20 TERRIBLE Horror Movies That Were Huge Hits
15. The Haunting in Connecticut
Hands up if you remember anything about The Haunting in Connecticut, a thunderously generic supernatural horror film which, despite solid performances from Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner, painted firmly within the lines of the cliched, jump scare-packed supernatural horror flick.
But none of this stopped the film from making away with $78.8 million - a sizable return on its $10 million budget.
This can be attributed to a few factors, first and foremost that supernatural horror enjoyed a resurgence in popularity around the 2010s, with movies centered around possession proving particularly successful. Elsewhere, the "based on a true story" framing is pretty much a cheat code for adding interest to a horror film, and with its permissive PG-13 rating, it evidently lured in teenagers likely to be less fatigued by its overfamiliarity.
Despite the picture's success, standalone sequel The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia received only a paltry theatrical release, where it failed to recoup even its low $8 million budget.