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The Haunting In Connecticut Trailer Premiere

post #1 of 19
3/6/09 at 2:37pm
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/18...ERE/Page1.html

The episode of Haunting you speak of gave Carly and her friend nightmares for days, so we'll probably end up seeing this. Trailer looks good, but that poster is a beauty.
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post #2 of 19
3/6/09 at 2:45pm
I'm simply incapable of clicking the mouse fast enough to freeze frame the blazer man!
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post #3 of 19
3/6/09 at 2:54pm
I'm probably the only one that thinks this(or cares),but I'm kinda surprised this is PG-13.It looks and feels like an R-rated movie.

Out of all of the imagery in that trailer,the most effective to me was the shot of the shadow looming over the kid's bed-that's pretty fucking unsettling.
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post #4 of 19
3/6/09 at 5:12pm
I love A Haunting. I didn't see the episode that shares this story, but I'm glad I didn't because I'm dying to see a decent horror flick in the theater. Hopefully this can be that.
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post #5 of 19
3/7/09 at 3:41pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
The episode of Haunting you speak of gave Carly and her friend nightmares for days, so we'll probably end up seeing this.
I do believe you are contradicting yourself there, sir.

A Haunting is a fucking scary show for being just silly Discovery channel reinactments. A Haunting in Connecticut, which is a special two hour episode, is the worst. My best friend, her mother, and I are really into paranormal stuff, but the only catch with me is that I'm a total pussy, so after I watch stuff like this I am actually terrified.

The first time I watched it, I was with my best friend and another friend, and we couldnt get through it. (My other friend and me's reaction to it was "FLEE!". So we did. And then we met Patrick at Denny's and told him about it. )
Second time I watched it I got through the whole thing and cried.

I don't remember what movie I was going to see at AMC when I saw the poster, but when I did happen to see it I pretty much shit my pants. If that was scary on the Discovery channel, I knew the movie is going to be rediclous. And sure enough, I saw the trailer before My Bloody Valentine, and and my hypothesis was confirmed.

I will admit, I am morbidly curious. But I know if I see this I will sleep with all my lights on for a few weeks.
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post #6 of 19
3/7/09 at 4:06pm
A bunch of guys in front of me at Watchmen last night booed at this. No idea why.
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post #7 of 19
3/7/09 at 4:12pm
Were they wearing proton packs?

I've always had a hard time getting into these really slick haunted house productions. They always show too much. I'm still looking forward to Paranormal Events, although the site hasn't been updated in forever.
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post #8 of 19
3/7/09 at 4:41pm
i'm all of a sudden both glad and terrified i found this particular Haunting program on youtube.
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post #9 of 19
3/7/09 at 5:40pm
Elias Koteas channeling Enrico Colantoni. Looks generic, but could be fun if it's cheap.
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post #10 of 19
3/7/09 at 11:17pm
I had no idea this was the movie based on that episode of A Haunting. Because yeah, that episode is the worst. The dude in the suit especially.
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post #11 of 19
3/8/09 at 4:08pm
I just never understood why the dying kid slept in the basement away from everyone.
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post #12 of 19
3/8/09 at 5:02pm
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Quarantine!
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post #13 of 19
3/8/09 at 7:03pm
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I just never understood why the dying kid slept in the basement away from everyone.
Instinctually they knew he was THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS!

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post #14 of 19
3/8/09 at 9:49pm
Like everyone else said saw this episode on Discovery Channel and for what was a bunch of reanactments it was very creepy. I don't remember the man in the suit from the episode though. What was the deal with him. I can't really tell what he's supposed to look like at the end of the trailer.
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post #15 of 19
3/8/09 at 10:31pm
I just watched the episode. Man in suit shows up a few times, and looks like Charles Dance from The Golden Child. The first fifteen minutes were pretty effective, especially the introduction of the "lab", but it became apparent pretty quick that the Snedekers were just plagiarizing Poltergeist. If the movie uses the same haunted house cliches as the Snedekers did, it's going to be really miserable.

Who else thinks the Snedekers were full of it?
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post #16 of 19
3/9/09 at 1:52am
Is that the family? I'm too afraid to google it.
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post #17 of 19
3/9/09 at 10:01am
Yes, that's the family. You'll be happy to know (I think) that some light googling yields a high density of "Why the Snedeker haunting was fake" hits.
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post #18 of 19
3/9/09 at 10:22am
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A bunch of guys in front of me at Watchmen last night booed at this. No idea why.
They were from Hartford...
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post #19 of 19
3/16/09 at 7:15pm
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Originally Posted by Minsky View Post
Yes, that's the family. You'll be happy to know (I think) that some light googling yields a high density of "Why the Snedeker haunting was fake" hits.
Yup, sounds just as bogus as the Amityville one. From a post by the author of the book (IN A DARK PLACE: THE STORY OF A TRUE HAUNTING) based on the same material.

http://www.cinemablend.com/previews/...icut-2882.html

"June 21, 2008 at 18:29 My name is Ray Garton. Back in the early nineties, I wrote a book called IN A DARK PLACE: THE STORY OF A TRUE HAUNTING. It was published as "non-fiction", but that was just marketing. I went to Connecticut to meet with the family involved in the alleged haunting of their former house, which used to be a funeral home. I was never able to see the inside of the home because the people who were living there by then wanted nothing to do with the "haunting", which they said was utter nonsense. It was my job to get the family's story down on paper and into a book. I worked with the family, and with the "ghostbusters" or "demon hunters" (whatever they happened to be calling themselves at the moment), Ed and Lorraine Warren. The article above claims "the family had little involvement" in this book -- that is simply a lie. They were DIRECTLY involved with the book -- it was them, the Warrens, and myself, nobody else. I attempted to get their story. Unfortunately, the members of the family couldn't seem to keep their "facts" straight. Their individual stories simply did not fit into one smooth hole. The article above states that the book I wrote "remains a source of controversy." The only source of controversy was the family, because they just couldn't keep their stories straight. I went to Ed Warren and told him the problem. He laughed. "They're crazy!" he said. "Everybody who comes to us is crazy, otherwise why would they come to US? Just do the best you can. You write scary books, right? That's why we hired you. Use whatever you can of their story, make the rest up, and make it scary." And that's what I did.

The book IN A DARK PLACE is a combination of elements of the family's story and stuff I made up -- because it was a for-hire writing job, AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS TOLD TO DO. If this family is saying they had "little involvement" in this book, then they are bald-faced liars. They were involved from beginning to end, and THEY COLLECTED THE CHECK FOR IT. They were deeply involved in IN A DARK PLACE, and they were PAID for it -- their names are on the cover of the book along with my name and Ed and Lorraine Warren. I never got to meet their allegedly ill son -- I was only allowed to speak with him briefly on the phone. Although there was much talk of his illness, it was NEVER verified for me, although he did have a drug problem. It turned out that the girls in the family who claimed to have been groped by so-called invisible, demonic hands were actually groped by HIM.

He goes on to implicate the "Psychic researchers" as well:

" This is how the Warrens have always worked. They find a very "emotional" family with claims of some supernatural activity in their lives, convince them there's money to be made if they just shape this into a better "story" (and this family was very eager to make money -- at the time I knew them, the mother was involved in some kind of interstate lottery scam), then they hire a writer of horror fiction to write it up as a book -- "Make it scary," Ed told me -- and they've got themselves a package, a piece of merchandise that they can hawk on talk shows and that the Warrens can discuss in their VERY lucrative lectures. And perhaps they can convince someone in Hollywood to make a movie of it.

Of course, in THIS case, the book I wrote has been shoved aside and isn't involved in the making of the movie THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT. It will be VERY interesting to see how much of this movie contains the material that I WAS TOLD TO MAKE UP. We'll see."

Still might be a decent flick though (if the can avoid the standard Amityville/Poltergeist family fleeing ending.
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