The Haunting In Connecticut - The Un-Daunting Haunting In Connecticut

A few years ago, I watched a documentary on Discovery called “A Haunting In Connecticut” which is supposedly the story the movie is based on. The documentary gave me the creeps and left me intrigued and wanting to know more about the family it portrayed and the supernatural events they encountered. Sadly, the recent movie version of the true story was incredibly disappointing

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“The Haunting In Connecticut” tells the story of a family forced to relocate to upstate Connecticut to be closer to the clinic where their son is being treated for cancer. Soon after moving, they realize that their charming house has a disturbing past as a funeral home in which horrendous acts of sorcery took place. Now, the ghost of Jonah, the clairvoyant son of the house's former owner, is wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting family.

As appealing as the plot summary may sound, “The Haunting In Connecticut” left a lot to be desired. The majority of the “hauntings” were nothing more than hallucinations caused by the son's (Matt's) medications. He is undergoing experimental cancer therapy, and it's the medications more than anything that are making him see things. In some parts of the movie, actual hauntings do occur, but they are underdone and badly acted.

“The Haunting In Connecticut” received an average of only 5 out of 10 stars by viewers nationwide, according to several popular movie review websites. It is a conventional haunting movie which leaves little to the imagination. I found it to be nothing more than an over-hyped waste of a ticket price that relied on cheap jump-scares to frighten the audience.“The Haunting In Connecticut” gave me every reason to hate it. It threw every groan-worthy horror cliché into the mix (i.e. following strange noises into a creepy basement), and though it gave some cheap thrills, such as 'people' randomly walking on scene that only the audience can see, and a cast of characters that are so unexpectedly brilliant as to unquestioningly understand the cause of the house's 'occurrences'. I found myself waiting, throughout the entire film, for the plot to pick up and the movie to get better, and was disappointed to find that it never happened. “The Haunting In Connecticut” is definitely not worth the ticket price to anyone who has even a vague idea of what good horror is.

All in all, “The Haunting In Connecticut” would have done much better had it stayed truer to the documentary many of us saw on Discovery.

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