Genre: Haunted House

Houses with histories and rooms that remember. Haunted house film reviews for the genre where architecture itself is the antagonist.

The Conjuring (2013) film posterHaunted House

The Conjuring (2013)

Patrick Wilson plays Ed Warren. The Conjuring is one of the most commercially successful contemporary supernatural horror productions and the foundational document of the Conjuring Universe franchise that has dominated mid-2010s through early-2020s horror cinema.

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Beetlejuice (1988) film posterComedy

Beetlejuice (1988)

Tim Burton's comedy about a deceased couple haunting their old house and hiring a deranged bio-exorcist to scare out the living family. Alec Baldwin plays Adam Maitland.

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The Amityville Horror (1979) film posterHaunted House

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror is Stuart Rosenberg's 1979 American horror film depicting the Lutz family who move into a Long Island house where a mass murder occurred the previous year, and the supernatural events that allegedly drive them out twenty-eight days…

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Things That Go Bump — And Mean ItHaunted House

Things That Go Bump — And Mean It

From Poltergeist's suburban nightmare to Hereditary's family unraveling — twenty supernatural films and TV series that take their premises seriously, analyzed for what makes each one genuinely frightening and what writers can steal from the craft.

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