Critic Watch: The Haunting in Connecticut

The critic Roger Moore in Charlotte Observer titled the film The Haunting in Connecticut as “Amityville’s retread manages a few surprises.” He means that the film is an “Amityville Horror” one, which mean only one guy believes in ghosts and nobody else. But there is a man who cans senses the evil, however, his warnings is not enough for the people to know. Then he said that the writers were plainly recycling this “Amityville” story structure.

Austin Chronicle’s critic, Peter Cornwell’s review on “The Haunting in Connecticut” is about his dislike of the film bases really on the older horrors kinds of film such as The Beyound, Shock, The Others and The Amityville Horror, and is adapted from the book In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting. Beside that, he also hates lines of the actors and actress, where he calls couple “boring upper-middle-class.” They make the decision to move into the house served as both a mortuary and nexus of eternal evil.

Jeaninetter Catsoulis on, The New York Times, give the film the title “A Family Plot.” It review says that when the Campbells discover that the house is a former funeral parlor, the family just leave the ill son to handles this clients. Also it also compares to the movie “Psycho,” “The Shining” and “The Exorcist” saying that “these mnemonics movie are far less distracting this endlessly prompting, screeching score.” Beside the ghostly conversation needs the shrieking violins in order to compete it.

Jason Buchanan, a TV GUIDE critic, also gives a bad review that is the score of 1.5 star out of 5. He said that film has some interesting ideas, but it is too far to please a large crowd, where this film can be forgotten instantly. He views the film as too less emotional action toward the characters.

Los Angeles Time’s critic, Mark Olsen, is writing in his bad review for “ “, is about the characters and the director. He says the characters were oddly fitted in film; it is like the “oil-and-water” mix of acting styles. He views the film as a domestic drama rather than a completely horror tale. He believes that the film better off as a “straight-up horror film”