A Haunting is fantastic... and fantastically scary. I do not remember when I started watching, but I kept watching until the show was taken off the air in my area in 2009.
The episodes are scarier than the best horror movies. And I do not think I ever saw a bad episode. Also, there was a very obvious concerted effort to cover all the different types of paranormal experiences -- ghosts, demonic possessions, after effects of occult practices, etc.
Production values were great, which certainly helped to make each episode chilling and haunting. Editing was brilliant, and one never felt either cheated or manipulated by the way the story and the eye-witness accounts were put together.
Certainly, hands down, the best thing about the show was the narration.
A Haunting, and a few other shows, spawned a tsunami of paranormal activity programs, but A Haunting is, if not THE best, then one of the best. It set the bar very high, and few shows produced since its first few seasons actually measure up.
The episodes are scarier than the best horror movies. And I do not think I ever saw a bad episode. Also, there was a very obvious concerted effort to cover all the different types of paranormal experiences -- ghosts, demonic possessions, after effects of occult practices, etc.
Production values were great, which certainly helped to make each episode chilling and haunting. Editing was brilliant, and one never felt either cheated or manipulated by the way the story and the eye-witness accounts were put together.
Certainly, hands down, the best thing about the show was the narration.
A Haunting, and a few other shows, spawned a tsunami of paranormal activity programs, but A Haunting is, if not THE best, then one of the best. It set the bar very high, and few shows produced since its first few seasons actually measure up.