Haunting In Connecticut

Year: 2009

Grade: B

Country: USA

Director: Cornwell

Review

in the horror genre there are horrorfying films and there are scary films, this is one of the latter and last house on the left is one of the former. haunting in ct does a lot of the usual camera tricks – inserting images in reflections, pans to reveal ghosts in the background, etc. the japanese version of the grudge did this as well and there have been many other films to employ this reliable scare tactic. it also borrows from the exorcist mold which finds a spiritual leader trying to rid the main characters of their unwelcome ghosts. the twist at the end was pretty good, not predictable, though we knew it wasn’t over when they first said it was. it’s a scary film so in that was it was a success. it also did a fairly good job of making parallels between the ills of cancer and alcoholism and the horror of having your house posessed by demons/ghosts.

Watched in theater