''The Bell Witch Haunting'' is a 2013

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based on the story of the

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that haunts a modern American family. The film was preceded by others based on the same plot, ''Bell Witch Haunting'' (2004), ''

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'' (2005) and '' Bell Witch: The Movie'' (2007).

Plot

In Tennessee, the Robertson County Sheriff’s Department releases a footage found on the cell phones and video cameras of the dead Sawyer family. What was first thought to be a murder-suicide is now believed to be the return of a centuries-old supernatural sinister force.

Reception

Rob Getz from Horrornews.net noted that "though utilizing the oddly tropical January climate in Tennessee... for a few pivotal witchy woodland shenanigans, much of the film takes place within the walls of the Sawyer home, owing a greater debt to the “

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” franchise". Getz added that the film is "slapping elements of "

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", " Darkness Falls" and countless others into the wildly uneven casserole" and that "watching this Amtrak jump the rails is never short of interesting".

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* Films about witchcraft 2013 horror films 2013 films Found footage films American supernatural horror films The Asylum films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films {{2010s-horror-film-stub