The Haunted 1991 Full Movie
The Haunted (1991) is a TV movie drama-horror based on the true story of the Smurl family, who are terrorized by a demon in their West Pittston, Pennsylvania duplex. It follows Jack and Janet Smurl as they endure years of physical and sexual assaults, strange noises, and odors.
The family seeks help from the church and paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren as the entity follows them even after they move. ®
Key details of the film include:
• The Haunting: The Smurl family, including elderly parents, experience malicious activity, including a black mass, a "floating black stain" of evil, and physical attacks from a demon.
• The Struggle: The family tries to keep the haunting
quiet, but it causes significant stress and emotional damage, with the entity attempting to break them apart.
• The Warrens: Renowned paranormal investigators Ed
and Lorraine Warren are brought in to assist, providing a similar dynamic to The Conjuring universe.
• Outcome: The haunting persists for years, with the family eventually moving out, only for the entity to continue following them.
• Cast: The film stars Sally Kirkland (earning a Golden
Globe nomination) and Jeffrey DeMunn as Janet and
Jack Smurl.
The film, based on a book co-written by the Smurls and Robert Curran, is known for being a very direct, intense, and often dark, low-budget dramatization of the alleged events.