This movie scared the living hell out of me. When the Catholic Church is no help, they reach out to noted demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren ( Stephen Markle and Diane Baker), who would later be the focal point of James Wan’s The Conjuring series. Janet hears knocks in the walls and whispering when she is alone in the house, a chandelier falls and almost kills one of the children and both Jack and Janet experience the physical sensation of a presence touching them. A few years later, the occurrences start up again, but this time, they are impossible to ignore. But eventually, that calms down and the family is able to enjoy life in their new home. They experience a few strange occurrences surrounding the move – tools and other items suddenly going missing, hearing family members call out for one another, only to realize that the person speaking was nowhere nearby. In the late 1970s, they move into a duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania with Jack, Janet and their children occupying one side, and Jack’s elderly parents occupying the other. The movie tells the purportedly true story of Jack and Janet Smurl and their family.
Our parents were out and we had been left to our own devices, so what better way to spend a Friday night than by watching a movie that most certainly would have been off limits if the parents had known anything about it? We decided to ditch our plans of watching TGIF reruns and watch this instead.
I had a friend over and we were eating pizza when we saw a commercial for the movie, which announced that it would be starting in just a few minutes. That film was The Haunted – a made for TV movie about a family who suffered the effects of a demonic infestation in their house. When I was nine years old, I saw a movie on television that would have an unpredictably lasting effect on my life.
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