[imdb Haunting in connecticut]Haunting in Connecticut was well done.  It was chilling, thrilling, it had a good story and well-developed characters.  I was on the edge of my seat throughout the film, despite having already seen some of the scary parts in the trailer.

I think the trailer was put together in such a way that the emotions made more of an impact on the viewer than the images.  When I would discuss The Unborn with my friends, before I had seen the film, everyone knew of the trailer from the creepy old man crab walking down the hall, the evil little boy in the film projection, and the scary dog/demon creature wearing a ghoulish mask.

With Haunting in Connecticut, the trailer gives you much more of a sense of plot.  I did recall the weird picture of the boy with ectoplasm foaming out of his mouth, but it was such a strange image that my brain could not focus on it, because I had nothing familiar to connect it to.  It wasn’t till I saw the whole film that I even knew the weird bubbly mass was ectoplasm.  I was more creeped out over the kid from Veronica Mars than the icky film clips.

Thus, when I watched Haunting in Connecticut in its entirety, the startling moments truly startled me, because I remembered the trailer as a whole as creepy, instead of remembering specific scenes.  Despite being bombarded with scary clips, I was still pleasantly surprised.  I guess there is something to be said for overloading the senses.

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