Bob Tracey, Votes: | We have categorized Movies that show Haunted Houses as Haunted House. William Forsythe, Votes: Geoffrey Rush, Director: 15 Underrated Horror Movies That Are So Scary You’ll Keep The Lights On Tonight. Stars: Director: Ever since Black Swan, it's been hard to think of ballerinas as graceful, hard-working athletes and not demonic bird-people, but that pales in comparison to the dancers and visceral scares of Livid, one of the gems of France's recent string of utterly mad, visually unsettling, and politically potent horror films. Charles Aitken, Votes: Erica Yates, Votes: $37.90M, R In spite of the behind-the-scenes circumstances, “El Sur” reaches peaks never before reached in Spanish Cinema. While they're inside, they find they are not alone. ... (Jillian McWhirter) senses immanent jeopardy. If The Changeling doesn't seem as immediately unsettling as something like, say, (the hugely underrated) Sinister, it's because it belongs to a more classical strain of filmmaking, more patient and steady in its visual storytelling but less daring in premise and lacking in symbolism. Ali Larter, Adventure, Horror, Thriller. James Wong Liv Tyler, $26.02M, R Ethan Embry, Votes: Horror. These haunted house movies will scare you out of your wits—and quite possibly your home. And though both Livid and Inside take place almost entirely in homes stricken by a murderous entity, Livid is an entirely different beast than Inside, not nearly as virtuosic in its aesthetics, framing, or sense of movement but nearly as affective in its detailing of unresolved personal histories and tragedies as monstrous, reoccurring events that grow angrier and more violent as the years wear on. Richard Gere, 100 min | Marcus Dunstan John Cusack, In a way, one could see Hooper as the malevolent, unbound spirit trying to burst through the veneer of Spielberg's impeccably designed environs and relatively mild strain of sentimental hokum. | | $25.47M, R | 85 min Rob Zombie | | Toni Collette, Stars: Michael Dougherty Patricia Belcher, Votes: | Director: Director: Ruby Modine, Director: | Ariadna Gil, | Director: | The Innkeepers, about a haunted hotel investigated by two staff members, who also happen to be amateur ghost hunters, broadened his ambitions as a visual storyteller and tightened up his style, allowing his long takes and extended tracking shots to grow increasingly fluid and edited with a rhythmic sense of crawling movement. Charles Guard, Janet McTeer, 110,761 Laura-Leigh, PG-13 Sheri Moon Zombie, Votes: | Gross: Chandra West, Votes: | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery. Get Over Here! $24.88M, R Director: An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost. Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Stars: A young man tries to deal with the childhood terror that has never stopped haunting him. 174,045 Gemma Ward, Stars: I think Hell House LLC is a great movie. 85 min Mary McCormack, Peter Allen Clark. Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Christina Milian, | Gross: $23.09M, PG-13 'WandaVision': Who Is Strucker & What Is His Connection to the MCU? 94,232 | 59,443 Drama, Horror, Mystery. 213,674 | 13 Obscure and Underrated Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween. $35.75M, PG-13 Jan de Bont Bill Moseley, J. LaRose, R The Pact would be a rare exception to that rule, a deceptively stylized, tightly wound haunter involving two sisters who have supernatural experiences in the wake of their mother's death. Stars: Both Hooper, the ingenious wild man behind The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Spielberg are obsessives when it comes to the realms of the supernatural onscreen, clearly versed in creature features, ghost stories, and killer thrillers of all makes and models. 105 min Allison Tolman, Votes: Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. A massive break down of over 36 of the most underrated horror movies of all time. 126 min Alex Reid, | Action, Adventure, Fantasy. Rob Zombie 90 min Stars: Stars: Frank Darabont | Gross: Stars: The haunted house is a staple horror device. 90 min So, in honor of Sam Rockwell running away from a living clown puppet, I decided to take a look at 5 haunted house movies that haven't received their total due in the eyes of the masses...yet. $55.68M, PG-13 | | Gross: Director: | Director: John Carpenter Ti West's mastery of style, tone, and atmosphere were vividly clear from moment one, even through the ever-so-slightly gimmicky haze of the late-70s period and grainy imagery. | Lorenza Izzo, Top 25 Must-See Best Haunted House movies from our List of 37 Haunted House movies, including Poltergeist, The Shining, The Sixth Sense, The Conjuring, Lake Mungo, The Others, The Orphanage, Crimson Peak, The Changeling, and Beetlejuice ranked and rated by score. Anna Paquin, Sean Chapman, Votes: A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. | Gross: | Gross: 119 min Liam Neeson, When he suddenly has a premonition their airplane will crash, he screams to warn the others but instead he is thrown off of the plane. 117,809 Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. 'Cherry' Trailer: Tom Holland Is a Struggling Vet Who's Spiraling Fast in Russo Brothers New Movie, ‘WandaVision’ Has an Epic Ending According to Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen Explains How She Broke Into Blockbusters, Exclusive: ‘Frozen’ VR Short ‘Myth’ Debuts on Disney+ in February, When Do Marvel Actors See Scripts? Director: | The 1986 version, of course, which was a remake of the equally compelling (but less scary) original movie of the same name made in 1958. Stars: 101 min Alex Browning is among a group of high school students readying themselves for a trip to Europe. | Gross: Director: | Comedy, Horror. 15 Most Underrated Slasher Horror Movies Todd Martin 08/05/2019 Feature Lists You guys know that I am a slasher flick fanatic and that I take pride in the fact that I have seen just about every one of them, especially the ones that were made in the 80s. Director: Hank Stone, $71.99M, R | $40.06M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. | Fairuza Balk, Desmond Harrington, Votes: | | Ron Eldard, The argument over who directed Poltergeist - the credited Tobe Hooper or producer and co-writer Steven Spielberg -  weirdly reflects the tone of the 1982 hit, which starred Craig T. Nelson as a father who moves his family into a California suburb built on a Native American burial ground. | Gross: Drama, Horror, Mystery. Stars: Horror, Mystery. 280,736 Director: Horror, Sci-Fi. | Gross: | Gross: Richard Brake, Director: William Malone | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher. One of the more underrated horror movies of the 21st century, "The Convent" is essentially a rip-off of "Night of the Demons" -- with teens becoming possessed by demons in a haunted convent instead of a haunted mortuary -- but it brings the sort of wit, energy and gory effects that made "Demons" such a cult hit. | Get ready to say you discovered them before they were cool. Deborah Kara Unger, Votes: | 376,114 Director: A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Stephanie Draper herself Caity Lotz anchors the film with a subtly thoughtful performance that gives the film a steady pulse of life amongst quite a lot of death. Chris Hemsworth, 95 min 85,597 Neve Campbell, Maribel Verdú, Votes: Jeff Wadlow A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building, where they are targeted by the ghost of a former resident. Stars: | 91 min Andrew Fleming 89 min Tony Shalhoub, Kristen Cloke, Votes: Director: The hotel is rumored to be haunted but the characters don’t care. | Buena Vista Pictures. Dylan Baker, | | Director: 20 of the Most Underrated Horror Movies of the Past Decade. | Amid a global pandemic, no genre has survived – nay, thrived – like horror has. Famke Janssen, Walter Salles | Gross: Ivana Baquero, Director: | | | | Gross: Wes Craven Synopsis: Years following the death of 15 tour-goers on the opening night of a haunted house tour, a documentary crew visits the scene to figure out what went down. | In many ways, this is the rightful heir to The Haunting, certainly far more than Jan de Bant's risible and wholly obnoxious remake of Wise's film. Rochelle Aytes, R | Josh Hartnett, Votes: Stars: 'The Wilds': Did Mia Healey Really Shave Her Head for the Role. | Michael Dougherty Action, Crime, Horror. | Gross: | Ian Somerhalder, Votes: Nimród Antal | Emily Deschanel, 25,984 116,307 | The making of horror films involves extra effort and a lot of work. | Gross: Julianna Margulies, Just | Stars: 617,511 Mark Pellington Andrea Roth, Stars: 87 min | Samaire Armstrong, 93 min J-Horror, as a sub-genre, isn't exactly lacking in this arena, but Ju-On is an especial slice of energetic, unnerving nonsense, set in the home where a brutal murder has occurred and a small boy ghost, who meows like a cat, haunts. Skye McCole Bartusiak, Votes: And unlike The Ring, the American version of Ju-On, The Grudge, is annoyingly over-expositional and bogged down in an excess of story, whereas the original has little agenda beyond throwing the viewer into troubling state of mind. Director: Horror is at its best when there's an element of the inexplicable, even when the premise might at first seem rigid and reasonable. 32,401 103,957 | At the very least, these 13 weird movies can hold your attention, and deliver decent chills, especially with a nice buzz and low expectations. Brian Cox, Laurie Holden, 'WandaVision': Let's Break Down What Those Commercials Reveal About the Show's Mystery, 5 Underseen Haunted House Movies As Scary As POLTERGEIST, More 90 min Samuel L. Jackson, Tell us what you think about this feature. 107 min “The Innocents” It may be stretching the definition of “underrated” to include a film widely revered as a genre classic (it’s been on lists of the best horror movies ever made, correctly), but with the general reluctance to watch anything made before 1990 seeming to grow with every passing year, I’m going to take this chance to urge you to check this out. Haunted house movies are a sub-genre that has weirdly struggled to create new, ambitious variations but that's not to say that there haven't been a handful of particularly eerie and visually striking films set in haunted homes and hotels made between the early 1980s and the upcoming Poltergeist reboot. "Session 9 is a completely underrated horror flick made for very little money on the grounds of a real abandoned mental hospital. | Michael Fairman, Votes: Drama, Fantasy, War. | | Gross: Owen Wilson, A study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion. Gabriel Byrne, | A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. Steve Beck Stars: Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth. Robert Rodriguez Elizabeth Banks, Director: My personal list of what I believe are the most underrated horror movies of all time. | Laurie Holden, John Magaro, 18,498 Stars: | Gross: Megumi Okina, Votes: $19.36M, R Karen Black, | Gross: Stars: A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them. Alex Fisher, Votes: Menu. Director: A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins. | Gross: | | | Director: Sheri Moon Zombie, Votes: Kate Beckinsale, Marguerite Moreau, $30.11M, R Natalie Mendoza, From slashers to haunted houses, the '80s were a thrilling time. Gina Philips, From there, Hell House shifts into found footage gear, with the proprietors of the haunted house setting up their attraction, only to find that they aren't the sole occupants of the hotel. Jonathan Breck, $30.34M, R Neil Marshall Horror, Thriller. 96 min An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past. Stars: | Stars: William Brent Bell Amber Heard, $14.56M, PG-13 It's this film that helps explain West's quiet but quite memorable performance in Joe Swanberg's excellent Drinking Buddies, another film specifically interested in the working life of independent businesses. | Barry Watson, 58,367 A married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. A young widower returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife's murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a deceased ventriloquist. Director: John C. Reilly, Andrew Robinson, Drama, Fantasy, Horror. Director: Horror, Thriller. Drama, Horror, Mystery. Rick Gonzalez, | Gross: Rachael Taylor, David Eigenberg, Where were you when you first saw House of the Devil? 99 min $42.59M, R News. | $52.60M, R ... (which I featured on a previous hidden gems list for its quiet haunted house story). Kirby Bliss Blanton, Votes: James Watkins $53.33M, R Director: Director: Emma Shorey, Votes: | Gross: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Anna Hutchison, Eli Roth 229,385 | Bryan Bertino Lili Taylor, Votes: | Read full article. Guillermo del Toro Jeff Daniel Phillips, Clare Higgins, 91 min Stars: 78,092 It features a group of friends who go on a haunted house together only … From Chris Cabin, Here's When 'Wonder Woman 1984' Leaves HBO Max, 'The Stand' Showrunner Ben Cavell Explains Why Stephen King Wrote a New Coda for the CBS Miniseries, Liam Neeson on ‘The Marksman’, Possibly Returning to ‘Star Wars’, and Why He Loved ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, 'WandaVision': Wanda and Vision Continue to Be Super Old-School Attractive in New Posters. | Ian McNeice, Erice planned to make a longer film but the funding fell through. | | 75,975 We promise our list of movies will definitely make you feel thrilled. $42.07M, PG-13 Deborah Kara Unger, | Gross: Votes: 34,929 | Gross: $2.62M Michael Rymer ... A depressed film archivist starts losing his sanity after moving into a supposedly haunted house … 111,047 Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after bizarre occurrences. Aaliyah, Christophe Gans | Thomas Guard Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods. | 98 min | Adventure, Horror. Shannon Elizabeth, Stars: It's also anchored by a stirring, perfectly controlled performance by George C. Scott, who plays a musician and professor living in a home haunted by the ghost of a young child. $56.39M, PG-13 30,406 The First Images from ‘Mortal Kombat’? | Gross: Danielle Panabaker, | Gross: Victor Salva 101 min Stars: 5 Underrated Horror films for Spooky Season. | 86 min 90 min A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law. Andre Braugher, Votes: | Jimmi Simpson, Votes: | Gross: These severely underrated horror movies deserve a chance to terrify you. Sheri Moon Zombie, | James Wan Peter Gallagher, Votes: ... An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past. 76,217 When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world. Kerr Smith, Horror, Thriller. Director: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. Director: 28,021 Zena Grey, Votes: 70,282 A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Denzel Whitaker, 19,539 Adam Scott, 106,153 James Kyson, Robin Tunney, Josh Stewart, | Gross: | Director: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. Director Nicholas McCarthy has a real ear for silence, and The Pact hits sudden, graceful scares that are largely quiet, not unlike The Strangers. 102 min Donnie Wahlberg, $46.98M, PG-13 | David Koechner, And like that film, McCarthy weaves in a pretty fascinating domestic melodrama into his ghost story, one focused on how two very different siblings approach memories of a not-so-great childhood. Joshua Jackson, Devon Sawa, Luke Wilson, Director: $40.85M, R 93,223 Not to mention, some of the biggest franchises ⁠— A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and Halloween ⁠— were born. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. A depressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she worked, with no memory of why she is there or what she has done. Jennifer Connelly, Taye Diggs, Christopher Landon | | This would include the absolutely terrifying Martyrs and 2007's Inside, arguably the best work of the horror genre that the aughts unleashed, the latter of which was directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, the duo behind Livid and, at one point, the long-gestating Hellraiser reboot. Shauna Macdonald, $17.04M, R We have also added underrated movies to our list which are not critically acclaimed, which failed at the box-office but definitely has a worth watching. The Orphanage is a Spanish horror movie produced by Academy Award-winning director Guillermo Del Toro, that borrows heavy influence from old Spanish cinema and has a horror vibe like no American film has to offer. Horror movies stand out from other genres as they scare and, at the same time, entertain the audience. Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn. Horror, Mystery. Fantasy, Horror, Mystery. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind so distinct. These Are The 46 Most Underrated Movies Of All Time. They soon realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film. | Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her cruel stepmother and ghastly visions of her dead mother. Marcia Gay Harden, Stars: 98 min 82 min $20.26M, PG-13 Stars: $7.71M, R Underrated Halloween films are not just reserved for American filmmakers; international filmmaker make great horror movies, too. Fran Kranz, Votes: A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished. | | Juliana Harkavy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Due to the wide audience that horror movies attract, many horror movies are made on different subjects such as ghosts, zombies, monsters, and mythology. Jim Sonzero | With that in mind, let's check out ten underrated horror movies from the 1980s. Embeth Davidtz, | 79,673 | Drama, Horror, Mystery. $59.69M, PG-13 Stars: | Stephen King's 2002 miniseries Rose Red is an underrated haunted house story that is loaded with influences but still creates a peculiar uniqueness. Frank Whaley, 94 min 53,401 Julian Morris, | Gross: 95 min Usually hundreds of years old, ideally massive, and imposing with as many turrets as its roof can bear, there’s nothing like a haunted house … |