Sentences with phrase «setting of the haunted house»

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King has always managed to make the most out of his haunted house / hotel set ups - The Shining stands out and we'll be tackling the solid Rose Red later — though by the time 2007 rolled around, he'd set his sights a touch higher.

A good cast is set adrift in an terrible script based (in name only) on Shirley Jackson's novel, «The Haunting of Hill House.»

With Radcliffe's charismatic lead supported by an incredibly atmospheric set, the result is a haunted house ride full of cheap jumps, pulled off with old - school flair.

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.

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.

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (PG - 13 for disturbing images and mature themes) Haunted house sequel, set in the English countryside during World War II, where a group of children evacuated from London unwittingly unleash a demonic force.

Of course, this makes sense because you want to be immersed in the action, but thanks to in - game settings you can make the music stand out more if you wish — here's looking at you, Haunted House stage!

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-...]

Inspired by true events, Winchester is set on an isolated stretch of land outside of San Francisco where there sits the world's most haunted house.

is set on an isolated stretch of land outside of San Francisco where there sits the world's most haunted house.

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.

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.

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.

Colloborating with writer Matthew Robbins for the third time, officially — after Mimic (1997) and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)-- del Toro has devised a framework that allows him and his production team to create a sumptuous environment that is wonderfully, darkly beautiful, its main setting a clever twist on a haunting house, its environs more vertical than horizontal, allowing the sky and the ground to bleed into it.

Set in 1906 in San Jose, California, «Winchester» is based on the true story of one of the most notorious haunted houses in the long history of haunted houses.

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In many ways The Haunting resembles Hill House itself, the setting where all of the events take place.

Phantom of the Theatre (Unrated) Haunted house horror flick, set in Shanghai, revolving around the reopening of a cursed theater, 13 years after a performance troupe was murdered there.

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.

After an immensely creepy prelude that reminds us of James Wan's fetish for creepy dolls, an opening text crawl provides us with the context of the film: The Warrens are «demonologists» who are formally recognized by the Catholic church, and the following is the tale of their most bizarre, harrowing case, involving a cursed house and a haunted family, all set against the groovy yet Gothic backdrop of the 70s.

Inevitably, Prometheus had to look beyond the rather cosy set - up of the first film, which was effectively a turbocharged update of the haunted - house theme in which the haunting was being done by something nobody had previously been able to imagine.

This page contains examples of colorful worksheet sets that contain the following themes: witch, ghost, pumpkin, monster, skeleton, cat, tombstone, haunted house, and spooky night.

When she was a child, her mother would enchant her with ghost stories, convince her that their house was haunted and even set up scavenger hunts for her to find little indications of faeries around their neighborhood.

The setting alone makes Detention more interesting than the seven trillion horror games set in a haunted house released over the past few years (looking at you, Layers of Fear).

In «Photo Book,» Mikula's recently completed series of psychologically enigmatic pigment prints, she sets antique toy figurines — a girl, a house, a rabbit — in haunting, dreamlike compositions.