The Haunting in Connecticut, a horror movie that opens this weekend, is being promoted with a poster and TV ads built around an image of a boy who appears to have tobacco leaves three times the size of his lead sprouting from his mouth. My first impression of this image was that the movie must have been made as part of a tax write-off scheme and that the publicity department, knowing that the film was meant to fail and understanding that they weren't expected to attract people to the theater, were having a little fun, but it turns out that a lot of people think that it's one selling ad. The intended reaction is, what the hell is supposed to be going on there!? Or, more precisely, because Haunting is touted as being "based on true events", what the hell is supposed to have been really going on there!?
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