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The Haunting in Connecticut

THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (Peter Cornwell). 92 minutes. Opens Friday (March 27). For venues and times, see Movies. Rating: NN


What starts as a promising haunted house flick with a teenage cancer victim and his family renting a house near the hospital in the end delivers nothing but an overtly Christian warning against messing with the occult.

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The house is a former funeral home, the site of unspeakable necromantic doings that are defined as “corpse bothering” in the movie’s one good line. The spooks, of course, hunger for the sick kid.

So far, so good: young Matt is possessed. Trouble is, he never goes further than glowering. In the best haunted house movies, from The Haunting to The Others, the ghosts and the living connect on some psychological level, but these people start out nice and end up unchanged.

This gives the cast, headed by Kyle Gallner (Matt) and Virginia Madsen (mom), not much to do.

The pace is as flat as the people, and the creepiness peaks mid-movie, which leaves us with a disappointing climax to a nothing-special story.

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