Saddling up to vie for the latest successor to the creepy-house-with-evil-inside genre is director Peter Cornwell's The Haunting in Connecticut. The film, based on the purportedly 'true' experiences of Al and Carmen Snedeke, stars Virginia Madsen (she of Sideways fame, who clearly was in need of cash taking on this schlep of a movie) as Sara Campbell who's son Matt (Kyle Gallner) is battling cancer. In order to save driving time and have him closer to the clinic, she rents the house in question. Course, turns out the house is a former funeral parlour with a funeral director who had a decided love of things clairvoyant and otherworldly and who's son, Jonah, has remained haunting the house. There are some okay scares here and there and Elias Koteas (as Reverend Popescu) is especially good, but in the end, The Haunting in Connecticut is no successor to the creepy-house-with-evil-inside genre.
My rating 4 out of 10.
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