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Madsen barely emotes during the ensuing flood of hokey scare tactics.
Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly
The Haunting in Connecticut
Some things cannot be explained.
2009 · 1h 42m · PG-13
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Peter Cornwell
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The Haunting in Connecticut
Overview
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover.
Director and cast
- Peter Cornwell Director
- Virginia Madsen as Sara Campbell
- Kyle Gallner as Matt Campbell
- Martin Donovan as Peter Campbell
- Amanda Crew as Wendy
- Elias Koteas as Reverend Popescu
- Sophi Knight as Mary Campbell
- Ty Wood as Billy Campbell
- D.W. Brown as Dr. Brooks
- John B. Lowe as Mr. Sinclair
- Jessica Burleson as 1920's Séance Attendee #4
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Haunting suffers for its need to be sold as a straight-up horror film, and the fact it has been seemingly retrofitted as such.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Connecticut: not very haunty.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten
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.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
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