OH MY GOD. I give this rag 2 stars. Very disappointing, and I'll tell you why. First they tell you that this movie is based on a true story. By telling me that it is based on a true story it set my expectations very high. For a true story I expected the realism to be REAL. You know, something I could believe. Well this movie was anything but realistic. It was typical Hollywood.We found ourselves laughing through 95% of this movie. Watching this and trying to believe that it really happened to someone was hysterical. We couldn't stop giggling. Nice try Hollywood, but this was a NO GO!! Scary??? NOT!!! hilarious?? ABSOLUTELY! Rent this one if you want a good laugh fest.… Expand

Unconvincing horror flick. It is well produced, the cast is capable but the story just simply isn't very good. Nuff' said.

Involving, fun, and thoroughly frightening with just enough creeps and crawls to keep you on the edge of your seat. Check it out!

I'll admit this movie really wasn't anything new. I mean a haunted house movie comes out every year like clock work. Most of them come with the slogan "inspired by actual events" or "based of a true story" this one isn't that much different from those. Now this movie did have plenty of jumps and frights. But nothing amazing.

Alright. So this isn't a classic. It isn't a shining example of film as an art form. It isn't much of anything other than a scary movie. And on that level, it delivers the shocks and scares better than any of the horror movies I've seen in the theatre in the last year. Sure, anyone familiar with horror film tropes will experience a distinct sense of deja vu, and anyone who's seen The Amityville Horror, with which this movie's inspiration shares many real-world connections, will connect the dots between that movie's plot and this one's, but Haunting manages to bring the scares without being a remake of something done in America in the 80's or in Japan in the 90's. Surely that counts for something.… Expand

So this probably won't go in the Hall of Fame for film ingenuity, but as the modern horror film that it is, it delivers a very intriguing plot that really caught my attention. The characters were mostly pretreated beautifully, except for a couple times when their actions were a bit predictable. I honestly love this movie because it doesn't solely rely on blood and guts to deliver a good shiver, it creeps you out with ghosts and real life experiences that can be more relevant to people's lives (therefore more believable and creepier). I would strongly recommend for people to watch this.… Expand

A great movie that keeps you guessing till the very end!

As many have probably pointed out, the movie was just too predictable to be even considered for a high score. However, the wonderful acting and the outstanding effects leave it out of the trash heap. I personally liked the double-take disappearances throughout the movie by the soon-to-die child, it gave a creepy air to it but still left the predictability o f any old haunted house movie. I can't say anything about the ending, though, because I left the theater before it came around, so I'll assume it was the same old "happily ever after" tale.… Expand

Does it's creep-outs very well, this movie gets the award for making my fiancee scream/jump the loudest I've seen her while in front of a movie. I thought this one was up there with Amityville, if not creepier, so I'm not sure where the negative comparisons come from. Amityville's plot line is quite a bit different than this one (actually to be honest they aren't even remotely similar), which makes me wonder how many critics even watched the damned movie. Apparently if it is in a house, and people died, and its scary, then it must be an Amityville rip-off, right?… Expand

I went into this expecting The Exorcism of Emily Rose part 2, in other words just utter crap, but this was a really good horror movie. As far as horror movies that make it to theatres in North America this was one of the scarier ones. It's creepy as hell and the acting and plot is good enough to make you buy in to the whole mess. If you like horror movies first off you know to ignore what critics say, and just look past the crappy title and cover art and watch it. definitely worth it.… Expand

Oooohhhh scary. They sure like to use the same tricks over, though. At least it kept me watching. Not bad.

Movies with cheap scares should not be classified as horror but trash rather. Anyone can surprise an audience, horror movies requires good plot and storyline.

Priests err. The priest in Peter Hyams' "End of Days" corrects the biggest clergical error of them all: the sign of the devil was misread("666" is actually "999" upside-down). When the priest in "The Haunting in Connecticut" realizes his own error, he calls the family and leaves a message on their answering machine. It's only natural that the urgent transmission goes unheard. The message itself has a self-relexive quality WHICH deconstructs the horror sub-genre that is the haunted house flick. Reverend Propescu's words are plain-old common sense, but the characters that inhabit these fatalistic diegeses are stuck in a circumstantial paradox. If these non-people behaved in a rational manner, the narrative would be over before the first reel. In this case, we'd miss out on the supernatural hurl. It's bad enough that Matt(Kyle Gallner) insists on sleeping in the same room where the ghosts without eyelids regularly scare the bejesus out of him, but his sister Wendy(Amanda Crew) takes the customary lobotomized thrill-seeking nonchalance of haunted house victimization to the next level. Unfazed by the systematic decomposition of all the house's perishables, Wendy takes a shower, where the unflappable girl seemingly starts a fight with the shower curtain. And still Wendy won't leave the goddamn house. Once the ghosts can't be allocated solely to the mental sphere; a mere psychosomatic reaction towards Matt's cancer-fighting drugs, the Campbells need to make like the Lutzs and flee. The family's painfully slow-reaction time to the obvious dangers of the house, makes "The Haunting in Connecticut" increasingly convoluted as the facts about their home stack up like a hundred dead textual bodies.… Expand

Waste of time. Completely retarded movie that is only about 1% of the actual haunting, and 99% of family drama. It was so bad that everyone in the theater was actually chatting/whispering instead of watching it about 30 minutes in. I can only recommend this movie to people who enjoy torturing themselves.

This movie was awful. It was just a string of nonsense connecting jumpscares, which were too frequent and unimpressive. It also had one of my most hated plot devices, an old spiritual person who meets the main character in the middle of the movie and seems to know everything about everything. The movie follows its own internal logic to a degree until it's time to throw in the twist, at which point all of that gets thrown out the window. Unsurprisingly, the elder expert who was completely wrong about everything up to this point as it turns out suddenly knows... exactly what's going on! Skip it.… Expand

Overall, the movie is okay, but not so a 'horror' movie. The story doesn't really make sense, if they knew the house has problem, and it is only rented, they could have just move back , or find elsewhere, don't really have to deal with it.

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. At its core, Connecticut is a fairly warm, heart-rending family movie frequently disguised as a low-grade horror movie of shoddy writing and cheap thrills.… Expand

i like haunted house films but this one loses alot of points for going all hollywood and not sticking to what was said to have happend by the family. ive seen the documenty on discovery channel before i seen this film they went way off course in the last half of the film. as a horror film its so so but i cant give alot of praise to some thing that abandons its source material.

This is a pretty standard jump scare haunted house movie. The acting isn't horrible but it's nothing to write home about. The movie plays up the based on the true story angle but if you watch the special features on the DVD you learn that the vast majority of this movie is fiction. The biggest example being the burning of the home at the end. It never burned down... ever, yet the end of the movie says that the house was " rebuilt and resold". Somebody does live in it now but it never burned to the ground or had the dead no decomposed bodies built into the walls. So taking that in to effect we see that the movie isn't really based on the true story making it just another cookie cutter haunted house film full of predictable jump scares. This is a good movie for middle school and high school kids to start their interests in horror movies.… Expand