The Haunting in Connecticut
Inspired by the frightening true-life tale of a family that moved into a converted funeral home and begins experiencing violent, supernatural events that the parents first blame on stress from the illness, but they later discover that their new home is a former mortuary with a dark past.
30 June 1961, USA
26 August 1970, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
15 July 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
5 June 1986, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
6 September 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
19 August 1957, Reseda, California, USA
22 October 1986, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
24 February 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
19 May 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
11 March 1961, Montréal, Québec, Canada
11 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 August 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
September 25, 2009
The movie works hard for your money and should theoretically be scarier than the cut rate television production. But it's not. Not by a mile.
September 16, 2009
After about the 35th boo scare in as many minutes, the unfailingly cheesy "The Haunting in Connecticut" joins a growing legion of 2009 films offering self-reflective commentary on their own crappiness: "We're bored," shouts a baby brother.
September 07, 2009
Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner give their all to at least anchor some emotional reality to the fairly routine enterprise.
December 17, 2009
A run-of-the-mill spooker that often opts for Dolby jolts and Avid farts over character investment.
March 27, 2009
Connecticut: not very haunty.
August 28, 2015
If you're a big fan of creaking floorboards, sudden jolts, and abandoned funeral homes, go nuts.
March 27, 2009
Eventually the whole thing ends as these B-movies usually do -- with false denouements, sudden conflagrations and forced happy endings that leave the audience groaning and prematurely grabbing for their coats.
March 27, 2009
The Haunting in Connecticut operates like someone leaning in behind you and yelling. At first, it makes you jump. The 200th time, it's just annoying.
November 08, 2009
Una supuesta historia real sirve de base para un drama familiar enmarcado en un cuento de fantasmas. Nada nuevo. Previsible y efectista.
March 27, 2009
Haunting suffers for its need to be sold as a straight-up horror film, and the fact it has been seemingly retrofitted as such.
March 27, 2009
[W]hite people haven't learned much in the quarter-century since Eddie Murphy's classic disquisition on The Amityville Horror.
March 27, 2009
Madsen barely emotes during the ensuing flood of hokey scare tactics.
