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The Haunting in Connecticut

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Going to see it? Yes/No?

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No.

It looks unremarkable and stupid. +5 stupid points for including "based on a true story" on the poster.
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It looks just like Amityville Horror.
It's just another one of those movies High School kids go to on Friday nights so they can scream and yell "AW DAMN" to reassure themselves that they are funny, and just be over-all obnoxious.
It's just another poor formulated, poorly thrown together scary movie, unoriginal from any other these days.
"Look honey, this is a nice house"
"I dunno.. there must be a catch, it's cheap, the seller looks scared shitless.."
"Please"
"Daw ok"
Then of course the kid of the family sees the ghost/and or odd occurence before anyone else.
No one takes note of it, then all of the sudden:
"Fuck I think this house is haunted".
Do they move out? No.
Etc, etc.
And like Yodel pointed out, the "Based on a True Story" text on the poster just tops it all off.

Needless to say, I'm not interested.
At all.
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Every horror movie in the past 10 years has sucked. Nothing makes this one any different.
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Dawn of the Dead was good. Can't touch the gun toting Zombies like the original, and 28 Days Later was good too. But this whole plot like JK47 described is getting very familiar, almost to the point where you can figure out where it gets "scary" and not.
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But guys, this one is really true.
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I like every scary movie, so I'll go watch it and tell you guys what I thought.
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I didn't think people actually watched these movies to try to be scared.. I love these because they're generally funny to watch. Will probably be renting this for shure.
Just not removing this.
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Well, they're not scary most of the time, but technically, they're classified as scary.
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True Events are cooler and more believable than True Stories, because the Events are True.

True Events are True. And believable. And not Stories. Because True Stories aren't True. Nor are they cool.
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I just hate horror movies in general, so no I won't be seeing this.
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Because you get scared easily, you think it's stupid to scare yourself, or you just think they're stupid?
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I just don't like really them.
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DrXThirst wrote:or you just think they're stupid?
This.

If I know that it's meant to be "spoooooooooky!", then it doesn't have any effect on me. I find it funny how formulaic most "scary" movies are, and my friends and I watch them merely to laugh.
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V0Lt4Ge wrote:I just don't like really them.
I don't really them either.
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These kinds of haunted house movies are at most startling, but not scary. When the rotted corpse man jumps into frame and goes "Ooga booga booga!", I might be alarmed, but not truly scared. There's no subtlety to it. A good horror movie has subtlety; it plays with the psychological fears of the viewer. It doesn't just jump out and make me flinch a couple of times.

I think Yahtzee said it best in his review of Dead Space:
Yahtzee wrote:A lot of people have praised [Dead Space] for how scary it is, but really all it does is startle, and that's not difficult. I was startled when a possum jumped into my window, but that doesn't make it the marsupial answer to Stanley Kubrick... The monsters just can't get enough of the spotlight.
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I'm sick of hearing about new "scary" movies when in fact the movie is just as much blood and gore thrown in as possible. For example, Saw I had an amazing plot to it and honestly scared me, but every Saw movie after that just tried to put as much red stuff in as possible. It sucks how the Hollywood definition of scary is something that sickens you, instead of something that freaks you out
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Saw I was the best.
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Cuda wrote:Dawn of the Dead was good. Can't touch the gun toting Zombies like the original, and 28 Days Later was good too. But this whole plot like JK47 described is getting very familiar, almost to the point where you can figure out where it gets "scary" and not.
I don't count Zombie movies in the Horror genre. Some people may but I think those would be better categorized under the Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic Genre.

Plot is one reason I won't watch horror movies anymore. I'm pretty sure the only original horror movie with a new plot was Saw. But then they made sequels and it just fucked the story. Years ago horror movies were good because there were different kinds of plots to explore. Now there is really nothing left.
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shadowkhas wrote:But guys, this one is really true.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHHHHHHH!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I think I just died a little inside.
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