Sentences with phrase «house tale»

You can read the whole crazy 6 year condensed house tale here in a new post.

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

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

In between these peaks, it plays out the haunted / cursed house tale mostly via sound, camera point of view shots and character reactions — and it's far more effective than you might expect.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

A struggling painter (Ethan Embry) is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas, in this creepy haunted - house tale.

On a bright Los Angeles morning a few days after the Golden Globes, Helen Mirren — dressed impeccably in black while discussing her latest film, the haunted - house tale «Winchester» — arrived at an unexpected concern: the fate of all those poor...

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-...]

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.

Aside from being an exceptionally well - crafted (and therefore effective) haunted - house tale, the fun thing about James Wan's 2013 horror hit The Conjuring was its connection to the real - life exploits of famed New England ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.

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

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.

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.

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

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Expect this superb haunted - house tale to draw less critical acclaim, but perhaps a broader cross section of readers, than Mitchell's early, more demanding novels.

Jones pulls readers into the drawing - room with what appears at first to be a classic English country - house tale, but winds up becoming something quite a bit darker, and thoroughly unexpected.