|
|
Post by b_Pooly on Feb 27, 2009 23:33:37 GMT -5
Theatrical Release:
Friday, March 27, 2009
Starring: view full cast
* Virginia Madsen
* Brooklynn Proulx
* Elias Koteas
* Kyle Gallner
* Martin Donovan
Directed by:
—
Genres:
Suspense Horror Supernatural
Keywords:
exorcism family relocate
Distributor:
Lionsgate Films
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
SYNOPSIS
A family is forced to relocate near a The astounding, well-documented story of a family forced to relocate near a clinic where their son was being treated for cancer. Strained financially and emotionally, the family discovers their recently renovated home was a former mortuary with a dark history. After experiencing violent supernatural events both inside and out of the house, the family seeks the help of ghost hunters and the Catholic Church, which performs an exorcism.
The commercials look promising. |
|
|
|
Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 1, 2009 21:29:40 GMT -5
This I want to see.
|
|
|
|
Post by Synyster Gates on Mar 2, 2009 14:05:16 GMT -5
Awesome theres gonna be a movie on this. I saw the documentary thing, its a very interesting story, if its gonna be a movie there gonna have to give it some form of climax, the house being exorcised is a bit anti climatic.
|
|
|
|
Post by spirithunter on Mar 9, 2009 17:53:54 GMT -5
If it wasn't for John Zaffis being involved in this case I would call it another Amittyville since Ed & Lorraine Warren was involved also. Them's the two biggest con's in Paranormal and still don't see what Ryan Buell from PRS teams up with Lorrain for every now and then. Whatever was in that house (some form of demon I believe) scared John so bad he wont even talk 'bout this case hardly and this guy has been on some of the biggest cases ever and has even helped perform exorcisms and one of the most respected Demonoligist in the field. When Jason Hawes & Grant Wilson calls and asks you to join in on a case you know you're good. If anybody want's to hear it the mother Carmen Reed did a radio interview little over a year ago for TAPS Family Radio radio.tapsfamily.com/archives.htmlIt's the fourth one down and a interesting interview. Also John Zaffis has one on there also |
|
|
|
Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 9, 2009 17:55:23 GMT -5
If it wasn't for John Zaffis being involved in this case I would call it another Amittyville since Ed & Lorraine Warren was involved also. Them's the two biggest con's in Paranormal and still don't see what Ryan Buell from PRS teams up with Lorrain for every now and then. Whatever was in that house (some form of demon I believe) scared John so bad he wont even talk 'bout this case hardly and this guy has been on some of the biggest cases ever and has even helped perform exorcisms and one of the most respected Demonoligist in the field. When Jason Hawes & Grant Wilson calls and asks you to join in on a case you know you're good. If anybody want's to hear it the mother Carmen Reed did a radio interview little over a year ago for TAPS Family Radio radio.tapsfamily.com/archives.htmlIt's the fourth one down and a interesting interview. Also John Zaffis has one on there also thanks for the information. I didn't know that. |
|
|
|
Post by spirithunter on Mar 9, 2009 19:11:49 GMT -5
You're welcome. It's one of the most talked 'bout cases in the field. Know many of teams wouldn't care to check it out. John said he'd never step foot back in the place. Know a woman that's friends with him and like I said it's really hard to get him to say a word 'bout it. He tries to change the subject to something else. The one thing that I know is Hollywood will add more in to give it that extra SHOCK factor to it. Hell that's what they did to the Emily Rose case. If you ain't ever seen it check this guy out on youtube he's got the A Haunting version of this and John Zaffis does talk 'bout it a little www.youtube.com/user/glasbruk71 |
|
|
|
Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 23, 2009 20:16:06 GMT -5
Just saw the preview again for this, damn it looks awesome!
|
|
|
|
Post by spirithunter on Mar 24, 2009 21:05:27 GMT -5
Know a guy who might be able to get me copy on DVD sometime this week *big grin*
|
|
|
|
Post by b_Pooly on Mar 28, 2009 20:46:32 GMT -5
saw it in the theater... wish my sister would have let me waited for video... she wasn't pleased too much either.... IF you ever drag someone to a film, at least have the decency to like the FUCKING FILM!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by DRAVEN on Mar 28, 2009 21:27:29 GMT -5
damn...from the previews i've seen, it looked decent....
reminds me, though....years ago my wife wanted to see "Eyes Wide Shut", the Stanley Kubrick film w/Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman...dragged me to see it, and we sat there, appalled that what we watched was all there was to it...as we are leaving, overheard some guy walking to his car, saying to his gf/wife..."I can't believe you dragged me to that piece of shit"
|
|
|
|
Post by b_Pooly on Mar 28, 2009 21:49:41 GMT -5
it was ok, it was just kind of boring, not really scary or suspenseful.
assholes in the theater don't help much either!
edit: didn't help my paranoia much either though, lol!
|
|
|
|
Post by spirithunter on Mar 29, 2009 9:39:47 GMT -5
Somebody couple days go posted this on the TAPS board
The Real Story Behind 'The Haunting in Connecticut'
« on: March 26, 2009, 05:09:26 PM » Reply with quote
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist
The new film "The Haunting in Connecticut" tells the story of the Snedeker family, who in 1986 rented an old house in Southington, Connecticut. Allen and Carmen Snedeker moved in with their daughter and three young sons. While exploring their new home, Carmen found strange items in the basement: tools used by morticians.
The family soon discovered — to their horror — that their home had once been a funeral parlor, and the eldest son began seeing ghosts and terrifying visions. The experiences spread to other family members and got worse: Both parents said they were raped and sodomized by demons; one day as Carmen mopped the kitchen floor, the water suddenly turned blood red and smelled of decaying flesh; and so on.
Finally the family contacted a pair of self-styled "demonologists" and "ghost hunters," Ed and Lorraine Warren, who arrived and proclaimed the Snedeker house to be infested with demons.
The scariest part? It's all true, supposedly.
The Snedekers have told their story many times, including on national talk shows and in a Discovery Channel TV show. The film's poster states in capital letters at the top that the movie is "based on true events." Yet others aren't so sure.
Investigator Joe Nickell reports in the May/June issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine that the Snedeker's landlady found the whole story ridiculous. She noted that nobody before or since had experienced anything unusual in the house, and that the Snedeker family stayed in the house for more than two years before finally deciding to leave.
Apparently being assaulted and raped by Satan's minions for months at a time wasn't a good enough reason to break the lease.
The Snedeker's story first came to light in horror novelist Ray Garton's 1992 book "In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting." In an interview in "Horror Bound" magazine, Garton discussed how the "true story" behind "The Haunting in Connecticut" came about.
Garton was hired by Ed and Lorraine Warren to work with the Snedekers and write the true story of their house from hell. He interviewed all the family members about their experiences, and soon realized that there was a problem: "I found that the accounts of the individual Snedekers didn't quite mesh. They couldn't keep their stories straight. I went to Ed with this problem. 'Oh, they're crazy,' he said.... 'You've got some of the story — just use what works and make the rest up... Just make it up and make it scary.'"
Garton, who had accepted the job expecting to have a real "true story" to base the book on, did as he was told: "I used what I could, made up the rest, and tried to make it as scary as I could."
Though the Snedekers stand by their story, it seems there is little or no proof that anything supernatural occurred at the house. Whether or not the Snedekers actually believed their story, they stood to make money from the book deal. They were aware that the Lutz family — of Amityville, New York — profited handsomely from selling the rights to their "true story" of a haunted house. "The Amityville Horror" has long since been revealed as a fiction by investigator Ric Osuna and others. Interestingly, the Warrens were also involved in the Amityville case.
Fiction passed off as memoir or true story is certainly nothing new, from William Peter Blatty's book and film "The Exorcist" to James Frey's debunked bestseller "A Million Little Pieces." Filmmakers have a long history of touting movies as being based on true stories, when in fact they have little or no connection to any real events.
As for "The Haunting in Connecticut," Garton notes, "I suspect the movie will begin with the words: 'Based on a true story.' Be warned: Just about anything that begins with any variation of this phrase is trying a little too hard to convince you of something that probably isn't true."
|
|
|
|
Post by BeccaThanYOU on Apr 6, 2009 15:44:04 GMT -5
i just saw this last night in the cinema an it scared me half to death but it wore off after a few hours of me being to scared to look on the back seat of the car lol
oh an bbsy your a liar if you say you didnt jump atleast once in the whole film!
|
|
|
|
Post by b_Pooly on Apr 6, 2009 16:59:43 GMT -5
the sad part is, I'm a very jumpy person and not one jump out of me.
then again I was kind of bored the whole time
|
|
|
|
Post by THE Man They Call Uberto on Apr 6, 2009 18:43:06 GMT -5
I hate to break it up to you guys but this whole movie is fake, the book that started the original documentary and this movie the author has spoke out on the entire family. To the point where the man doesn't sell the book anymore. That family is filled with a bunch of alcoholics and drug addicts. The demons that "raped" the women, yeah that was the son who's also mentally ill. The family was so drugged out of their minds they couldn't finish stories, stories didn't correspond, and more importantly the father and mother told the author to just use all the lies that they made up and further fabricate them.
|
|
|
|
Post by b_Pooly on Apr 6, 2009 22:05:36 GMT -5
who said it was real?
|
|
|
|
Post by BeccaThanYOU on Apr 7, 2009 6:16:32 GMT -5
yeah no one said it was real! It's just a film gosh
|
|
|
|
Post by Synyster Gates on Apr 7, 2009 8:44:38 GMT -5
There was a documentary about it a few years ago, i assumed it was real, making a documentary about something that never happened is pretty stupid. |
|
|
|
Post by b_Pooly on Apr 7, 2009 8:45:43 GMT -5
There was a documentary about it a few years ago, i assumed it was real, making a documentary about something that never happened is pretty stupid. I meant in this thread... it even says it's fake in the info I posted, if it was a documentry it would have said as much. |
|
|
|
Post by spirithunter on Apr 8, 2009 15:39:25 GMT -5
I hate to break it up to you guys but this whole movie is fake, the book that started the original documentary and this movie the author has spoke out on the entire family. To the point where the man doesn't sell the book anymore. That family is filled with a bunch of alcoholics and drug addicts. The demons that "raped" the women, yeah that was the son who's also mentally ill. The family was so drugged out of their minds they couldn't finish stories, stories didn't correspond, and more importantly the father and mother told the author to just use all the lies that they made up and further fabricate them. That's Ammityville  And I should know ;D And the book ain't out yet. It's being done by Carmen Reed and John Zaffis Anyway Just got 'round to watching it yesterday morning. As usual Hollywood made it into more than there was to it. Completly skipped The Warrens and Zaffis and went with a preacher instead. The fire never happend and the reason the kid went to the Hospital was because he tried to attack the niece not having a bunch of letters and stuff on him and didn't come back. Oh by the way. The furniture stacking that happend,that's poltergiest activity not demonic. That needed to do their homework |
|
|
|
Post by Queen of the Damned on Jul 18, 2009 19:42:02 GMT -5
this is out on dvd now, right?
|
|
|
|
Post by b_Pooly on Jul 18, 2009 19:45:27 GMT -5
this is out on dvd now, right? yes |
|
|
|
Post by Queen of the Damned on Sept 24, 2009 18:58:30 GMT -5
finally got to see this, it wasn't great but not bad.
|
|
