Sentences with phrase «classic haunted house stories»
Wan's strengths lie in his ability to cull what works in classic haunted house stories (think The Old Dark House, The Haunting, Poltergeist) and adapt them for modern tastes.
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It's transposes the classic «haunted house» story into the great outdoors.
From Shirley Jackson's eerie, intellectual ghost story «The Haunting of Hill House» director Robert Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding weave a classic supernatural thriller, a shocker without gore, a ghost movie seemingly without ghosts.
Writer - director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and co-scripter C. Robert Cargill (the Ain't It Cool News staffer who pitched the story) clearly hoped to make Sinister an old - school horror movie, mining terror from classic haunted house scenarios designed to drive a desperate writer to Shining - style madness.
I do still remember the first story I completed though... what else but a classic haunted house tale.