Hauntings: So funny!
Nov. 21st, 2004 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharelleI'm watching "A Haunting in Connecticut" on TLC right now. Oh, my god. Best. Freaking. Show. Ever!
Basic synopsis:
- Parents move their family into a rented house in Connecticut to be nearer to the hospital that their cancer-stricken son must go to for treatment.
- Mom and Dad go into the basement and find evidence of the house's "dark past" -- embalming tubes, bone saws and a mortuary freezer.
- "Oh, sweet merciful God, no! The house used to be a funeral home! How can we expose our children to that?!?" (Um, I've lived in a building that used to be a funeral home for 26 years and I'm fine. Big deal, I ask?)
- Mom and Dad decide to "hide the truth" from their children. (Pu-leeze!)
- Mom begins mopping the kitchen floor, contemplating the horror of their lives, and the mop she is using spreads blood all over the linoleum. (It wouldn't have been so funny if she hadn't gotten half-way done with the floor before she noticed.)
I can already tell the rest of this is going to be good!
EDIT: Oh, my god, these are horrible parents!
(1) Their deathly ill son is undergoing so much psychological trauma that it's affecting his health. (I'd say leave the house, whether you believe in ghosts or not. Just for the kid's sake!)
(2) They have a huge electric bill, so the father removed all the light bulbs in the children's rooms to prevent them from leaving the lights on all night! (I'd solve the whole problem by giving the kids my room and moving down to the basement myself. What's wrong with those parents?)
(3) Oooh, Paul is confronting the voice that haunts him! (Maybe his "calling" is just to be a mortician. *shrugs*)
Basic synopsis:
- Parents move their family into a rented house in Connecticut to be nearer to the hospital that their cancer-stricken son must go to for treatment.
- Mom and Dad go into the basement and find evidence of the house's "dark past" -- embalming tubes, bone saws and a mortuary freezer.
- "Oh, sweet merciful God, no! The house used to be a funeral home! How can we expose our children to that?!?" (Um, I've lived in a building that used to be a funeral home for 26 years and I'm fine. Big deal, I ask?)
- Mom and Dad decide to "hide the truth" from their children. (Pu-leeze!)
- Mom begins mopping the kitchen floor, contemplating the horror of their lives, and the mop she is using spreads blood all over the linoleum. (It wouldn't have been so funny if she hadn't gotten half-way done with the floor before she noticed.)
I can already tell the rest of this is going to be good!
EDIT: Oh, my god, these are horrible parents!
(1) Their deathly ill son is undergoing so much psychological trauma that it's affecting his health. (I'd say leave the house, whether you believe in ghosts or not. Just for the kid's sake!)
(2) They have a huge electric bill, so the father removed all the light bulbs in the children's rooms to prevent them from leaving the lights on all night! (I'd solve the whole problem by giving the kids my room and moving down to the basement myself. What's wrong with those parents?)
(3) Oooh, Paul is confronting the voice that haunts him! (Maybe his "calling" is just to be a mortician. *shrugs*)
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Would you believe
Date: 2004-11-21 02:43 pm (UTC)And the acting!
Plastic Oscar category.
Sally
Re: Would you believe
Date: 2004-11-21 02:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-21 10:09 pm (UTC)I taped it expecting to watch later and be spooked. Yeah, right.
Good thing they didn't mention the Warrens at the begin, otherwise I would have known things would get ridiculous.
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Date: 2004-11-22 01:27 pm (UTC)Then, as soon as the Warrens came into the picture, that was it! (They were in my area several years ago "investigating" the Smurl House. Even as a 10-year-old I knew to be amused by some of the stories coming out of that experience! It was in the paper almost every day!)