Cortechba Overrated

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

tiskec This movie started out with the child of this couple moving to Connecticut in order to be closer to the treatment center for the cancer that their son is going through. It costs the family every cent. I actually know how this is. So I can relate to these characters big time. They did a very good job in portraying the stress that their characters are going through. I thought the movie had a really good concept, about how malevolent spirits can be seen by individuals who are close to their deaths. Now keep in mind this is a true story folks. This families child seen ghosts of the dead, that had once occupied, or are still occupying, that house. I thought it was completely nuts how the whole house was bodies placed into the walls. Just sitting there, preserved by some freak who believed all this black magic mumbo-jumbo. Can you imagine that? Being a family and having hundreds of dead corpses lain into the walls of your home; sleeping among them even, every night without knowing it. HELL WITH THAT I SAY! That made me cringe, because I looked at the walls in the place I'm at for a few seconds after. I was thinking, "what if there's some weird sh*t in these walls like that?" It's just one of those things in movies that makes you think of it for awhile after. The movie did a wonderful job telling the story of this family, and the frightening sh*t they had to go through, supernaturally and medically, in order to make it through. The last fact that's displayed about the child suffering from cancer is so unbelievable. It actually makes you think. Does this stuff really exist. I mean, the corpses part is believable, there's some weird sh*t in this world. Supernatural healing though? That's a coin-toss. I would actually hope so in fact. Actually, I pray there is. Then this truly isn't the only life. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone who likes true haunting, and supernatural miracles. This movie also makes you think about things a lot afterwords.

schalazeal-00917 I was expecting more from this movie.. I thought I just watched it wrong from seeing the 5-star reviews but luckily I found someone who felt the same.. The scares were sooooo abrupt and random that I felt that they were overdoing it. At some point, they were trying to scare you every moment but failed! I felt like they were employing a lot of themes in the latter half because of a lot of random happenings and becoming desperate at it! Kept me less interested beginning from 2/4 in the movie. I was disappointed, bored, and didn't feel any connection with the characters and the story.. There was no scare factor here for me bec. there was nothing new with the scares at all! I knew early on in the movie that this wasn't gonna be good. Acting was okay.. There was the part that the mother saw the chairs and his son and didn't react according to the urgency of the situation. I wouldn't rewatch as of now and give this a chance. I saw this with somebody and I wasn't using my headset but I did pay attention but still didn't feel it. The Human Centipede was the first one that I watched that night so I was hoping this to be better but both were okay and this one disappointing.. HC was better tho.. I was expecting this to be scarier since the title was promising and it seemed to be based off a true story. I picked this one for us to watch and... very disappointing.*Watched on Thurs., 12/03

Spikeopath Supposedly grounded in truth, The Haunting in Connecticut is a decent little spooker, yet still a pic that has all the pitfalls of other notable films of its ilk. Plot for what it's worth has a family move into a new home, only to find that it has ghosts and ghoulies residing within. But why?There's good strength in the family dynamic at work here, the eldest son has cancer and is undergoing treatment. Thus he becomes the conduit for the strange happenings, and this as his parents fight impending grief and personal worries. The scares toddle along effectively, atmosphere via camera work and sound effects is perfectly efficient, and the story has enough mystery about it to carry you through to the end.Unfortunately there's a lot of daft stuff as well, I mean who in their right mind would sleep in a basement room and not force open an adjoining door to see what is in there? It's these ridiculous leaps of faith required that if you are not willing? Then they kill the movie for you. The ending also takes some believing, such is the rampant stench of Hollywood of it all.Well performed in the main (Virginia Madsen solid as a rock/Elias Koteas shining in spite of being under used), this deserves to be rated above average. But ultimately it rings hollow at times and quickly runs out of scares in the last third. 6/10

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.