The Haunting in Connecticut

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Ever since I saw the trailer, I knew I'd hate this one. The basic plot is that a teen cancer patient moves closer to the hospital where he's treated, accidentally into a haunted house, that's where the crazy stuff happens. This does seem appealing, and I was hoping for a film that would give genuine scares, and play with your head. Instead, we get an over-hyped piece of Hollywood garbage that relies on predictable jump scares to frighten its audience. Ten years ago, this would have been acceptable, but, in 2009, we have a plethora of horrors that give real scares and this one just doesn't cut it. You're not getting any Oscar winning performances here, but the acting wasn't horrible. Kyle Gallner probably gave the most memorable performance, as he shows that a slow build up to insanity doesn't have to be acted in a clichéd way. Other than that though there was nothing spectacular, and no one actually made me care about them - I truly didn't care what the eventual fate of these people was, and, in a film like this where you're obviously supposed to, that's not a good thing. The music for the film was pretty great, and in parts was actually exciting, I unwillingly got dragged to the edge of my seat because of it, but was then pulled right back when the tense atmosphere was ruined by yet another poorly executed jumpy moment. So, all in all, this is a so-so film that will, depressingly, be loved by many dull brained movie-goers who'll be forced into liking this because they jumped a lot. Hollyood, stop crapping this stuff out onto our screens. Make us care about our protagonist, please. And to you reading this. Don't watch it, and if you already have, find a shoulder to cry on, and wallow in self pity as you contemplate suicide for wasting 100 minutes on this cinematic envisioning of pure awful.

Matt Campbell (Kyle Gallner) 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 (D.W. Brown), advises that if Matt starts seeing things, he should drop the experiment. His religious mother Sara (Virginia Madsen) drives almost eight hours with her son since he has nausea and needs to vomit during the travel. She proposes her husband Peter (Martin Donovan), 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 from Peter and the family moves to the house. While in the treatment, Matt befriends Reverend Popescu (Elias Koteas), 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. "The Haunting in Connecticut" is an above average movie of haunted house since it blends a very well developed family drama with spooky scenes of a ghost story. There are many realist situations like the bad financial situation of the Campbells that are usually forgotten in American movies. Further, there is a beautiful message of faith, and Sara truly believes that God works in a mysterious way. The drinking problem of Peter and how it affected the relationship with Sara is just glanced and could be better explored. I do not like the sensationalism that highlights on the cover of the DVD that the story is based on a true event since this movie is better than that. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "Evocando Espíritos" ("Evoking Spirits")

Basically this movie is like a more gruesome haunted house tale than the original Amityville or a less gruesome haunted house tale than the Amityville remake. However, the movie most certainly follows the flow of those two movies. I would have actually given this movie a six, but they kept trying to make out like this story was pure fact and that rather ticked me off, I mean what do they take me for a moron. I know a bit about the story it is taken from and there are so many differences it is pathetic. I realize that you have to add some stuff or the movie is going to be kind of boring, heck I am even for embellishing the story to the degree this one did, but do not have the this serious voice over telling me how this is true and have the writing at the end tell an out right lie. So what is the story you ask? Well a teenage boy has cancer and his mother is having to drive him a great distance quite often for a special treatment. Mother decides to find a place to rent closer to the place the son gets treatments so he does not have to endure the long drive in pain and vomiting. Of course, the family's financial situation is not to good so when the house with the history comes up for rent you know our family is going to make that their new stomping ground. So spooky reflections and such start to take place as well as strange visions and we even have a reverend enter the picture to give our youth guidance. So yes, the typical haunted house formula is here. Add in a pointless stretch of film where the father drinks and you have your movie, though I am betting that part of the film is actually true, but they changed so much around why not just omit that part all together as it really did not bring anything to the film. So I say add some more scares, perhaps a little gore, do not try to pass off the movie as being a reenactment or something and this film might have been really good...just like a lot of horror movies it is usually might have is it not?

This was the typical Hollywood horror movie. The methods are cheesy. The characters are dull and the actors are terrible. The title should have been "A Boring Haunting in Connecticut." Try as you may to stay focused on the movie. It was so boring that I found myself falling asleep. It was very disappointing especially since it strayed so far from the real story. It was not scary at all unless you're a teenage girl. Look up the truth behind the real story. Don't believe that this crap was true. I'm glad I didn't pay to see it. Now I remember why I hate Hollywood. The popcorn was good though, so the night wasn't all bad. See the Discovery Channel special. It's better and more believable.