Every door, window, bedroom, hallway, staircase, basement area, attic and crawlspace is packed with Surprises, so that it's a rare event in the house that takes place normally. If the movie has a flaw, and it does, it's too many Surprises.
Madsen makes an "executive decision" to buy a house in the distant town so Matt, with radiation burns and nausea, doesn't have to drive so far. Matt, the Campbell's son, is dying of cancer and must be driven miles for his radiation treatments. The Spectres involve some ghostly apparitions that may or may not be physical. The Surprises are those moments when a hand, a face, a body, a body part or (usually) a cat leaps suddenly into the frame, and you jump in your seat and then say, "Aw, it was only a cat." Or a face, a body part, a vampire bat, etc. There are two screamable elements: (1) Surprises and (2) Spectres. So all the elements are there, and one of my fellow critics said he "screamed like a girl three times," although he is rather known for doing so. The film has an alarming score and creepy photography, and a house that doesn't look like it has been occupied since the original inhabitants. They make the family, now known as the Campbells, about as real as they can be under the circumstances. We have here no stock characters, but Virginia Madsen and Martin Donovan in a troubled marriage, Kyle Gallner as their dying son, and Elias Koteas as a grim priest. When he reported this to the investigators, Wikipedia says, he was instructed to "make it up and make it scary."īut what does that matter if all you're looking for is a ghost story? "The Haunting in Connecticut" is a technically proficient horror movie and well acted.
Ray Garton, author of A Dark Place, a book including the case, observed that the Snedekers couldn't get their stories straight.
I don't believe a shred of this movie is true. Even so, I doubt it's "based on." More likely it was "loosely inspired by" a story.
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