Corpse Mutilation, angry ghosts and the true story of a haunting apparently doesn't make for a good movie mix, as evidenced in my disappointment with "The Haunting in Connecticut."
As an avid fan of the genre, I don't mind the whole blood and guts aspect of a good horror movie and I think there is a point where there is too little gore and way too much bore.
The movie is based on the story of a teenage cancer patient named Matt Campbell (played by Kyle Gallner) who undergoes treatment in a hospital that is miles away from home.
His mother Sara (Virginia Madsen) thinks it would be best for everyone's well-being to move into a creepy rental place that is closer to the hospital but the rental turns out to be an old funeral home filled with a bunch of unresolved-missing-corpses-turned-evil-spirits that begin haunting them.
The only thing that was frightening about this movie was the fact that Matt had cancer and the dad was an alcoholic.
"Haunting" tries too hard to scare you with old school posed portraits of dead people and, when that fails to bring any chills, the movie reveals that Matt's basement bedroom was once an autopsy room where a sick mortician cut up a bunch of dead people and buried their coffins empty.
Even the pop-up scares were lame and were aimed more at the pre-teen crowd than at me because nothing could keep my attention. It lacked the intensity that a good horror movie should have and I couldn't connect with the characters, leaving me cold.
The only part of this "true story" that I believed to be true was Matt's cancer battle and the sacrifices his family had to make for him.
While some of the spooky stuff might have been factual, it's hard to swallow a Casper-like ghost story that lacks any kind of realism.
If you like movies about haunted funeral homes and lame trapped spirits, then "The Haunting in Connecticut" will probably keep you awake for the hour and a half it's on but you will still be upset that you wasted a Friday Night.
"Haunting" gets an "A" for annoying and a "D" dumb waste of a script.
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