Sentences with phrase «haunted houses do»

«Haunted houses don't have a narrative or make sense,» claimed Reyes in the New York Times.

A haunted house doesn't deter Amabel — not until some very nasty things start to go bump in the night... Some old friends appear — Jane (of The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith); Molloy, the anarchist uncle; and «Piggy», chief of the CID; all have a part to play in this golden age mystery from 1925.

A haunted house does exist, as the New York Supreme Court ruled that it did.

Not exact matches

Do the dead haunt their house?

Hosted by local churches trying to compete with haunted houses during the Halloween season, Judgment Day Houses are designed to frighten participants into making commitments to Christianity by dramatically portraying the splendors of heaven that await them if they accept Christ the horrors of hell that will befall them if they don't.

By a skillful parable Nathan enables David to see what he has done and predicts that this breach of shalom will haunt David's house for generations to come (2 Samuel 11 - 12).

I don't think we should use dimly lit haunted houses or glorified rock show worship services to force an immediate decision.

Do you remember the haunted house episode about sound?

The second and third weren't entirely his fault — United's defence was creaking like a old door in a haunted house — but he doesn't look totally blameless either, oddly positioned for the first and perhaps weak - wristed for the second.

Finally, for the host with the most, do - it - yourself Halloween decorations are the best way to turn your home into a D.I.Y. haunted house with graveyard tombstones, hanging spiders and spider webs, standup skeletons, black cat wall hangings, black - and - orange backdrops and so much more.

People don't really let teenagers go trick - or - treating anymore, and haunted houses are a fun thing they can do.

Some people don't like haunted houses, but a lot of people love them.

Inflatables to play on (one of Monte's favorite), a haunted house (we did not go in), a soft - play area for the little kids to run and jump, AND free tours of an ambulance and fire truck!

Ezekial bread and raw chocolate doesn't really belong in my house, because it haunts me!

I did enjoy haunted houses though.

I don't know if I can do a scary movie again (saw Don't Breathe and that was too much for me) or a haunted house, but those sound like perfect bucket list itemdo a scary movie again (saw Don't Breathe and that was too much for me) or a haunted house, but those sound like perfect bucket list items!

Haunted houses stress me out, carving pumpkins is too much work and I don't have the desire to go all out on costumes.

So really, Blackout is the haunted house that just doesn't give an eff.

He has crafted some of the best haunted house movies based off of PG - 13 rating and showed what he could do with an R - rating.

Not only does Niagara Falls have multiple ways to view their gorgeous falls (Journey Behind The Falls tunnel exploration, Maid Of The Mist boat tour, Whirlpool Aero Car cable car aerial tour, or just plain ol' viewing from Table Rock or Queen Victoria Park), but it is also home to dozens of haunted houses, mini putt courses, wax museums, arcades, and more!

But you could probably do better than spending 89 minutes with this Michael Bay - produced haunted house tale / board game adaptation from first - time director Stiles White, featuring a mostly no - name cast.

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.

At the end of Robert Wise's THE HAUNTING does Julie Harris» death do anything other than highlight the tragedy and horror that lay within and around the haunting of HilHAUNTING does Julie Harris» death do anything other than highlight the tragedy and horror that lay within and around the haunting of Hilhaunting of Hill House?

What he doesn't expect is that the house is really haunted by the original master, and the spirits of children who were killed there over a hundred years ago.

They forget that the original film version of «The Haunting» (based on Shirley Jackson's truly terrifying «The Haunting of Hill House») worked so well because of what the audience didn't see.

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.

And did anyone connected with this film know that Hill House is supposed to be the quintessential haunted house in film and literaHouse is supposed to be the quintessential haunted house in film and literahouse in film and literature?

When the skeleteon jumped out of the fireplace, this should have turned into a roller coaster ride of a haunted house film and instead turned into psychobabble bull shit that didn't hold people's attention let alone frighten them.

A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent and old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and hauntings occur at night.

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?»

The greatest mystery in The Vault, a flimsy bank heist meets haunted house mashup, has nothing whatsoever to do with the contents of the titular secure storage space.

Eric and Skye are amateur ghost hunters, which doesn't sit well with the rational Matt, but that's nothing compared with Eric's declaration that Sarah is also a believer — that the house in which they grew up was haunted and he swears they were saved from ghosts by a swarm of butterflies.

Wise and his stable of superlative actors brought to life Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House, and by the time the film's narrator quoted those famous last words from the novel — «whatever walked there, walked alone» — it was time to go to bed and pray that my own bedroom door didn't start pounding.

There's obviously something much more sinister going on with this place, but the question that keeps coming up is: «How do you build a haunted house?»

A Haunted House 2 continues the Paranormal Activity found - footage gimmick, though that's not entirely accurate given that this footage isn't found, and many shots don't incorporate actual cameras (such as when Malcolm visits a church).

Yet, for some reason, it does creep a certain segment of the audience out, and these people keep flocking back for more bad haunted house action, regardless of how dreary each succeeding sequel would become.

Does it want to be a haunted fun house full of jump scares?

Now they are determined to do what they can to scare away the family and serve out their 125 year term as apparitions before moving on to the next phase, but a wrench stops up the works when the new owners are pleased with the financial possibilities of the attraction of a haunted house, and it seems the more they scare these new inhabitants, the more amused they get.

Featuring a rare bad performance from Jennifer Jason Leigh, Amityville: The Awakening can't decide whether it wants to be an earnest - but - clichéd haunted house movie or a Scream - style meta dissection of same and doesn't seem to particularly give a shit about either one of its competing storylines.

That being said, there are also some truly funny moments, like a shot of the Hodgson family running from their haunted house after a particularly intense bout of psychokinetic activity that riffs on smartasses» favorite retort, «Why don't they just move?»

Under James Wan's direction, even the most clichéd haunted - house tropes (and this movie is bursting with them) are genuinely creepy, and although the movie isn't overly reliant on jump scares, the ones it does use — well, they work.

In «Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar» (10:27), director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell separately discuss their philosophies for the film, putting new spins on the haunted house and possession genres and doing certain things differently from other modern movies.

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The Eddie Murphy - starring The Haunted Mansion didn't turn out so well, but that hasn't deterred the House of Mouse.

When you experiment in the paranormal and haunted house premise, as a director, you can either do it right or fuck it up terribly.

In case you didn't notice from the mound of spooky movie reviews, Haunted House articles and Halloween - themed Sunday Sunrise topics, the spookiest day of the year is a big deal on MRFH.

Late into «Crimson Peak,» Guillermo Del Toro's elaborate haunted house thriller, it occurred to me that the ghosts don't have enough to do.

That doesn't mean they don't exist, but even for a spoof movie, «A Haunted House» looks embarrassingly bad for everyone involved, including those dumb enough to waste their time and money.