Film

The Haunting of Sharon Tate

Name: The Haunting of Sharon Tate
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2019
Cast: Hilary Duff, Jonathan Bennett, Lydia Hearst, Pawel Szajda, Ryan Cargill

Horror
Very dark

A supernatural horror reimagining of Sharon Tate's final days that trades historical tragedy for premonitory hauntings. It's a low-budget genre exercise that treats Tate as a psychic vessel rather than a person—more interested in dread and jump scares than the Manson family murders themselves. For viewers who want horror divorced from true-crime exploitation, though the concept sits uneasily regardless.

TMDb rating

2.2

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