Some ideas were interesting, I must admit, but it's something we've seen before. The film started off well, but it quickly lost its appeal when the story started unfolding. I think that's it's a shame because it could have been a good haunted house film, however this is a highly forgettable affair, one that is sure to disappoint any viewer looking for genuine scares. The result is a film that just isn't inventive, interesting or engaging. This is one disappointing horror film, one that doesn't have any scares and relies far too much on CGI to create its terror. The performances are bland, and every actor seems not that interested in their performance. This is a film that just fails in delivering tense, memorable scares. That's exactly the case with The Haunting in Connecticut. The Haunting was directed by Jan de Bont the screenplay was written by David Self and based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting Of Hill House, which was also the basis for Robert Wise's 1963 film The Haunting, widely regarded as one of the screen's finest ghost stories.Throughout the horror genre, original ideas have given way to formulaic, unoriginal ideas that has been done before. Luke (Owen Wilson) quickly finds himself wondering: if this is really about studying sleep, why bring everyone to a haunted house? And Nell (Lili Taylor) finds herself inexplicably drawn to the mansion, with a fascination that soon bears terrifying fruit as the true story of Hill House is revealed. Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is outwardly brave, but it soon becomes evident that Hill House's sinister reputation has her on edge. David Marrow (Liam Neeson), long fascinated by the Hill House legend, brings three people there for what he tells them will be a study in sleep disorders.
However, Crain died an unexplained death at Hill House, and ever since tales have circulated that the mansion is haunted by evil spirits. In the 1860's, industrialist Hugh Crain financed the construction of Hill House, a beautiful but forbidding mansion where Crain hoped to house a wife and children.
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