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This movie is titled 'Haunted' starring Aldo Ray, but the description is for the movie 'The Haunted, A True Story' which was a made for TV true story based on the Smurl family, starring Sally Kirkland and Director Robert Mandel. Just wanted to clarify this so people know which movie they are buying. P.S. If anyone has this movie available, please list it.

The Haunted, a True Story, March 06, 2006
Reviewer: A viewer
This movie is titled 'Haunted' starring Aldo Ray, but the description is for the movie 'The Haunted, A True Story' which was a made for TV true story based on the Smurl family, starring Sally Kirkland and Director Robert Mandel.
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The home of Jack and Janet Smurl in West Pittston, PA was the scene of a horrific and terrifying haunting from 1985-1987. They moved into the average duplex in the middle-class town in 1975 after hurricane Agnes flooded much of North-Eastern Pennsylvania. The Smurls took the right side apartment and Jack's parents took the left side. They immediatly began fixing it up for the inside was a mess. But as they tried to repair and remodel, tools mysteriously disappeared and stains re-appeared on the walls after being painted over several times. The next 10 years were happy ones for the Smurl family as they had twins giving them now a total of 4 daughters. But in 1985 things took an unexpected turn into a nightmare world for the Smurls. Jack's mother had a heart attack and rarely left the house and Jack and Janet were struggling financially. The electrical wireing and plumbing had to be repaired constantly and their 2 oldest daughters were going through puberty. It seems the stress in the household triggered something evil to emerge from deep within the house. Janet began hearing voices and whispering, footsteps, doors slamming, pounding on the walls, and fingers touching her at night in bed while Jack was asleep. Since nobody else heard the noises Janet feared she was losing her mind. But Jack's mother was experiencing the same things over on her side of the duplex. Things only got worse when the noises increased and apparations began appearing and floated through the house. Jack's mother witness the ghost in her living room and almost had another heart attack. Janet hired a crew of psychic invesigators who said there were 3 sprirts and a powerful demon in the house. The spirits began terrorizing the entire household as an act of revenge. The demon appeared to Jack one night as a hidious woman with red eyes and rotted teeth. We he asked who she was, she grabbed him and threw him across the living room. Before he could get up the incredibally strong woman was on top of him trying to rape him. Shouting for her to get off, Jack says it's head turned into a pig's head before disappearing. Several exorcisms did no good and only made the spirits more angry and vengeful. Janet was levitated 6 feet above her bed and hurled into the wall on the other side of the bedroom. One of her youngest daughters was levitated out of her bedroom and thrown down the stairs. Many more frightening occurences forced the family on camping trips but the spirits would follwing them. When they would return the neighbors would be hysterical saying there was howling, screaming, lights flashing out the windows, huge crashes like a china cabinet falling and sludge hammers against the walls. The couple could not afford to move and went to the press. This caused even more chaos when reporters and curious residents invaded their front yard for several days. Their final attempt to rid their home of evil was an exorcism performed by the Sacred Heart. All hell broke loose but miracously the incidents stopped and the house was quiet from then on. The smell of roses occasionaly filled the house and the Smurls finally felt at peace. But in 1987 they moved into a new house and the same things started all over again. The spirits must have followed them again. Finally, an exorcism ended their ordeal. There have been no futher incidents reported by the family.

One of the finest examples of a psychological haunting to be brought to film, this movie does great justice to the ghost genre. Many movies that are adapted from novels often are not as entertaining and do not have the same depth of storyline. However, THE HAUNTED defies this precedent by giving a chilling onscreen portrayal of the events described by the Smurl family in their biographical novel. Perfect for a Saturday evening at home when you want to give yourself a little scare, this movie is well worth having!

Produced by Nicholas P. Nizich, Michael A. DeGaetano.

The Haunted is a 1979 Horror film directed by Michael A. DeGaetano, starring Aldo Ray, Virginia Mayo, Ann Michelle and written by Michael A. DeGaetano.

I have viewed some pretty bad films and this is definitely one of them. This is one of those movies one should only watch if they are like me and just have to check out every film in the genre despite the warnings of other Horror film heads. It's about a ghost town where the past is coming back to oppress the small community. An indigenous American woman was burnt for witchcraft and comes back for retaliation. Also Known As: Haunted (USA) (video title), The Glass Cage. Company: Northgate Communications.

THIS IS THE GREATEST FILM EVER CAN I KNOW IF THIS WILL EVER BE REALESED ON DVD,DVD,DVD,DVD IF SO I WOULD LIKE A COPY