Spec me some 'haunted house' films

Go on YouTube and find the BBCs 1989 version of The Woman in Black - it is terrifying

Also "The Orphanage" is a great film
 
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House
The Legend of Hell House
The Haunting (original)
House on Haunted Hill (remake)
The Woman in Black
Dark House
The Others
The Changeling
The Awakening
The Pact
Session 9
Fragile
Below (Sure, it's a submarine rather than a house, but it's an excellent film)
The Orphanage
Darkness (One of the best haunted house movies ever, IMO. It's seriously frightening.)
The Silent House (original version entitled 'La Casa Muda')
 
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Pestilence said:
House
The Legend of Hell House
The Haunting (original)
House on Haunted Hill (remake)
The Woman in Black
Dark House
The Others
The Changeling
The Awakening
The Pact
Session 9
Fragile
Below (Sure, it's a submarine rather than a house, but it's an excellent film)
The Orphanage
Darkness (One of the best haunted house movies ever, IMO. It's seriously frightening.)
The Silent House (original version entitled 'La Casa Muda')
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Only one of these I'd rate is The Orphanage. The Silent House [original] started well and turned into a complete yawn-fest and a lot of the older films just seem too tame to me.

What I liked about The Orphanage was that it kept pushing you and pushing you. When you thought it couldn't get any worse it would, then it would get worse again. I saw it in the cinema when it came out and the audience were laughing with nervousness near the end because of how well it stretched things out.

I will admit to not having seen Darkness but I'm sold on your recommendation.

I would seriously recommend the Thai version of Shutter as being hands-down the best ghost film I've ever seen. The concept that spirits can only be caught in photographs so you can see where they were nothing sooner a few seconds ago is petrifying and tangibly believable.

Paranormal Activity is classic purely for the "lol that was nothing" in the cinema feeling to the "no-sleep-at-night-for-a-month" effect.
 
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Grabbing The Orphanage and Darkness. Does Shutter have subtitles being Thai? If so will definitely watch it but not sure it suits a group of 13 where concentrations may fray and pranks become prevalent!
 
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Does Shutter have subtitles being Thai? If so will definitely watch it but not sure it suits a group of 13 where concentrations may fray and pranks become prevalent!
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The subtitled version is available through Tartan and easily attainable at Amazon. I would save it for a night by yourself or with one/two others since Asian cinema tends to demand more concentration.

EDIT: It's NTSC so it's best to watch it on your computer with your [hopefully large] monitor.
 
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Lysander said:
Only one of these I'd rate is The Orphanage. The Silent House [original] started well and turned into a complete yawn-fest and a lot of the older films just seem too tame to me.

What I liked about The Orphanage was that it kept pushing you and pushing you. When you thought it couldn't get any worse it would, then it would get worse again. I saw it in the cinema when it came out and the audience were laughing with nervousness near the end because of how well it stretched things out.

I will admit to not having seen Darkness but I'm sold on your recommendation.

I would seriously recommend the Thai version of Shutter as being hands-down the best ghost film I've ever seen. The concept that spirits can only be caught in photographs so you can see where they were nothing sooner a few seconds ago is petrifying and tangibly believable.

Paranormal Activity is classic purely for the "lol that was nothing" in the cinema feeling to the "no-sleep-at-night-for-a-month" effect.
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Yep, The Silent House plays excellently until the ending. Still, I do recommend it as the tension is extreme for the most part.

Have you seen Below?

The Thai version of Shutter is damned good, and in all honesty the American remake wasn't that bad either compared to some of the other travesties they've pumped out as quick and easy cash-ins. The revelation of the cause of the lead character's back pain still stands as one of modern horror's best brown trousers moments.

Darkness stands alongside the original Pulse (Kairo) as a film that my wife simply refuses to watch anymore as it scared her so badly. :D
 
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Darkness stands alongside the original Pulse (Kairo) as a film that my wife simply refuses to watch anymore as it scared her so badly. :D
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Had no idea you were married, or maybe I did and I forgot/wasn't paying attention. At the risk of asking a very personal question, have you discussed the no kids thing?

Haven't seen Below, no. Will look it up.
 
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Had no idea you were married, or maybe I did and I forgot/wasn't paying attention. At the risk of asking a very personal question, have you discussed the no kids thing?

Haven't seen Below, no. Will look it up.
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Discussed as much as possible, really. I've left the ball in her court -- told in no uncertain terms that I do not want children, and at this point can't see my mind ever changing. It's up to her what she wants to do about that.

At the moment she's living in the real world and accepting that we just don't have the time, money nor will between us to deal with a child but you know as well as I do how things are likely going to go in ~ 2 years' time when it hits her that the clock is well and truly ticking.

Taking it as it comes for now, and I honestly don't blame her if at that point she decides that procreating means more to her than I do and we call it a day over it. We'd have had a good run and plenty of good memories, but it'll be her decision ultimately.
 
wow totally off topic but I was like you now I have a son.....

My friend was also like you and now he has a daughter.....

Still resent my lack of "me" time but that's all really.

Really need to start watching horrors again.

thanks for the list guys.
 
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Discussed as much as possible, really. I've left the ball in her court -- told in no uncertain terms that I do not want children, and at this point can't see my mind ever changing. It's up to her what she wants to do about that.

At the moment she's living in the real world and accepting that we just don't have the time, money nor will between us to deal with a child but you know as well as I do how things are likely going to go in ~ 2 years' time when it hits her that the clock is well and truly ticking.

Taking it as it comes for now, and I honestly don't blame her if at that point she decides that procreating means more to her than I do and we call it a day over it. We'd have had a good run and plenty of good memories, but it'll be her decision ultimately.
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Absolutely. Breaking up would be better than staying with her and resenting it for the rest of your life, which most men do, and then they start saying things like, "I thought it would be terrible but I'm so happy [apart from no sleep, no time to do what I want and my dreams being mercilessly killed]". My wife and I have both discussed it many times and have both said we never want it. She is dead set on studying media at an advanced level for many years to come, and I have to study music more and get ahead with that, which is what I spend most of my spare time doing. In short, nothing should get in the way of our goals or freedom of movement. I imagine you feel similarly.
 
The Amityville Horror (1979)

This film popped my horror cherry as a kid, thanks to my Dad recording it and leaving the tape in the VHS player. Haha!

I do wonder how it stands by todays standards.
 
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