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'The Haunting in Connecticut' stars Virginia Madsen, Martin
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There's not much wrong with the house in "The Haunting in
Connecticut" that a little WD-40 couldn't cure. Everything creaks, including the
dialogue. You'd swear the place was haunted by the ghost of a sound designer
whose predilection for metallic clangs every time an apparition swoops by a
mirror turns this thing into a virtual anvil chorus. Full review after the Jump,
'The Haunting in Connecticut' stars Virginia Madsen, Martin
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For those of us growing up in the '70s, there was one seminal,
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Australian novice Peter Cornwell can crow all he wants about this
tale's veracity, but there's more legitimacy in your average urban legend than
in the entire 100 minutes of this flimsy excuse for false shocks. Granted, we do
feel the unsettling atmosphere of this converted death palace, and there are
times when a sense of dread starts sneaking up on us. But then the first time
feature filmmaker ruins it all by telegraphing his scares with the standard
combination of menacing music cues, obvious framing, and drawn-out dramatic
pauses. If something didn't go "boo" after all that, the audience would feel
completely ripped off. Too bad Cornwell overcompensates while ignoring
everything else that could possibly be horrific about this situation. Full
review after the Jump,
For those of us growing up in the '70s, there was one seminal,
supposedly true, scary story. |
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A Family Plot |
Directing his first feature, Peter
Cornwell delivers some genuinely grisly imagery: a rusty
tin filled with eyelid trimmings — their lashes still
attached — and a spew of brocadelike ectoplasm. Most
unsettling of all are the peaceful photographs of dead
people that link the movie’s parallel worlds; as the
Icelandic filmmaker Hrabba Gunnarsdottir proved in her
mesmerizing documentary “Corpus Camera,” images of the
deceased can provide a great deal more than closure.
Full review after the Jump,
A Family Plot
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 The
Haunting
in Connecticut
storyline
involves a family that is
forced to relocate near a
clinic where their teenage
son was being treated for
cancer. The family begins
experiencing violent,
supernatural events that the
parents first blame on
stress and hallucinations
from the boy's illness and
treatment. The family later
discovers the home's haunted
past, and seek the
assistance of a local priest |
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