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| Haunting in Connecticut [ Horror ]
CURRENT RATINGS: 0/10 Movie: The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) The Haunting in Connecticut is based off of a "real" encounter with the supernatural that can nicely be described as "influenced" and not-so-nicely described as "banal". The plot is amazingly hackneyed as we're treated to yet another story of ghostly possesion as a result of post-mortem bodily defamation (translation: ghosts being pissed that someone played doctor with their corpse) and so the movie begins. Haunting starts by introducing us to the family whose grisly suffering we shall be enjoying this evening, the Campbell family!!!!(yay). First there's Mom who is trying to hold her family together despite her son Matt's cancer, next there's the freeloading Aunt and her daughter Mary whom i'm not going to explain due to lack of proper characterization and the same applies to Mom's other son whose name escapes me, next there's Dad!!!!(yay) he's a "former" drunk who works as a contracter and really, really, REALLY misses his beer (there is a particularyly funny scene where he's driven up next to a place with a Rolling Rock sign and stares inside and at a glass of beer, this is the part where i imagined the song This Kiss by Faith Hill playing in background which caused one of the only times during this 140 minute movie that i was enjoying myself). So a summary of what happens, well the Campbell's move to the house in Connecticut to be near the hospital their son goes to for cancer treatments. They then find out (but we aren't told till later) that the house WAS a Funeral Home (i can imagine the sales pitch now;"yep it's got, 4 bedrooms, a nice kitchen, spacious backyard, cool cellar, nice little corpse preparation room, and this BEAutiful living room with all these nice Honey Wood cabinets."). So wierd stuff happens all around...Fast Forward...Matt and Aunty figure out that a medium named Jonah is "haunting" him so they remove his remains from the house. Then the REAL fun begins as we are treated to a wonderful flashback upon which we are told that Jonah wasn't evil (Crowd Gasps) in fact he was trying to free the tortured souls of people that his keeper Aickman had written wierd stuff on and cut off their eyelids in order to increase Jonah's medium powers, so during a seance the souls use ectoplasm and fire to kill everyone except jonah, Jonah runs deeper into the house (smart plan), runs inside the dumbwaiter, dumbwaiter goes down, Jonah walks into the furnace (My God Jonah is just so smart he's the example we all should live up to), and the ghosts burn him alive. So weird stuff happens, Matt burns the ghosts, cancer goes away, yippie. Alright so the review then. I'll be the first to admit that i'm very desenitized to horror movies in general because i've been watching them so long so a movie like this would probably be a scare-free ride. However i learned that going to the movies and having other people inside the theater can be quite annoying as this usually means people are talking, and texting and such however it also gave me an unusual outlook to this movie. You see although nothing in this movie scared me at all it scared some of the people in the theater which meant that considering the fact that i try and write from an everyman point-of-view this caused me to have to pause and consider wheather or not the film can be considered scary or not... then i remembered that in all truth 10-12 year olds can be scared by their older brother jumping at them on the stairs so therefore whether or not they were scared shouldn't be considered a good point. So other parts of the movie that sucked, acting, writing, etc. etc. etc. |
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