Synopsis
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just purchased.
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Cast
- Jacki WeaverJanet Morello
- Liana LiberatoSam Richards
- Danielle C. RyanSara Asher
- Harrison GilbertsonEvan Asher
- Brian WimmerAlan Asher
- Ella HarrisAnita Asher
- Sebastian Michael BarrMatthew Morello
- Aline AndradeYoung Woman
- Kasia KowalczykDemon Creature
- Jarrod PhillipsMan
Recommendations
- 60
The New York Times
The shocks are short and sharp, the acting is strongest where it counts, and the director of photography, Adam Marsden, washes everything in a swampy green that makes spooks pop. - 50
Variety
Following on the coattails of “The Conjuring” and “Insidious,” Haunt is a classical haunted-house thriller with perhaps little that’s out of the ordinary for the genre, but occasionally inventive execution. - 40
Village Voice
The frustration here comes from the filmmakers' inability to present characters with dimension, so that we might come to identify with them and their fears. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Respectably crafted but short on invention and serious scares. - 38
Slant Magazine
Mac Carter repeatedly compromises his intuitive, and often elegantly framed, glances at his main characters' teenage blues by too busily going through amateur-night gesticulations of spooking his audience. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Too often, Carter sacrifices characterization for one more flickery effect or carefully composed shot of moody elegance, then overdoes unlighted interiors to an almost absurd degree. - 25
Observer
I’ve had bigger scares from the windows at FAO Schwarz. - 25
New York Post
There is virtually nothing in Mac Carter’s horror flick that deviates from the standard haunted house plot (or, in this case, plod).
