12 Haunted House Movies And TV Shows That'll Scare Your Socks Off

Table Of Content

• ‘Anyone But You’s Big Sex Scene Finds Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell Steaming Up a Shower
• ‘Infested’ Review – One of the Best Spiders Attack Horror Movies in Years
• The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor
• Andre Realizing Where He Is (Get Out)
• The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
• Los Angeles Haunted Hayride
• The Houses October Built (

This found-footage horror movie follows a documentary crew as it investigates the Hell House tragedy. Five years ago, a Halloween haunted house tour attraction opened its doors—only for something to go terribly wrong on opening night and claim the lives of 15 attendees. The crew examines multiple leads and rumors, which all indicate some sort of paranormal phenomena at play.

‘Anyone But You’s Big Sex Scene Finds Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell Steaming Up a Shower

Released in 1982 and based on an original story by Steven Spielberg, "Poltergeist" would become a horror classic. The Lutz family was aware of this before moving in but thought they could handle it, however, ABC News reports that the family left 28 days later. Any haunting that was said to have happened at the address is widely disputed, however, George Lutz insists it is true — and even believed the house could have driven DeFeo to kill. This idea remains the scariest aspect of "The Amityville Horror," and watching it unfold is an undeniably tense and harrowing experience. A pair of grieving parents (Andrew Sensenig and genre legend Barbara Crampton) move to a new home, which happens to be overwrought with angry spirits. Rather than completely adhere to the natural story beats of such a confrontation, this film from writer and director Ted Geoghegan approaches these forces from a variety of different, often surprising angles.

‘Infested’ Review – One of the Best Spiders Attack Horror Movies in Years

Jean-Paul Sartre once said, "Hell is other people." Yet as countless haunted house movies have demonstrated, hell is also a place where the dead terrorize the living in the comfort of their own homes. Our homes are the one place where we expect to find a refuge and sanctuary from the chaos of the world and the evil intent of others. Yet when the place where we should feel safe and secure becomes the stuff of horror films, the results are often terrifying. 2013’s The Conjuring centers on the Perron family and the ancient evil haunting their home in rural Rhode Island.

The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Elisabeth Moss stars in this 2007 haunted house flick from Mary Lambert, the director of Pet Sematary. For others, few things beat the thrill they get from action-packed survival flicks. And then, there are people who can't get enough of scary movies — you know the type who watch classic Halloween films all year 'round. Not only is Beetlejuice more comedy than horror, but the film flips the classic haunting story on its head. Instead of a family moving into a new house and calling in an expert to rid themselves of ghosts, it's the ghosts calling up an expert spirit to rid their house of the new living owners.

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The film, which used actual BBC journalists with their standard documentary style, makes it very easy to simply accept the movie as fun. When you can do that, you can give in to pretending it really did happen. This 1944 horror flick is remembered as one of the first to present supernatural forces as genuine phenomena. Prior to this, paranormal activity of the silver screen was generally used for comedic effect, or revealed to be the handiwork of living people. Rick and his sister Pamela think they scored the deal of a lifetime when they secure an abandoned mansion on the coast of England.

Three kids investigate a creepy neighborhood house when they suspect it's actually alive. The film is notable for its use of motion capture, a relatively unused technique at the time for animated films. This 1979 film (not to be confused with the 2005 remake), centers on a young couple who purchase a home which turns out to be haunted. It's based on the real-life alleged story of a New York family who moved into a home where a mass murder was committed the year before. Whether it's a movie from the '70s or contemporary times, being a trapped in a house never gets old.

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.

He overhears someone comment about “screwed up genes,” which brings about age-old questions of nature vs. nurture. Despite the voices around him from doctors and detectives that say, “we know this isn’t your fault,” Frank can’t help but think it is, and that the people who try to tell him it isn’t really think it’s his fault too. There is no doubt that there is a hereditary element to the kinds of mental illness struggles that my children and I deal with. But, and it’s a bit but, good parenting goes a long way in helping children deal with these struggles. Kids need to know they’re not alone, a good parent can provide that, perhaps especially parents that can relate to the same kinds of struggles. The question of nature vs. nurture will likely never be entirely answered but I think there’s more than a good chance that “both/and” is the case.

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Although haunted house movies enjoyed a renaissance around the turn of the millennium, it was mostly through remakes like 1999’s The Haunting and House On Haunted Hill, which crammed themselves with dreadful CGI. Despite being an original story, only The Others evokes the dread of such masterpieces as The Innocents. It also ends with a striking, inspired twist that instantly made this movie worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as the classics.

By being close to his doctors, the family is hopeful that Matt’s recovery will be smoother—it’s anything but. Once they move into their new home, Matt begins to experience paranormal activity, prompting Sara to hire a priest. After the priest “fixes” the issue, the family gets a bit of a break.

The film’s less humorous flashes will unsettle you deeply no matter what. Finally, you look to the cast to understand why Beetlejuice continues to be so popular after 30+ years. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis as the young couple who die, and become trapped in their rural dreamhouse, are two examples. Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, and Jeffrey Jones as the yuppie family who buys the home are three more.

The evening that had begun with such joy and excitement at the birth of their second child turned into a nightmare. This is tough for me to write, but on some level, I can relate to this whiplash of emotion. I’ll use the pronouns “they/them” for privacy reasons when referring to my kids.