| | Haunting In Connecticut DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Thriller DVDs, Horror Movies, True Story Videos, Ghosts, Family Relations, Haunted Houses | | Starring | Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Kyle Gallner, Amanda Crew | | Director | Peter Cornwell | | Composer | Robert J. Kral | | Director of Photography | Adam Swica | | Executive Producer | Norm Waitt, Scott Niemeyer, Steve Whitney | | Producer | Paul Brooks, Daniel Farrands, Wendy Rhoads, Andy Trapani | | Screenwriter | Tim Metcalfe, Adam Simon |
Closed Captioned; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Special Edition Based on real events, THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT is a chilling cocktail with equal parts THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and THE EXORCIST with plenty of original scares added in. When a married couple (Virginia Madsen and Martin Donovan) move to Connecticut with their son, they hope the new location will aid in the boy's cancer treatment. But their new home already has otherworldly inhabitants, and it will take more than a simple exorcism to evict them. A direct descendent of classic haunted-house films like BURNT OFFERINGS (1975) and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979), THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT also features the classic premise of a family moving into a new home where the bad deeds of previous tenants have left a foul psychic residue. Reportedly based on true events experienced by the Snedeker family in the 1970s, Peter Cornwell’s film has plenty of effective scares, but it is also a moving family drama featuring an impressive performance by Virginia Madsen (SIDEWAYS).
It is 1987, and Connecticut teenager Matt Campbell (Kyle Gallner) is undergoing painful, experimental cancer treatments. Long drives to the hospital are making a trying experience even worse, so his mother, Sara (Madsen), rents an old house and moves the family closer to Matt’s clinic. Soon after moving into the house, Matt begins to have disturbing hallucinations of strange figures; but believing these visions to be unfortunate side effects of his cancer therapy, he keeps them to himself. When the visions persist, a bit of sleuthing reveals the Campbells’ new abode to be an old funeral home where séances were held in the 1920s by a mortician who also had dealings in the black arts that have left some restless spirits wandering the house. The first half of THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, where it isn’t clear if Matt’s visions are real or imagined, is driven more by the touching story of a mother and son caught in a painful situation than by shocks and scares. Once it’s confirmed that the ghosts are real, however, the film becomes a tight little thriller with some genuinely creepy moments. Martin Donovan, as the alcoholic father of the Campbell family, and Elias Koteas, as a sympathetic priest, do great work in supporting roles. Haunting In Connecticut Reviews: 3 star out of 5 -- "Where the film excels is in the moments of haphazard apparition....Every reflective surface becomes a reason to be alert and every oddly moving object a menacingly animated corpus."-- Sara Schieron, Box Office Haunting In Connecticut | List Price | $34.98 (You save $6.79) | | Studio | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2009 | | All Time Sales Rank |  77162  | | CD Universe Part number | 7949075 | | Catalog number | 25875 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Jul 14, 2009 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | for some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images | | Running Time | 102 Minutes | | Additional Info | Unrated | | Movie Details | Color; Unrated; 2-Disc Unrated Special Edition |
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Additional Release Material:
Featurette:
1. "Memento Mori: The History of Postmortem Photography” featurette
2. "Anatomy of a Haunting” – a conversation with Barry Taff, Ph.D. and psychic Jack Rourke
Documentary:
1. "The Fear is Real: Reinvestigating the Haunting” two-part documentary
Deleted Scenes:
1. Deleted scenes with optional commentary by director Peter Cornwell
Audio Commentary:
1. Director Peter Cornwell, Co-Writer Adam Simon, Producer Andrew Trapani and Editor Tom Elkins
2. Director Peter Cornwell, Stars Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner
Trailers:
1. Theatrical Trailer
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