When I sat down to watch the 2018 horror movie "The Haunted" from writer and director David Holroyd, I must admit that I had expected just a bit more than what this movie actually turned out to be.
For a horror movie, then "The Haunted" was anything but haunted. In fact, it was actually a rather stale and mundane movie, with very little of any worth happening throughout the course of the 1 hour and 15 minutes that the movie trotted on for. There was a single scene that made me jump, but aside from that then the movie was boring and slow-paced.
The storyline was simple and easy to follow, I will give the movie that much. But it was perhaps just a bit too simplistic, because there was next to nothing happening throughout the entire movie. Essentially, you just watch Emily (played by Sophie Stevens) pace and run through the house, mostly only accompanied with the light from her mobile phone and some dubious and questionable camerawork being done while trailing her.
There are very few actors and actresses in the movie, which means that there was a bigger pressure resting on the performers to deliver spot on performances to make the movie work. So did they? Well, not really. Now, I am not saying that the acting was bad, but the performers just had absolutely nothing to work with in terms of a proper script, storyline and dialogue.
I managed to sit through the entire ordeal that is "The Haunted", hoping that the movie would be a slow starter and eventually pick up its pace and come up with a more captivating and spooky story. Such a thing never happened.
There is little or no reason for why you should sit down to watch this 2018 horror movie, because it is just simply too mundane and boring. My rating of "The Haunted" is a mere three out of ten stars. This is definitely not a movie that I will be watching a second time.
