Movie Details
| Title: | Haunters | |
| Director: | Jon Schnitzer | |
| Year: | 2017 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.28.17 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.28.17 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2017 My last day at the fest starts with this documentary about haunted houses, particularly with McKamey Manor and the "extreme" haunts that basically torture you. I liked this doc but found that it covered a lot of stuff (maybe too much stuff) to remain focused. Compared to a previous fest entry called The American Scream, this seemed like less of a story being told and more of a shallow skip along several much larger topics. Justin called it right when he said it would make a better miniseries because the film basically focuses on two houses and all the other ones that are mentioned or appear very quickly kind of get left behind. I'd love to see an hour on McKamey Manor and Blackout and all the more extreme stuff then a separate hour on the high budget theme park events like Knott's Scary farm and Universal's Horror Nights, maybe an hour on the history and evangelical origins of the haunts themselves through Campus Life and Jaycees, then maybe a final hour on the homebrew stuff like The American Scream and Nightmare on Loganberry. Having everything stuffed into 90 minutes was a bit much. |
