The Haunting in Connecticut 2009 horror

The Haunting in Connecticut film was released on March 27, 2009. The Haunting in Connecticut is a 2009 horror/thriller film based on the allegedly true story of the Snedeker family's encounter with the paranormal in Southington, Connecticut.



After a game of hide and seek, during which Kyles younger brother encounters a badly burned ghost in a dumbwaiter, Kyle discovers a box containing a number of photographs from the seance, and spots the boy Jonah he believed he had been hallucinating, as well as a box of human eyelids. They investigate the houses past, and discover the previous owner, Doctor Aickman, conducted seances in the house, using his assistant Jonah as a medium, who convinced many skeptics of his abilities. Doctor Aickman and his guests all died during one of the seances, and Jonah went missing. Kyle then contacts a minister, Nicholas, whom is also dying of cancer he meets at the hospital to ask for his help. Nicholas hypothesizes that Aickman was performing necromancy on the bodies that he was meant to inter to enhance Jonah's abilities as a medium, and buried coffins filled with sandbags.

Kyle, after encountering Jonah and learning that he has days to live, breaks out of the hospital and rushes home. After breaking into the house with a fireax, he rushes his siblings outside, and barricades himself in the house. He then smashes the interior walls of the living room, revealing dozens of embalmed corpses. After setting the house ablaze, his mother then comes in to save him, and firemen pull them both out of the burning house, and Kyle is revived. Jonah is shown one last time, unharmed, before vanishing. After credits indicate that Kyles cancers went into total remission, and that the Aickman house was rebuilt and resold, with no further incidents reported.

The story centers around Kyle Gallner, who is being treated for cancer on a trial therapy in a remote hospital. After seeing the effect the long commute has on Kyle, his mother rents a nearby house, which she learns was previously a funeral home. They discover a mortuary room in the basement that they are unable to enter initially, which serverly burns Kyle when he attempts to enter. The family begins experiencing violent, supernatural events that the parents first blame on stress and hallucinations from Kyles medications and treatment. Kyle also experiences several disturbing visions of a seance, from the point of view of a young man named Jonah, including a intense seance, and witnessing a doctor inscribe runes upon a corpse.

Nicholas, after initially being driven out by the mother, is called back after the entire family encounters ghosts in a single night, including a electrical storm that takes place throughout the house. After searching the house, Nicholas discovers ashes and a portion of a skull in the mortuary oven. While removing it, the doors and windows begin to slam violently, which abruptly ceases after Nicholas is outside. The same night, the family wakes to find strange markings carved into Kyles body, and he is rushed to the hospital. Nicholas runs off the road after seeing the burned ghost in his rearview mirror. Both he and Kyle have a similar vision, revealing that the burned ghost is Jonah, who was killed after the seance by the spirits, who used his abilities as a medium to burn the other guests alive.