Appaloosa (film) Appaloosa (film) Appaloosa is a 2008 American Western film based on the 2005 novel "Appaloosa" by crime writer Robert B. Parker. Directed by Ed Harris and co-written by Harris and Robert Knott, "Appaloosa" stars Harris alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. The film premiered at 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in selected cities on September 19, 2008, then expanded into wide-release on October 3, 2008. The film shares some narrative similarities with the 1959 Western "Warlock", directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn and Richard Widmark. There is also a 1966 Western
Ed and Lorraine Warren based on the Smurl haunting, titled "The Haunted", was released by 20th Century Fox. Written by Robert Curran, Jack Smurl, Janet Smurl, Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren, the film starred Jeffrey DeMunn as Jack Smurl and Sally Kirkland as Janet Smurl. The 2009 film "The Haunting in Connecticut" was loosely based on the 1986 Snedeker haunting investigated by the Warrens. The Warrens' case files serve as the basis for The Conjuring Universe series of horror films. The 2013 film "The Conjuring" was directed by James Wan. Based on a Warren case, it stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed