Wendy: But what about you?
Matt Campbell: I'm already dead.
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Peter Cornwell
Starring: Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Kyle Gallner, Amanda Crew
Matt tears apart the basement and reveals the bodies, used by Dr. Aickman years ago, from within the walls. Matt burns the bodies so that the tormented spirits can be freed. Firefighters rescue Matt from the burning house. With the bodies burned, Jonah and the other spirits can now rest in peace. Matt's cancer goes away and no more disturbances were reported in the house.
Alex
Question: Shouldn't the bodies have rotted? They've been inside the walls for decades, yet still look as if they'd been dead for a couple days - maybe weeks.
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Answer: It could be supernatural, but my guess is that the bodies were preserved with embalming fluid. the eyelids didn't decompose so they were preserved too. It wouldn't be too hard to acomplish since it was done in a funeral home by a mortician with a lot of expierence.
I would say that it's because the bodies are processed as they would be in a morgue. Since that's what the house used to be 'officially' before they bought it as a house. That's why the rent's so cheap.