The Haunting in Connecticut

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Three Join Haunting in Connecticut
Source: The Hollywood Reporter September 14, 2007


Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan and Kyle Gallner have boarded the horror film The Haunting in Connecticut for Gold Circle Films and Lionsgate.

Virginia Madsen already is set to star in the thriller, which in the vein of The Exorcist is based on one family's experience with supernatural forces after settling into a new home.

Gallner will play Madsen's cancer-ridden son Matt, who becomes aware of the paranormal activity present around him. Koteas will play a priest and fellow cancer patient that Sara Campbell (Madsen) turns to for help. Donovan will play Madsen's husband.

The film, directed by Peter Cornwell and written by Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe, began shooting this week in Winnipeg

 

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http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=3581

 

[Galactus]

Trailer:

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/10/15/exclusive-the-haunting-in-connecticut-trailer-premiere/

 

[Jackasscoley15]

I love the sound effects and music in the trailer, they remind me of those great 70's horror movies.

 

[RogueDK]

This is cool news.I love the Discovery Channel dramatization of this.
I'm sure that Hollywood will take it up a notch.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Looks ok, kinda reminded me of Amityville.

 

[Galactus]

Haunting in Connecticut Release Date
Source:Lionsgate December 11, 2008


Lionsgate announced The Haunting in Connecticut is spooking theaters on June 19th. At the time of this writing it faces no horror competition, but it is up against the latest Harold Ramis comedy Year One starring Jack Black and Michael Cera.

The Haunting in Connecticut tells the true story of one family's supernatural ordeal. When Sara and Peter Campbell's son Matt is diagnosed with cancer, they uproot their family to Connecticut for his treatment. As the family settles into their new home, Matt grows increasingly disturbed by paranormal activity that seems to inhabit and possess the house. At a loss to help her frightened family, his mother turns to an enigmatic priest who appears to rid the house of its ghosts-- until the boy's condition takes a sudden and unexplained turn for the worse and their lives are put in grave danger.

Virginia Madsen, Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan and Kyle Gallner star for director Peter Cornwell.

 

[Red Mask]

I don't know if there was a true story. But I enjoyed this film more than the Friday the 13th remake. The actors were good and the plot was strong. Some scares were the usual red herring but the ghosts were well done. It does have a slow, tense start until the middle where things start to make sense. I like how they kept most of the special effects fairly conventional because it's the timing that was important.

 

[Bad Superman]

I don't know if there was a true story. But I enjoyed this film more than the Friday the 13th remake. The actors were good and the plot was strong. Some scares were the usual red herring but the ghosts were well done. It does have a slow, tense start until the middle where things start to make sense. I like how they kept most of the special effects fairly conventional because it's the timing that was important.

It is based on a true story. I loved the film.

 

[Timstuff]

I lived in Connecticut for 22 of my almost 23 years. Between this and Amittyville Horror, people must think my state is a cesspool of all things paranormal, but the truth is that they're just trying to sugarcoat the fact that Connecticut is boring.

My Grandfather actually lives in a supposedly "haunted house," and in the 30-some-odd years he's lived there he's never seen or heard anything that would validate any of the rumors around it. When the biggest story on the 6 o'clock news is someone backing into a telephone pole with their car, I think the boredome tends to make people's imaginations run a bit wild...