Haunting and Haunting: 20 Movies with the Most Sinister Houses

Mulder and Scully, the Winchester brothers, and even Chapolin Colorado have come across a mysterious residence filled with unexplained events, bizarre phenomena, and chilling presences.

A promising house where people are ready to start a new life, a property that is in one's will for someone but the condition is to spend a night on the spot, a scary mansion away from it all. It has everything in the universe of haunted places.

In The Shining, for example, the place that concentrates all sorts of evil is a large, luxurious hotel. As early as 1408, evil spirits are more modest, and instead of an entire hotel, they reserve only one room - the one Mike Enslin chooses to stay with.

But the concept of terror is very broad, and for most people the most terrifying thing would be a place where absolutely everything goes wrong. In One Day House Falls, the characters of Tom Hanks and Shelley Long buy what should be the home of their dreams for a bargain, but everything begins to crumble - literally. If this is not a real nightmare, what would it be?

If there's one thing cinema is full of, it's pictures of pretty scary properties for all kinds of fear! Scroll down to see 20 examples!

1. Amityville Horror

1979, 1982, 2005, 2017. Like the evil that exists in this Amityville residence, the horror franchise also seems to be resurrected from time to time. The first was Horror in Amityville, who in 1979, under the direction of Stuart Rosenberg, inaugurated the story of a beautiful residence that held a dark secret. Years earlier, a family man shot and killed his wife and daughters, committing suicide afterwards. Then a new family moves in and begins to witness at least terrifying demonstrations.

Three years later, the sequel was called Terror in Amityville and the plot was very similar to the first one, as was the 2005 remake. Now, in 2017, Amityville: Awakening is the version of screenwriter and director Franck Khalfoun, which features Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne and Jennifer Morrison.

But the scariest movie about this property is that it really exists and even has a documentary exclusively about it that is whole:

2. Poltergeist: The Phenomenon (1982/2015)

Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film tells the story of a family living a happy life at home until bizarre things start to happen with the electricity in the house. When the youngest daughter in the house is kidnapped by people who live inside the TV, parents realize that they need to do something to get her back and protect their other children.

The movie has a 2015 remake, with Sam Rockwel and Rosemarie DeWitt in the roles of parents. See also his trailer!

3. The Ghosts Have Fun (1988)

The house should be of ghosts, but humans do not even respect the private space of the poor. In such a situation, who will you call? Himself, the fearsome Beetlejuice!

Directed by Tim Burton with a cast of Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder, The Ghosts Have Fun is a must for anyone who loves haunting stories with a good dose of humor!

4. Gasparzinho the Ghost Comrade (1995)

The most fun haunted house ever! And the hilarious adventure begins with the fact that anyone who tries to sort out house issues is a "ghost therapist, " Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman). He and daughter Kat (Christina Ricci) move into Whipstaff Mansion, but a trio of non-comrade ghosts are beginning to make their lives hell.
Beyond them, however, little Gasparzinho balances the spirits of the spirited ghosts, becoming friends with Kat.

5. The Cursed House (1999)

A social experiment brings together an unlikely group of people with completely different personalities in a house all crafted in wealth and bizarre events, the Hill House. Closed a century ago and surrounded by stories, the residence is finally opened at the initiative of Dr. Marrow (Liam Neeson).

The three guests are Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Nell (Lili Taylor) and Luke (Owen Wilson) and the story is quite interesting and told with special effects typical of the 90s, for those who enjoy an old style. If you want to go even further, look for the original from 1963, since Jan de Bont's movie is just a remake.

6. The Others (2001)

Already practically a classic of its kind, The Others stars Nicole Kidman under the direction of Alejandro Amenábar. With two light-sensitive children, a mother tries to go about her life in this beautiful mansion, when it begins to be visited by people in unusual situations. Gradually, she gets to know her own house better and decides to get help trying to make contact with whoever is trying to share the space with her family.

7. The Scream (2002/2004)

In 2002, Takashi Shimizu conducted the first remake of The Scream in Japan. Two years later, the director conducted an American adaptation of the same story, this time with Sarah Michelle Gellar in the lead role, that of Karen, a young nurse who is going to do an exchange in Japan, but ends up involved in a supernatural story that was undoubtedly not in the girl's career plan.

8. Haunted Mansion (2003)

Who says that haunted house can only in horror movie? Rob Minkoff directs Eddie Murphy and Masha Thomason in this fun and terrifying comedy set at Gracey Mansion.

The property holds a curse cast on it at the time of its former residents, and in order to get rid of the problem and fall out of the mansion, Jim will need to find a key and reveal the truth about the house to break the curse and save his wife, that was kidnapped by the ghosts.

9. The Master Key (2005)

Kate Hudson is Caroline Ellis, a girl who takes a job as a caregiver for a man who has had a stroke. Arriving at the house where he lives, however, she realizes that is not quite what caused the man to stay in bed.

The basements and attics are full of dark magic items, and she realizes that maybe something needs to be done to finish the spell and help the man - or stay out and get out while there is time.

10. The Monster House (2006)

Some animations were definitely not made just for kids and they know to be beyond sinister. Undoubtedly, The Monster House is one of them.

The Nebbercracker house has always made goose bumps on the young DJ, who has a real panic of old Epaminondas. He has seen the man commit various evils to the children who pass by, but on Halloween night he realizes that the place is really dangerous.

11. The Orphanage (2007)

The Spanish actress Belén Rueda is Laura, a woman who grew up in an orphanage and who, as an adult, decides to return to the same property with her family.

But unlike when he was a child, the house seems to have incorporated something strange that only his son sees. The boy makes an imaginary friend who gradually gains companions until he has an accident and loses his life. Despite this, Laura feels that he is still there, along with the friends she had made.

12. The Awakening (2011)

Rebecca Hall is Florence Cathcart, a professional at unraveling ghostly tricks. She arrives at a gigantic mansion that is currently a boarding house to clarify what has been frightening the kids. While everyone in the boarding house is sure that there is some kind of entity circling the environment, she is confident that what is behind the apparitions is purely human. It will be?

13. The Silent House (2011)

The little house by the lake should be the family's refuge when she seeks rest, but for Sofia she will bring nothing but despair, when an entity seems unwilling to let the girl out of there at any cost.

14. The House of Dreams (2011)

Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz are directed by Jim Sheridan in this thought-provoking and intriguing film in which the protagonist is actually their dream home. When a couple moves to this new location, they begin to build the life they want, but a threat to family safety and sanity seems to want to live at the same address.

15. The Woman in Black (2012)

The goal of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is to get everything in order for a client's property to be sold, but the problem is that whoever buys the house will receive a free woman in black who is always there.

Not necessarily a very friendly toast.

16. The Mirror (2013)

Mike Flanagan writes and directs the feature film starring young Karen Gillan, Doctor Who's Amy Pond. The director, who at the time had made Absentia, came to stand out in the genre, as after The Mirror also signed Hush: Listening to Death, The Sleep of Death, Ouija: Origin of Evil and Dangerous Play, as well as being the screenwriter responsible for adapting Doctor Sleep, based on Stephen King's book and continuing The Shining !

In The Mirror, a film based on a short film with the same story, he tells the story of a young woman who wants to prove that her brother is innocent of the murder for which he was convicted by trying to show that the perpetrator is actually a ghost or an entity that lives in the house.

17. Invocation of Evil 1 and 2 (2013/2016)

There's no way to get into the subject of "haunted houses" without mentioning the true masterpiece of terror that is James Wan's movies. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are Lorraine and Ed Warren, two paranormal investigators who go to different houses where supernatural demonstrations are taking place to try to ward off whatever is disturbing residents.

Will it make it easier for you if we say the cases of the two films are based on real facts?

18. The Room of the Forgotten (2016)

Kate Beckinsale and Mel Raido are Dana and David Barrow, a couple who move with their son Lucas (Duncan Joiner) to a giant house on a country estate.

The goal is to try to leave behind a trauma experienced by the family recently and start over. The problem is that the new house carries much more than the gutters and structural problems that Dana set out to fix.

When Dana discovers a hidden room in the house, she opens the door to all the macabre history of the place's past. A nice curiosity about this feature film is that his script was written by DJ Caruso, who is also the director, along with Wentworth Miller, the Prison Break Scofield.

19. The Winchester House Curse (2018)

What about when your family is the creator of a firearm brand that has taken the lives of thousands? What if all the spirits of people who were once killed by such a weapon came to haunt you in your own home?

Many mysteries and stories lurk around the Winchester mansion and its seven floors of pure terror in the Michael and Peter Spierig feature film.

20. For sale This House (2018)

Who said only ghosts can haunt a residence? When Naomi Wallace's husband (Piercey Dalton) dies, she and her son Logan run out of money and need to change something in their lives. While she can't settle her own life, her sister offers her family's mountain home to spend a few weeks resting and trying to recover.

The problem is that something clearly does not want intruders in the house. A good thriller to see on Netflix, with 13 Reasons Why star Dylan Minnette.