![]() ![]() She promises to help - and does she ever! In the next scene, she is suddenly revealing the history of the house as a funeral home where seances were held and a boy medium named Jonah contacted the dead, complete with photos and old newspaper articles. Mom flips through the photos much too quickly for a viewer who doesn't know the ba ckstory to realize what they are then she throws them in the garbage (which caused me to cringe as an antiques dealer, I know those things are worth a lot of money!) The story doesn't really get going until the teen boy confesses his experiences to his teen girl cousin. The only other odd thing that happens in this section of the film (which seems to go on too long) is the mother finding a stash of Victorian post-mortem photos (in which the dead person is dressed & propped up, often with other family members, as if he were alive). He does not tell the doctor when the doctor specifically asks about hallucinations. The boy sees flashes of ghosts in the family's newly-rented house. ![]() ![]() ![]() The boy is put on an experimental treatment that, according to the doctor, may cause hallucinations. It starts out very slowly: a family is coping with their teenage son's cancer. THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT is a good horror film that misses being great because of odd pacing. ![]()
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