 to today's edition of Frank Fleer Forgotten. But to start things off, what are we drinking? The Resonator. Pilsner with Polaris hops. For the next few weeks we're going to be talking about some forgotten made for TV horror movies. Probably not going to mention any of the Stephen King ones because everyone knows those. So these are ones that may have flown under your radar. Today we are starting off with 1991's The Haunted. It is directed by Robert Mandell and he's mostly done TV things but he did direct the pilot episode of The X-Files. Sally Kirkland is in this. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for this role in this movie. Jeffrey DeMond is in this and he's in Walking Dead as everybody I think knows and he was also in Christmas Evil. Y'all gets laid big time in that. He gets laid big time in this movie too so keep watching to see where that happens. The movie starts off with the Smurro family of course moving into a new house. That's how most of these haunting movies start. Jack's parents are going to live in one side and then the rest of the family is going to live on the other side. There's some painting to be done because there's these big stains on the walls. Turns out when they paint over these stains they don't go away. They keep kind of coming through the paint. The dad Jack is doing some plumbing work and I don't know why he needs a hammer for plumbing but the hammer goes missing and that's the first kind of like odd thing that happens and there's several to follow. Gathering for breakfast the dad's a little flustered. Of course the dad's always rushing and flustered in these movies. Yeah he has to go to work. Mummy daddy the toaster's on fire. It up in flames and look wasn't even plugged in. Look mom wasn't even plugged in. Janet is doing laundry and she hears someone calling her name. Janet her mother-in-law is home next door so she goes over there and the mom's all pissed off looking. She heard Janet and Jack apparently fighting and cursing and using language that she's never heard before but he wasn't even home they weren't fighting. Janet has made some friends in the community and she goes bowling with them. Worst bowling ever seen in my life and that's coming for me. I fucking suck myself. I probably look just like her no form gutter ball central. She's telling her friends about all this weird stuff that's happening and of course they don't really believe her. And her husband doesn't believe her either. She finally sees one day an apparition goes across the room and through the wall to the other side where the parents live and the mom is sitting there and she's actually seen this apparition go by too. I'm very very scared. He just fucking sits in that chair all day. Janet goes and gets all these books and does some research. The house and the rest of the surrounding community was built over like these mine shafts in the 1930s. There was a cave-in I guess a bunch of people died. Janet wakes up, feel there's something touching me and he actually does touch it and he knows right away that she's been telling the truth. Stop it you. Stop right now. So yelling at the ghost. Reach out to their local parish to the priest. Invite him over for dinner to try and exercise the house. Exercise. Completely blows him off. He's like well there's wonderful things with marriage counseling that we're doing. You know we have wonderful programs and no there's nothing wrong with our marriage. There's something wrong with the house. Well it would still help. I think you should come down and he does a small half-assed bullshit blessing you. You didn't do anything. He just went upstairs and got all sick. She goes to the university. The Warrens, Ed and Lorraine Warner doing like a lecture. She asks for their help and they end up coming down. You drink often? I like to enjoy a beer review once in a while. If that was us you'd have quite heavily all the time. These guys are a couple of fucking drunks. Oh wait no! So they start kind of doing a bit of a seance type thing. A bit of a blessing in their master bedroom. The drawers and everything start coming out and TV turns on. Gets all bright. So the Warrens kind of leave but they also tell them that you know this might not be over. Sure enough one night when Jack is watching like the game on TV thrown across the room all of a sudden he starts seeing these like apparitions of like a woman on top of him and like the woman's changing into like this ugly man like a sick halloween wing. Some cheap little bo peep wing. While they're camping they actually see an apparition that appears. The ghost need to get out and get some fresh air They want to go camping. They get bored you know. I want to come too. The neighborhood is watching their house because their house is like going apeshit. There's something inside screaming bloody murder and they think somebody's getting killed inside. So when they get back the neighbors like pounce on them right away. They're like oh you guys are okay. We thought somebody was getting killed at your house. They told them that the cops were actually down at the house. They went inside to look around and there's nothing. There's nobody inside. So they go to the media and plead their case to try and garner some more support. Their house is basically under siege by reporters and people coming around throwing bricks through windows and shit. The old man all gets his shotgun out. You better get your gun. So Jack gets his gun. The church sends a priest to come and actually investigate themselves. Well a lot of investigating he does he just sits there for two days. He just sits on the couch. Then he just leaves. She's all pleading her case. Please stay please. I've done all I can do. You didn't do anything. You just sat there for two days. The smurls have nowhere else to turn and that's where we're going to end it. So what are they going to do? The reason we're talking about this movie I think is because for a made for TV haunting movie it's it's pretty good. The fact that it has to be done in a smaller budget not a big blockbuster budget helps the movie because it has to use low budget effects and stuff like that. More practical and kind of left to your own imagination compared to a lot of other haunting movies doesn't get super over the top and ridiculous. It's closer to real stories that you hear about hauntings. This movie is done in kind of a pseudo documentary style brings it to the real world. It makes it real because a lot of times you hear things and then she goes to look and there's nothing there. That's creepy enough. She hears her name being called and there's nobody in the house. Fuck if I heard that I'd be out the door. There's like the splashing in the tub and there's nothing there. It's like again that's relatable. That's relatable. Walls bleeding is it relatable but hearing something it's totally everybody hears things. Yeah another cool thing about this movie too which a lot of haunting movies don't do is that it takes place over a large period of time. It's not like they move in and the shit hits the fan immediately that day or anything. Yeah end with something crazy. Yeah you see the kids grow up like that's how long of a time it takes. Yeah I also like too how the whole community gets involved. You don't normally see in haunting movies. Not at all. Usually the only the family that's in the haunted house believe it right. Yeah in this like the neighborhood starts to believe it too. Sally Kirkland and Jeffrey DeMunn are really good. They kind of really make the movie. You believe it right. Yeah especially Sally Kirkland. It's no wonder she got nominated. She does a great job in this movie. You really like she looks run down all the time from all this shit that's going on. Yeah so if you like haunting movies like Amneville Horror and Entity which we've covered both of those in the past this movie is kind of like both of those kind of combined. Yeah without like a big Hollywood budget which helps actually. Yeah so if you're in the mood for kind of a laid back more down to earth realistic take on a haunting movie definitely check out all the haunted. Exactly and don't forget keep drinking.