Sentences with phrase «haunted house movie»

There have been dozens of haunted house movies released, though not all of them have been scary or even entertaining.

A very creepy haunted house movie with some mediocre acting, cheap special effects and some rather confusing, if silly, plot twists at the end.

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.

As a kid, seeing haunted house movies or the haunted house episodes of television series was a treat, and still is.

The most spine - tinglingly effective haunted house movies ever made.

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

I love haunted house movies.

So, it's admirable that Co - writer / Director Armand Weston would shun the trend and make an old - fashioned haunted house movie.

I thought haunted house movies were gone and forgotten, but here's «The Haunting», sort of a revival of the genre.

But the Jan De Bont version is, far and away, one of the worst haunted house movies ever made.

Robert Wise's «The Haunting» is a great, psychological haunted house movie.

It's a well paced haunted house movie...

The first one (released in 2012) was a solid haunted house movie and a perfect vehicle for its leading man, Daniel Radcliffe.

I guess I have a weakness for ghosts and haunted houses, but this movie blew me away when I saw it and it is still one of my favorite haunted house movies of all time.

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.

Remaking hit Japanese horror movies (a la «The Ring») is Hollywood's latest plan to rake in big bucks without actually having to be creative or original — and while «The Grudge» is nothing more than a cultural twist on the standard - issue haunted house movie, I will give credit to director Takashi Shimizu (remaking his own film «Ju - On») for giving me goosebumps.

The Poltergeist reboot has us talking about the great haunted house movies over the years and how much they've changed.

Standard marital troubles between Lawrence and Bardem's characters pair with a bevy of apparent haunted house movie clichés.

Dir Robert Wise (Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson) The Haunting is the quintessential haunted house movie: Martin Scorsese even rated it his number one scariest film.

First - time feature writer / director Todd Lincoln manages to establish a gripping atmosphere derivative of other haunted house movies.

13 GHOSTS (Grade: D): Producers Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver's second recent attempt to remake one of»50s director William Castle's low - budget haunted house movies — after 1999's disastrous «The House on Haunted Hill» — is another overblown, suspenseless misfire.

A Ghost Story David Lowery's tone poem about grief and time is the most unusual haunted house movie ever.

Housebound introduces a simple yet kind of ingenious twist to the standard haunted house movie: What if you couldn't leave a house you know is haunted?

I love Haunted House movies, and I've always wanted to see one produced to the nines and with all the stops pulled out.

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.

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-...]

[the house's] structure reflects that of the film - a creaky accumulation of tropes from all manner of haunted house movies, stitched together into an impressive if ungainly edifice.

Excuse me, but I doubt a haunted house movie with a «lame» as you put it ending will rank ahead of Lucas new classic.

Harry, I saw this movie on Monday evening and what struck me most, and what I'm surprised you barely mention, is that for a haunted house movie this movie is JUST NOT SCARY!

Boone has teased that New Mutants is a horror film, and Fox studio exec Stacey Snider compared the X-Men spinoff to «a haunted house movie.»

And indeed, Del Toro just yesterday signed to direct the haunted house movie «Crimson Peak,» confirming it will be his next feature film with a January 2014 start being eyed.

«Insidious» is an affectionate visit to the Haunted House Movie, a genre that seems classic in contrast to Queasy - Cam gorefests.

All that speculative fun has been shaped into a rather clunky, derivative bit of supernatural claptrap: a haunted house movie curiously low on mystery or honest scares.

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

Originally labelled a haunted house movie set in space, it created a whole new sub-genre of science fiction horror, kickstarted the careers of Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver, and introducing mainstream audiences to the fantastical works of the late surrealist sculptor and painter, HR Giger.

But it's definitely a haunted house movie.

Like its 1979 predecessor, Alien: Covenant is essentially a haunted house movie in space with plenty of screams to go around.

The horror film Insidious is marketed like a member of the creepy kid subgenre and it opens like a haunted house movie.

This haunted house movie is written and will be directed by Supernatural creator and executive producer Eric Kripke.

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?).

is something like a home invasion thriller or a haunted house movie (or maybe both?).

Maureen is also a spiritual medium trying to make contact with her recently deceased twin brother in the parts of the film that resemble a haunted house movie.

The teaser trailer for Crimson Peak — Guillermo del Toro's haunted house movie — left some people a little cold when it was released back in February.

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.

As displayed in his respectable debut, «Lights Out,» Swedish filmmaker Sandberg appreciates the subtleties of haunted house movies: hearing faraway footsteps, glimpsing movement in the shadows, finding clues that everything is not as it seems.

Secondly, the original film was so effective that it has become the template for pretty much every haunted house movie that has been released since.

Insidious is effectively a variation on the haunted house movie.

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.