The Haunted Airman

Are you going to stand for what you thought is risght? Is that worth fighting for? Even though nobody believes in you?

The Haunted Airman is written and directed by a british man Chris Durlacher. The movie is originally came from a pychological thriller novel of Dennis Wheatley entitled "The Haunting of Toby Jugg". It was a 1948 novel and Mr. Wheatley is known to his themes osf satanic and madness possessoin.

The movie was produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London. Actually, it was a TV movie previously aired last October 31,2006 under the same network. I honestly watched the movie in youtube, it was quite hard because the movie is divided into eight parts.

Throughout the movie, the Huanted Airman is a very disturbing, creative and satisfying chiling ghost story. The movie is all about the strange tale of a troubled young man named Toby Jugg portrayed by Robert Pattinson. Toby Jugg is british flight leutenat who came back from war disabled. Jugg was confined to a remote mansion in Wales to recuperate. With the help of the kind and patient Sister Sally Grunt played by Melissa Lloyd, Jugg find his way to heal. But Jugg didn't feel well in his first day at the mansion. He was suffering from terrible nightmares and vision of a man smiling at him and he was seeing a dozens of spiders. Jugg told this bizzare things to Sister Grunt but the lady refused to believe him. Afraid the Jugg is loosing his mind, Sister Grunt called Dr. Hal Burns, a psychiatrist played by Julian Sands. By then the doctor always meet Jugg for consultation. Days later, Jugg suspected the myterious actions of his psychiatrist instead of making him better and believe on what his saying and help him recover, Dr. Burns on the other hand believe that Jugg is insane. Now, Jugg's only hope is Julia played by Rachael Stirling, his beautiful aunt and the only person he can trust (he thought so). But like the doctor, Julia unfaithfully believe that Jugg is under abnormal situation. This made Jugg realize that Julia is suspicious and led to doubt her intentions.

The ending was very shocking, it surprised me. Toby killed Julia by cutting her throat, it was very unexpected because in the movie Toby love Julia very much.

The movie will leave you a hanging question. Personally I didn't understand why he killed Julia. It leave me open-mouthed. The Haunted Airman is a persuasive type of movie. It can convince you that Toby Jugg is really insane because there were scenes that he really looks like a mad man. on the other hand you can feel sympathy and pity to Jugg. You can relate your life to him. For example, when your alone and when someone's gonna full you down so you can't succed, it's very disgusting.

I commended that british actor Robert Pattinson played the weird airman with a perfect combination of youthful terror and weary. I like the way he acted as Toby Jugg, he fits to the character and when you watched him in the movie its very reralistic just like in "Twilight" where he played the gorgeous vampire Edward Cullen.

Director Chris Durlacher did a good job of remake. I do really like the sound effects, it gives you goose bumps. The choice of his place in Wales is very enchanting. Very nysterious that fits to the movies tension. The best part of the movie is the "bathtub scene" when you can see Robert Pattinson naked, it made me giggle (oh my gosh!). The body exposure of Robert made me faint. In a rate of ten, I'll give this movie a flat eight.

I was surprised that the British Broadcasting Corporation had banned the Haunted Airman in youtube due to illegal activities. I found out that some uploaders uploads cliffs without permission. Now the Haunted Airman is no longer available in youtube.

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