The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

• Year: 2009
• Released: 27 Mar 2009
• Country: United States, Canada
• Adwords: 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492044/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_haunting_in_connecticut
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/hauntinginconnecticut
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
• Runtime: 92 min
• Writer: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe
• Director: Peter Cornwell
• Cast: Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Elias Koteas
• Keywords: based on true story, based on a true story, duringcreditsstinger, occult, hallucination,

	5.8/10
	33/100

The Haunting in Connecticut Storyline

Matt Campbell has a terminal cancer and is submitted to an experimental treatment in the St. Michael’s Hospital Goatswood in Connecticut. The responsible for the trial, Dr. Brooks, advises that if Matt starts seeing things, he should drop from the trial. His religious mother Sara drives almost eight hours with her son since he has nausea and needs to vomit during the travel. She proposes her husband Peter, who had trouble with booze, to rent a house in Connecticut to be close to the hospital despite their second mortgage. Sara finds an old house with an affordable price and she questions the catch to the owner and he explains that the house has a history, since it was a funeral home in the past. Sara hides the truth to Peter and the family moves to the house. While in the treatment, Matt befriends Reverend Popescu, who has also cancer. When Matt has weird visions and nightmares from the past, he calls Popescu that tells him that an evil entity is trapped in the house and they are able to see him because they are in the borderline of the worlds of the living and the dead.

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Not a bad horror film

I hope that people who see The Haunting In Connecticut aren’t put off from buying home just because it was a funeral parlor at one time. In fact back in the day it was common enough for undertakers to live on the premises. Of course not all of them were involved in all the occult stuff that the former owner of this place where the Campbell family has moved into.

Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan and their kids have purchased an old funeral parlor in Connecticut and are moving there. Moving there because their oldest son Kyle Gallner is undergoing cancer treatments. That’s bad enough, but Gallner is also psychic and when they move into their new home he starts seeing all kinds of apparitions and manifesting some truly frightful things.

The former owner of the funeral home used the dead and also used an adolescent kid who was also psychic as a medium and that kid who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. It’s quite a story when all is revealed.

Young Gallner carries this film, he gives a winning and sincere performance of a kid just not in control of all that’s around him. There’s another good performance by a minister played by Elias Koteas who has some idea of what’s going on, but he too makes an almost fatal error for the Campbell family.

I’m not usually drawn to these films, but The Haunting In Connecticut is not a bad one for this genre.

Every cliché ever filmed all in one place

THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, a spook-house show crafted to crash in on the ever-present public appetite for ghost stories, single-handedly manages to cram in each and every haunted house cliché ever filmed and put it into just one movie. The storyline mixes slow-building suspense with dark and dank cellars, restless spirits, spooky seances, plenty of ectoplasm, possession, and everything else besides.

Sadly, despite the ‘true story’ tag, none of this ever rings true. Instead it comes across as a bland and soulless piece of money-making, a film in which the enjoyment factor is sucked dry from the outset. With major characters suffering from cancer and the rest suffering from a ‘lack of personality’ crisis, there’s absolutely nothing to enjoy here and nothing we haven’t seen before.

The narrative is so laboured and mundane that merely recounting it is a bore, while the whole haunted house genre has been handled much better more recently with the likes of MAMA and THE CONJURING (not great movies, either of them, but a darn sight better than this). A strangely wooden Virginia Madsen gives the dullest performance of her career, and even the reliable Elias Koteas can’t improve things. Give it a miss.

An old fashion horror that has nothing new

This movie starts with ‘Based on the true story’, and Sara Campbell (Virginia Madsen) recounting the horrific events. I don’t particularly like either one of these constructions that is often seen in bad horror movies. Based on usually means completely fake anyways and recounting the events just takes away the danger for Sara.

It starts June 19, 1987. The Campbell family gets a second house in the Connecticut countryside near the hospital. The son Matt (Kyle Gallner) is ill. The house has a creepy history which starts to invade into Matt’s mind. The house used to be a funeral parlor where the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger.

This thing starts so horribly slow. I feel like I’m the one who has cancer watching this trying not to fall asleep. If Matt is a little child, it might actually be better. It spends a lot of time doing the old fashion peak-a-boo horror and jumpy musical cues. It is very cheesy and not scary nor tense.