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

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.

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.

wow this film was just so boring and slow moving! its not even good for people who don't watch horror, there was no suspense what so ever not even a plot so to speak just a family who see dead things roaming about the woods i got to just over an hour of watching before i gave up i would get more enjoyment from the new nightmare on elm st film and that was bad enough! in short just don't bother watching unless u are having trouble sleeping then go right ahead but if u want to be scared then just watch doctor who instead because your get more entertainment then this so called horror! as you can guess from this review i am not a fan of the film i like to be scared or at least griped by the story but this film failed to deliver on both those points instead i wasted my time on something that should not of been commissioned to be made

The movie is frightening, yes. It is also somewhat original and has good twists. That is okay.Main characters are real mess unfortunately. To say it very simply, every tree minutes or so they change their opinions. One character sees ghosts and believes their warnings, but the other four do not. Surprisingly this changes constantly.In one moment the aunt is the single person who believes in "gift". After some time she seems not to care about the ghost but mother believes the haunting. Then the daughter manages to find some dead because of visions and warns the others but not aunt nor mother seems to believe a word of her. The father believes, believes not, then believes...What a mess. What a horrible mess of the plot! In the end this is not a story, but more or less a freak show of loosely connected scares with hardly anything in between. It is sort of mass murder zombie ghost redneck torture slavery genealogy revenge spiritual porn or something. It is just too confusing to be really good.