The Haunting in Connecticut: Critic Reviews

57%

MovieWeb: 13 reviews

17%

RottenTomatoes: 99 reviews

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Adam Markovitz Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

34

Madsen barely emotes during the ensuing flood of hokey scare tactics.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times (Top Critic)

50

Gives you the creeps, the giggles and the groans in almost equal measure.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

What started out reasonably scary, if derivative, just drags on and becomes silly.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

The Haunting in Connecticut is another movie based on a supposedly true paranormal occurrence -- perhaps you haven't entirely forgotten 2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose or An American Haunting from 2006.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Scott Foundas Village Voice (Top Critic)

About as scary as a shower that suddenly changes temperature when someone flushes the toilet.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

60

It was with considerable surprise that I found myself flinching more than once while watching Peter Cornwell's ghost story, The Haunting in Connecticut.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

If the movie has a flaw, it's too many surprises.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

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 » 3 years ago
Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

It loses steam once the wraiths become fully visible: they're just not scary enough.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

Good performances and an eerie atmosphere can't save the flick: I'd wait for the DVD.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

50

The Haunting in Connecticut operates like someone leaning in behind you and yelling. At first, it makes you jump. The 200th time, it's just annoying.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

34

It's just such a thoroughly typical ghost story.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kerry Lengel Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

60

The eerie buildup is mostly pro forma... But the backstory of the haunted house, revealed slowly in sepia-toned hallucinations, really is creepy.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

A based-on-fact ghost story that's long on atmosphere yet short on dramatic tension.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

38

Connecticut: not very haunty.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

The writers, "true story" or not, were plainly recycling Amityville story structure. So credit editor Tom Elkins with the scares that work.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Greg Quill Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

Director Peter Cornwell and writers Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe set up their version of the Connecticut haunting with remarkable efficiency and credible atmospherics.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

25

Ho-hum, one more slapped-together exercise in pre-fab horror.
Full Review » 3 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

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John DeFore Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A 'true story' of ghosts and illness suffers in comparison to the director's attention-getting short Ward 13.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Christy Lemire Associated Press (Top Critic)

Creaking floorboards, slamming doors, flickering lights -- you've seen it all before, and it's all here again.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

Haunting suffers for its need to be sold as a straight-up horror film, and the fact it has been seemingly retrofitted as such.
Full Review » 3 years ago
William Goss Cinematical

60

A run-of-the-mill spooker that often opts for Dolby jolts and Avid farts over character investment.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Enrique Buchichio Uruguay Total

40

Una supuesta historia real sirve de base para un drama familiar enmarcado en un cuento de fantasmas. Nada nuevo. Previsible y efectista.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Brian Holcomb Kinetofilm

40

The movie works hard for your money and should theoretically be scarier than the cut rate television production. But it's not. Not by a mile.
Full Review » 3 years ago