Among the last things to go in the Depression was lipstick. "It was not particularly expensive, but it was a prized possession," says Jeremy Adamson, director for collections and services at the Library of Congress.

Creaky floorboards? Child sucked into the TV? Ectoplasm clogging the drain? All signs of a haunting, whether in your house, office, hotel room or some decrepit building you happen to spend time in.

If you move into a haunted house, there are some basic rules you should follow. Embrace your eco-friendly side and DO NOT enter bathtubs and showers.

Plenty of ectoplasm but no Bill Murray... What the San Francisco Ghost Society referred to as a "Hollywoodized account" of a news story from the summer of 1987, The Haunting in Connecticut is an intermittently effective horror, made more frightening by the fact it's based on actual history.

By Jeff Bayer The Scorecard Review The Haunting in Connecticut Opening: March 27, 2009 Synopsis: When their son Matt receives a diagnosis of cancer, Sara and Peter Campbell move to Connecticut to be closer to his doctors.

Hey, folks. Capone in Chicago here, with two films that played at this year's SXSW Film Festival that both just happen to be opening in theaters around the country this week.

Bucks Hollow, on the edge of Heyerdahl Hill in the Staten Island Greenbelt, is one of numerous places on Staten Island that is said to be haunted by ghosts.

Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 13:55. A guide to movies from a family perspective: "The Haunting in Connecticut" -- Rated: PG-13. -- Suitable for: Mature teens and up.

Family Film: A look at new movies, including 'Haunting,' 'Monsters' A guide to movies from a family perspective: "The Haunting in Connecticut" -- Rated: PG-13. -- Suitable for: Mature teens and up.

Ever since the dawn of photography , ghosts have been popping up in pictures. The Victorians were besotted by the idea that capturing a moment in time could also fix forever the spectres they thought surrounded them.

Creaky floorboards? Child sucked into the TV? Ectoplasm clogging the drain? All signs of a haunting, whether in your house, office, hotel room or some decrepit building you happen ...

Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner star in this supposedly true story about a family struggling to deal with cancer, and the cheap rental house they find in Connecticut that uses ...

The Haunting in Connecticut” isn’t based on just any old true story. No, it’s based on “The true story.” That would be the case of the Snedeker family, who in the 1970s ...

The Haunting in Connecticut is part of the dreary tradition of "real-life" haunted-house movies, such as The Amityville Horror , instead of the livelier one of make-believe, such ...

If you move into a haunted house, there are some basic rules you should follow. Embrace your eco-friendly side and DO NOT enter bathtubs and showers. DO NOT enter basements or ...

Horror. Starring Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Kyle Gallner and Elias Koteas. Directed by Peter Cornwell. (PG-13. 92 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) The rent control laws in ...

Ever since the dawn of photography , ghosts have been popping up in pictures. The Victorians were besotted by the idea that capturing a moment in time could also fix forever the ...

-- Rated: PG-13. -- Suitable for: Mature teens and up. -- What you should know: Star Virginia Madsen was adamant in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interview that nobody under 13 should ...

Just because the "true story" on which a horror film is based doesn't pass the nonsense test is no reason, in itself, to dismiss the movie. (Consider "The Exorcist.") "The Haunting ...

When was the last time you were truly scared by a horror movie? Not startled by loud noises and shock cuts, not grossed out by gore, but bound and gagged by fear? A superior ...