Follow TV Tropes

Following

YMMV / A Haunting

Go To

  • Heartwarming Moments: Plenty of episodes end with the families triumphant over what has antagonized them.
    • Season 7 episode 2 "The Shadowman" ends with the brothers coming back to the house THIRTY years later after enduring the Shadowman's machinations and finally rid themselves of the harrowing spirit.
    • Season 7 episode 11 "Trapped in Terror". It's already heartwarming enough when the paranormal investigators are able to allow Tiffany, the trapped little girl killed by an enraged gunman, to pass on. However, it gets even more heartwarming when the gunman himself is confronted by the investigators and is not antagonized, but forgiven. This previously terrifying spirit goes from scowling to looking like a kicked puppy as he lays his shotgun down and moves on.
  • Narm: "Spellbound" has a few unfortunately hilarious images, though some may disagree and find them Nightmare Fuel instead. One of them is a chair that rushes at a boy, cackling at him. As if it is saying; "I AM A CHAIR! I LAUGH AT YOUR NOTIONS OF EARTHLY LOGIC!! HAHA! HAHA! HAHAHA!"
    • Also, the part where Sandra's son reacts dramatically to the painting of Pan — a pretty well-known pagan deity — in his old bedroom, repeatedly calling it a painting of the Devil.
    • "Demon Child" had this due to the kid actor's very poor acting at being possessed or being controlled by Man, instead coming off as insanely bratty. Especially this line when the parents tell the kid if he's hungry:
      'I'M NOT HUNGRY! I WANT TO PLAY WITH MAN!!'
    • "The Haunting of Summerwind" definitely qualifies, albeit the circumstances are true. Ginger's dad buying up the house after she left for her brother is certainly entertaining, but the icing on the cake is Ginger hypnotizing her brother and her dad.
  • Nightmare Retardant: Some of the show's demons and ghosts fall victim to this due to poor CGI effects and makeup/costumes.
  • Tear Jerker: Oh yes, this show has some of these moments.
    • In some cases, rather than becoming closer as a result of their battle with the supernatural, the family is broken by it, leaving them with emotional and mental scarring. In a few cases, they completely lose their religious faith as well — leaving them with not even that to fall back on.
    • The collapse of the relationship between the couple in "The Haunting of Summerwind". The two had such a strong relationship, which had overcome the challenges of a second marriage, only for it to completely collapse after their move into the Summerwind house. The husband is driven mad, becoming violently abusive to where he kills his stepdaughters' pet raccoon in front of them for no reason. Worse was that after the mother and daughters moved out, they never saw each other again. (In reality, he ended up in a mental hospital.)
      • Special points to the eldest daughter revealing that during the rough time she had thoughts of suicide.
    • Despite the Narmness of the episode, "Demon Child" had a few: The first one was with the mother trying to confront her son's erratic behavior due to Man's influence on him. And then out of freakin' nowhere, the kid just randomly shouts to her that he doesn't need her anymore because Man says so.
      • Really reaches it's apex after the Nightmare Fuel encounter with Man, the kid and his mom confront each other after her freak out, and the lady's narration puts that her son's expression was basically saying "That wasn't me..".
    • You can't help but feel sorry for the homeless Hindi woman who was murdered for falling asleep in a wrong part of town. As a ghost she followed a woman home after seeing said woman stand up to a guard to defend a child. All the homeless ghost wanted was to be part of the family, but she unintentionally terrified and tormented them.. At least there's a happy ending.

Top