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Virginia Madsen
Amanda Crew
Elias Koteas
Kyle Gallner
D.W. Brown
Martin Donovan

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Based on real events, a family moves to upstate Connecticut to help their son but the charming Victorian house has a dark past as former mortuary causing increasingly violent supernatural events to occur.

02/03/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Yeah, they ruined the story

The background of this supposedly real life story is creepy enough, sadly the movie decides to take that story and add in things that are "supposed" to be scary. As a result you end up with a lot of silly scary movie cliches, and an ending that builds in absurdity and ridiculousness. It does have some pretty good acting from Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner as the mother and son dealing with all the problems.

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2/4 

12/01/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Haunting in Connecticut Review

I didn't really care for this one, it was pretty boring and I was able to see just about everything that was coming. Basically it's the story of a family in Connecticut that found a run down house and they slowly begin to learn about the house's past as a funeral home. I've basically given you the story right there, and I think you'd be able to assume the rest of the story just from what you've read. The movie itself though is far from terrible, the acting was okay and the story telling was competent overall. In some ways, it's an okay movie, but it's not something that may offer a lot of appeal to folks who aren't fans of the horror genre.

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2/4 

04/08/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Needed to Tone Down the Score

I was surprised by how much this film was grounded in reality even though the trailers sold it off as a typical “based on a true story” demonic possession. Virginia Madsen and Martin Donovan star as the parents who choose to move in a house with a creepy history because their son’s (Kyle Gallner) cancer treatment facility is nearby. It’s not long until spirits start to get themselves known to Gallner’s character in truly horrifying manners. I really admired the first thirty minutes of this horror flick because things that most people would consider as supernatural are things that can happen to cancer patients going through various therapies (i.e. hallucinations). I wish Peter Cornwell, the director, decided to keep straddling the line between science and the supernatural because it’s very...

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2/4