‘The Haunting In Connecticut’ does it by the numbers

Allegedly based on a true story, Peter Cornwell’s supernatural thriller revolves around a close-knit family pushed to the brink by unseen forces in their new home.

Peter Campbell (Martin Donovan) and his wife Sara (Virginia Madsen) move to upstate Connecticut with their family into a Victorian home with a dark past. The building used to be a funeral parlour, and the old owner’s son Jonah (Erik J Berg) was a conduit for evil, bridging the divide between the real and the spirit worlds.

When Jonah returns to wreak havoc on the Campbells, the parents struggle to keep their family together as their eldest son Matt (Kyle Gallner), who is dying of cancer, suffers the brunt of the visitations.

It’s a ghost story by numbers with the requisite number of cheap scares and some competently orchestrated spectral visitations.

Star Rating: 2/5