Sentences with phrase «as haunted house»

It was decorated as a haunted house at Halloween, and throughout the year reports of strange happenings appeared in the local newspaper.

With light traffic and spotty phone service, the town consists of a few stores and restaurants, train tracks, a community center that's getting dressed up as a haunted house for Halloween and a campus of school buildings and sports fields that comprise the Mary Walker School District.

These bags look very cute as a Haunted House Village display stuffed with paper.

By design, it's a psychological thriller masquerading as a haunted house movie, and Flanagan wisely avoids cheap jump scares in favor of letting the dread develop naturally.

Series creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy have a brilliant knack for infusing new life and vitality into well - established horror tropes such as the haunted house, the carnival freak show, the madhouse, and the dilapidated urban hotel.

Gil Keenan's Poltergeist remake has had an uphill battle since it was first announced, mostly because Tobe Hooper's 1982 classic of the same name is as close to perfect as a haunted house movie can get — there's virtually nothing, aside from some special effects, that would benefit from a remake.

Though Get Out was marketed as a haunted house movie, director Jordan Peele promoted it as a «social thriller».

Many of Meisler's photos document members of the «The Mystery Club» — 11 couples from nearby neighborhoods who would take turns planning «mystery» outings to places such as haunted houses, recording studios and nudist camps, according to the Steven Kasher Gallery.

But all stigmas aren't as intangible as haunted houses and murder sites.

Not exact matches

Some old prisons have seen new life as hotels and «haunted houses.»

If you interpreted the video as a concrete vision of the future of parenting, you couldn't be blamed for fearing holograms will take over your house and haunt your waking hours as a mom or dad.

I remember visiting haunted houses as a kid and feeling especially scared when, on one occasion, the grim reaper appeared without warning from behind a darkened corner.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

Some houses are considered so haunted that real estate agents actually use that as part of their negotiations.

I ran in parks with friends, hung out in the local boys» club after school, played ball, and once risked entering the abandoned home known as «the haunted house.»

The Northeastern Illinois University graduate wants to introduce classes and activities for junior high and high school students offered through the park district such as trips, special events, camps and a haunted house at Halloween.

Against this backdrop, many social democrats — still desperate to haunt the «house of power» (Weber, 1991, 194)-- have begun to position themselves as the left wing of austerity.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino invites one and all to experience the frightening cast of zombies and ghouls eagerly awaiting your arrival, as «Scared by the Sound» Haunted House returns to Playland Park in Rye beginn

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino invites one and all to experience the frightening cast of zombies and ghouls eagerly awaiting your arrival, as «Scared by the Sound» Haunted House returns to Playland Park in Rye beginning Friday, Oct. 14.

That night, as we gathered in our haunted house for a conference, a terrific storm swept the town.

So an old «haunted house» on a hill overlooking the town was fitted out as a dormitory.

As you're getting your outer haunted house ready, have you ever felt like there are corners of your mind that have collected a few extra spider webs or ghostly haunts?

And three — I love the different outings that come with this season such as apple picking, hayrides, and haunted houses.

Burn these places into your brain as bad date spots and never, ever make the mistake of taking a woman to any of these places on a first date: X-rated movies, an overnight trip, your mother's house, any place where there is even a 1 percent chance you will run into your ex, a haunted house, a keg party, a strip club or another country.

Borrowing the structure of a typical haunted house, but ditching the blood, guts and psychotic clowns with chainsaws, ALONE explores the deepest regions of the bizarre, and places you as a participant in your own nightmare.»

As a die - hard horror fan, Abel enjoys the thrills, laughs, and groans of a good haunted house or a camp murder mystery.

A family moves into the mansion to act as caretakers, but when a malevolent force abducts their daughter they discover why the house deserves its reputation as one of the most haunted places in America.

As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their working - class neighbors, who are portrayed by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

But to mistake Garland's succession of haunted - house - like spectacles as Acid: The Place would be missing out on so much emotional work that he's doing.

John Bruno, special effects supervisor on Terminator 2 tries to reinvent the haunted house sub-genre in his directorial debut, much as Ridley Scott did in Alien.

A few hours of spooky fun sneaking into a haunted house become a nightmare as six friends are trapped inside with no way out — and they aren't alone.

For the most part, however, the actor's last two decades as a performer were distinguished by a steady stream of cheap, threadbare horror films, reaching a nadir with such fare as Hillbillies in a Haunted House (1967).

The film seemingly sets this up as an excuse for the supernatural happenings that occur in the real haunted house... but it doesn't fool the audience for one second, nor the characters.

But as Shawn and Gus investigate a series of odd cases, including spelling - bee treachery, murder at a Civil War reenactment, a sorority - house haunting and a case in which the sole witness is a cat, they inevitably produce results, a fact that even Lassiter must begrudgingly admit.

Four years later, in 1963, Robert Wise directed The Haunting, a wide - screen, black - and - white movie based on Jackson's book, with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom memorable as a pair of psychic women who visit a haunted house in New England.

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she says, witlessly, about Hill House's outré decor), miscast indie - style player Owen Wilson as Luke -LRB-» Teletubbies freak me out,» he says, idiotically, as if a pop - cultural reference will make The Haunting hip for the kiddies), and Lili Taylor as Eleanor.

There's something extra-cool about haunted houses as period pieces: the finer the china and the linens, the more fun it'll be when some zombie spirit trashes the place.

Of course, this still might be somewhat forgivable if De Bont and first - time screenwriter David Self didn't openly acknowledge their inspirations for the film — the wonderfully creepy 1963 movie of the same name, as well as its source, the novel «The Haunting of Hill House.»

Stewart plays out the film as if it were a traditional «haunted house» film, but because we already know it is about alien life, we merely watch the characters go through predictable motions until the story catches up with what we already surmise, and the only things keeping viewers reeled in are basic questions such as, «why are they doing this?»

Jackson is often remembered for her short story «The Lottery» and is also the author of the novels «The Haunting of Hill House» and «The Sundial» as well as the memoir «Life Among the Savages,» among other work.

The Winchester Mystery House, as it's known, is a legendary tourist attraction (according to San Jose folklore, it really is said to be haunted by the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles).

Based on his long - running comic book, which debuted in 2008 before wrapping up at the end of 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 million.

In development as far back as 1988 by «House On Haunted Hill» director William Malone, the film circled development hell at MGM for a decade, with «Romper Stomper» director Geoffrey Wright briefly attached, before Hill eventually stepped in, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous version).

The Haunting of Hill House was adapted twice for the big screen: in 1963, and in 1999 as The Haunting with Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta - Jones, Owen Wilson and Lili Taylor.

Timothy Hutton joins The Haunting of Hill House as a lead actor, reports Deadline.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

C's ghost haunts the landscape as well as the house the two share, but Lowery isn't satisfied with limiting his tale there.

There's a certain robust, no - frills quality to this passible haunted house chiller which plays everything as straight as possible.