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2009 American picture

The Haunting in Connecticut
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Peter Cornwell
Written by Adam Simon
Tim Metcalfe
Produced by Paul Brooks
Andrew Trapani
Daniel Farrands
Wendy Rhoads
Starring Virginia Madsen
Kyle Gallner
Martin Donovan
Amanda Crew
Elias Koteas
Cinematography Adam Swica
Edited by Tom Elkins
Music by Robert J. Kral

Production
companies

Gold Circle Films
Integrated Films
Distributed by Lionsgate

Release date
  • March 27, 2009 (2009-03-27)

Running time

 102 minutes
State United States
Linguistic communication English
Budget $10 million
Box office $77 million

The Haunting in Connecticut is a 2009 American supernatural horror film produced by Gilded Circle Films and directed by Peter Cornwell. The film is declared to be about Carmen Snedeker and her family, though Ray Garton, writer of In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting (1992), has publicly distanced himself from the accuracy of the events he depicted in the volume.[1] [2] The flick's story follows the fictional Campbells as they motility into a house (a erstwhile mortuary) to mitigate the strains of travel on their cancer-stricken son, Matt. The family unit soon becomes haunted by vehement and traumatic events from supernatural forces occupying the house.

Although the film was moderately successful at the box office, grossing $77,527,732,[3] it received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to Metacritic.[iv] In 2010 Golden Circle Films appear the product of a sequel, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (released 2013) They noted, nevertheless, that the film wouldn't exist a direct sequel to The Haunting in Connecticut and would instead be a self-contained film with unique characters.[5]

Plot [edit]

In 1987, Sara Campbell (Virginia Madsen) is driving her son Matt (Kyle Gallner) home from the hospital where he has been undergoing cancer treatments. Sara and her husband Peter (Martin Donovan), a recovering alcoholic, discuss finding a rental house closer to the infirmary. On another hospital visit, Sara finds a man putting up a "For Hire" sign in forepart of a large business firm. The human is frustrated and offers her the first month complimentary if she will rent it immediately.

The following day, Peter arrives with Matt's blood brother Billy (Ty Wood) and cousins Wendy (Amanda Crew) and Mary, and they cull rooms. Matt chooses the basement, where there is a mysterious door. After moving in, Matt suffers a serial of visions involving an old, bearded man and corpses with symbols carved into their skin. The next twenty-four hours, Peter learns that the business firm was supposedly a funeral dwelling house; the room behind the mysterious door is a mortuary.

Matt tells another patient, Reverend Nicholas Popescu (Elias Koteas), about the visions. Nicholas advises him to detect out what the spirit wants. Later on, Matt finds a burned effigy in his room who begins to movement toward him. When the family comes home, they observe a shirtless Matt with his fingers blood-covered from scratching at the wall.

The family unit begins to crack under the stress of Matt's disease and baroque behavior. The children find a box of photographs, which show Jonah, a young man from Matt'southward visions, at a séance, emitting ectoplasm from his mouth. Wendy and Matt discover out that the funeral habitation was run by a human named Ramsey Aickman. Aickman as well conducted psychic research and would host séances with Jonah every bit the medium. At one séance, all those attending, including Aickman, were found dead and Jonah disappeared.

Nicholas theorizes that Aickman was practicing necromancy in an attempt to control the dead and bind them to the house. That night, Nicholas finds human remains in the house and removes them. Matt awakens to observe Aickman'due south symbols carved into his skin. He is taken to the hospital, where he encounters Jonah. Nicholas and Matt brainstorm to have simultaneous visions. Anybody in the séance is burnt, after a flash of bright light. The barely live Aickman told Jonah to exit of the firm, concerned that the demonic presence will go him next. Jonah uses a dumbwaiter to escape, calling for help. Entering an unknown chamber, Jonah realizes that he has entered the crematory. The spirit traps Jonah in the crematory, and cremates him alive.

Peter and Sara larn that Matt'due south cancer treatments have had no effect. They then discover that Matt has escaped the hospital. Back at the house, Nicholas leaves a message telling the family unit to leave of the house immediately – Jonah'southward spirit was actually protecting them from the spirits. Matt breaks through the walls in the front room with an axe, revealing the dusty corpses Aickman hid in the walls. He forces Wendy and the children to get out, barricading himself inside and fierce downwardly the other walls, as corpses brainstorm to tumble into the room. The view switches from Matt to Jonah, who seems to exist occupying Matt's body. Matt lights the bodies and the room on burn. Later on investigators arrive to the house to only find it engulfed in flames.

As the burn department arrives, Sara and Peter aimlessly try to get in to save Matt. The spirits, finally freed, disappear. Exterior, everyone watches tearfully equally the emergency crew attempts to resuscitate a dying Matt. As Matt slips away, he has a vision of himself standing in the graveyard where he sees Jonah, no longer appearing burnt. He seems most to follow Jonah when he hears his mother's vocalism.

He returns to his body and Jonah'south spirit leaves him. Matt's cancer disappears, and the house was rebuilt and resold with no further reported incidents of haunting.

Cast [edit]

  • Virginia Madsen as Sara Campbell
  • Kyle Gallner as Matt Campbell
  • Elias Koteas as Reverend Nicholas Popescu
  • Amanda Crew as Wendy
  • Martin Donovan every bit Peter Campbell
  • Ty Wood as Billy Campbell
  • Sophi Knight as Mary
  • D.W. Chocolate-brown as Dr. Brooks
  • Erik Berg as Jonah

"Based on a true story" controversy [edit]

Promotional cloth for the moving picture claimed that it was "based on true events" experienced by the Snedeker family of Southington, Connecticut in 1986. Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed that the Snedeker business firm was a erstwhile funeral home where morticians regularly skillful necromancy, and that in that location were "powerful" supernatural "forces at work" that were cured past an exorcism.[6] [7] Carmen Snedeker's claims of haunting by an "evil entity" and subsequent exorcism were dramatized in episodes of the television series A Haunting, Paranormal Witness and Mysteries at the Museum.[8]

However, according to skeptical investigator Benjamin Radford, there is "little or no proof that anything supernatural occurred at the house". Radford wrote that author Ray Garton was employed past the Warrens to write the supposedly "true story" and was instructed by Ed Warren, "You've got some of the story — just use what works and make the rest up… Just get in up and make it scary."[9]

Researcher Joe Nickell has dismissed the story every bit a hoax. Nickell noted that since Ed Warren died in 2006, some of his coauthors take admitted he "told them to brand upward incidents and details to create scary stories."[ten]

Production [edit]

Filming began on September 10, 2007, in Teulon and Winnipeg, Canada, and finished on 16 December 2007; it took roughly effectually three months to complete the filming.[11] The film was released on March 27, 2009, in the UK, Usa, and Canada.[12] The moving-picture show was afterward released over the course of nine months to other countries, and was shown at the Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Moving picture Festival the April following domestic release.[11]

Home release [edit]

The Haunting in Connecticut debuted in the number one position on the DVD and Blu-ray charts with i.5 one thousand thousand units sold.[13] Rentrak reported that the DVD release of The Haunting in Connecticut was No. ane in DVD sales for the week ending July 19, 2009.[fourteen] The extended version DVD includes a commentary with Director Peter Cornwell, co-author Adam Simon, producer Andrew Trapani, and editor Tom Elkins, a second commentary with the director and actors Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner, deleted scenes with optional director commentary, featurettes ("2 Expressionless Boys: Making of The Haunting in Connecticut", "The Fear is Real: Re-Investigating the Haunting", "Memento Mori: The History of Post Mortem Photography", "Anatomy of a Haunting"), and a digital copy of the film on a second disc.[15] The DVD fabric was produced and directed by Daniel Farrands, who also served equally a producer on the movie. "Anatomy of a Haunting" featured commentary by parapsychological researchers Dr. Barry East. Taff and Jack Rourke.[16] The DVD release of The Haunting in Connecticut was the recipient of the All-time Ghost Story accolade in Home Media Magazine's 2009 Reaper Awards anniversary held in Los Angeles in Oct 2009.

Release [edit]

Critical reception [edit]

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes rated the film equally "rotten", with a 17% approval rating based on 105 reviews and an average rating of 4.29/10. The site's consensus reads: "Though it features a few scares and some creepy atmosphere, The Haunting in Connecticut ultimately relies too much on familiar horror cliches to achieve its goals."[4] Metacritic establish the film had received "Generally unfavourable reviews", scoring 33 out of 100 based on 23 critic reviews.[4] While the motion picture was mainly criticized for its use of horror cliches and "jump" scare tactics,[17] certain aspects of the picture were praised past many critics. Particular credit went to the acting: primarily the performances of Gallner and Madsen.[xviii] Pic critic Roger Ebert said the film "is a technically adept horror movie and well acted," though he gave the movie only two stars.[19]

Box office [edit]

In Northward America, the movie opened in second place (behind Monsters vs Aliens), averaging $8,420 at 2,732 theatres.[20] Its last North American gross was $55,389,516, and it made a further $22,138,216 internationally for a worldwide total of $77,527,732.[three]

Sequel [edit]

Gilt Circle Films produced the follow-up The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia with Tom Elkins equally director and David Coggeshall as the screenwriter,[21] [22] [23] it was released in a limited theatrical run, and through Video on Demand, on February i, 2013.[24]

Run across too [edit]

  • Listing of ghost films

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Episode Notes for A Connecticut Haunting in a Keen Author'due south Courtroom". MonsterTalk. Skeptic. August 10, 2011. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  2. ^ Bendici, Ray. "Damned Interview: Ray Garton". Damned Connecticut . Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  3. ^ a b The Haunting in Connecticut at Box Office Mojo
  4. ^ a b c The Haunting in Connecticut at Rotten Tomatoes
  5. ^ Siegel, Tatiana (June 11, 2010). "Gold stays ghoul with 3rd 'Haunting'". Variety . Retrieved Feb 12, 2012.
  6. ^ Reyes, Kyle (March 11, 2009). "A Connecticut Haunting: The Reel Deal". NBC Connecticut . Retrieved February xiii, 2011.
  7. ^ Brownish, Alan (2008). Ghost Hunters of New England. UPNE. p. vii. ISBN978-1-58465-720-0.
  8. ^ "Connecticut Haunting". Mysteries at the Museum. Season 7. Episode one. September 12, 2014. Travel Channel. Retrieved September three, 2016. Lay summary.
  9. ^ Radford, Benjamin. "The Real Story Behind 'The Haunting in Connecticut'". livescience.com. livescience.com. Retrieved October half dozen, 2014.
  10. ^ Nickell, Joe. The Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead. Prometheus Books. p. 286. ISBN 978-one-61614-586-vi
  11. ^ a b "Filming Locations for The Haunting in Connecticut". Internet Movie Database.
  12. ^ "Release Info for The Haunting in Connecticut". Internet Movie Database.
  13. ^ "'The Haunting In Connecticut' Tops DVD And Blu-Ray Charts". All Headline News. July 23, 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  14. ^ "Rentrak Announces Peak DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending July 19, 2009". Bloomberg News. July 23, 2009.
  15. ^ Gingold, Michael (July 22, 2009). "The Haunting in Connecticut (DVD Review)". Fangoria. Archived from the original on July 25, 2009.
  16. ^ The Fear Is Real: Reinvestigating the Haunting (in Connecticut) , retrieved January 13, 2019
  17. ^ Phipps, Keith (March 26, 2009). "The Haunting In Connecticut". The A.V. Club . Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  18. ^ Moore, Roger (March 26, 2009). "Amityville' retread manages a few surprises". The Charlotte Observer . Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  19. ^ Ebert, Roger (March 25, 2009). "The Haunting in Connecticut review". Chicago Lord's day-Times. Archived from the original on June 23, 2010. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
  20. ^ "March 27–29, 2009 Weekend". Box Function Mojo . Retrieved Apr fourteen, 2009.
  21. ^ "Update: 'The Haunting in Georgia' Shooting This Summer... Without Ti W". Bloody Disgusting. March 25, 2010.
  22. ^ "A Haunting in Georgia Finds Its Director". Dread Central. April 15, 2010.
  23. ^ "Editor Turns Director for 'The Haunting in Georgia'". Bloody Disgusting. April 15, 2010.
  24. ^ Larson, Ryan (February 6, 2013). "The Haunting in Connecticut 2 Ghosts of Georgia". Stupor Till You Drop.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • The Haunting in Connecticut at IMDb
  • The Haunting in Connecticut at AllMovie
  • The Haunting in Connecticut at Box Office Mojo
  • The Haunting in Connecticut at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Snedeker Family Fellow member Goes on Record with DamnedCT.com

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_in_Connecticut

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