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The Haunting in Connecticut is a 2009 supernatural horror film directed by Peter Cornwell and starring Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan, Amanda Crew, and Elias Koteas. The film is alleged to be about Carmen Snedeker and her family, though Ray Garton, author of In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting (1992), has publicly distanced himself from the accuracy of the events he depicted in the book.[2][3] The film's story follows the fictional Campbells as they move into a house (a former mortuary) to mitigate the strains of travel on their cancer-stricken son, Matt. The family soon becomes haunted by violent and traumatic events from supernatural forces occupying the house.
Although the film was moderately successful at the box office, grossing $77,527,732,[4] it received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to Metacritic.[5] In 2010 Gold Circle Films announced the production of a sequel, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (released 2013) They noted, however, that the film wouldn't be a direct sequel to The Haunting in Connecticut and would instead be a self-contained film with unique characters.[6]
In 1987, Sara Campbell is driving her son Matt home from the hospital where he has been undergoing cancer treatments. Sara and her husband Peter, a recovering alcoholic, discuss finding a rental house closer to the hospital. On another hospital visit, Sara finds a man putting up a "For Rent" sign in front of a large house. The man is frustrated and offers her the first month free if she will rent it immediately.
The following day, Peter arrives with Matt's brother Billy and cousins Wendy and Mary, and they choose rooms. Matt chooses the basement, where there is a mysterious door. After moving in, Matt suffers a series of visions involving an old, bearded man and corpses with symbols carved into their skin. The next day, Peter learns that the house was supposedly a funeral home; the room behind the mysterious door is a mortuary.
Matt tells another patient, Reverend Nicholas Popescu, about the visions. Nicholas advises him to find out what the spirit wants. Later, Matt finds a burned figure in his room who begins to move toward him. When the family comes home, they find a shirtless Matt with his fingers blood-covered from scratching at the wall.
The family begins to crack under the stress of Matt's illness and bizarre behavior. The children find a box of photographs, which show Jonah, a young man from Matt's visions, at a sance, emitting ectoplasm from his mouth. Wendy and Matt find out that the funeral home was run by a man named Ramsey Aickman. Aickman also conducted psychic research and would host sances with Jonah as the medium. At one sance, all those attending, including Aickman, were found dead and Jonah disappeared.
Nicholas theorizes that Aickman was practicing necromancy in an attempt to control the dead and bind them to the house. That night, Nicholas finds human remains in the house and removes them. Matt awakens to find Aickman's symbols carved into his skin. He is taken to the hospital, where he encounters Jonah. Nicholas and Matt begin to have simultaneous visions. Everyone in the sance is burnt, after a flash of bright light. The barely alive Aickman told Jonah to get out of the house, concerned that the demonic presence will get him next. Jonah uses a dumbwaiter to escape, calling for help. Entering an unknown chamber, Jonah realizes that he has entered the crematory. The spirit traps Jonah in the crematory, and cremates him alive.
As the fire department arrives, Sara and Peter frantically try to get in to save Matt. The spirits, finally freed, disappear. Outside, everyone watches tearfully as the emergency crew attempts to resuscitate a dying Matt. As Matt slips away, he has a vision of himself standing in the graveyard where he sees Jonah, no longer appearing burnt. He seems about to follow Jonah when he hears his mother's voice.
Promotional material for the film claimed that it was "based on true events" experienced by the Snedeker family of Southington, Connecticut, in 1986. Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed that the Snedeker house was a former funeral home where morticians regularly practiced necromancy, and that there were "powerful" supernatural "forces at work" that were cured by an exorcism.[10][11] Carmen Snedeker's claims of haunting by an "evil entity" and subsequent exorcism were dramatized in episodes of the television series A Haunting, Paranormal Witness and Mysteries at the Museum.[12]
Researcher Joe Nickell has dismissed the story as a hoax. Nickell noted that since Ed Warren died in 2006, some of his coauthors have admitted he "told them to make up incidents and details to create scary stories."[14]
While the film was mainly criticized for its use of horror cliches and "jump" scare tactics,[19] certain aspects of the film were praised by many critics. Particular credit went to the acting: primarily the performances of Gallner and Madsen.[20] Film critic Roger Ebert said the film "is a technically proficient horror movie and well acted," though he gave the movie only two stars.[21]
The Haunting in Connecticut debuted in the number one position on the DVD and Blu-ray charts with 1.5 million units sold.[22] Rentrak reported that the DVD release of The Haunting in Connecticut was No. 1 in DVD sales for the week ending July 19, 2009.[23][24]
The extended version DVD includes a commentary with Director Peter Cornwell, co-writer Adam Simon, producer Andrew Trapani, and editor Tom Elkins, a second commentary with the director and actors Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner, deleted scenes with optional director commentary, featurettes ("Two Dead Boys: Making of The Haunting in Connecticut", "The Fear is Real: Re-Investigating the Haunting", "Memento Mori: The History of Post Mortem Photography", "Anatomy of a Haunting"), and a digital copy of the film on a second disc.[25]
The DVD material was produced and directed by Daniel Farrands, who also served as a producer on the film. "Anatomy of a Haunting" featured commentary by parapsychological researchers Dr. Barry E. Taff and Jack Rourke.[26] The DVD release of The Haunting in Connecticut was the recipient of the Best Ghost Story award in Home Media Magazine's 2009 Reaper Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles in October 2009.
Gold Circle Films produced the follow-up The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia with Tom Elkins as director and David Coggeshall as the screenwriter,[27][28][29] it was released in a limited theatrical run, and through Video on Demand, on February 1, 2013.[30]
hey guys i just saw the movie and i live in ct about a half an hour away from were it takes place and i beleive thatt more thatn 90% of he movie was acctually not true but hey you guys need to get an interview with the son who had started seeing things
I just saw the movie this past weekend and it leaves very little to believe. I have seen the Discovery Channel version of the story and it follows much closer to what actually took place. Once again, Hollywood over glamorized the event and took it way out of preportion. As a paranamoral investigator, I watch movies like this and TV series ghost hunters, ghost adventure, and etc. with a big grain of salt. I agree with the other posts, I would very much like to hear an interview with Lorraine Warren and John Zaffis; especially an interview with Stephen Snedeker.
Hi there. I lived in Southington for 27 years. I lived about 9 minutes from the house, which is located at 208 Meridan Ave. If you go through downtown Southington, follow towards Plantsville. When you come to a fork in the road (before the bend) bare left and follow up the hill. The old Grand Union/A & P food store used to be on that fork. The house does not look like the one in the movie. I think it might still have a red front door.
I saw his mother in a CNN video this week, she is writing a book but using her maiden name. I Believe it was Reed, she doesnt want this story impacting her family. I imagine her son wants nothing to do with this story.
Sorry I cant find the link right now, but do some searching on CNN.com
i dont really know if its true or not but if there were more recordings of these incidents rather from the snedeker family, the paranormal in that house would actually be more validated. but i dont see how ANY family would make up stuff like that, which means something abnormal really DOES exist ???
has anyone found a website w/ newpaper articles, proof of the exorcism, etc.???
anyone in connecticut know if there were really bodies missing from the cemetary?
bodies in the house?
a fire?
No bodies were stolen and stored in the walls. The Snedeker boy did not set fire to the house either. He was locked up at the time. Watch the video in the link. The footage includes newspaper headlines and pictures of the family and the home.
Is it slightly concerning that none of the versions (book, documentary, movie) mention the resident who lived on the top floor, sharing the house with them at the time (I think her name was Sally), who saw and heard nothing supernatural?
i just watched the film the second time and i cried again i realy want to find out what happened in that house
people are saying there crazy! but if the boy realy had cancer then why would he make up sumfin crazy like this when he has more to think about than lies! i would realy like to talk to the family
I just saw the movie and did a shitload of research. Stephen, Philip, or whatever his name is DID have experimental proceedures (for cancer) with drugs that could have made him see things. I think the family might have lied. From what ive read there was no fire and suposedly when Ray Garton, author of In a Dark Place (about the incident), interviewed the family about it they couldent keep their individual stories streight. He claims that he used what they told him and made the rest up.
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