A Haunting in Connecticut

I've always enjoyed horror movies. Pretty much any kind. However, of late they have begun to rely too much on the gore factor rather than the scare factor so I don't see them as much. Haunted house movies though are pretty reliable to not lose the story in blood and guts. Even at that though most horror movies of any kind don't deliver on the scares very well these days. That is absolutely not true with A Haunting in Connecticut. It delivers a good story and some legitimate scares. I jumped several times and even my boyfriend who doesn't think movies are scary anymore jumped a couple times.

I had actually watched a documentary on the story the movie is based around a week before seeing the movie. It was interesting to see how they tweaked the original story for the big screen. The underlying story was the same family with cancer stricken son moves into a new house to be closer to where he gets treatment and weird things start to happen. From there the writers spun the houses history to be more sinister but, it still worked. Other than the end of the movie they really didn't go over the top with the story the created. And even that little bit of over the top at the end didn't hurt the movie as a whole.

If you want the short and sweet high concept pitch for this movie it's Amityville Horror meets Poltergeist.

I went to a matinee showing and it was well worth the price. In fact is worth the price of full price evening admission.