Sentences with phrase «about haunted houses»

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.

Recommended if you love old stories about haunted houses and castles and weird old towns with superstitions and stuff.

Gee, and all this time I'd thought it was about a haunted house.

There's not much to say about A Haunted House 2 except that it recycles the exact same sex and racial humor from the first movie, except with new movies to inject them into.

Gil Kenan's faithful rehash of Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg's 1982 family - friendly horror smash about a haunted house in the suburbs is inferior in every respect.

Essentially, it's a retread of Poltergeist, about a haunted house that more or less «kidnaps» a child, but it has its own unique spin.

But there is nothing funny about this haunted house in space which, 35 years later, is still a benchmark of science fiction and horror.

It all began with The Uninvited, which was reportedly the first dramatic movie about a haunted house (previous pictures had all been heavy on the comedy).

Your students will enjoy writing a spooky story about a haunted house during October with these Halloween language arts worksheets.

Students love writing spooky stories, so Halloween is a great time to have your students write a story about a haunted house.

Targeted Age Group:: 7 - 12 years Category: Children's - Literature & Fiction About The Haunted House - Kids Mystery books Ages 9 - 12: The Haunted House — Kids Mystery books Ages 9 - 12, Kids Prime, Bed Time Kids Stories Bedtime stories children books for early beginner collection.

An article about this haunted house had even appeared in Reader's Digest.

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When I was 3 we lived in a haunted house for about 1 year.

Do you remember the haunted house episode about sound?

This haunted house in the northern suburbs is all about bringing the terror and seems best suited for older teens, hard - core horror fans and thrill seekers.

«Make no mistake about it: every single House Republican, including Representative Katko, bears the responsibility for this heartless legislation, and the passage of this bill will haunt him through Election Day,» Lujan said Friday.

Halloween isn't just about the cauldrons of candy, haunted houses and costume contests.

Images below by Photography by Mckenzie Boots (Nine West) Skirt (Nordstrom Rack) Necklaces (assorted boutiques) Earrings (Nordstrom) Blouse (Michael Kors via TJ Maxx) Fascinator (Target) Last week I attended the Delicious Reads book club all about The Haunting of Hill House.

Her and her friends have been talking for weeks about the Kid Friendly «Spooky Haunted House» they were going to create for the neighborhood kids.

From haunted houses to scary movies to creepy costume parties, we are ALL about them in this household.

a haunted house with or to discuss your views about alien abduction.

Winner of the Audience Award at the New York Asian Film Festival, Fine, Totally Fine is a dramedy about two listless friends - Teruo, a perpetual dreamer and haunted house enthusiast, and his friend Hisanobu, a uber - sensitive salaryman.

Since nobody had yet made a movie about a serious scientific investigation of a haunted house, Markway's experiment was taken at face value.

And what about having Liam Neeson creating tension by manipulating scares, only to find out the house is truly haunted?

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.

One reason it's hard to believe in the Coens» characters or their surroundings is that just about everything that isn't borrowed from the original Ladykillers comes from an earlier Coen movie (except the changing expression on the painting of Munson's late husband, which can be traced back to any number of awful Hollywood haunted - house movies).

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?»

@justin233 While it is from that one «haunted house» attraction, there was a photoshop thread all about it at SomethingAwful.

«The Uninvited»: Fresh digital restoration of director Lewis Allen's 1944 picture about a brother and sister who move into a haunted house.

Mama (PG - 13 for violence, terror, disturbing images and mature themes) Haunted house horror flick about a young couple (Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster - Waldau) that encounters nothing but supernatural trouble after taking custody of a two orphaned nieces (Megan Carpenter and Isabelle Nelisse) found alive after fending for themselves in the forest for five years.

Intruders (R for terror, violence, sexuality, nudity and profanity) Haunted house horror flick about a father's (Clive Owen) desperate effort to protect his daughter (Ella Purnell) from the faceless monster that visits their home every night.

I thought he was annoyingly OTT in Pirates Of The Caribbean, and the less said about The House On Haunted Hill, the better.

Discontented wife, Debbie (Christina Applegate, «Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues») and children, James (Skyler Gisondo, «The Amazing Spider - Man 2») and the little brother from Hell, Kevin (Steele Stebbins, «A Haunted House 2») are excited about going somewhere on vacation other than the same old cabin rental in Michigan, but when pop suggests a trip to Los Angeles and a theme park, their enthusiasm is cooled, especially after Russ rents an Albanian SUV complete with two gas tanks, a pair of electric charger cords and a control with confusing and nonsensical symbols.

What: Guillermo del Toro has introduced the world to haunted houses and kaiji - fighting robots, Hellboy and other fantastical realms of reality, and his new project is just as magical: a creature feature of yesteryear, about a mute woman (Hawkins) who falls in love with a hardboiled egg - eating sea creature held in a secret government laboratory.

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.

We recently spoke to original Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell about their new haunted house thriller Insidious, which is in theaters this Friday.

We Need to Talk About Kevin is haunting and chilling thriller that was based on a book by Lionel Shriver that rehashes the classic debate of nature - versus - nurture in an uncompromising art - house style.

(In Russian and German with subtitles) The Skeptic (Unrated) Horror flick about a cynical lawyer (Tim Daly) who finds a big surprise when he moves into his recently - deceased aunt's (Sara Weaver) house which is rumored to be haunted.

Aronofsky puts to work the tools of the horror genre (the haunted house - isolated in a forest, bumps in the night, body horror, unwelcome strangers, horror as a manifestation of marital problems) to construct a Trojan Horse from which springs a complex thesis about the commodity and vanity of celebrity, mass societal behaviour, procreation, religion and more.

Not only does it feature a kicks cast — Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam and Jim Beaver — but it looks like it could be the haunted house movie we've been dreaming about for years (why is it so hard?).

It's about a woman named Amelia (Essie Davis) doing her best to cope with life after the shocking death of her husband Oskar several years ago and having to deal with the increasingly erratic behavior of her six - year - old son Samuel (a young and brilliant Noah Wiseman) who is convinced something is haunting their house.

Here's what Crimson Peak is about: «When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood - red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever.

The family members that experience yet another haunting in the house have various levels of knowledge about its past.

We haven't heard much about this, but it looks like your standard haunted house plus one super angry ghost movie, with the increasingly common horror trope of idiot white tourists in a foreign country making a fool of themselves and provoking evil spirits.

Aside from being an exceptionally well - crafted (and therefore effective) haunted - house tale, the fun thing about James Wan's 2013 horror hit The Conjuring was its connection to the real - life exploits of famed New England ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Night of the Demons (R for sexuality, nudity, drug use, profanity and graphic violence) Grisly remake of the 1998, high attrition - rate horror flick about a decadent Halloween party at a haunted house in New Orleans where teenaged revelers suddenly find themselves stalked by bloodthirsty demons.

As the new foster parents soon discover, the kid, Cody (Room's Jacob Tremblay), possesses a dangerous supernatural power, and when he falls asleep, his dreams haunt the house — projections of a small child's manias (butterflies are Cody's favorite subject) and uneasy thoughts about grown - ups and themselves.

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Yeah, you read that right: the long - delayed Amityville: The Awakening, directed by Franck Khalfoun (who made the remake of Maniac) is the 18th film in the mostly direct - to - video franchise, 19th if you count Conjuring 2, and maybe 20th if you count My Amityville Horror, the genuinely disturbing documentary about the troubled son of George and Kathy Lutz, the couple whose haunted - house claims were detailed in Jay Anson's best - seller.

Based on a short story by Shirley Jackson, it's about four poor souls who start digging into a terrible old house, and it may just be the template for every traditional haunted - house movie you've ever seen.