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Just another generic Haunted House movie


Am i alone in thinking that wether the movie was true or not that "The Hautning in Connecticut" was merely another generic haunted house flick? I a reletively short period of time(well, short for hollywood)with had our share of haunted house movies, the remakes of "The Haunting", "The House on Haunted Hill", and "Thrteen Ghosts"(which had a bit of imagination injected in to it)etc. "The Haunting in Connecticut". Many of the old tired and worn out cliches were there. The bumps in the night, a certain indiviual experiencing strange visions, a spiritualist or a person of some religous authority who strives to help the family or who ever else might staying over or living in the house. The people who are at first sceptical of anything supernatural going on who by the end of the movie have become convinced or even had a renwal or discovery of faith.

Sadly the haunted house sub-genre is beginning to grow pretty stale and "The Haunting of Connecticut" is a prime example of it. The one main good thing that could be said about the movie was the performances which were impressively solid and came from a pretty good cast.

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Yes you are correct. The night before I watched this I watched "An American Haunting" which basically went along the same generic plot. "The Connecticut Haunting" was the better of the two. The acting in both films is first rate, it's just the same old plot not done in an original way.

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Watched this last night and yes, it went through the usual haunted house tropes we've all seen a dozen or more times. And yet....it had something. Unsettling imagaery for sure. Good acting. A few (a VERY few) unexpected twists. Terrific make up and prosthetics that were sparingly used to very good effect.

Elias Koteas was typically superb (couldn't help thinking he was a ringer for de Niro btw!)and Masden was tolerable in an cliched role.

I've still yet to see a more enjoyable film of this type than The Legend of Hell House, even given that films schtonky effects.

AHINC suffered I think from an over-reliance on sudden shock tactics, whereas it should have upped the slow-burn (did-I-see-what-I-THOUGHT-I-just-saw?) periphery approach, of say Exorcist 3 (the George C Scott movie).

Worth a look though.

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