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Movie Info

The 1979 class of Porter Gaud School in Charleston, S.C., graduated 49 boys. Within the last 35 years, six of them have committed suicide. When Paige Goldberg Tolmach gets word that another former student from her beloved high school has killed himself, she decides to take a deep dive into her past to uncover the surprising truth and finally release the ghosts that haunt her hometown to this day.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Paige Goldberg Tolmach
Producer:

Sarah Gibson, Paige Goldberg Tolmach
Writer:

Mark Monroe
Release Date (Theaters):

May 11, 2018 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Jul 5, 2018
Runtime:

1h 12m
Production Co:

Matt Tolmach Productions, Kennedy/Marshall

Cast & Crew

Paige Goldberg Tolmach
Director

Mark Monroe
Writer

Sarah Gibson
Producer

Paige Goldberg Tolmach
Producer

Adam Dubrowa
Cinematographer

Michael Parry
Cinematographer

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Critic Reviews for What Haunts Us

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (12)

This gripping documentary, flaws and all, is not just an expos of unimaginable wrongdoing-it's a testament to the power, and necessity, of vocally confronting long-buried sins.

May 14, 2018 | Full Review…

Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
Tolmach uncloaks an enabling culture.

May 11, 2018 | Full Review…

Daphne Howland
Village Voice
Absolutely the stuff of nightmares...will linger far longer in its audience's minds than most films about imagined terrors.

May 9, 2018 | Full Review…

Kimber Myers
Los Angeles Times
An imperfect but moving argument that communities share blame for the abuse they fail to stop.

November 20, 2017 | Full Review…

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
A primer really on the subject of child molestation brought forth out of one story among countless stories that have occurred far too often and with far too consequences.

September 27, 2020 | Rating: 3.0/4.0 | Full Review…

Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
In a sense, this film marks the beginnings of a #MeUs movement: What should you have reported then and now?

December 5, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

James Wegg
JWR
What Haunts Us has a power that lasts far after one views the film.

November 1, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Tony Macklin
tonymacklin.net
... the real point of What Haunts Us is not so much that a terrible man did terrible things, but that so many others who probably think of themselves as good people allowed him to do it.

August 1, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Sarah Boslaugh
TheArtsStl
It's Tolmach's first film and a more assured hand might have given it more impact, but it's a brave effort and an important contribution to this area of cinema.

July 27, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
a disturbing and deeply pertinent documentary for the era of Jerry Sandusky, Harvey Weinstein, and Larry Nassar

July 4, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
That the documentary comes from a place of great pain and shame is undeniable, and that pain is the film's driving force.

May 11, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Mark Dujsik
Mark Reviews Movies
Damning DAMNING account of a school sex abuse scandal that should have closed Porter Gaud Prep's doors forever. But didn't.

May 7, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Movie Nation