Sentences with phrase «best haunted house movies»

It's hard to separate a sequel from its original counterpart, especially with a movie like The Conjuring, which is quite simply one of the very best haunted house movies ever — not only that, but it pretty much set the bar for all future films of its ilk; that's a hell of an accomplishment, to say the -LSB-...]

It's hard to separate a sequel from its original counterpart, especially with a movie like The Conjuring, which is quite simply one of the very best haunted house movies ever — not only that, but it pretty much set the bar for all future films of its ilk; that's a hell of an accomplishment, to say the least.

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 exact matches

There hasn't been a good, old - fashioned haunted house movie in a while.

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.»

If The House on Haunted Hill and now 13 Ghosts have anything to prove, it's that if you are going to update a B - movie with a bigger budget and better actors, at least have the decency to make it better than the original.

Given that neither of the A Haunted House films are better than the worst of the Scary Movie franchise, that's a gripe that is likely to fall on deaf ears.

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.

Whether it's haunted houses hiding in plain sight, or people literally dying from their nightmares, here are the 10 best horror movies that are based on true stories.

At its best, the film functions as a Hitchcockian haunted house movie with a palpable air of mystery, intrigue, elegant set pieces and offers up exquisite period details.

Winchester is in keeping with the brothers» recent work in that it's a standard haunted house genre movie that fails to leave a strong impression, good or bad.

Abattoir, his latest, may at heart be a haunted house movie, but it also disassembles and reconstructs that sub-genre with reflexive relish, and refurnishes those well - trodden hallways and basements with genuine invention.

Maybe this is another reason the haunted house scenes are far superior to the rest of the movie — Radcliffe doesn't really do exposition too well.

Not because House on Haunted Hill was any good (quite the contrary — it was horrible), but because whoever that person or those persons is or are have managed to make an even worse movie.

As the scariest of all holidays, Halloween is the best time of year for haunted houses, pumpkin festivals, horror movies, trick or treating, jack - o - lanterns, and of course costumes too.