Customer Reviews

Haunted: The Complete Series

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I have been waiting for this fantastic series starring Matthew Fox for the last eight years to be released on DVD!!!

Matthew plays Police Officer Frank Taylor who has the perfect job and family until his son is abducted leading to his life, career and marriage destroyed. He becomes a Private Investigator specialising in missing and abducted children cases.

Frank's life is changed forever while trying to aprehend Simon a man linked to several child abductions. A fatal clash leaves Simon dead and Frank in a critical condition. As Doctors try to save his life, Frank has a near death experience in which he sees his missing son. When he regains consciousness, he finds that the dead can communicate with him and help him in his work to solve cases. However Simon and other dead people use his new abilities to intentionally mislead or harm him.

I live in the UK and one of my TV channels Zone Horror has just showed 11 episodes, it was shown on Sky in 2003. However I am hoping that the Complete Series on two DVD's contains the episode not shown, a Christmas episode called It's A Wonderful Afterlife.

I almost passed this one by on a cable marathon due to the generic title. Reminds me a little of the Ghost Whisperer but with a more dark gritty edge to it. Frank is a ex-cop turned detective who lost his child and marriage. While on a case he dies and is then brought back, to the ghosts he's like a human glow stick. All eleven episodes are excellent with great acting, writing and direction. Like other great shows this one was canceled too soon. At least they didn't leave us with a cliff hanger so you won't feel like you were left hanging. Don't let the title fool you this is top notch television. For bargain hunters this is available at Walmart for under 20 bucks.

Bought this series just to take a chance as I am a die hard Matthew Fox fan. I really don't have words for how creative the conception, filming and writing really are. This a series dead before it's time. Great story telling, a few truly spooky moments and some surprise guest stars (Pauly Perette pre NCIS) make it more than worth the price. If Matthew ever decides to come back to TV after LOST, I hope his clout convinces the powers that be to bring this on back.

I saw this show originally in syndication when it was new and had forgotten about it until I saw it online. The story involves a cop chasing after a man who has kidnapped and killed children and may be responsbile for the disappearance of the cop's son. After nearly losing his life in pursuit of the killer he leaves the force and discovers he's developed the ability to see and hear ghosts, including the ghost of the dead child killer. He becomes a private detective, aided by his old partner who's still on the force and his now ex-wife, an assistand DA. Without revealing too much more let's just say nothing is as it seems in the cases or the now dead child killer. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled before the next season and the mysteries of the unanswered questions will remain. This show is somewhere between Ghost Whisperer and Medium with all the attendant thrills, chills, with good stories.

This series was awesome if only it had a season 2, otherwise dont buy it becuase you'll spend hours of watching this just to know they didnt finish the series and realize this is not the complete set and theres more and i dont think they continue making more, which sucks because this a awesome tv show.

...it would definitely be this one. Even in 2002 Matthew Fox was an impressive actor, and although I grew to love Jack Shephard on LOST by the end of the show, I mourn the fact that Frank Taylor only existed for not even a half a season, because he is so much more sympathetic and likeable (than Jack was) from the get-go. I liked all of the episodes, some more than others - I loved the Pilot and "Grievous Angels", and got a kick out of seeing Frank possessed by the ghost of a dead cop in "Noturne." My favorite episode was "Last Call," because I'm a sucker for love stories.

Unlike some of the other reviewers I haven't had a problem with the writing or the Special Effects (although I did snicker a few times, but I do that for a lot of supernatural/ horror shows/films). The only problem I've had is with the acting of the extras, particularly in the episode "Fidelity." It was painful, seeing Matthew Fox's wonderful acting capabilities oposite of that of the guy who played the husband of one of the murdered women found in a hotel. I won't go further into that episode, because I don't want to spoil it, but I didn't think much of that guy...

I would definitely recommend this show for those who are willing to watch it even though it died so prematurely. It deserves the attention!

NOTE: I did notice that the episodes are out of order on the DVDs -- the episode "Abby" was the fourth episode aired, but is on the second disc, and this led to much confusion for myself when I watched "Nexus" or "Blind Witness" (can't remember which one) on the first disc, and the recap at the beginning had a clip of Frank and Marcus talking that happened in "Abby" (I won't elaborate further, because of spoilers). According to the airdates on a website, the episode order should be this:

1) Pilot
2) Grievous Angels
3) Fidelity
4) Abby
5) Blind Witness
6) Nocture
7) A Three Hour Tour
8) Nexus
9) Simon Redux
10) Last Call
11) Seeking Asylum

I don't know why the episodes are out of order on the DVD, but I would recommend watching "Abby" as the fourth episode, then continuing in whatever order you want to follow, just because it makes more sense to do that. How come nobody double checks to make sure mistakes like this are avoided...?

I watch lots of movies, foreign and indies, esp. - I'm not much for TV series - but this one, as others have said is a GEM!!! I'm not a LOST fan, but Matthew Fox is excellent in this

series as is Lynn Collins(the hottest woman on the planet, in my opinion). The acting, dialogue, cinematography - all outstanding. If you like THE SIXTH SENSE, you'll like this.

My son is a LOST fan and as others have said, asked "How did I miss this?" My advice, DON"T MISS IT!

I'm giving this to my Mom for Christmas. I couldn't resist opening it and watching it myself first, to make sure it's a worthy gift lol. It is. My Mom is a huge fan of LOST since I turned her on to it, and she really likes the Ghost Whisperer too, so I think she will enjoy this. I like it, had never seen it before. I only knew about it from a video I seen on you tube, "Campetin LOST IPFS5 Meet The Cast II", only the show was mistakenly named "hunted" so I had a really hard time finding it. Actually I gave up, and then months later I figured out it was called Haunted when I looked at a list of work done by mathew fox. I rated it 4 stars. The reason why I took off a star is because there was no finale or ending episode. It would be nice if they had ended it and given some closure to the series so we could find out what happened to Kevin. Then it would have been worthy of 5 stars.

I caught this show on recent airings. I thought it was decent, but not mainstream enough for big networks so it made it through 12 episodes. So now after 8 years its on DVD, Matthew does a good job as the lead and overall I thought this show had potential, too bad it was cut short.

Another series that really was not done justice. Good acting, good story lines, a good premise. It ended way too soon. Haunted has some good mysteries, some good chilly moments. The actors don't look like they're figuring it out, but have been at it for a while. The writers did a good job. The producers did a good job. The network failed this show. It was a good purchase, I enjoyed the episodes.