Sentences with phrase «haunted house movie in»

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

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And then, like an idiot in a horror movie who runs back into the haunted house and bravely gets murdered, HE RETURNED.

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

As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their working - class neighbors, who are portrayed by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.

Four years later, in 1963, Robert Wise directed The Haunting, a wide - screen, black - and - white movie based on Jackson's book, with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom memorable as a pair of psychic women who visit a haunted house in New England.

But I was really looking forward to «The Haunting» for many reasons: the actors (Liam Neeson, in particular), the story (I haven't seen any of the other Hill House movies, but my dad seems to like them and the plot intrigued me), and I was hoping for a movie that would scare me by being subtle, psychological, and spontaneous, like the kind «ol Hitchcock made.

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).

The Haunting of Hill House will arrive on Netflix in a 10 - episode form, written, produced, and directed by Mike Flanagan, who directed Oculus, Hush and will adapt King's Gerald's Game into a movie.

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

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.

Bringing in a new cast for the movie, The Phantom of the Opera stars Gerald Butler as the ghostly form who haunts the Paris Opera House.

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

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 movie falls just short of greatness in its final act, which is comparable to a carnival haunted house, only one you're watching as an outside participant.

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.

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.

The Witch's woodland farmhouse setting also counted as one of many backdrops of dread, pinning in the year's unluckiest of movie heroes: the quiet, empty spaces of a Manhattan mansion, where the young caretaker of Mickey Keating's Repulsion homage Darling comes violently unglued; the London haunted house of James Wan's bigger, sillier The Conjuring 2, a spring - loaded funhouse ride of a movie; and the claustrophobic underground bunker of 10 Cloverfield Lane, which proved less a sequel to its blockbuster «cousin» than a feature - length Twilight Zone episode.

Now playing in theaters everywhere is James Wan's The Conjuring, the newest haunted house supernatural horror movie based on real world events.

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.

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.

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.

We're still not sure if this movie is going to be a return - to - form, in terms of quality, but this trailer promises a ton of jump scares and a super creepy haunted house exploration in the movie.

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Billed as a haunted - house horror movie, it's actually a violent R - rated romance geared toward the sensibilities of «14 - year - old bookish girls,» as director Guillermo Del Toro described it in a recent...

Once the group gets locked in the hospital, the movie becomes very similar to Thirteen Ghosts or House on Haunted Hill (1999)(with the carload of joyriding punks suddenly arriving on the scene feeling as if it were lifted directly from Demons.).

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.

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.

Film Review by Kam Williams Marlon Wayans Spoofs Romance Genre in Shocking Parody of Salacious S&M Adventure Ever since Scary Movie (2000), Marlon Wayans has carved out quite a career for himself writing and starring in a string of silly spoofs that includes Scary Movie 2 (2001), Dance Flick (2009), A Haunted House (2013), and A Haunted House 2 (2014).

The Conjuring uses every stock scare in the horror movie playbook for a dumb, yet charmingly traditional haunted house picture that manages to feel more retro than rehashed.

It can eventually get predictable, but the predictability isn't the point — the exercise in craft that The Conjuring is allows us to appreciate the establishment of brilliant mood and tension, which is the whole point of haunted - house movies in the first place.

A Ghost Story By Imogen Sara Smith Time is malleable and love is a mystery in David Lowery's entrancing twist on the haunted house movie

By design, it's a psychological thriller masquerading as a haunted house movie, and Flanagan wisely avoids cheap jump scares in favor of letting the dread develop naturally.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

Turns out there's a lot more to the real - life tales of»70s - era paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga): The series is now poised to leap from sleeper smash to successful franchise (and one of the most anticipated summer movies) with the equally compelling The Conjuring 2, in which the pair heads to London to clean haunted house.

Let Me In Where: Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St., 415-668-3994 When: Jan. 21 - 22 Why: Though the roar of fanboy discontent stirred by the announcement of an American remake has understandably died to a barely imperceptible murmur, those haunted by Tomas Alfredson's 2008 Swedish import Let the Right One In, about the complicated friendship between a bullied 12 - year - old and a childlike vampire, were right to bellyache about the prospect of Hollywood tampering.

In her book, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Ultimate School Fund - Raising Book, Joachim provides outlines for organizing and running high - yield projects, such as a pledge drive, a flea market, a street fair, a haunted house, and pizza - and - movie nights.

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We love books, movies and haunted houses because it feeds our basic need to feel fear in a controlled environment.

The horror genre isn't dead but, like a paranormal investigator in a haunted house movie, you've got to know where to look and what to look for.

For horror movie fans and those interested in the macabre, these homes are sought out for photos and bragging rights that you actually saw the haunted house.