Cast: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy and Rachel Hurd-Wood
Director: Courtney Solomon
Studio Synopsis: Based on true events validated by the State of
Tennessee as the only case in U.S. history where a spirit or entity caused the death of a human being. Between the years 1818-1820, the Bell Family of Red River, Tennessee was visited by an unknown presence that haunted the family and eventually ended up causing the death of one its members. Starting with small sounds around the farm, and the sighting of a strange creature with piercing yellow eyes, the sounds escalated into full brutal contact with certain family members, causing psychological and physical torment. The attacks grew in strength, with the spirit slapping, pulling, dragging, and beating the Bell’s youngest daughter, Betsy. The Bells searched for rational explanations and ways to rid their house of this entity, but to no avail as the spirit began to communicate with them through sounds, and eventually multiple voices that sounded like the wind. Fearing that the haunting was caused by a local woman—branded a witch—who had put a curse upon the family as a result of a land dispute, the Bells tried desperately to find ways of getting rid of the woman’s curse, yet the attacks and disturbances only escalated. It was not until a personal journal of the matriarch
of the Bell family, Lucy, was inadvertently discovered—along with Betsy’s doll—generations later in the attic of one of their descendants that the horrifying and shocking answer to what caused the haunting would finally be unveiled…along with the realization that the horror was still being visited on the family heirs.
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 90 minutes
Official Web site: http://www.anamericanhauntingonline.com/
Trailer: http://www.anamericanhauntingonline.com/

Reviews:
Local 10 (1 1/2 out of 4 stars)
New Times Broward-Palm Beach
The Sun-Sentinel (2 1/2 out of 4 stars)