Bentley Little is at his scary best in The Haunted, a tale that begins calmly enough when the Perry family—Julian, Claire and their two children—moves into an old Victorian house in the upscale New Mexico town of Jardine. But they soon find their neighbors to be strange and standoffish. More unsettling is a sudden onslaught of bizarre nightmares and ghostly visions. When 10-year-old James is compelled to eat dirt as he digs up animal remains in the yard…when teenaged Megan is given titillating commands from an obscene presence…when a sickening odor emanates from a dark corner in the basement—that is when Julian decides to protect his family in a manner that will leave even hardcore horror fans chilled to the bone….