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· Year: 1992
· Also known as: Grave Secrets
· Director: John Patterson
· Writers: Gregory Goodell, Ben Williams, Jean Williams, John Bruce Shoemaker
· Cast: Patty Duke, David Selby
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· A TV movie based on the book The Black Hope Horror: The True Story of a Haunting, which was in turn based on reportedly real events. |
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· Based on supposedly real events.
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· Book: Hardcover, The Black Hope Horror· Book: Paperback, The Black Hope Horror |
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Strange events lead several residents of a new housing tract to suspect their houses may be haunted.
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It's not really fair to call a movie about a supposedly real-life haunting clichéd. First of all, it's insensitive to the people who really lived through these events, should they have actually lived through them. Secondly, if films like The Haunted, The Amityville Horror, and Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive are somewhat realistic portrayals of what it is like to live in a haunted house, then they aren't clichéd, they're just accurate representations.
But I'm not here to judge films like Grave Secrets according to how well they portray actual hauntings. I am not qualified, and I hope never to be qualified, to do so. I'm here to judge movies as movies, and Grave Secrets falls short of the others in its genre. Its narrative is weakened somewhat by vacillating character motivations and to a much larger extent by a simple lack of direction. I suspect the movie could be re-edited to change the order of the supernatural manifestations, and by and large it wouldn't make a difference.
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