Forget the standard chop-em-up, or the freakish fiends in rubber masks. This film has more creepy moments than most of its genre. Although rounded out nicely with a cast of unfamiliar faces, each has been cast in a part suited to him/her. Each comes across as 100% believable, pushing this true story to the edges of your mind and waiting while your spine begins to chill.
Just knowing that The Bell Witch is a very real legend in Tennessee, tends to propel this story to an eerier-than-eerie place where we know we have to finish the movie, but that doesn't finish the haunting in our minds. This isn't some hoax like the Blair Witch Project, or a Hollywood ghost story like The Others. This is the real deal. This family lived this.
It tends to put a whole new perspective on ghosts and haunted areas. They can't always be tabled and explained away or put in a film vault.
Just knowing that The Bell Witch is a very real legend in Tennessee, tends to propel this story to an eerier-than-eerie place where we know we have to finish the movie, but that doesn't finish the haunting in our minds. This isn't some hoax like the Blair Witch Project, or a Hollywood ghost story like The Others. This is the real deal. This family lived this.
It tends to put a whole new perspective on ghosts and haunted areas. They can't always be tabled and explained away or put in a film vault.