
Sightings: Heartland Ghost is a little on the restrained side of things. While it's not entirely untouched by Hollywood, Heartland tries to keep things low-key. Until it steps firmly into cliché with its backstory, the film is a fairly ordinary TV ghost movie, albeit one that's better-acted than most. Perhaps part of the trouble I'm having with this is that the Sightings documentary on which this is based ("The Heartland Haunting") is actually scarier than the movie made from it. Worth a look for the diehard fan of haunted houses.
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