Okay, here is where a lesser critic might have inserted one of those tiresome "Based on a True Story"/"Inspired By Actual Events" PG-13 rated Hollywood spook shows that P.T. Barnum their way into the strip-mall multiplexes every September or October. You've probably seen a few of them, but simply forgotten the experience: A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, AN AMERICAN HAUNTING, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, THE POSSESSION (or was it called THE POSSESSED? I actually forget), THE APPARITION, THE RITE, etc. etc. I can't imagine who was actually convinced of the paranormal by any of these, except the sort of mouth-breathers who actually believe that reality-TV is true and unscripted. Especially the Discovery Channel and Travel Channel embarrassments where guys in black T-shirts with I/F cameras lurk around abandoned buildings and pretend to be terrorized by `orbs.' 
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
31 Days of Halloween 2013: The Life After Death Project
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Okay, here is where a lesser critic might have inserted one of those tiresome "Based on a True Story"/"Inspired By Actual Events" PG-13 rated Hollywood spook shows that P.T. Barnum their way into the strip-mall multiplexes every September or October. You've probably seen a few of them, but simply forgotten the experience: A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, AN AMERICAN HAUNTING, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, THE POSSESSION (or was it called THE POSSESSED? I actually forget), THE APPARITION, THE RITE, etc. etc. I can't imagine who was actually convinced of the paranormal by any of these, except the sort of mouth-breathers who actually believe that reality-TV is true and unscripted. Especially the Discovery Channel and Travel Channel embarrassments where guys in black T-shirts with I/F cameras lurk around abandoned buildings and pretend to be terrorized by `orbs.'
Okay, here is where a lesser critic might have inserted one of those tiresome "Based on a True Story"/"Inspired By Actual Events" PG-13 rated Hollywood spook shows that P.T. Barnum their way into the strip-mall multiplexes every September or October. You've probably seen a few of them, but simply forgotten the experience: A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, AN AMERICAN HAUNTING, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, THE POSSESSION (or was it called THE POSSESSED? I actually forget), THE APPARITION, THE RITE, etc. etc. I can't imagine who was actually convinced of the paranormal by any of these, except the sort of mouth-breathers who actually believe that reality-TV is true and unscripted. Especially the Discovery Channel and Travel Channel embarrassments where guys in black T-shirts with I/F cameras lurk around abandoned buildings and pretend to be terrorized by `orbs.' 
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