There is nothing good here in 'A Haunting at the Rectory', just amateur hour all round. 'A Haunting at the Rectory' is really quite abominable, with so many huge flaws and doesn't do anything with any potential it had. It is sadly however yet another film seen recently, hence some reiteration because the exact same strengths and flaws present in those films are here, that to me was incredibly disappointing considering its potential which it doesn't do anywhere near enough with. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there (though there are decent to good ones as well), made me though apprehensive. Was drawn into seeing 'A Haunting at the Rectory', with a cool poster/cover, an attention-grabbing tagline, a somewhat intriguing if very derivative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for the genre it fits under. Perhaps it would appeal to "drama"- or even "crime"-lovers, but to label it as "mystery" is highly misleading to say the least. Basically, the whole thing is poorly pieced together and a bit messy. I didn't get what the ghost drivel, that was randomly shoved into a movie of entirely different genre, had to do with anything or what connection it was supposed to have to the story. This movies is about a cheating wife, not about paranormal activity. I really don't understand the paranormal connection at all. The description: "A Reverend and his wife discover their new home has a deadly secret." O.K., what "deadly secret"? Unless I missed something, this "secret" was never revealed. The paranormal events were so few, so exaggerated, discorded and random that it'd make you think that, perhaps, they were edited into this movie from another movie by mistake. The movie didn't seem to know where it wants to go or what it wants to do with itself. The events were unrealistic and the characters' response to them illogical. The actors seemed wrong for their respective roles. It didn't look or feel like 1930 at all (I've seen documentaries about the 30s). The story focuses on the Reverend's wife and the handyman's affair almost exclusively so much that the supposed "paranormal" events look totally out of place. I thought this movie was supposed to be about a haunted place, but it is, in fact, about infidelity.
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