The haunting in connecticut (movie review for feature article)

The Haunting in Connecticut
Movie Review by Sammy Swanson

About a week ago I went to the movies to see The Haunting in Connecticut . The movie is a ghost story about a family that moves into a haunted house. The house used to be used for séances and as a funeral home. The eldest son of the family, Matt Campbell, has cancer and is currently in a clinical trying to find a cure for it. He sees visions of ghosts that may or may not be real. Everyone else except another cancer patient who can also see the ghosts doesn’t believe him.
I think this movie did not live up to it’s standards. “Call it a Lifetime original movie made for Halloween. Call it a Sci-Fi Channel Saturday night thriller...and keep waiting for something that might actually scare you.” Says ‘Uncle Creepy’ (www.rottentomatoes.com). I agree. The movie was supposed to be extremely scary but it ended up just being boring. It repeated ideas over and over again and didn’t hold my interest very long. Although some points in the movie built up much suspense, the “thriller” was really not that thrilling.
There were a couple memorable points in the movie such as when Mat was reciting a poem that goes “One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back, they faced each other. Drew their swords then shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came and killed those two dead boys. If you don’t believe my lies are true, ask the blind woman, she saw it too.”* The poem was catchy, but scary which made me feel like I was being watched.
I think that the movie didn’t hold my interest because I expected much more from it than what it actually was. But when I went home after the movie, I couldn’t get to sleep. Continually thinking about the point in the movie where they cut off dead people’s eyelids, I laid in bed awake almost all night.
So although the movie wasn’t as good as was expected, it was very memorable. Being based on a true story made it much more believable. If I had the chance to I would probably see this movie again. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who doesn’t believe in ghosts because they would not get any enjoyment out of it. Thank you for reading my review and I hope you see this movie too!

*The full poem was not stated in the movie, but the first line was.

MR. MAYO READ THIS!!!!!!

Hey mr. mayo i have a couple blogs but only 3 are for you, lol like which ones are for the newspaper, :) they are April fools, Father at 13 and coming in after this one the haunting in connecticut (movie review), k just didn't want you to read the wrong ones!

Broken Arm!

Hey, well sorry i haven't posted in a while, i was riding my friends bike down a hill and we came to the rode and i put my brakes on really fast and it turned out it was only the front brakes, well i went flying over the handel bars and broke my elbow. To later find out from the ortho pedic doctor that it was broken at a 40 degree angle and had to have surgery. After the surgery i was told i had to screws put into my elbow. a week from the surgery i got my cast of and saw the disgusting scare, i am now in physical thearpy. I am healing nice and easy, even though i can't starighten my arm complety. I was out from school for 2 weeks thank god there was spring brake, and i'm a righty ( i broke my left arm). Well anyway that is why there has been no post! thanks for reading! bye!

typing error!

hey! sorry guys in the blog 'Father at 13' the seconde to last sentence, it is suppose to read "Alfie will stay with massie even if he ISN'T the the father. i mistakenly wrote if he is the father! OPPPS! sorry again! Well have a nice day!