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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterHaunting tweaks familiar tropes enough to make them interesting. Just not so interesting as to inspire many nightmares after the credits roll.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDon't misunderstand: the proceedings are pretty silly, and the scares were a lot fresher back in 1979, when we first saw "The Amityville Horror." But Cornwell and his cast take things just seriously enough to keep us at least intermittently on edge.
- 50VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonLong on atmosphere yet short on dramatic tension.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA technically proficient horror movie and well acted.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe movie bumps along from low-grade scare to scare, and it's not lousy, mainly because Virginia Madsen prevents it from being so.
- A tepid PG-13 iteration of the already lame 1979 genre classic "The Amityville Horror."
- 33The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsAs a piece of storytelling, The Haunting In Connecticut is pretty lazy. As a horror movie, it’s lazier still, bringing out every annoying shock-cut and disorienting sound-design trick of the last decade.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceIn the realm of domestic horror, The Haunting in Connecticut is about as scary as a shower that suddenly changes temperature when someone flushes the toilet.
- 25Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThere is still a great horror movie about foreclosure to be made. In the meantime, this movie plays games. (How many rounds of hide-and-seek should an audience tolerate?)
- 11Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovKoteas' overearnest performance almost makes The Haunting in Connecticut worth a look, but ultimately even the star of Cronenberg's "Crash" can't salvage what is essentially a substandard rip-off of "The Amityville Horror."