hyped garbage

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The Haunting in Connecticut is mostly a family drama with a bunch of annoying jump-out moments and disturbing images scattered around. If you want scary, watch the A Haunting episode on the Discovery channel about this same story. The real story is more frightening than this adaptation.

This movie was OK, but not near as powerful as the original.I may be biased, but I absolutely loved the "A Haunting" pilot that this movie is very loosely based on.Unfortunately there's very little of the original story that is used in this movie adaptation.The original documentary was quite believable and creepy in its own right. This adaptation is typical of horror of today. I admit it's scary in parts and there are plenty of jumpy scenes and great graphics, but very little of what made the original story creepy made it into this script.I won't go into all the differences. It's as though the writers watched the original but decided they had to create a crazy back story that gives reason to all the strange activity, not realizing that the mystery of the original story was more believable.It would have been better to have simply named it something else and not said it was based on any true story at all, but I think they believe it sells better if people think it's true.Typical Hollywood. When they say "based on a true story" it's probably got 5% of the original in it.Nevertheless, it's a fairly good horror story, but if you want the real story, look for the pilot to the "A Haunting" series from 2005. It was actually called "A Haunting in Connecticut." It's still one of my favorite haunted stories.

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.

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.