True Haunting Review: In this paranormal documentary-style series, we see two spine-tingling tales of the supernatural that left many in its wake traumatised.
True Haunting Netflix Directors
Neil Rawles, Luke Watson
The series has 5 episodes telling 2 different stories. Each episode has a runtime of approximately 30 minutes.
True Haunting Review
In True Haunting, we see two different stories told over 5 different episodes that will pique your interest as things slowly unfold and the paranoia increasingly gets more and more intense. The series is enjoyable to a certain degree and the production quality makes it such that you will be left mesmerised.. Although the sketicism does push through more often than not, as it’s difficult to believe what is being thrown at you, Wan’s stylish storytelling is enough to keep us invested to at least hold on till the end.
The series joins the long list of shows that claim to tell us true stories of hauntings that people have experienced and throwing anything and everything to make us question whether ghosts and spirits exist. Although I am not amused by most of these shows, this one at least looks great and holds on to the tension well. The episodes, moreover, are short and we skip through situations quickly enough for the absurdity to not linger for too long.
The series will feel a bit confusion, though – is this a docuseries or is it fictional? The re-enactments become the biggest part of the series, which is odd because doesn’t the entire thing hinge on us believing in the grim retelling of the people involved? However, bigger focus is put on the re-enactments that make up for a huge portion of the series. It’s difficult, moreover, to trust whatever is being told to us because, honestly, what’s the proof? Viewers will anyway doubt the validity of the situations but moreso when there is simply no evidence to corraborate what happened, just some people asking us to believe them.
But, then again, that’s the entire point of shows like these. They are fun and amusing, tense, even, but is hardly anything more than that. True Haunting at least looks fantastic and the performances are great as well. What it falters on is doing something with the tension after it’s built up as things just end and you are told to believe these unknown people and their tall tales of torture trees and whatnot!
Despite the tension at some points, True Hauntings isn’t scary either. I think the problem is that you don’t believe what is being told to you is what ultimately makes this unmemorable. It’s more or less like every other ghost story shows claiming to bring us the truth right from the horse’s mouth. However, audience’s don’t believe it regardless of how many times the series pushes the “truth” down our throats. Is it campy? Sure. But it’s hardly anything beyond that.
Final Thoughts
Supernatural fans might enjoy True Hauntings as a fun, forgettable and campy spookfest with friends. It’s production quality is its biggest winner but that’s about it. It’s difficult to believe in as it doesn’t have anything worth believing but, as I said, it’s fun and forgettable.
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