I was hopeful at the start but my head was saying pick another movie. I wish I had trusted my instincts. My husband on the other hand walked out within the first 10 minutes. A Haunting In Salem is a boring movie with boring actors. If you want a good horror then this is not the movie to watch. If you are hoping for something similar to The Amityville Horror then you will be sadly disappointed. The movie has some scenes that leave you wondering why it was even there in the first place. Such as when Ms Winston arrives unannounced and puts her head in a pot of boiling water. Not one member of the family is aware of this even happening, no one comes looking for her and all we see is her being dragged out of the kitchen. What was the point. The movie has nothing original in it and seems to rip off some great horror movies in history. The only part that is remotely scary is the very end.

The Downs family move to Salem so that Wayne can start his new job as the town Sheriff.They move in to an old house that has a macabre history, witches were hanged there in the 1600's.There's an urban legend that a family were killed in the same house years earlier.After a while the Downs family discover that there's more to the legend and to the house than the towns people are letting on..So it's half Amityville, and half the Shining, it's nowhere as good as either of those movies, but also it's nowhere as near as bad as what the critics are saying.It's rarely scary, and the film does consist of the lead actor (who looks like a bargain Viggo Mortensen) running around the house trying to get away from all the bad acting and the constant vomiting of his daughter.Obviously she is ill so weird thins happen to her, and then she becomes evil, but it will look like the Sheriff will get the blame, because all the sheriffs who live in that house turn evil.Maybe the Mayor (who looks like a bargain basement Jeffrey Wright) should have changed the locale.So all in all, it's not scary, baseball bat sounds are out of synch, and the village idiot has a stutter.I've seen worse, not many though.

This movie is a flat-out a big time waster. I really did not know what the director of this movie up to while helming it. The scenery starts off on the wrong foot by depicting somewhere not Salem as Salem. There are orange trees in the yard and I wonder if they have any geographical knowledge regarding the growth of oranges. I never knew and would never ever know Salem had actually the Mediterranean climate where you can grow oranges and bananas. Anyway I don't even find it necessary to even blabber things about this movie cause nothing is plausible. Poor acting and poor directing. The plot holes are too deep you can drive a dirt bike through. I would never ever recommend this movie to my worst arch enemy. I don't even know what the director thought with the lead cast of this movie. It is absolutely the worst scary movie ever . 0.1 out of 10.00

Like most of us that frequent sites such as IMDb, you'll find that we all share the love of film.Historically I always liked to give a film the benefit of the doubt,and usually disregard others opinions/reviews of said film until I have seen it for myself at the very least.In regards to this specific film,I can categorically state that this has to be the very worst film I have ever seen to date.Within the first few minutes of the film it became apparent that this was going to be a very tedious 86 wasted minutes of my life, the acting is terrible across the board, and the story itself is so unbearably slow and shallow,without any attention to detail or character background.Not to mention the leading role being cast to a Dobby (House-elf type thing from Harry Potter) doppelganger. PLEASE IF YOU ARE READING THIS - DO NOT WASTE 86 MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE AS I JUST DID.One thing this film has taught me is to perhaps start taking heed of other peoples reviews.A lesson has been learnt today.