Review – The Haunting in Connecticut

No matter how good a trick is, it isn’t going to carry a whole movie. I suppose what they were going for here was the “true story” thing, so if your “real life” ghosts have a limited bag of tricks, it restricts what your movie can do. This is the tale of a family that moves into a rental house to be closer to the clinic where the eldest son is getting cancer treatments. Turns out the rent is cheap because the place used to be a combination mortuary and séance headquarters. Naturally the place is packed with restless souls trapped by creepy, post-mortem carving rituals. Some of the visuals have impact. But when the same thing gets used over and over again, it wears thin. Further, the whole “true story of a family with financial troubles moves into a house possessed by evil spirits” thing sounds vaguely familiar. Mildly amusing