Sentences with phrase «haunted house tale»

Even with talents like Helen Mirren involved, Winchester stands as nothing more than a trite, predictable haunted house tale.

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.

But you could probably do better than spending 89 minutes with this Michael Bay - produced haunted house tale / board game adaptation from first - time director Stiles White, featuring a mostly no - name cast.

This is all to say that Winchester has plenty of potential and while it never fully capitalizes on the ample opportunity it has to transcend the genre trappings and become something of a more self - conscious and timeless work it is a solid and sometimes even surprising haunted house tale that uses the audiences expectations to its advantage and takes certain elements in directions that feel fertile.

From James Wan comes a different kind of haunted house tale based on the true story of mediums Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Rich in detail and history, San Jose, California's Winchester Mystery House (now a popular tourist haunt) is prime real estate for a grandly spooky Gothic haunted house tale.

I do still remember the first story I completed though... what else but a classic haunted house tale.

WINCHESTER [BLU - RAY](2018): «Even with talent like Helen Mirren involved, Winchester stands as nothing more than a trite, predictable haunted house tale.

Deriving its scares from a horror staple — the haunted house tale — the film offers a novel slant and is incredibly effective in ratcheting up the terror.

It's a heartbreaking love story with ghosts and murder, and a haunted house tale that has a creeping mystery -LSB-...]

This aggressive take on the haunted house tale wraps director Tobe Hooper's potent horrors inside producer Steven Spielberg's brightly lit suburbia.

The Haunting in Connecticut (PG - 13 for intense terror and disturbing images) Haunted house tale, based on a true story, recounts the host of supernatural horrors visited upon a family which unsuspectingly moved into a recently - renovated Victorian mansion that had been a mortuary where unspeakable acts had transpired.

The other films in the eight - film collection are Dread, Anthony DiBlasi's screen adaptation of the Clive Barker short story, Hidden a haunted house tale from Norway, The Graves, The Final, Kill Theory and The Reeds.

The haunted house tale is said to be taking cues from classic horror films like The Haunting and The Shining it should be at the very least one of the more visually impressive films coming later this year.

«Crimson Peak» (October 16): After playing with big robots in 2013's «Pacific Rim,» Guillermo del Toro ventures back to the world of horror with this haunted house tale starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Doug Jones, and Burn Gorman.