The Haunting of Barney Palmer
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
| 28 March 1987 (USA)
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The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inherited the Scholar family curse; a suite of 80s-era effects ramp up the supernatural suspense. The film was a co-production between PBS (United States) and Wellington's Gibson Group, which resulted in Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Network) being cast. It was written by Margaret Mahy, based on her Carnegie Award-winning novel The Haunting, and an early fruitful collaboration between her and director Yvonne Mackay.

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Diagonaldi

Very well executed

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Lumsdal

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

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Beystiman

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

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Myron Clemons

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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