The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.8/10   

Director:

Peter Cornwell

Escritores (WGA):

Adam Simon (written by) &
Tim Metcalfe (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 marzo 2009 (USA)

Género:

Horror | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Some things cannot be explained.

Plot:

After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary.

Plot Keywords:

Mortuary | Cancer | Funeral Parlor | Haunting | 1980s

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Horror without the horror

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Reparto

Virginia Madsen	...	Sara Campbell
Kyle Gallner	...	Matt Campbell
Elias Koteas	...	Reverend Popescu
Amanda Crew	...	Wendy
Martin Donovan	...	Peter Campbell
Sophi Knight	...	Mary Campbell
Ty Wood	...	Billy Campbell
Erik J. Berg	...	Jonah
John Bluethner	...	Ramsey Aickman
D.W. Brown	...	Dr. Brooks
John B. Lowe	...	Mr. Sinclair
Adriana O'Neil	...	Chemo Nurse
Will Woytowich	...	Cop
James Durham	...	Matt's Cell Mate
Darren Ross	...	Paramedic #1

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images.

Duración:

92 min | 102 min (extended cut)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44104) | UK:15 | Ireland:15A | Finland:K-15 | Brazil:14 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Netherlands:16 | Sweden:15 | Mexico:B15 | Hong Kong:IIB | South Korea:15 | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Teulon, Manitoba, Canada

Compañía:

Gold Circle Films

Trivialidades:

Based on the story featured in the Discovery Channel documentary "A Haunting in Connecticut".

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: When they finally open the doors to the "torture chamber", there are big windows in the room, meaning that they could have just gone into the side yard and looked through the windows to the room.

Citas:

Sara Campbell: [sobbing while praying] No, you can't have him! You can't take my son!

Conexiones de Película:

Version of A Haunting in Connecticut (2002) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Ward 13

Horror without the horror

If you heard that this is based on a true story, then don't be afraid; there's nothing scary about it.

Haunting in Connecticut tells the story of a family who moves into a creepy, run-down house (which happens to have a crematorium in the basement, go figure) so that the son can receive cancer treatment at a nearby clinic. The son begins to hallucinate and slowly a story unravels about past owners of the house, ghosts and the generic morons who refuse to leave a haunted house.

The problem with contemporary horror is the absence of...horror. This film relies heavily upon the use of jump-frights, where either a loud noise or kind of-weird looking figure appearing in the background will yield the screams of a few younger teenagers in the crowd of the theater. Granted, throughout most of the movie, the actual "horror" is shown to be the hallucinations of a clearly deranged cancer patient, so you don't at all feel scared or tenuous. In addition to the mild aspect of it, this film has atrocious dialogue which kills almost every scene that is meant to be dramatic.

Granted, it is not a pure, awful, Disaster Movie-level of garbage. The directing is fairly decent, and the acting is also good. The problem lies in the horrible script dragging the performances down. Additionally, the idea to evoke fear through hallucinations and flashbacks is good on paper yet portrayed poorly throughout the film. If you are a horror buff (unlike me), I would recommend you rent it and decide for yourself, but this isn't worth the $8.50 it cost me to see in theaters.