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THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT Gets A Spiritual Successor...
Merrick here...
The producers of THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT are mulling a similarly themed follow-up to the film...to be called THE HAUNTING IN GEORGIA...meaning it'll probably feature hickier ghosts.
I've never seen HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT. I've been through a real-life haunting (happenings which convinced even skeptics) and have never seen a movie which accurately/adequately conveyed the true nature of such experiences. So, I pretty much gave up watching filmmakers try. Or, in some cases, not try.
Re: the HAUNTINGS:
The original supernatural thriller centered on a family that moves to a new state and begins to experience spooky events at their home. The new pic is expected to follow a somewhat similar path but with a new family in a new state.
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"Connecticut" became one of the breakouts of a surprisingly muscular first quarter at the box office, earning $55 million domestically despite no stars and a modest budget. The pic is currently the twenty-fifth most profitable film of the year.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Ti West (THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and the forthcoming CABIN FEVER 2) will direct the new film.
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"Connecticut" became one of the breakouts of a surprisingly muscular first quarter at the box office, earning $55 million domestically despite no stars and a modest budget. The pic is currently the twenty-fifth most profitable film of the year.
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Consider me a skeptic not convinced.
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Shortly followed by the sequels The Haunting in New Brunswick, The Haunting in Nantucket and the Haunting in Who the Fuck Cares. Jeebus Harry Corbett.
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Jun 18, 2009 11:19:25 AM CDT
DRAG ME TO HELL is still in theaters! Who cares about lesser ho
by nodiggity
Why are you wasting time with these bad movies when Sam Raimi's fantastic "Drag Me to Hell" is still in theaters? Join the "Drag Me To Hell" talkback!
http://tinyurl.com/ll7s4p
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I'll call bullshit on that one right there. Call me a cynic, call me a sceptic, call me irresponsibly handsome, but I'm leaning to the direction of 'utter bollocks' with anyone who claims shit like that. Guess what. It was something perfectly explainable that some numbnuts have hyped up into an 'experience'. Fuck, what's next? Is Harry going to claim he was abducted by aliens?
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Jun 18, 2009 11:22:22 AM CDT
Merrick, that kind of talk will get you institutionalized
by sloopjohnb
Why is there no proof of the supernatural if so many nuts like yourself have seen ghosts.
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He has a silly IMDB picture.
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Rooster, which is in my queue.
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has been is his mothers vagina
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Consider me skeptic.
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seems they're gonna turn every episode of their "A Haunting..." series into movies.
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massa is called crazy or whatever for claiming a supernatural experience, maybe his evidence is sound maybe its not but then there are billions who believe in jesus/the bible and there is literally no evidence, for or against, that any of that is real. what a silly world.
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the power went out...spooky
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Just flush the budget for this movie down the toilet. Ughhh.
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I'd pay money for that.
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...you deserve movies like The Haunting In _____________.
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Religions only prove the point. Numpties who claim hauntings only underscore the point.
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...it's a family of fat, biblethumping yokels who believe their NOT being pestered by ghostd but by "day-muns!" Personally, I think they should change the title to, "The Perils of In-Breeding"!
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damn ghosts, you scary!!
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... "Haunting of the Geek Movie Blogger" I'll give away the ending: Turns out it's not ghosts or ectoplasmic beings from the nether zone that trouble Merrick, but the reanimated mounds of fat that Harry sloughed off with the help of his surgical lapbelt. Now that, my friends, is SCARY!
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What about Virginia Madsen!?
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Even if it would turn out as something not supernatural afterwards. Just for the experience of it.
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oh merrick
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I've also had some experiences with the paranormal. You say you haven't yet seen a film capture the feeling of observing something like this, so you should check out this low-budget film that seemed to encapsulate how it felt for me:
Let Us Go and Burn Her Body:
http://tinyurl.com/nd8onf
Other titles that I feel come close are Let's Scare Jessica to Death and The Amityville Horror (the original). -
I understand insults directed at Harry for reviews that have a sniff of industry suckage in but to attack Merrick for offering up some personal insight? What fucking dull lives you must lead if you think everythings completely explainable.
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It's because ghosts aren't real.
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A daft comment about going through a haunting that 'convinced' sceptics? Yeah, right. And I've got a bridge in London to sell you if you're interested. People are attacking that comment because it's such a stupid, self serving lie - or at best self delusion - that those of us who live in the real world where there aren't real ghosts find it hilarious. If you think he really went through a haunting, more fool you.
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You must be psychic or something. Because an intelligent person wouldn't presume to know when an anonymous person on the internet is telling a lie or not.
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Coincidentally, it happened after accidentally over-dosing on prescription cold medicine, but I'm sure that's not relevant to the REAL LIFE HAUNTING that I went through that made me more SPECIAL and TOUCHED BY THE SUPERNATURAL than other people who are not as SPECIAL as me for my REAL LIFE HAUNTING EXPERIENCE which I will just happen to mention. You know, just so you know. That I've been TOUCHED and am now more SPECIAL than you. And don't get me started on the aliens that abducted me after eating mushrooms and drinking a six pack of Zima.
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...WRITE THAT MOVIE.
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But there are usually better explanations than "haunting". What would the point be of haunting anything, anyway? I'm dead, my life is over, and I've got nothing better to do in death than make noises and give you losers a story to tell so you can be MORE SPECIAL and MORE UNIQUE than all you drab and silly skeptics out there who were never important enough to experience a real-life haunting. Like I have.
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It happened to Jobeth Williams. I shit you not.
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The fact that you care so much as to personally attack someone is just weird. Someone believing or not believing doesn't make a fuck of a difference, so frankly who cares. Also I don't quite understand why anyone would be interested at all in a film depicting the supernatural if they had such a hateful attitude towards anyone who might suggest they had some kind of unexplained experience.I don't believe in Jesus but I'm not going to sit around here all day attacking Christians, frankly each to their own. Except for maybe Scientologists. ;0P
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I tend to think of people who have experience REAL LIFE HAUNTINGS like I think of Oral Roberts or Pat Robertson. God has touched me! I'm special! I talk to God! He's gonna call ME home! Because I'm special! I can heal your illness over the TV! Because I'M SOOOOOOOOO SPECIAL!If you really experienced a real life haunting of any consequence, you'd never bring that shit up. You'd never mention it in conversation. You just wouldn't. If you experienced a lot of weird shit that you convinced yourself constituted "a haunting", then, sure, you'd bring it up all the time. Because it made you special.I actually have seen a ghost, but understanding the amorphous nature of the mind, peripheral vision, and memory, I realize that I didn't really see a ghost. Just a glitch in the matrix. Why would our house be haunted by the recently deceased realtor we had bought it from (the ghost I saw), when showing the house a couple of times was the only thing he had to do with it? But I had recently heard he was dead, thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye, was imaginitive and impressionable . . . a ghost! A ghost!
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Hears someone talk themselves into all sorts of shit you know damn well isn't remotely true all the time, and they get an unshakeable faith in weird ideas like "you never do anything around the house" and "you never put the toilet seat down", when you actually had left it up once, about ten years ago. People are capable of talking themselves into all sorts of stuff that confirm their self image and their general impression of the world.
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If you can manage that small feat, you'll notice I said "lie" or "at best, self delusion" because I don't have to know the guy to KNOW it's one or the other. How? Because hauntings aren't real, because ghosts don't fucking exist, but plenty of gullible people do who are happy to convince themselves something weird is happening beyond their ken. Well done, schmuck. You just admitted to everyone on this talkback that you are a part of that rather large club.
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Kyle Gallner really does do a great job.
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Georgia ghosts are going to be hicky? hyuk hyuk...
Nothing but western coast and northern transplants down here raising property values faster than the salaries so the locals can't live in decent homes, and even the middle class have to live in fucking trailers. Now that's a scary reality. -
What'd ya walk in on Harry in the shower?
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Can anybody explain why would I want to watch something that airs on Discovery like once a month? Will Spike turn Deadliest Warrior into a feature film? When do we get Trading Spaces: The Movie? I can't wait to see The Real World Movie in IMAX...
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I'd like to hear about your experience. I'm a ghost hunter. And I consider myself a skeptic too. I HAVE been on plenty of investigations where the people just have overactive imaginations, are crazy, or just out for media. But I've been on a few where stuff happened I couldn't explain too. Doesn't necessarily mean I believe in ghosts. I'm actually still on the fence. I've been learning about string theory and how we create our own reality. Then there's residual hauntings, sleep paralysis, and poltergeists, which don't actually have anything to do with ghosts at all. But there are still some cases that can't be explained by these things. But maybe there is an explanation out there that we just don't know about yet. Anyway, I would really like to see a movie that depicts hauntings accurately. I've never seen one that was realistic.
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Drag Me To Hell deserves to do better, it needs out support. You fanboys bitched and bitched that Raimi didn't go back to horror, when he does nobody goes to see it. Yet it's brilliant and a total return to form, not to mention a refreshing horror movie.
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Rob Cohen's Medieval The Holiday (sorta) The Real Cancun Cynicism is really the only logical response at this point.
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Cmon ante up or are you trying to cash in on a premise for a movie? ;P
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The Haunting in White Plains, followed by...
The Haunting in New Brunswick, followed by...
the grand finale, The Haunting in My Pants. -
Whenever ladies go down there they here lots of moaning
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THE HAUNTING IN SCRANTON. A pesky potergeist terrorizes the cast of THE OFFICE.
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He's haunting all of us now with his big grin and his scientology.
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most amazing experience of my life
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...but I just cobbled together a coupel of plasma blasters, crossed the ion streams and sent those bitch-ass ghosts back to Gozerland!
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if you're working it into a script or something, fine, keep it to yourself for the moment. if not, at least give us a general idea of what happened. are we talking in-focus, well-lit video of levitating furniture, or some bullshit where John Edward felt the need to "acknowledge Ted...or the letter G...or the number 7...or the color blue"
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You're an idiot. I don't need to waste my time on you anymore. Toodles.
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Didn't that movie bomb harder than a Tarentino film?
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why do I get the feeling it might be set in St Simon's Island which is supposedly a very haunted place, also my aunt and uncle once lived in haunted farmhouse here in Georgia, they should make a movie of that...
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Only you could have seen such amazing things!
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based on the sole fact that Ti West has made my one of my favorite horror films of the last 10 years, House Of The Devil. And I enjoyed Haunting In Connecticut for the most part, so I'm not against a sequel.
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....you know, you not having one and all. Simple fact is that there is no, absolutely no conclusive proof that anything 'supernatural' has ever happened at any so caled haunting, and whenever they're looked into hard enough, amazingly they turn out to be completely ordinary things happening that the people involved have not understood, misconstrued or ramped up with overly active imaginations, and until I'm personally standing in front of Gozer, I'm more likely to believe the ones that haven't been explained are more to do with people a: exagerrating b: lying or c: being complete fucking morons than I am likely to believe that 'a ghost did it'. Enjoy your movies, I love a good ghost story, but that's all they are - stories - so grow the fuck up. And by the way, the Easter Bunny is a fake too. Sorry to break it to your asthmatic ass.
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And here's how. First off, regardless of whatever your personal beliefs are, you don't go around insulting others and calling them liars because of their belief systems. Or at least, you don't do it without looking like a dickhead. I may not think the belief systems of a South American rainforest tribe are "true", but I'm not an asshole, so I wouldn't tell them they're either lying or deluded. That's just a sign of immaturity, and its a sign you've displayed loud and clear. When someone says something like they've just had a religious experience or they just saw an alien spaceship, you just smile and nod. Or you politely debate the point. You don't stamp your feet and call them a liar, because then you're the idiot. You've lost credibility. And finally, you lost with your first reply because you assumed that if I didn't agree with you, I must think the complete opposite of all your beliefs. You're like a diehard Bush supporter who, when told by someone that Bush turned a rather hefty surplus into a devastating defecit, launches into an attack on all liberals and democrats. You never think for a second that I could be on the same page as you but am simply able to step back and point out the flaws in your argument. Its the "us vs them" mentality. And you succumbed to such idiocy when you started insulting me and made an ass out of yourself and assumed that when I called you out on your dick behavior, it must be because I believe in ghosts. And you made yourself look extremely foolish. But hey, thanks for the fun. I thought I'd waste a lil time here at AICN before heading off to the beach. See you in another talkback; hopefully you'll try harder next time.
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Thanks for exposing D.Vader for the douche he is.
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It's fine if someone doesn't believe in something, but I just think it's annoying when some people insult someone like Merrick or say "ghosts don't exist, with ALL these cases if you look hard enough it always turns out to have some normal explanation" without doing any research. Do you know that for a fact? Have you actually tried looking into hauntings for yourself? Have you read books on the subject? The reason there is no concrete evidence isn't because people never capture things, it's because it can't be recreated in a lab, and these days anything can be faked so even if someone captured something there's always going to be someone saying it was faked. (And some people and shows DO fake stuff, which makes it even harder.) For those reasons I don't think the existence/non-existence of ghosts will ever be proven by ghost hunters. I think scientists first need to learn what consciousness is, and THEN they can determine if they're even a possibility. They may not be. I've been on A LOT of investigations where it turned out the person just had an overactive imagination, it turned out to be something normal, or the person wanted to believe their place was haunted when it wasn't. I've also been on cases where the person is intelligent and level headed and has looked at all other possibilities. They have enough common sense to know what a creaky floorboard sounds like, what people talking down the street sounds like, and what seeing a shadow out of the corner of your eye caused by a car going by looks like. If you do a little reading, the existence of ESP HAS been proven in labs. There have been thousands of tests and the controls for these tests are even tighter than for regular scientific tests because people are harder on them. There's a book I recommend reading called "Entangled Minds" by Dean Radin. This book talks about all the tests, why people continue to repeat "where's the proof?" despite all these tests, and even provides a scientific explanation for how such a thing might be possible. (It has to do with quantum entanglement.) Anyway, just saying if you're going to insult someone do some research (and look at BOTH sides) and then, if the data just doesn't add up, that's fine.
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Because you said you weren't wasting anymore time with me on your last post. Guess the sore ass from where you just got spanked was just too much for you and you had to try another weak rebuttal. And as I've already pointed out, dickhead - I said he was either lying OR deluding himself, because it's one or the other seeing as ghosts don't fucking exist, and no 'haunting' has ever truly been proved as such - in fact, the more they're investigated, the more even the more 'famous' ones become eminently explainable to anyone who doesn't have a mental block and a desire to believe in the paranormal. Nothing in your last post has any relevance whatsoever. Belief systems are one thing - but that's all they are frankly, BELIEF systems. I don't give two fucks who someone prays to, or if they think Xenu is on his way back in the mothership for them. But if they TELL ME that that's the way it is, they can fuck off because without any proof, I'm not willing, or dumb enough, to believe it simply because THEY want to. I don't go around insulting religions, ridiculous though the whole concept is to me - but if I snuff it and end up face to face with God, or the devil, or who the fuck ever - great. Beats nothingness for eternity. However if someone who writes on a geek site claims they've had a paranormal experience that 'convinced sceptics', I'm sure as hell going to call bullshit on it in a talkback, because that's exactly what it is - bullshit. A call for attention at best, a sign of lunacy at worst. No-one has ever proven a 'haunting', no-one has ever given proof of ghosts, so until there is proof of it I'm sure as fuck going to chuckle about it when one of the writers here claims it's happened to them. Here's the thing, douchebag - people lie. For many reasons. To themselves even, to make their place in the world seem right to them. Now, which of these two things is more likely? That Merrick had a genuine haunting experience, or that he's lying/deluded about having one? You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure it out, asshole. And losing credibility? On AICN talkbacks???? You really fucking are a moron. AICN talkbacks and credibility go together like peaches and shit. Your favourite dish.
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...then there is generally proof of SOME FORM to suggest it or support it other than someone saying "well it just does, ok!". There's plenty of things we don't know about in this universe, but seeing as how no-one has ever produced a ghost, no-one has ever produced proof of an afterlife and based on the fact that both concepts have been passed down over the generations by PEOPLE, knowing people are generally lying, deluded fucks who want to make themselves feel comfortable by believing in something, until I have proof they DO exist, sorry - that shit doesn't fly with me. The burdon of proof isn't on me to disprove it - that's done every single day you, me and everyone else on this planet isn't having a genuine conversation with a real ghost or with God. The burden of proof is on those who claim it, and none of them have ever been able to back it up without weak ass excuses and arguments such as 'faith'. Don't blame me if some douchebag in pre-history thought up the concept of God and an afterlife and such like to keep people entertained/controlled. We can theorise all sorts of things we don't have proof of by extrapolating from existing things, but that isn't the same as having no fucking proof whatsoever, only an idea. Alien life? Of course it's possible, we're alive and exist after all. Space travel? Why not, we've started scratching the surface ourselves. Ghosts though? Sorry, no proof. So forgive me if I do say 'hold on a mo' when a writer here brings it up like it genuinely happened. As for researching the subject, try some yourself. Look at a whole bunch of the hauntings that are more well known. See how many have been explained over the years, and where they haven't, I'm pretty certain there was a more down to earth reason for them that revolved around a living, breathing human being rather than it did around a ghost.
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