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The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)

February. 01,2013
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A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

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Stometer
2013/02/01

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Greenes
2013/02/02

Please don't spend money on this.

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Protraph
2013/02/03

Lack of good storyline.

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Kien Navarro
2013/02/04

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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fedor8
2013/02/05

A slight improvement over the boring first part, that is to say this is slightly less boring. Starts off with several characters who already know about the supernatural, which gives the movie a chance to be slightly less unoriginal than the standard ghost flick. Unfortunately, that slight potential is underused, and we end up instead with a repetitive abduction flick.Girl is safe. Girl gets abducted. Girl is found. Repeat.The story makes no sense. So the guy who is considered a friend/saviour of slave runaways turns out to be both a good guy and a bad guy? That is one of the most schizophrenic plot-twists ever: apparently he helped slaves escape AND he killed a few by adding them to his taxidermist collection! Stupid beyond belief. A sadistic sociopath and a friend-in-need at the same time? "Look, I save so many slaves, surely I have the moral right to kill a few for my twisted little hobby, right?" Who the hell comes up with nonsense like that?There's no explanation why the taxidermist is a physically active ghost who can hurt the living, while his fellow ghost victims cannot interact: their only ability is to look glum and point their hands to one direction or another like wooden zombies. In that sense they're no smarter or more useful than a badly-trained hamster. Is there no equality among ghosts? Ironic, due to the slavery sub-plot.Dumber still, the wife sees ghosts yet doesn't believe her daughter's visions. Very silly indeed. How do you turn a character like HER into a rabid skeptic? Well, you CAN, as long as your aim is to write bad scripts.The less said about the moronic title, the better: more evidence of schizophrenia. Connecticut or Georgia? Just imagine the title: "Escape From New York 3: The Prisoners of Teheran".Oh well, at least the movie has nicely filmed forest scenes.

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Scarecrow-88
2013/02/06

Groan. Here's another yawner with so many loud bangs and "this is the time to freak out or jump" cues (the soundtrack is quite noisy and never- ending), it doesn't have time to breathe. Slaves were supposedly rescued by a stationmaster considered a hero in Southern history, but the film points out how this wasn't the case. A taxidermist by trade, it was told down through generations he helped provide refuge and escape for slaves, only with help by a ghost named Mr. Gordy (talking to a child, the daughter of lead Abigail Spencer) do we learn the real truth. An ancestor of Mr. Gordy, the stationmaster did some horrible misdeeds with his taxidermy skills. With Chad Michael Murray (of One Tree Hill) as Spencer's husband (he's all complacent and okay with his daughter's talking to Mr. Gordy, for whom she's the only one who sees him) and the sexy-as-hell Katee Sackoff as Spencer's sister (escaping bad relationships with men and sober from the drink) in the cast, all eventually dealing with the ghosts of the slaves of Pine Mountain and the evil spirit of the stationmaster, with frequent visits to a well where a special hidden room reveals some unpleasant examples of taxidermy in secret.Cicely Tyson is made up to almost resemble a corpse, her eyes discolored and for whatever reason she has horse teeth in her mouth. I was clueless as to why she's made up this way. Her character had relatives that vanished and were never seen again; later, the film shows us where they've been "kept" for quite some time. This is one of those unnecessary characters that knows a child knows. It is like that scene in The Shining when Scatman Crothers addresses "the shine" with Danny Lloyd in the kitchen; Tyson seems to know that the little girl has the ability to see what many others can't. It is basically what Sackoff told the child earlier, but Spencer tries to fend off their embracing of this gift.The film commits fully to "ghost fades" and constant appearances of apparitions popping up practically in every damn scene! Sackoff deserves better than to be lying on the floor with thread strings protruding from her mouth, needled to the roof of an abandoned trailer. Surprising to see a talent like Spencer in something abysmal as this "depiction of a true story". She sees her dead mother and has a "gift" where dead people are visible to her (as they are for the kid and Sackoff) all the time, as pills seem to help very little. Chad just kind of goes with the flow, not all that concerned that the women in his life see dead people. It is all nonchalant and meh to him, although he does rise to the occasion when his daughter's life is in jeopardy. There is a Baptist version of an exorcism (obviously there's *got* to be an exorcism, right?) that does little to help stop the ghosts from hanging around. You do get to see the child finally receive help riding her bike as Mr. Gordy gives her a push. Yeah. And what's up with that title? Sheesh. Why tie yourself to an even worse ghost film? The direction is too busy with all the ghostly visits and warnings of the boogeyman to tell a story in a way that feels like editing ADHD style.You get near drowning in a bathtub, puked out maggots and roaches, rotted corpses, sack-head racists performing taxidermy on a taxidermist, slave corpses in a well, slave ghosts leading a way to their current resting place, a ghoul whose hideous face is stitched to a potato sack, and numerous spectres unafraid to hide themselves. This is a lot of effects, both in what you see and hear, but it is all tiresome instead of scary.

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LisaFace
2013/02/07

Firstly, why this is called The Haunting in Connecticut 2 is a mystery as it has nothing whatsoever to do with the first movie.If you want a scary ghost story, steer well clear of this mess. A ghost pops up within about 2 mins of the opening and then throughout the entire film....constant....relentless flickering ghosts, shot for some reason in sepia. It wasn't enough to have one person who can see these "ghosts" either. No, we are treated to all three lead female characters having persistent visions for the entire 1hr 40mins. To claim this is based on a true story is almost insulting. To start with the "true" Wyrick story is a typical kid sees ghost affair, not particularly chilling (or true for that matter). By the end of this film it's nothing more than a ridiculous monster flick, with the character played by Abigail Spencer running and squealing around a standard creepy cellar filled with (shock horror) all manner of taxidermy and about 20 ghosts in tow.The concept of the underground slave railroad run by the evil taxidermist station master is a baffling plot line, which completely ruined the film. God knows what they were thinking.The acting from the little girl, Emily Alyn Lind is about the only redeeming feature. Chad Michael Murray was completely pointless, giving an unconvincing and lacklustre performance. The rest of the cast were okay, nothing spectacular, and of course 90% of the cast were mute ghostly types who just stand about in corners, looking over people's shoulders with a pained expression, and pointing into the woods.AVOID.

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alice-monaghan3
2013/02/08

I watched this film shortly after watching the first one, obviously it is clear the films have no relevance to one another which kind of annoys me as then why label a film as something 2 when it isn't even remotely similar to the original. Anyway despite this , the movie could of been a good movie off its own back without being attached to the original movie perhaps just called the ghosts of Georgia. It did make me jump was very jumpy in places, one of the better story lines. However the little girls acting was better than anyone else. Although no one can ever explain that they get to look at chad Michael Murray for over an hour, that's certainly enjoyable.

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