A Haunting (TV Series) The Calling (2007) User Reviews

One of my favorite episodes

[MoviesRT · 10/10 · 1 August 2015]

I don't know why I liked this one so much, but it has such a touching story behind it that tears at my heart.

It's not overly scary or preoccupied with solving the mysteries of the ghosts this lady sees. It seem to be more about the difficulty of being a person with these gifts.

The woman is very likable and so is her husband who doesn't at first know any of her abilities. She was scared he would react like her father did, so she tries to keep her "calling" a secret, yet she can't keep it secret after a while because the spirits seem to flock to her for answers.

There were tender moments when she was young and had to hide her gifts lest her father get upset. Seeing her dead great grandfather was interesting as well since he may have saved her life.

I just found this episode appealing because it deals more with the psychic's problems than with getting rid of ghosts.

As someone else stated, they end up moving instead of resolving the problems that the ghosts want solved, so it leaves things up in the air.

In fact, in the very end you see that one of the ghosts followed her to their new home.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Not one of the better episodes in this series...

[Doylenf · 5/10 · 1 November 2009]

THE CALLING just seems to follow the routine of most of these stories, whereby a couple is determined to buy a new place to live and the woman begins to feel the strange atmosphere closing in on her.

The story starts when the woman is a young girl and apparently has the ability to see and converse with the dead, something her father tries to stop when he becomes aware of this ability. He doesn't believe her. At this point in the story, she occasionally chats with her dead grandfather.

The years pass and as an adult the woman still has this "gift," which causes a divorce. When she remarries, she holds the truth from her new husband as strange things begin happening again in the new house. She awakes one morning with bite marks on her leg which she and her husband perceive as coming from a young child.

Eventually, things get so out of hand that by the end of the tale they're moving out and leaving the spirits behind.