A very creepy
haunted house movie with some mediocre acting, cheap special effects and some rather confusing, if silly, plot twists at the end.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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 the kind of
house you require for a
haunting movie,
with lots of rooms, nooks, crannies, corridors, staircases, closets and shadows — and an attic, of course.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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-...]
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with «A Haunted House», this is a great time to revisit this great spoofs from the creators of «Scary Movie&raq
with «A
Haunted House», this is a great time to revisit this great spoofs from the creators of «Scary
Movie».
Standard marital troubles between Lawrence and Bardem's characters pair
with a bevy of apparent
haunted house movie clichés.
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.
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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).
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.
Stacey Menear's screenplay doesn't manage to sustain its clever premise,
with the final act featuring a banal and formulaic revelation that unfortunately takes what had been a spooky
haunted house tale into familiar slasher
movie territory.
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.
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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.
«What it had going against it for the market is that it was a female - centric
movie with an R rating,» del Toro tells TheWrap about his
haunted -
house film
Del Toro is absolutely clear that his latest offering isn't a direct horror
movie, but
with all of the jump scares,
haunted houses and a clear nod to the Hammer Horror
movies of old, he could have fooled us.