The Haunting In Connecticut

So the reason I didn’t go to bed last night until 2 in the morning was because I was too scared to be in my room, in the dark, alone.

I’m not one to see scary movies… Ever.  I started watching The Ring with my mom when I was twelve and I made her turn it off at the part when they showed the girl in the closet with the screwed up face.  And I saw Silence of the Lambs earlier this year.  (By the way, that’s a great movie.  See it.)  That’s about the extent of my horror movie experience.

In case you didn’t know, the movie is about a family called the Campbells.  The oldest son, Matt, is suffering from cancer, and they decide to move to a house in Connecticut so that they can be close to the hospital where Matt is being treated and tested.  Mrs. Campbell decides to move into a particular house even when she finds out it used to be a funeral home.  But as soon as they move in, Matt starts seeing things and hallucinating about the house’s past occupants.

I think what was the best/worst about this movie was the whole idea that it’s “based on a true story.”  And to top it all off it takes place in Connecticut.  Guess who lives in Connecticut?!

I just looked up how it’s “true,” on the internet.  Apparently it’s based on a family called the Snedekers and their supposed experience living in a former funeral home.  But the guy who interviewed the family said each individual person’s story didn’t match up.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1522969/snedeker_family_how_true_is_the_connecticut.html?cat=40

Booo.  It was still really disturbing, though.  HOLY SHIT, there was this one part when the mom was asleep in her room and she saw a guy in the doorway, and she thought it was  her husband because it was dark, so she got up to look AND THE LIGHTS FLASHED AND IT WAS THIS REALLY WEIRD FACE.

Anyway, it’s definitely worth seeing.