Movie: The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

“Based on a true story, The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family. Written by Lionsgate”

  • Director: Peter Cornwell
  • Release Date: 27 March 2009 (USA)
  • Run Time: 102 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Horror , Thriller
  • MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images.

Tagline: Some things cannot be explained.

Trivia: The poem “As I was going up the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there. / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away” was written by Hughes Mearns.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When they finally open the doors to the “torture chamber”, there are big windows in the room, meaning that they could have just gone into the side yard and looked through the windows to the room.

The movie Starts when a mother named Sara & her son,Matt, who has cancer, are driving to their new house in Southington. They arrive there and Matt picks the basement for his room. There is a door in there but he can’t get it open. That night Matt has a dream where he wakes up & looks through the window into the locked room and sees the reflection of a burnt face & he wakes up. The next day Matt goes for stage 1 of his radiation treatment. The next day when Sara is mopping Matt’s room Matt looks at the soap and it is blood. He looks at Sara. Sara doesn’t see it. Matt looks back at it and it’s just soap again. That night Matt sees in the reflection of his TV a man standing at his door. Matt looks at the door & nobody is there. He looks at the reflection and he doesn’t see the man. The next day Matt’s Dad, Peter arrives and says he will only be there on weekends. His little siblings Mary & Billy come with Peter. His cousin Wendy, who is the same age as him also arrives. That night before Matt goes to bed he looks through the window and sees faded figures inside & then they disapear. When Matt wakes up. The door is open. He walks inside and sees it’s a morgue. To Be continued…

The story centers around Matt Campbell, who is being treated for cancer on a trial therapy in a remote hospital. After seeing the effect the long commute has on Matt, his mother rents a nearby house, which she learns was previously a funeral home. They discover a mortuary room in the basement that they are unable to enter initially, which serverly burns Matt when he attempts to enter. The family begins experiencing violent, supernatural events

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