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The Haunting in Connecticut

Year:
Duration:
92 min | 102 min (extended cut)
Genres:
Drama | Horror | Thriller
IMDB rate:
5.9
Director:
Peter Cornwell
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2009-03-27
Filming Locations: Teulon, Manitoba, Canada
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $23,004,765 (USA) (29 March 2009)
Gross: $55,325,526 (USA) (10 May 2009)
Cast
Actor
Character
Kyle Gallner
Kyle Gallner
The Haunting in Connecticut
Sophi Knight
Sophi Knight
The Haunting in Connecticut
Virginia Madsen
Sara Campbell
Elias Koteas
Reverend Popescu
Amanda Crew
Wendy
Martin Donovan
Peter Campbell
Ty Wood
Billy Campbell
Erik J. Berg
Jonah
John Bluethner
Ramsey Aickman
D.W. Brown
Dr. Brooks
John B. Lowe
Mr. Sinclair
Adriana O'Neil
Chemo Nurse
Will Woytowich
Cop
James Durham
Matt's Cell Mate
Darren Ross
Paramedic #1
Sarah Constible
Paramedic #2
Blake Taylor
1920's Séance Attendee #1
Keith James
1920's Séance Attendee #2
Kelly Wolfman
1920's Séance Attendee #3
Jessica Burleson
1920's Séance Attendee #4
Matt Kippen
Strung-Out Guy
Jeny Cassady
1920's Hero Engraved Corpse #2 (uncredited)
Nicholas Podbrey
Engraved Ghost (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The movie is loosely based on the real life stories of Al and Carmen Snedeker who lived in a reportedly haunted former funeral parlor in Southington, Connecticut.
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The "One bright day in the middle of the night" poem comes from a tradition in British and Scottish Folklore and has no real author as such. It's considered more as a moral exercise (a "Lying Song") in the tradition of the Miracle Plays than as true nonsense verse.
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The character of Reverend Popescu was supposedly based on John Zaffis, an investigator who worked on the case.
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Goofs
When Wendy sends the kids to play hide-and-seek and Mary goes up to the attic, she leaves the door at the foot of the stairs open. When Mary falls through the floor and screams, Wendy runs to the attic and yanks open the door, which was closed before. However, due to the strong spectral forces residing in the house, the ghosts could have possibly closed the door. We know this because later on in the movie it is shown being done (doors opening and closing).
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After Matt escapes the hospital and returns home, Wendy tells Mary to play hide and seek. After Mary runs away to hide Matt finds Wendy and Billy then forces them out of the house. Matt then sets the house on fire. When the parents, reverend, and police show up neither Wendy, nor Billy, mention that Mary is still in the burning house. Not even after the firemen show up to put out the fire does anybody mention Mary. The mother goes in the house to save Matt and is then rescued by the firemen. After Matt and his mother are rescued from the fire nobody mentions Mary. Mary is not seen, or mentioned, after she is told to play hide and seek.
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At the beginning of the film, the father mentions that he would look the house up on the Internet. The Internet was not widely used for consumer or commercial use during this time. The Internet did not become used for such commercial use until the mid to late 1990s.
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Quotes
Matt Campbell: Mom, if I die...
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Wendy: [looking at Matt] What?
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Reverend Popescu: [before the house is burning down] Fire release spirits.
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Faq
Q
Is "The Haunting in Connecticut" based on a book?
A
The Haunting in Connecticut is based on In a Dark Place:The Story of a True Haunting (1992), co-authored by horror writer Ray Garton, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, and Al and Carmen Snedeker. The story was brought to the screen by writers Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia was released in February 2013.
Q
What is discharging from Jonah's mouth in the photos of him presiding at the seances?
A
It is ectoplasm, defined in the movie as "a mysterious protoplasmic substance streaming out of the bodies of mediums."
Q
How does the movie end?
A
Matt awakens with marks all over his body. Sara races him to the hospital, where the doctor says Matt doesn't have long to live. Meanwhile, Reverend Popescu (Elias Koteas) realizes that he's made a terrible mistake about the eyelids. Aickman didn't remove the lids to make the dead see but to make them unseen. Jonah (Erik J. Berg) was trying to help them. However, now that Jonah's remains have been removed from the house, only the dead remain, and they're angry. One of them attacks Wendy while she's taking a shower. Matt escapes out the window of his hospital room and returns to the house. He grabs an axe, locks Wendy and the kids out of the house, and starts chopping down the walls. Dozens and dozens of stacked bodies begin pouring out. He then sets the house on fire. The spirits of the bodies begin appearing, and they all lay their hands on Matt. Sara, Peter, and the police arrive at the house as it goes up in flames. Sara hears Matt's screams and finds him lying on the floor. With fire all around them and more bodies falling from the ceiling, Sara pulls Matt under a table for refuge. Matt collapses in her arms. The police break a hole in the wall and help Matt and Sara outside. Paramedics work on reviving Matt while the Reverend stands by praying. Suddenly, Matt draws a breath and sits up. The Rev and Jonah look each other in the eyes. As the house continues to burn and ashes can be seen flowing out of it, Sara is heard in a voiceover, saying, "I don't really care if anybody believes me or not. I know what happened, doctors and nurses know, my family knows, and my son is alive and well. That's all that matters. They say that God works in mysterious ways. They just don't tell you how mysterious those ways can be. Consider yourself warned." Just before the credits roll, there is an epilog that reads: Matt Campbell's cancer disappeared and he made a full recovery. The Aickman house has been rebuilt, restored, and resold. No subsequent occupants have complained of any disturbing manifestations.
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Photos from cast
Kyle Gallner Sophi Knight
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