Middle America's Worldview

I had picked up two movies yesterday since I was off today. I rented Curious George for the kids and A America Haunting for myself. I knew I would be watching it alone when the rest of the crew went to bed.

First, I would say Curious George was a cute movie, as expected.

Second, the scary movie A America Haunting was not as I expected. The back of the movie stated it was based off a true story. The setting is back before the Civil War where a family is haunted by a spirit that actually killed a family member. It also stated the source of the curse. Well, nearly the whole movie was indeed intense. Supposedly this family committed usury over some land. The lady that had owned the land put a curse on the family. This led to the Bale Witch curse, ect. ect.

The story was written by a local teacher that witnessed the events that occured to the family.

Anyway, why I say it's a let down is througout the movie, it intense. The girl was persecuted by the entity, and the family could not stop it. When it wasn't attacking the girl, it attacked the dad. (the curse of the bale witch was primarily on those two of the family).

Nearly the whole movie showed what was occuring, then something odd happened at the last 12 minutes of the movie. It did a complete 180 degrees. It insenuated the attacks of the girl was made by the father. Kindof like a incest rape thing going on. The daughter had killed the dad, through meds, for payback.

Totally bizarre turnaround. It never explained all the other witness's view of the girls attacks, the voice everyone heard throughout the movie, ect. Made no freaking sense at all. What a let-down.