| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 24, 2011

Woe be to you if you don't see this film in a theater packed with back talking New Yorkers. Because then you might be forced to concentrate on what's on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Aug 14, 2009

Haunted-house movies would be nothing without the odd frisson of scepticism. This is the best in quite a while.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

The line between a great haunted house thriller and a mediocre one is very, very slim.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2009

Madsen barely emotes during the ensuing flood of hokey scare tactics.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 27, 2009

I wish Haunting had trusted its plot and its dank visuals -- which are often extraordinary -- instead of relying on cheap thrills of the cat-jumps-out-of-the-closet variety.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2009

Haunting suffers for its need to be sold as a straight-up horror film, and the fact it has been seemingly retrofitted as such.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2009

Connecticut: not very haunty.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 27, 2009

[W]hite people haven't learned much in the quarter-century since Eddie Murphy's classic disquisition on The Amityville Horror.

| Mar 27, 2009

Ho-hum, one more slapped-together exercise in pre-fab horror.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 27, 2009

It's boring to pick apart a movie's inconsistencies one by one, but The Haunting in Connecticut contains so many insults to the audience's intelligence, it doesn't offer much choice.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 27, 2009

It's just such a thoroughly typical ghost story.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 27, 2009

It loses steam once the wraiths become fully visible: they're just not scary enough.

| Mar 27, 2009

Creaking floorboards, slamming doors, flickering lights -- you've seen it all before, and it's all here again.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2009

Director Peter Cornwell and writers Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe set up their version of the Connecticut haunting with remarkable efficiency and credible atmospherics.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2009

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 27, 2009

What started out reasonably scary, if derivative, just drags on and becomes silly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2009

Despite well-designed scare shots, the laborious telling of this elaborate ghost story ultimately fizzles under the weight of too much effort.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2009

The movie bumps along from low-grade scare to scare, and it's not lousy, mainly because Virginia Madsen prevents it from being so.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2009

It was with considerable surprise that I found myself flinching more than once while watching Peter Cornwell's ghost story, The Haunting in Connecticut.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2009