DVD Review: The Haunting in Connecticut
Toni Guagenti - Virginia Pilot
Jul 17, 2009
Blu-ray widescreen and DVD widescreen, 2009, PG-13 for some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images
Best extra "The Fear is Real: Reinvestigating the Haunting," Parts 1 and 2
Based loosely on the Snedeker family's ordeal in a former funeral home in upstate Connecticut, this movie has its scary moments, some understated acting and some twists on archetypes.
But the most interesting among the myriad high-def bonus features are the ones based on fact, including the mini-documentary on the real family's experiences in the house, a brief history of Memento Mori, postmortem photography in the 19th and 20th centuries, and a look at the anatomy of a haunting with two paranormal experts.
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This Blu-ray disc also contains the theatrical and unrated versions. The unrated one contains a couple of different scenes, one of which is extended and a bit gory and the other of which plays out in color as opposed to black and white in the theatrical release. As for the sound and picture quality, the music is eerie, and the sound adds to the suspense as weird things, high-def zombies of sorts, pop on and off the screen.
Add six deleted scenes with optional director commentary, the HD trailer, a making-of featurette and two commentaries.
- Toni Guagenti
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