I literally just got out from seeing The Haunting in Connecticut

[Bojangles]

Right now, I don't have much to say. Why? Because while watching this movie I got really sleepy. Yes, that's how fucking lame it was.

[KingoftheDamned666]

Well there goes that idea of going and seeing that movie

[Friday The 13th]

I figured it would suck.:reddisgust:

[Bojangles]

Yeah this movie was just silly. I'm positive I can make it as a horror writer now.

[Dr. Briggs]

Ditto. I really, really hope the new trend in horror doesn't turn out to be "generic 'true-to-life' haunting films...".

[Bojangles]

Well, I'm sure it wasn't based on actual events. I mean, pretty much any movie could use the tag "Based on True Events". However, it's so far away from what actually happened (usually).

Did you see it too, Briggs?

[Dr. Briggs]

Bah, I mostly meant that to mean the types of films where "eerie, but realistically uninteresting things happen throughout", from the trailers it seemed like it was the type (AND from searching for more info whilst posting this, I find that is was indeed based on a true story ).

I have not seen it yet, and since the trailer didn't interest me, and the reviews I've seen have either made me sigh (The negative ones), or annoyed me (The positive ones), I don't plan to run out and do so soon

[Rosemary's Baby]

[SIZE="3"]The Strangers is also "based on a true story." The true story went something like this, the writer was at home one night. Someone knocked on his door and asked him a question. Later that night, a neighbor's house was broken into. Not sure how that evolved into The Strangers, but okay. :esnicker:[/SIZE]

[Bojangles]

The Strangers is also "based on a true story." The true story went something like this, the writer was at home one night. Someone knocked on his door and asked him a question. Later that night, a neighbor's house was broken into. Not sure how that evolved into The Strangers, but okay. :esnicker:

I'm sure that was more based on actual happenings than The Haunting in Connecticut.

[Friday The 13th]

I'm sure that was more based on actual happenings than The Haunting in Connecticut.

I have to agree with ya on that one!

[Thunder]

More money I can keep stashed away for now

[Bojangles]

Yes. If you're going to see it, just rent it.

[Dollin Downs]

this movie was horrible i enjoyed the original a haunting in Connecticut that showed on Discovery Channel a while back that was more entertaining than this movie it was so far fetched to be real i mean i have heard about some crazy super natural things occur but this movie is not one of them and it made me laugh for the most part and i do feel dumb spend $10 on a movie ticket i should have seen monsters vs. aliens instead. :khead:

[Bojangles]

Yeah, it sucked. I didn't know there was an original that appeared on the discovery channel. It's sad when a discovery channel flick is actually better. lol

[Madame Leota]

It's based off a book which even the author admits is fake. This is a really cool story: EXCL: Producer Talks Haunting in Connecticut- ShockTillYouDrop.com

"My name is Ray Garton. Back in the early nineties, I wrote a book called IN A DARK PLACE: THE STORY OF A TRUE HAUNTING. It was published as "non-fiction", but that was just marketing. I went to Connecticut to meet with the family involved in the alleged haunting of their former house, which used to be a funeral home. I was never able to see the inside of the home because the people who were living there by then wanted nothing to do with the "haunting", which they said was utter nonsense. It was my job to get the family's story down on paper and into a book. I worked with the family, and with the "ghostbusters" or "demon hunters" (whatever they happened to be calling themselves at the moment), Ed and Lorraine Warren, and their nephew John Zaffis. The family now claims they had "little involvement" in this book -- that is simply a lie. They were DIRECTLY involved with the book -- it was them, the Warrens, Zaffis, and myself, nobody else. I attempted to get their story. Unfortunately, the members of the family couldn't seem to keep their "facts" straight. Their individual stories simply did not fit into one smooth hole. Now the Snedeckers and those associated with the movie claim that the book I wrote "remains a source of controversy." The only source of controversy was the Snedeckers, because they just couldn't keep their stories straight. I went to Ed Warren and told him the problem. He laughed. "They're crazy!" he said. "Everybody who comes to us is crazy, otherwise why would they come to US? Just do the best you can. You write scary books, right? That's why we hired you. Use whatever you can of their story, make the rest up, and make it scary." And that's what I did. The book IN A DARK PLACE is a combination of elements of the family's story and stuff I made up -- because it was a for-hire writing job, AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS TOLD TO DO. If this family is saying they had "little involvement" in this book, then they are bald-faced liars. They were involved from beginning to end, and THEY COLLECTED THE CHECK FOR IT. They were deeply involved in IN A DARK PLACE, and they were PAID for it -- their names are on the cover of the book along with my name and Ed and Lorraine Warren. I never got to meet their allegedly ill son -- I was only allowed to speak with him briefly on the phone. Although there was much talk of his illness, it was NEVER verified for me, although he did have a drug problem. It was discovered that the girls in the family who claimed to have been groped by so-called invisible, demonic hands were actually groped by HIM. The Warrens and Zaffis claimed they had videotape that clearly showed supernatural activity inside the house, and they told me numerous times that they would SHOW me that videotape. Somehow, during our time together, they just couldn't manage to find it. Not only did I not see that footage, I never saw an actual VHS videotape at ALL. Since my experience with the Warrens and this family, I've talked to other writers who have written books for Ed and Lorraine, and they've told me THE EXACT SAME STORY. This is how the Warrens have always worked, and Zaffis, who's learned well from them, is now carrying on the family business (and that's all it is -- a BUSINESS). They find a very "emotional" family with claims of some supernatural activity in their lives, convince them there's money to be made if they just shape this into a better "story" (and this family was very eager to make money -- at the time I knew them, Carmen was involved in some kind of interstate lottery scam), then they hire a writer of horror fiction to write it up as a book -- "Make it scary," Ed told me -- and they've got themselves a package, a piece of merchandise that they can hawk on talk shows and that the Warrens can discuss in their VERY lucrative lectures. And perhaps they can convince someone in Hollywood to make a movie of it. Of course, in THIS case, the book I wrote has been shoved aside and isn't involved in the making of the movie THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT. It will be VERY interesting to see how much of this movie contains the material that I WAS TOLD TO MAKE UP. We'll see."

[Madame Leota]

I liked the scenes with the dead corpses, and the old photographs of the dead bodies, but overall the movie was pretty lame. The TV episode from A Haunting was much better and spookier.

[Friday The 13th]

Man.. I hate when people say (Based on a true story).
When really it's all a ploy to get more money!. :reddisgust:

[Bojangles]

Almost anything could be based on a true event.

[Rosemary's Baby]

Almost anything could be based on a true event.

Bo, see my earlier statement. I have to say, once again, that I disagree with most of what people are saying. First, I never thought of it as a true story. I always knew it would be in the same genre as Amityville Horror, pseudo-non-fiction. I'm sure that a lot of books actually fit into this category. Second, I liked that there was an actual story & background. I have bought the original "A Haunting in Connecticut" from the Discovery channel & watched it 2 nights ago. The movie is more entertainment. Discovery is more "fact", with very little of that. The acting was okay. Kinda, Poltergeist meets Amityville Horror with a little Exorcist thrown in. Our favorite part was the poem, which I have found a version of and will post elsewhere. All & all I don't think it was a bad movie. I may actually buy it.

[LokiZee]

Almost anything could be based on a true event.

Uhhhhhhhhh, anything COULD be based on a true event. Or a fake one. Or something in between. Hehe.