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Based on an allegedly “true” home invasion story from the ghost-happy 1980s, The Haunting in Connecticut is deep-fried in a double layer of supernatural hokum drenched in decades of haunted-house-movie orthodoxy. The fun starts when the middle-class Campbell family decides to rent a second home in far off Goatswood so that their sick eldest son Matthew (Kyle Gallner) won’t have to commute far after his chemo treatments. His worried mom (Virginia Madsen) finds the perfect spot, a roomy, gothic-looking fixer-upper, but with a caveat: It was once a mortuary where unholy experiments were performed long ago. Swiftly fading Matt starts seeing all sorts of dead people, and they are seven shades of freaky and nonplussed spectral guests. Eventually the whole family’s seeing spirits in the breakfast nook, and the puzzle starts to come together as a stack of moldy photos is found that details a lot of the unexplained phenomena. And then there’s a box full of human eyelids. The family calls in gravel-voiced Elias Koteas to bust some ghosts.