Haunting in Connecticut Review

For those of you that like psychological; movies that have a hidden meaning, then I recommend that you do not see Haunting in Connecticut. If you like those kinds of movies that make you jump, and make you sit on the edge of your seat, then go right ahead and see this movie. Personally, I did like the plot of the movie, I just believe that they might have overused the BOO! method, just a little. Okay, maybe they used it every five minutes. You could tell when something was about to pop out at you, just from listening to the eeriness of the music. If the music wasn't a clue that something was going to happen, then the hesitation of the character could tell you to put the popcorn down, because you may just spill it all over your friend's lap if you're holding it for another minute. I just believe that the sudden change in music, environment, or attitude were clear signs that something was about to go awry.

At the beginning of the movie, it said, "Based on a True Story," but how much of the movie was actually fact? In reality, the family that was living in the home reportedly "couldn't keep their stories consistent with other family member's stories." So how true is this movie if the people actually experiencing this ordeal couldn't keep the facts straight? Plus, several of the instances in the movie were amplified to make them sound worse than they were in real life. One of the only true facts about the movie and the real story is that the son had cancer, and that the house was previously a morgue and funeral home. If you take the time to research this story, you would find that the houses look nothing alike. The house in the movie is an old, large, stone home, surrounded by trees, whereas the real home is in a residential area, has no stone whatsoever, and looks nothing like the house depicted in the movie.

The acting in the movie was another thing. I actually thought this was very well done. The plot was great, and the acting was also pretty good. The fear of the actors in certain scenes was clearly identified by the person watching the movie. The acting clearly showed that the actors were scared of the demons, or whatever was possessing the home. After the family had moved in, the son that had cancer moved into the basement, which was previously the entrance to the morgue part of the house, which was concealed behind two double doors in his room that they could not open, until one day it miraculously opened. The teen had seen corpses, wrapped up kind of like mummies. They lined the shelves and tables in the morgue. He kept feeling presences until they became virtually unbearable. After going to the hospital, with his parents being told that he only has a few weeks to live, he runs home and proceeds to tear down the wallpaper from the dining room, revealing several corpses that had been taken from their graves by the previous owners. He sets the room on fire, and is saved by his mom and a group of firefighters. Earlier in the movie, the son had premonitions, if you could call them that, of a young boy named Jonah, who had lived and died in the house as an assistant to his father, the owner of the morgue. Jonah was able to pull ectoplasm from his mouth during séances held in the house. Ectoplasm is said to be a psychic thing, and it is like a material that comes from places on a person during a séance, such as the mouth or nose.

I thought the plot of the movie was very well done, but at points the situations felt overused. The acting was good, and some of the methods use to scare the watcher were overused.