Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (October 19, 2018 - March 12, 2019) http://tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook41.blogspot.com/

Photo by JR Dalisay / April 21, 2017

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Haunted

Watched all six episodes of the U.S.A.'s Haunted  (2018). Every episode is narrated by the actual person with first-hand experience (2013). 

Episode 1 ("In the Pines") is narrated by Hannah, who moves in with her boyfriend, in a remote cabin in the woods. They discover a false wall that covers a torture chamber. Its original owner apparently used to take women there to "feed the house" with blood and kill them. 

Episode 2 ("Haunted by Henry") is narrated by Wyatt, whose family moves into a house formerly owned by mining king Henry Croft in British Colombia. Croft's spirit continues to live in the house, smoking cigars and sitting in a rocking chair. He is, however, hostile toward the new tenants. Wyatt does research and discovers that the house's previous tenant must have also been haunted and eventually committed suicide.

In Episode 3 ("Gift of Evil"), Emily is attacked by a spirit that resides in an old music box. She takes the box to a medium, who sees that the music box and the locket within were owned by a girl who was murdered by two men and thrown in the river.

Brandy narrates the events in Episode 4 ("The Witch Behind the Wall"). When her mother can finally afford to rent a house, they end up in one whose adjoining residence belongs to a witch. The witch build a dollhouse with dolls corresponding to Emily's family members, and performs hexing rituals to drive them away.

In Episode 5 ("Demon Cat"), young Alicia and her family move from a mobile home into a house in Garden Grove, California. A demon cat violently attacks the family members, especially Alicia, who develops typhoid fever and is hospitalized. A shamanic practitioner is called in to perform a cleansing ritual on the house.

Half-Mexican Christian tells of how, in the final episode ("Sins of the Father"), his father and he are, one after the other, diabolically possessed in Oregon and undergo destructive fugues..  

The episodes are scary in that they involve people getting seriously hurt and dying. Most of the scenes, of course, could have been exaggerated for cinematic purposes, such as the appearance of monsters, persons levitating, and even a python emerging from a protagonist's mouth. In the end, one questions how and why the series must manage to be more frightening than horror movies.

Very entertaining, but a strain on one's suspension of disbelief.


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