The Bell Witch Haunting (2013)

I never usually review a movie, but I chose to review this one to save anyone else from wasting their time waiting for the good part to start. If you are bored and looking for something mildly entertaining maybe this is for you, as it was in my case. However, as a scary movie fan, this was very disappointing. Most of what was in this movie has been done before in others, far better might I add (made identical to Paranormal Activity). The reactions of the characters made very little sense, for instance: they are more worried about scratching noises and pots and pans than the father and pipes vomiting red bloody goo... When events happened in the movie, there was no follow up, leading to many loose ends. Something major would happen, and come the next scene, it was never mentioned again. This was the biggest problem I had with the film. Also no one seemed concerned that several people were found brutally murdered, all of whom were in contact with this family prior. Things like this made the movie even less believable. All in all this was a decent movie for jump scares, but the plot was underdeveloped and disappointing. I feel the movie would have been far move successful if they had actually done their research on the bell witch and put more effort into the plot than the effects and crappy gore deaths. Also note since this movie is a "found footage" type, there are a lot of jerky camera movements that, at times, make the movie far less enjoyable for some. If you are looking for quality or decent plot this isn't it. But for some mild laughs or scares, this satisfies that. I am not sure why they even base this movie off the bell witch legend.. It is mainly poltergeist/demonic activity and then they occasionally show a lady with messy dark hair and what looks like a store bought Halloween dress. I guess this would be the witch, although I have seen my trick or treaters in scarier and more legitimate attire...

I made this account just to rate this movie 1 star. What a piece of s***. From the abhorrent acting to gigantic plot holes, I wish I would have passed this by. Well the movie begins with the son of the family receiving a video camera for his birthday. It must be a popular hobby in this town because most of these idiots are carting around cameras filming their stupid f****** lives. His friends obviously know how to party though, because a bunch of underage girls take their tops off and run around bare breasted. Who cares if his parents and their creepy uncle are around. After the peep show, the father and uncle exclaim what a great party it is. Cool. Nothing weird about that. The s*** continues with the characters becoming even less believable if you can f****** believe that. Teens are dying all over the place but people are barely talking about it or even taking f****** precautions. Members of the family lose their s*** one by one and run away, only to be carted back to the house by the police despite obviously requiring further f****** help. Eventually the father becomes physically abusive, which everyone in the family is cool with. They decide to take his advice and stay in the house. Soon after the wife calls for a preacher. So the preacher arrives and is ready to go with his speech written on one small piece of paper. There is just so much wrong with this movie. Anyone that had anything to do with it should be f****** ashamed. The days are numbered, although with "Day 21th"... Day 21TH?!?!? That is actually in the f****** film. Day 21th. Day 22th. Who the f*** edited this piece of s***. 0 stars.

This is not a good movie, but if you like your movies so bad they're almost good, it's a fun watch to see just how ridiculous it gets. It'd probably go well with a drinking game. Starts off okay, but the plot is weak weak weak. Bodies drop, and people ignore the super obvious haunting stuff and just sort of stick around and ignore all the murders, big obvious monstrous stuff on their video footage, the fact everyone is going nuts, etc. The haunting itself, it's source, is barely touched upon, and all the realism and subtlety that makes a lot of these found footage films work simply doesn't exist here.Once you get past looking for a good film though, you can have fun watching it though. The same lone cop, Bungalon, keeps finding all the bodies. (The fact the spelling of his name makes me think "Bungle On" really fits). The haunting is far more Ghost Shark then it is Paranormal Activity or Blair Witch, the FX often ridiculous, whispering voices super obvious, a ludicrous amount of 911 calls, bodies, etc. The over the top antics of the climax made me laugh out loud.

Being a Robertson County resident, knowing the real stories of the Bell witch this movie SUCKED!! When you grow up right down the road from Adams TN you hear all the stories and it would be nice to actually see a movie about the Bell Witch that was actually about the Bell witch!! Plus how are you going to have a movie set in TN and have the date as Jan and have a pool party??? Did someone not do their research or was this just another screw up and they got the dates wrong like they got the mothers name wrong?? Also it isn't Adams County...it is Robertson County, Adams is a City....and the cops that would have responded would have been county but "Robertson County"...again do a little research 1st!!!! Plain and simple this movie was a waste of time!