The Haunting in Connecticut Critic Reviews

Haunting tweaks familiar tropes enough to make them interesting. Just not so interesting as to inspire many nightmares after the credits roll.Read the full review

Long on atmosphere yet short on dramatic tension.Read the full review

A technically proficient horror movie and well acted.Read the full review

Although it's reasonably well-acted and offers a few certifiable jolts, feels awfully familiar.Read the full review

Smart enough to put much of its weight on Gallner, a lively presence with a terrifically sour mug that makes him look like a mutual cousin of Willem Dafoe and Peter Lorre.Read the full review

Part of what makes "Connecticut" oddly watchable even as it drags is the oil-and-water mix of acting styles of the leads. Virginia Madsen's refined naturalism is an awkward fit with the sharp mannerisms of Martin Donovan.Read the full review

Boring and uninspired, this movie gives ghost stories a bad name.Read the full review

As a piece of storytelling, The Haunting In Connecticut is pretty lazy. As a horror movie, it’s lazier still, bringing out every annoying shock-cut and disorienting sound-design trick of the last decade.Read the full review

Gives you the creeps, the giggles and the groans in almost equal measure.Read the full review