Stevieboy666 With their teenage son undergoing cancer treatment the Campbell family move into a creepy Victorian mansion nearer to the hospital in order to cut down on the travelling. Soon creepy things start to happen. In fact lots of spooky things happen, too much & too soon in the movie. Sadly this means any scare factor soon loses it's power & it becomes somewhat cliché & predictable. Acting & special effects are reasonable. One of the highlights is the revelation of many corpses inside the house. There is much variation in reviews for this film on here, but to rate it 1/10 is as ludicrous as awarding it 10/10. As haunted house movies go it is reasonably good but certainly not a classic.

Leofwine_draca 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.

SnoopyStyle 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.

mrmikey-112-132120 Virginia Madsen truly shines in this genuine creepy entry based "on the true story." Madsen's performance really works, as do the performances of Kyle Gallner as the cancer-stricken "hero" of the piece, and Elias Koteas adds another great performance in support as a fellow cancer patient and priest who shares some very interesting views on the hereafter that are actually pretty cool.The flick also features a solid script that doesn't go for cheap scares, instead, director Peter Cornwell relentlessly builds the suspense and tension, and ratchets up the scares and creeps quite effectively. Really enjoyable after all that brutal slasher stuff that's been bandied about lately, a refreshing change, and again, genuinely creepy.The only spoiler I'll add is this: the ending will truly surprise you. It did me, and truthfully, it's a very pleasing ending to the piece, so bravo all involved!