Fantasy Meets Reality In Armenian Haunting
“Based on a true story” is a headline that makes must of us roll our eyes whenever it pops up in a horror movie trailer, but Armenian Haunting is a scare of a different sort. Though it’s a fictional ghost story at its heart, it uses a real horrific tragedy as its foundation: the Armenian Genocide. It sees release today thanks to Reel Nightmare Films. An Armenian-American journalist turns into an unwilling ghost hunter while researching the sudden deaths in her family and their connection to a paranormal mystery. The film was written and directed by Art Arutyunyan, who had a personal motivation in its creation: “I was inspired by my father, who’s a passionate Armenian and who has been telling me stories about the Genocide since I was a child. I believe that the subject of the Armenian Genocide needs to be covered in a variety of genres: dramas, horror, series, animation and others; so we chose the paranormal horror genre for our film. [The Armenian Genocide] is a