Eye Candy #298 - "The Haunting in Connecticut"

The Haunting in Connecticut: Allegedly based on the real experiences of the Snedeker family of Southington, Connecticut and their own haunted house, “The Haunting in Connecticut” is a ‘dark scary house’ picture, one of those where the house and its otherworldly residents try to kill, take over, eat, rape, and/or destroy their respective tenants. Matthew de Luglio is a teenage boy stricken with cancer. In order to receive better treatment, his family moves to Connecticut to be closer to the hospital. They move into an old house with a past that was once connected to abductions, embalming, necromancy, and séances. Soon Matthew is seeing dead people who aren’t there, bodies, ghosts, burned corpses, and having flashbacks, with the supernatural acts becoming more and more violent and affecting additional members of his family the longer they stay in the house. Turns out “old house with a past” doesn’t begin to cover what was going on in the basement of said house years ago. Cut from the same cloth as “Amityville” and the like (but better than either “Amityville”, original or remake, both of which bordered on the ridiculous. If I want to watch a “dad goes crazy” picture, I’ll watch “The Shining”), it doesn’t bring a great deal new to the table either. The “based on a real story” claim is extremely tenuous as about the only thing they have in common are ghosts and a house. Reminded me most of the film “Darkness” and was equally as disappointing (both had interesting ideas they failed to capitalize on). Not awful, but not good either. Woodchuck sez, “For fans of the genre.”