Perhaps this guide to haunted house movie cliches can help with your spooky situation.
The Batman director Matt Reeves has said that the spin-off series focused on the Gotham police department has "evolved" into a series focused on Arkham Asylum, and compared it to a horror movie or haunted house story.
It's the star-studded horror movie we've never heard of!
Mike Flanagan may have single-handedly* reinvented TV horror with the one-two punch of his Netflix anthology series, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. (*Including, of course, Flanagan's talented cast and crew, and the long-standing works the contemporary retellings are based on.) In both the 2018 series and 2020's own follow-up tale, Flanagan's angle opted to put twists and turns on horror tropes while fully steeping his stories in the genre itself. Are there jump scares, phobias, and supernatural spooksters from the unimaginable beyond? Yes, of course. But the …
Floorboards creak, doors slam shut, and spooky spirits go bump in the night; the haunted house movie is a staple of the horror genre, and for good reason — paranormal thrills never go out of style. Where slashers and creature features come and go from cinematic trends, tales of ghostly apparitions and supernatural spooks never seem to go out of style. Perhaps it's because the haunted house genre contains magnitudes. Gothic romance, quirky comedies, and of course, tales of terror populate the genre, which offers a big, free realm for filmmakers to play in. It's also a visceral, primal …
It’s a good day when you find out that the official release of one of your favorite Sundance Film Festival movies is right around the corner! It’s an honor to be able to officially break this news - Remi Weekes’ feature directorial debut, His House, is scheduled to hit Netflix globally on October 30, 2020. The film features two stellar performances from Wunmi Mosaku and Sope Dirisu as a young couple who manage to escape war-torn South Sudan. After completing the harrowing journey to the UK, they’re placed in a detention center before finally getting a home …
Slow-burn indie horror films are all the rage right now, thanks to the success of movies like It Follows and Hereditary. Filmmaker Natalie Erika James is throwing her hat into the ring with her debut feature Relic, and the trailer looks pretty interesting, although the pull quotes from critics seem to spoil the film somewhat. The movie follows Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) as they travel to the creaky old country house where her elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin) lives alone. Edna has mysteriously vanished, but reappears several days later just as mysteriously, covered in …
From The Witch in the Window to We Are Still Here, these are our picks for some of the most frightening haunted houses movies of all time.
With Fall finally here, Universal Studios is kicking off their 29th annual Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida. Here are all ten haunted houses, ranked.
To assist you in planning the haunted house portion of your Halloween movie nights, here are the top 10 haunted house movies as rated by IMDB.
Universal's annual Halloween Horror Nights event is underway. But one huge haunted house almost didn't make it in for the 2019 event.
When you shout 'Don't go in there!', the characters in this movie might actually listen.
Hot off his summer horror hit Crawl, genre maestro Alexandre Aja has signed on to direct an untitled haunted house movie for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, and the kicker is, it will be an interactive horror film featuring a branched narrative -- i.e. a choose-your-own-adventure-style horror movie. The film will be written by Jeff Howard (The Haunting of Hill House), Nick Simon (The Girl in the Photographs), and Aja, based on an idea by Howard and Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep). [caption id="attachment_317647" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Relativity Media[/caption] To develop the …
Mundane exploration mars the experience of Silver Chains, a haunted-house horror game which compromises a decent narrative with frustrating gameplay.
This is as close as it gets as being in the same room as Annabelle... if you've been dying to.
One of the most famous subgenres of horror, both in novels and movies, is the haunted house story. The story takes viewers inside a home, hotel, or mansion, and shows characters dealing with a haunting, possession, or otherworldly event that turns the once peaceful home into a house of horror. The theme is so great that it has been adapted into other forms, from a haunted house in space (Alien) to one in a submarine (Below).
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