Pictures: Mike Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies
Here's my list of films -- a lucky 13 -- that prove how well haunted house movies can blend claustrophobia with many other phobias. If you start now, you can see them all in time for Halloween. --Michael Sragow
Also see
• Haunted sites around Maryland
• Haunted house attractions
• Baltimore Halloween 2011 guide
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Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies
It hasn't been a great era for haunted house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review ran, a filmmaker friend who was in town for the Maryland Film Festival said, in sympathy, "Gee, Mike, you review everything."
But as my colleague Chris Kaltenbach points out elsewhere on this site, haunted houses themselves are still going strong, at least in Baltimore. And in 2007 Guillermo del Toro helped produce a worthy Spanish contribution to the movie genre called "The Orphanage." No form of horror this strong can ever completely go away -- not with a heritage as rich as this one. --Michael Sragow |
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Looking at 1:51 AM October 15, 2010
Todays Film, and Music is for the Mentally Challenged. Sad.
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Any "haunted house" movie list that excludes The Changling (1980) is a major fail