Sentences with phrase «house as a ghost»

Did the husband die and appear in the house as a ghost, or did he just return home?

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Now a ghost town, Table Rock, Wyoming was founded by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town to house workers during the region's housing shortage in the late 1970s.

The ghost is temporarily banished from the house by Paul D, Sethe's lover, but Beloved returns with a vengeance as the teenager she would have been had she not been slain.

ABUJA — THE House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Failed Rail Contracts, yesterday, unearthed 169 ghost companies that registered as contractors with the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, for projects valued at N1 trillion.

As for the ghost vets, county officials tell the curious that the facility was not intended to be a boarding house, i.e. homeless shelter, and that its occupants are required to seek work or treatment during the day.

Known as the Sands of Hell, Namibia Skeleton Coast National Park houses some incredible shipwrecks and a Ghost Town formerly known as Kolmanskop, which was founded in the early 1900s by a large German population when diamonds were found in the desert but abandoned 40 years later.

The actress's combination of deadpan comic timing and undeniable beauty made her an instant hot property in Hollywood, and she was soon appearing in comic fare like The House Bunny and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, as well as the hugely successful horror comedy Zombieland (2009).

When newspaper publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), a fascistic type with presidential aspirations, decides to use Doe as his ticket to the White House, he puts Doe on the radio to deliver inspirational speeches to the masses — ghost - written by Mitchell, who, it is implied, has become the publisher's mistress.

In 2003, Deschanel appeared in minor capacity as a receptionist in Sam Raimi's Spider - Man 2, with her role in Ghost House Pictures» 2004 frightener Boogeyman serving to prove that she was much more than just another pretty face.As the 2000's rolled on, Deschanel would prove to be an even bigger force on the small screen, playing forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance «Bones» Brennan, partner of FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), on the popular Fox crime drama series Bones.

I think that it should have ended with all four of them crouched in the corner of the living room, the huge ghost of crane looking down on them, then showing the outside of the house as Crane begins to laugh... ending finally with the pitiful screams of the inhabitants that know they will never leave.

Things fall flat, though, when Taylor emerges as the central character, interacting with Hill House's malignant history in an increasingly silly series of frightless escapades that have her chasing about the house's serpentine corridors after wispy kiddie ghosts and bloody footprHouse's malignant history in an increasingly silly series of frightless escapades that have her chasing about the house's serpentine corridors after wispy kiddie ghosts and bloody footprhouse's serpentine corridors after wispy kiddie ghosts and bloody footprints.

With Dame Helen Mirren playing the lead role as Sarah Winchester, we'll hopefully get an exciting portrayal of a woman who built a house for ghosts.

The Winchester Mystery House, as it's known, is a legendary tourist attraction (according to San Jose folklore, it really is said to be haunted by the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles).

C's ghost haunts the landscape as well as the house the two share, but Lowery isn't satisfied with limiting his tale there.

It feels so different, and is in ways an art house horror about children's social anxiety, among other reasons I would certainly recommend it as a simple piece of Hollywood entertainment mixed with elements of a classic ghost story.

Director: Keenan Ivory Wayans Cast: Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Chris Masterson, Regina Hall, David Cross, Marlon Wayans, Chris Elliott, Kathleen Robertson, Tim Curry, Tori Spelling and James Woods Plot: A group of students are tricked into spending a night in a haunted house as an experiment, becoming the target of a malicious ghost.

Adam (Baldwin, Working Girl) and Barbara Maitland (Davis, Quick Change) love the little home in the country they've built for themselves, but after they are killed in a freak accident and come back as ghosts, they are appalled to find that their house has been sold to a tasteless and unpleasant family, who plan one tearing down all they've built to redo the house in the tackiest way possible.

The Others — Alejandro Amenábar, the director of the previously mentioned Abre Los Ojos, directs this outstanding ghost story starring Nicole Kidman as a woman taking care of her two children in a new house while her husband is away.

The one that it brings slight reminders of is Jerry Zucker's Ghost but as that film played to the masses and went for entertainment value, Lowery's film plays the to art house, Terence Malick crowd and is much better for it.

Helen Mirren stars as the infamous and eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester, who built a house to serve as a prison, an asylum, for hundreds of vengeful ghosts — of people killed by the Winchester rifle.

Such production design - heavy haunted house features as The Shining, The Haunting, and The Innocents have also been cited as a heavy influence on Crimson Peak by del Toro; of late, though, the filmmaker seems to have begun playing down the idea that he's making a haunted house genre throwback, and more than Crimson Peak is a Gothic romance first, set piece - oriented ghost story second.

Lionsgate and CBS Films» Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren as firearm heiress Sarah Winchester who spent decades using her fortune to expand upon her home, and no one is quite sure why.

She feels real guilty about that — so naturally, as more ghosts show up she keeps building new rooms to house them.

There is also a closet full of featurettes and interest pieces such as: Behind the Locked Door - Making The Skeleton Key, Exploring Voodoo / Hoodoo, Recipe & Ritual: Making the Perfect Gumbo, Blues in the Bayou, Kate Hudson's Ghost Story, Plantation Life, Casting The Skeleton Key, John Hurt's Story, A House Called Felicity, and Gena's Love Spell.

But as they venture deeper into the house where it happened the ghosts become violent and the group discover the horrifying secrets of the house and the murderer.

Apparently Winchester built this house as a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts.

Apparently Sarah Winchester built this house as a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts.

CBS Films has slightly changed the title of the upcoming Helen Mirren - headlined supernatural thriller Winchester, now calling it Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built as well as moving up its release date from February 23rd 2018, to February 2nd.

Winchester (formerly known as Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built) is the latest spooky offering from the filmmaking siblings Michael and Peter Spierig, and was inspired by the myths and legends that have sprung up over the years around the infamous Winchester Mystery House.

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.).

Soon they encounter a former police deputy (James Ransone), working as a private investigator / ghost hunter who is scoping out the house.

Director Guillermo del Toro has described the script for his upcoming film Crimson Peak, his first ghost - themed horror film since The Devil's Backbone, as a classic Gothic romance with a mix of kinky and scary moments, set in a haunted house in England.

Though the movie's supernatural elements aren't as prominent as the marketing campaign would lead you to believe, «Crimson Peak» is a sumptuously designed genre flick that delivers a different kind of horror from the typical ghosts - and - ghouls haunted house story.

As the creator of Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy 1 & 2, Blade II, and Pacific Rim, expect this creepy ghost house movie to be super slick and give the hair on the back of your neck goosebumps.

After bit parts in Medium, Malcolm In The Middle and Lucky Louie, her scene - stealing turn as a sassy object of affection in Superbad garnered attention, with The Rocker, The House Bunny and Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past following.

Still, there's that first two - thirds, starting with a wonderful sequence with the family dog as the secret sharer of the house and the astonishing reveal that Diane and Steve would've had to have had Dana when Diane was sixteen, progressing through a flat - genius reveal of the chair - stacking abilities of the titular ghosts, and ending roughly around the time of the fake - out ending when a giant monster head yells at poor dad Steve (Craig T. Nelson).

Following the titular insomniac (a delightful performance from Julianne Cote) as she looks after her parents house over one long, hot summer, forced to share it with her brother (Marc - Andre Gronin) and his bandmates, it drew immediate comparisons with «Frances Ha» and «Ghost World» (as well, to some extent, as Aki Kaurismaki).

Marcus describes the aspect of the second victim as «unnatural» and «pointing at a mirror,» leading to something almost as tricky: Marcus's exhumation of a child's mural in a house identified by a guidebook ghost story.

So here's hoping your family's Halloween is as much fun as that of the bogeyman, a house full of spooks, four frolicking ghosts, Gilbert and his sister Lola, and John Pig.

Of course this could just be a slip - up on Amazon's part, though some other retail sites have the publisher for Kodansha Comic's rereleases of Akira and Ghost in the Shell listed as Random House (of which Del Rey is an imprint of).

My millionaire is having house parties, and the ghost is driving off his female guests as well as his staff.

The story itself is appealing (a tree falls into Aaron and Dorothy's house, killing Dorothy, who reappears as a ghost and starts following Aaron around), but the writing is lifeless and sappy in turns, and altogether simply not very good.

A spirit haunts the halls of the Riddell mansion, and as teenager Trevor Riddell explores the massive and strange estate, it becomes clear that the ghost, and the house itself, are harboring secrets.

Hannah O'Brien, who grew up in a haunted house in Key West and now runs it as a B and B, has always had a special ability to see a pair of resident ghosts.

As we climbed, we reached the abandoned houses of Wadi Gul, glued to the mountain side, some still inhabited, but the majority turned into a ghost town.

Of course, classic Mario levels such as ghost houses and castles are here too, but they come with their own unique woolly Yoshi twists.

As for the ghost hunting team, Bartlet and crew have made some big discoveries in the whole Al Capone opera house haunting.

Whereas the mainstream Mario series uses somewhat upbeat, happy music for the ghost house areas (like in Super Mario Galaxy and 3D Land) or stereotypical «haunted house cartoon» music (such as the soundtrack in Wario Land Shake It), Luigi's Mansion's music has a very much more ambient style to it.

As a spirit unbound by physical form, Elena can traverse otherwise - unsurmountable obstacles and interact with other ghosts to piece together the dark history of the house — but she will have to use both her spectral and physical forms in order to solve puzzles, navigate through the sinister estate, and find her lost father.

This house has frights such as ghosts, clowns, bugs, zombies, and more.