When Movie Publicity Works Only Too Well

The Lionsgate movie A Haunting in Connecticut actually opens this Friday, but don’t tell that to the hundreds of people who went roaming in a Southington home, wanting to catch a glimpse at the funeral home-zoned-into-a-residential-home on which the movie is based on.

They’re practically turning it into a tourist attraction. Not a good thing for the house’s current occupants, who’ve told MSNBC:

“Most people are respectful. They stay on the road. They might take a picture,” Trotta-Smith said. “But we have had a few problems with people kind of rudely coming up to the door and scaring our kids, telling them the house is haunted.”

Southington police have understandably added police officers to safeguard the current owners from overzealous gawkers.