During a pandemic, watching horror movies can be therapy. Supernatural horror tends to have religious themes, but ironically a strange short movie series “based on true events” has swapped fabricated religions for the “actual” entities.
One of the strangest horror movie titles is The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia. Apart from the fact that Georgia is over 800 air miles from Connecticut, and considering that the two stories are unrelated, some obvious questions arise. The solution is a little bit of a letdown, admittedly, but still part of a larger and intriguing story connecting horror and religion. It goes like this:
In 2002 the Discovery Channel was test screening for a series called A Haunting. The first two cases were A Haunting in Connecticut and A Haunting in Georgia. Although unrelated (except by title) these two made-for-television movies were aired and then packaged together for purchase in DVD format. These days they’re more easily found via streaming, but packaging things together implies important portents. Read more
