The Haunting in Connecticut

The Haunting in Connecticut

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The Haunting in Connecticut

Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan, Elias Koteas, Adriana O'Neil

After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary.

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  • December 22, 2009
    Good acting, lots of scares, strange human behaviour, ectoplasm and the ever popular "based on a true story" thing going for them...not bad.
  • November 4, 2009
    "Some things cannot be explained."

    After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary.

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    The main stylistic homages in "The Haunting in Connecticut" (a tale loosely based on actual events) are pulled from Christophe Gans' "Silent Hill" and just about every American remake of a Japanese horror film over the last 5 years (which, to be fair, are pretty much all the same anyway). We have surreal, yellow-tinged hallucinations revolving around undead, zombie-like corpses, plus a mass of demonic ectoplasm being ejected from a boy's mouth; and, subsequently, we have the to-be-expected, played-out jolts where spectral entities make seizure-like movements as strings screech over split-second edits. For good measure, there is a watered-down nod to "The Exorcist" in the form of a cancer-stricken Holy Man played by a woefully underused Elias Koteas ("Crash"; "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"). The main thematic homages in "Connecticut" are pulled from the treacly depths of a Lifetime original movie: a teenage boy's (Kyle Gallner) bout with cancer prompts his mother (Virginia Madsen) and recovering-alcoholic father (Martin Donovan) to rent a disturbed country home that just happened to be the site of bizarre psychic rituals years before. Not contented to tell a straightforward ghost story, the screenwriters have included (in addition to some particularly heavy-handed dialog and flatly melodramatic scenes) vain attempts to draw parallels between the son's cancer and spiritual possession. While I would usually find this ambition admirable, director Peter Cornwell's adherence to pulp storytelling and jump-scares betrays its reach. The result is simply awkward, and the audience-pleasing ending ultimately keeps "Connecticut" from attaining status as a Great Haunt.
  • October 6, 2009
    Decent movie but plays on the claims it is a true story when the facts of the case don't add up.
  • September 9, 2009
    Not very scary, but an interesting story with decent performances. The bonus features on the DVD, particularly the one telling the 'true' story and one that was a history of memento mori, were particularly interesting. Virginia Madsen and Elias Koteas are both good.
  • August 27, 2009
    Watchable and I admit I was creeped out a bit, but nothing special.
  • December 25, 2009
    Una más sobre una casa embrujada. No esta mal, pero es bastante olvidable.
  • December 25, 2009
    i love this and me and my friend Sarah were walking home after seeing it in the Theaters and we were scared a lot! so it was sacry and good i rate it a thumbs up :)
  • December 20, 2009
    There's nothing new we haven't seen before in these type of ghost stories but it does provide plenty of chills and scares. I jumped out of my seat a couple of times. It's supposedly based on a real-life story but it's hard to tell what events were true and what was fiction. For t...( read more)hose that like to watch ghost stories I'd definitely tell them to give this a go.
  • December 19, 2009
    Pretty good, nuff said. Beside I am glad to see Elias Koteas is still getting work. Kyle Gallner is a pretty good young actor IMO.
  • December 18, 2009
    This movie was awesome, the special features were really good. Kyle Gallner did an excellent job as the main character. Its really neat how this movie is based on real life event that happened. I watched this movies so many times and it is still really good. I recommend this ...( read more)movie.

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