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Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) starts her life anew when she buys a cottage in a quaint, seaside village, but her house is purported to be haunted by a seaman, Capt. Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison). The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is by far the most romantic of the haunted house films, and its storytelling — rather than fright and fear — makes it one of the top supernatural tales of all time. Georges Méliès' Le Manoir du diable (1896) deserves much reverence for its impact on scary movies over the years, and even though the silent film is only a few minutes long, The House of the Devil marks the beginning of the horror genre. Released as The Haunted Castle in the United States, Méliès' motion picture is the precursor to all haunted house movies. Despite being released amid a wave of schlocky haunted house horrors that followed Insidious in the early 2010s, The Conjuring won critical acclaim and box office success by eschewing modern trickery and shooting straight for timelessness. Its practical effects and old-school scares even earned the film comparisons to The Exorcist—the highest of compliments.
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The series also touches on genres such as psychological thriller, supernatural, slasher, comedy, and adventure. Though he’s perhaps best known for films like Ringu, Japanese director Hideo Nakata’s true masterpiece might be this intimate little ghost story about a mother and daughter who move into an apartment with a very dark history. Full of atmospheric flourishes and foreboding, Dark Water is a masterclass in building suspense, delivering a payoff, and then keeping the scares going even after the story has seemingly resolved. Three years after the film’s release, an English language version starring Jennifer Connelly and John C. Reilly was released. The film's twist is one of those watercooler moments that rivals any horror movie ending.
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Russ Tamblyn, who plays Luke Sannerson—the heir set to inherit Hill House—in the film also appeared in one episode of Netflix's 2018 miniseries, The Haunting of Hill House. Rick (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) make the spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a lovely seaside home, and, as a result, Rick meets and becomes quite taken with young Stella (Gail Russell). The Uninvited is one of the first full-length haunted house movies, making it a cornerstone model moving forward for all other films to follow. After an unforeseen auto collision ends with his death, Laurel finds herself a widow that must care for their daughter who is now paralyzed and wheelchair-bound.
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Finally able to escape the inn, Jack and Stephanie trek back to their car, where they discover their bodies, as well as the dead bodies of Leslie and Randy while police officers and EMTs talk about the crash of their two vehicles. Jack and Stephanie realize that their entire experience at the inn was a shared out of body experience. As their souls re-enter their bodies, Jack and Stephanie wake up and are taken away in an ambulance. They are watched over by a resurrected Susan, who observes that their love for each other has been reawakened by the events at the Wayside Inn. As the couple ride off in an ambulance, Jack looks out the window to see Lawdale laughing at him from the front gate of the Wayside, with the caretakers watching out of an upstairs window.
Sign up for The Lineup's newsletter, and get our scariest movie recs delivered straight to your inbox. Jessica Rothe remains hopeful for Happy Death Day 3, says it’s just a matter of Blumhouse and Universal signing off. Famously, producer Charles Brackett wanted Alfred Hitchcock to direct The Uninvited, but the Master Of Suspense was unavailable. As a result, Lewis Allen helmed this 1944 tale about a brother and sister moving into a mansion in Cornwall, England—and he made a quiet, tense thriller replete with gorgeous shots of the Cornish coast.
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This is still a brilliantly campy time without the added bells and whistles, though. A marriage of haunted house spooks with Steven Spielberg’s sentimentality and big-budget craftsmanship, Poltergeist was a rare bona fide horror blockbuster in its day. Forty years on, it’s persisted thanks to the relatable nuclear family at its heart—not to mention scares suited to each character, and by extension engineered so that at least one of them can freak out any demographic in the audience. To horror aficionados, William Castle was and remains the god of gimmicks, often screening his movies with some kind of real-life novelty to add to the experience. In the case of 13 Ghosts, in which characters can only see the spirits with special goggles, he introduced “Illusion-O”. Basically, the audience wore 3D glasses where one lens showed the ghosts on-screen and the other didn’t.
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The film follows the residents of a dilapidated old apartment building who find themselves having to deal with something much worse than poor infrastructure when their homes are overrun by an army of deadly – and rapidly reproducing – spiders. Their recently acquired home bought at a bargain price was built over an ancient burial ground. Directed by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Tobe Hooper, this 1982 horror classic features swirling spirit vortexes, clown dolls crawling to life, and one terrifying scene involving a flooded swimming pool filled with floating corpses. The title of this movie is more than an understatement when it comes to these stubborn spirits who have been haunting this New England property since the 1800s.
Roger confronts Ben, no longer afraid of his fears, and destroys him with a grenade as he and his son escape the burning house. In the end, he triumphantly glances back at the house while regaining control of his life and reunites with his wife and child. As she starts to get closer she gets to the truth, however, ominious things start happening to her and her family.
However, it became a sensation when lyrics were later added, and it was even performed by Frank Sinatra. Lake Mungo is chilling from start to finish, employing a mockumentary and found-footage style of filmmaking to exude an atmosphere of realism and tension that is supremely frightening to the senses. The fun of Lake Mungo, without spoiling the film's well-executed jump scare, is its use of modern technology to frighten audiences when they least expect it. Natalie Wood portrays Lucy's daughter, Anna, when she's a child, and the actress shot to stardom later that same year by appearing in Miracle on 34th Street. The screenplay for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was also adapted by Amanda Duff, and she claimed Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were originally courted to play the lead roles.
However, Irena only allows Oliver and Alice's daughter, Amy (Ann Carter), to see her when the Reeds' lonely child wishes for a friend. The Amityville Horror, a somewhat underrated flick, is based on the real-life Lutz's unsubstantiated claim that the house was actually haunted. The Dutch Colonial-style home still stands in Amityville, but its address has been changed from 112 Ocean Ave. to 108 Ocean in order to throw off curious tourists. For fans of such ghostly classics as The Haunting and The Shining—not to mention the glorious, bloody excess of old Hammer Studios fare—Crimson Peak is a must-see.
An eerie country manor, spooky, sun-starved children, a mother who may be coming unglued. This gothic supernatural horror from 2001 terrified moviegoers with its otherworldly scares. Its isolated setting, spectacularly creepy conclusion, and Nicole Kidman’s haunting performance make this a must-see horror flick … perfect for a rainy day home alone.
It’s a horrifyingly atmospheric thriller that’s torturous in its quietness, making every twitching curtain and figure walking across the frame a silent terror that will imprint on your retinas. The performances are all believable and fragile, the costumes magnificent and the color contrast striking. To this day, it is one of the most visually flawless (not to mention flat-out terrifying) black-and-white movies you will ever see. Every frame truly is a painting in this master stroke that’s waiting, begging to be recognized. We’re bending the rules here, since The Shining is more a haunted hotel movie than a haunted house movie. However, this Stanley Kubrick masterpiece is so genius that it deserves to be in the upper echelons of basically every movie list ever written.
The most recent, standalone film Evil Dead Rise from writer-director Lee Cronin, grossed more than $147M worldwide last year when it hit theaters via Warner Bros, after launching at SXSW. Fewer than 10 films make up the legit “Amityville Horror” canon, and even that number is up for debate. Like the word “Paranormal,” “Amityville” has become more of a low-effort synecdoche for generic possessions of things (“Amityville Vibrator”), holidays (“Amityville Christmas Vacation”) or locations (“Amityville in Space”).
They’re about sex, lies and Access Hollywood videotape, about trust and betrayal, truth and division. They’re about democracy in America, where political feuds and vendettas swirl, guns proliferate and debates over civil rights are neither civil nor right. Because ghosts and other supernatural beings need a place to rest their weary heads, too.
On the surface, this 2020 British horror is about a South Sudanese couple fleeing to the U.K. However, beneath the hood, His House is also a powerful allegory for the trauma of war forcing you to leave your country and relocate to a new, indifferent, sometimes racist culture. First-time director Remi Weekes instantly established himself as one to watch with this debut, as did lead actors Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku. Devastated by the loss of his child and marriage dissolving, Cobb decides to move into his late aunt’s home to write an autobiographical work about his tour of duty in Vietnam. Over the course of a few nights, Cobb learns that the house he’s staying at is haunted and that his son may still be alive.
While it’s firmly rooted in dark, zany comedy and not horror, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice remains one of the great haunted house movies thanks to its focus on the expected tropes and how they twist when the perspectives get flipped. Reportedly, Burton’s first choice for the role of Beetlejuice was Sammy Davis Jr. If you want a haunted house story that’s not scary, and might in fact leave you buoyant with joy, look no further than this classic starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in the title roles.
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