The Haunted

Okay, yes, I've been drinking, but when I looked at the preview, I wasn't. This movie held promise, but my interest faded over time as this movie dragged along. It had some hair raising moments, sure...but at the horrible, HORRIBLE end, it made absolutely NO sense. I'm still mad as I write this that the end was so out there, SO screwed up that I have trouble putting it into words. Sure, it has the words THE HAUNTED in the movie and the picture has a woman's face half normal and half skull, that sort of sold me, sure, but it's just to lure you into a 75 minute trap that will leave you wondering what you could have done with that time. It's a stinker, folks. Plain and simple. Don't waste your time. I didn't understand the ending and I doubt you will too. Peace.

I can't watch this kind of cheap movie, the camera is shaking, not always in focus. Terrible!

The movie is slow, very very slow, and the ending really doesn't make any sense. Maybe if they had added a few clues throughout the film, or atleast explained more in the last moments it would have been a tiny bit better. It feels like they made the whole movie, then someone had an idea for a cool ending and they just threw it in there.

Why is it so difficult for filmmakers to tell a proper story anymore? Whilst there are some very atmospheric moments in this, the storyline is very basic, and the supposed twist at the end just had me scratching my head. Having read an explanation of the ending, that just makes the rest of the film make even less sense.

Also shaky cam really detracts from the film a lot too... Had promise, but it's a no from me.

When I sat down to watch the 2018 horror movie "The Haunted" from writer and director David Holroyd, I must admit that I had expected just a bit more than what this movie actually turned out to be.

For a horror movie, then "The Haunted" was anything but haunted. In fact, it was actually a rather stale and mundane movie, with very little of any worth happening throughout the course of the 1 hour and 15 minutes that the movie trotted on for. There was a single scene that made me jump, but aside from that then the movie was boring and slow-paced.

The storyline was simple and easy to follow, I will give the movie that much. But it was perhaps just a bit too simplistic, because there was next to nothing happening throughout the entire movie. Essentially, you just watch Emily (played by Sophie Stevens) pace and run through the house, mostly only accompanied with the light from her mobile phone and some dubious and questionable camerawork being done while trailing her.

There are very few actors and actresses in the movie, which means that there was a bigger pressure resting on the performers to deliver spot on performances to make the movie work. So did they? Well, not really. Now, I am not saying that the acting was bad, but the performers just had absolutely nothing to work with in terms of a proper script, storyline and dialogue.

I managed to sit through the entire ordeal that is "The Haunted", hoping that the movie would be a slow starter and eventually pick up its pace and come up with a more captivating and spooky story. Such a thing never happened.

There is little or no reason for why you should sit down to watch this 2018 horror movie, because it is just simply too mundane and boring. My rating of "The Haunted" is a mere three out of ten stars. This is definitely not a movie that I will be watching a second time.