30 Best Haunted House Horror Movies: List of Scary Movies With High Ratings

Home, sweet home… What can be more cozy and reliable for a person? From home we expect peace and tranquility. All the more terrible when a safe dwelling becomes a source of chilling horrors. We offer you a list of horror movies about houses, which turned out to be a source of trouble, nightmares, and sometimes death for the owners.

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The Conjuring

IMDB Rating – 7.5
Genre: Horror, Detective
Production: USA / 2013, 2016
Budget: $20,000,000
Worldwide box office receipts: $319,494,638
Director: James Wan
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Shanley Caswell, Haley McFarland, Joey King, Mackenzie Foy, Kayla Deaver, Shannon Cook-Chun.

Two installments of an eight-part horror series about a married couple, the Warrens, who dedicate their lives to investigating the paranormal.

In the first movie, the Warrens investigate the case of the Perron family. Carrolyn, the honorable mother of the family, was possessed by an evil spirit, as a result of which she tried to kill her own children. The Warrens discover that the family has taken up residence in a house with a bad reputation – in the 19th century, a young Batshiba woman sacrificed her newborn child to Satan here.

In the second part, the ghost of the owner of the house, located in the London suburb of Enfield, haunts the family with two children living there.

The dilogy is based on real events. The Warrens were famous in the 1950s for investigating unusual scary events. The Perron family also existed and had ghosts appear in their home. And the Enfield Poltergeist still has parapsychology buffs debating whether the strange events were real or a prank by teenagers.

Crimson Peak

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Melodrama, Detective
Production: USA, Canada / 2015
Budget: $55,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $74,679,822
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver, Bern Gorman, Leslie Hope, Doug Jones, Jonathan Hyde, Bruce Gray

As a child, her mother’s ghost warned young Edith Cushing to be wary of Crimson Peak. And so Edith marries the mysterious and seductive Sir Thomas Sharpe. The newlywed couple moves to the lord’s estate – Allerdale.

The girl at night tormented by nightmares, and one day she finds out that Thomas has been more than once married. In addition, the locals have dubbed the estate Crimson Peak. If Edith wants to stay alive, it is necessary to get away from this terrible house as soon as possible.

Director Guillermo del Toro created 12 versions of the thriller before settling on the final result. One of the best castle house horror movies ever made.

The House at the End of Time

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: Venezuela / 2013
Budget: $300,000
Worldwide Box Office: $4,350,990
Director: Alejandro Hidalgo
Starring: Ruddy Rodriguez, Guillermo Garcia, Rosmel Bustamante, Gonzalo Cubero, Hector Mercado, Yusemar Morales, Efrain Romero, Simona Chirinos, Adriana Calzadilla, Jose Leon

Dulce, an elderly woman who served 30 years for the murder of her husband and young son, returns to her old home in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Caracas. Dulce does not consider herself a murderer and has little memory of the tragic evening of the murder.

Wanting to understand the events of thirty years ago, step by step she collects the scattered pieces of her memory and gets to the solution of the mystery. It turns out that the Dulce family is not the only ones who suffered in this mysterious house.

The movie produced in Venezuela is considered to be the most famous film of this Latin American country in the world.

Oculus

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: USA / 2013
Budget: $5,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $44,446,287
Director: Mike Flanagan
Starring: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, Annalisa Basso, Garrett Ryan, James Lafferty, Miguel Sandoval, Kate Siegel, Scott Graham

A story about a mysterious mirror that kills its owners. Many years ago, brother and sister, Tim and Kylie, faced an inexplicable evil in their own home. After the appearance of an old antique mirror in the apartment with the parents of the children began to happen frightening things, they began to go crazy.

Eventually the father killed the mother and committed suicide. Tim after many years tries to forget the terrible events, but Kylie does not agree with him.

The attentive viewer will notice that the mirror with a “dark” story has already glimpsed in another horror film directed by Mike Flanagan – “Absence” in 2011.

Insidious

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: USA / 2010
Budget: $1,500,000
Worldwide Box Office: $97,009,150
Director: James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Lee Whannell, Angus Sampson, Barbara Hershey, Andrew Astor, Corbett Tuck, Heather Tokuini.

For the Lambert couple, Josh and Renee, the move to a new home turns into a complete disaster – the couple’s son falls down the stairs and falls into a coma. The Lamberts turn to expert mediums, among whom is a friend of Josh’s mother. The woman is aware of the Lambert family secret: the boy’s soul has gone into the astral, where it is held by demons. Moreover, the boy inherited this ability from his father.

The Skeleton Key

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: USA, Germany / 2005
Budget: $43,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $91,974,818
Director: Ian Softley
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gina Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Maxine Barnett, Fanloni R. Harris, Marion Zinser, Denine Tyler, Ann Dalrymple

Young nurse Caroline learns a terrible secret about the old house where she cares for its dying master. Once upon a time it was home to black servants Papa Justice and Mama Cecile, who were lynched by their white owners for voodoo witchcraft.

Caroline begins to suspect that the wife of the owner of the house also possesses black magic. But the unraveling of the mystery turns out to be even more frightening – Papa Justifai and Mama Cecile are alive and have never left the walls of the house.

During filming, many crew members wore amulets from voodoo magic, as strange things happened on the set: cameras suddenly stopped working and unexplainable sounds were heard.

The Grotesque Mansion

IMDB Rating – 6.0
Genre: Horror
Production: Korea South / 2021
Budget: $43,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $285,702
Director: Jo Ba-ryn
Starring: Sung-joon, Kim Hong-pha, Kim Bo-ra, Lee Chang-hoon, Sojin, Lee Dong-ha, Hyun Bong-shik, Park Se-hyun, Oh Dae-hwan, Kim Jae-hwa

A young web tour writer, goes to an old abandoned house that has long been abandoned by everyone. He goes to this house to get new ideas for his works. There, the young man encounters the guard of the house, who begins to tell him terrible legends about the inhabitants of this building.

Voces

IMDB Rating – 6.1
Genre: Horror
Production: Spain / 2020
Worldwide box office receipts: $443,458
Director: Angel Gomez Hernandez
Starring: Rodolfo Sancho, Ana Fernandez, Ramon Barea, Belen Fabra, Lucas Blas, Nerea Barros, Beatriz Archona, Jose Bermudez, Jose Luis Lozaño, Ruben Corvo

Restorer Daniel, together with his wife Sarah and son Eric, moves into an old mansion, which he is going to sell after renovation. After moving in, the son begins to complain of voices that disturb his sleep.

The family psychologist and the boy’s parents write it off to his rich imagination. But tragedy strikes and Eric dies – he drowns in a shallow pond. The father tries to find out whether otherworldly forces were the cause of the child’s death.

The Others

IMDB Rating – 7.6
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Detective
Production: Spain, USA, France, Italy / 2001
Budget: $17,000,000
Worldwide box office: $209,947,037
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Finola Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Eric Sykes, Elaine Cassidy, Renee Asherson, Gordon Reed, Keith Allen.

1945, Jersey Island, Channel Islands. In an old secluded mansion, pious Grace Stewart waits with her children for her husband from the front. One day, when a dense fog covers the island and the house, the servants suddenly disappear.

Suddenly appearing on the doorstep of the house other nanny, maid and gardener behave suspiciously – exchanging strange phrases, looks and hints among themselves. The atmosphere in the house becomes more and more difficult, and Grace has a terrible secret to learn.

The Spanish mystery thriller grossed more than $200 million at the box office and became one of the highest-grossing horror films in cinematic history.

Sinister

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Detective
Production: USA, UK, Canada / 2012, 2015
Budget: $3,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $77,712,439
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Juliette Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Ranson, Michael Hall D’Addario, Claire Foley, Rob Riley, Tavis Smiley, Janet Zappala, Victoria Lee

The dilogy is united by the bloody crimes that the ancient Babylonian spirit Bagula pushes children to commit. Wanting to breathe life into Allison Oswald’s fading writing career, Oswald buys a cottage where a gruesome murder took place. In the house he finds videotapes with footage of the gruesome murders and realizes to his horror that by moving in he has added his family to the list of Bagula’s victims.

James Ranson, the policeman in charge of the Oswald family murders, burns down the houses of the families of those killed by Bagula all over the country. One day he meets a single mother, Courtney, and begins to suspect that the farm the woman recently bought with her sons has also been taken over by the Babylonian spirit.

The director decided to make a horror film after nightmares that plagued him after watching the 2002 horror film “The Ring”.

You Should Have Left

IMDB Rating – 5.4
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Production: USA, UK / 2020
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Saifred, Avery Tiu Essex, Colin Blumeno, Lowri Ann Richards, Joshua C. Jackson, Ali Powers

The sins of the past will sooner or later have to be paid for. An elderly banker Theo enjoys a young wife and a secure retirement. On the weekend the couple decides to relax in a rented country mansion.

One thing the former banker did not take into account – the house belongs to the devil, who takes away sinful souls who have wandered into it. And in Theo’s life there were events that he is ashamed of.

The thriller is based on the novel of the same name by German writer D. Kelman.

1408

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: USA / 2007
Budget: $25,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $132,033,383
Director: Mikael Hofström
Starring: John Cusack, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Shaloub, Benny Urquidez, Andrew Lee Potts, Len Cariou, Isaiah Whitlock Jr.

Room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel is haunted by pure evil – 56 of its guests have already died. Writer Mark Enslin doesn’t believe in otherworldly forces and gets into the room to bring the deceivers out into the open. But an unknown evil force plays with Mark and makes him believe in the existence of the devil himself.

The thriller is based on a short story by Stephen King. The writer was inspired by the story of parapsychologist Christopher Chacon, who investigated the allegedly spirit-possessed room in the hotel “Del Coronado” in California.

The film cost $25 million to make and grossed over $130 million at the box office.

Paranormal Activity

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Horror, Detective
Production: USA / 2007 – 2015
Budget: $15,000
Worldwide Box Office: $193,355,800
Director: Oren Peli
Starring: Katie Featherston, Mika Slott, Mark Fredericks, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer, Crystal Cartwright, Randy McDowell, Tim Piper

The first and fifth installments in the Paranormal Activity series. A young woman, Kathy, has been haunted by a ghost since childhood. After getting married, Kathy and her husband settle in the suburbs of San Diego. Soon the couple begins to suspect that there is a spirit haunting Kathy in the house with them. Kathy’s husband sets up a camera to record the paranormal occurrences taking place.

Years later, the couple finds a box with a video camera and many tapes in their new home. Deciding to watch one of them, the family has no idea that they are dooming themselves to participate in sinister events.

All of the house horror films in the Paranormal Activity franchise are filmed in the style of mockumentaries – pseudo-documentaries shot on camera by one of the characters.

Dream House

IMDB Rating – 6.0
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: USA, Canada / 2011
Budget: $50,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $39,984,400
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Elias Koteas, Marton Csokasz, Taylor Geer, Claire Geer, Rachel J. Fox, Jane Alexander, Brian Murray

Will Eitenten, the former editor-in-chief of a publishing house, decides to quit his job and take up writing, something he has dreamed of for a long time. To work in silence and solitude, together with his wife, they move to a small provincial town.

At night, the youngest daughter of the couple is frightened by the silhouette of a man who appeared in front of the window. This incident will be the beginning of a series of frightening events, the center and cause of which is Will himself.

32 Malasana Street

IMDB Rating – 5.5
Genre: Horror
Production: Spain, France / 2020
Worldwide Box Office: $8,968,845
Director: Albert Pinto
Starring: Begoña Vargas, Ivan Marcos, Bea Segura, Sergio Castellanos, Jose Luis De Madariaga, Ivan Renedo, Concha Velasco, Javier Botet, Maria Ballesteros, Rosa Alvarez.

The provincial Olmedo family receives a favorable offer – to buy an apartment in Madrid for nothing. As you know, free cheese is only in a mousetrap – the bought apartment presents the owners with a sinister surprise. The apartment is haunted by the dark essence of one of its former owners.

In the story, the dysfunctional apartment is located in Madrid, at 32 Malasaña Street. In reality, there is no such house on the real Malasaña Street, it ends at number 30.

Winchester: The House that Ghosts Built

IMDB Rating – 5.5
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Detective
Production: Australia, USA / 2018
Budget: $3,500,000
Worldwide Box Office: $44,019,588
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Starring: Helen Mirren, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna-O’Prey, Jason Clarke, Emm Weissman, Alana Fagan, Rebecca Makar, Tyler Coppin, Michael Carman, Angus Sampson.

The Winchester Gun Company is concerned about the mental health of the firm’s majority owner, Sarah Winchester. The woman has purchased a house after the death of her husband and daughter and is continuously remodeling it, piling up floors, hallways and rooms. But Sarah has a good reason – she is preparing traps for ghosts who want to kill everyone who bears the surname Winchester.

The plot of the movie is based on real events, Sarah Winchester really 20 years to rebuild her house. But there’s a perfectly ordinary explanation. To support the poor, the widow simply provided legitimate work.

The Haunting in Connecticut

IMDB Rating – 5.9
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: USA, Canada, UK / 2009
Worldwide box office receipts: $77,527,732
Director: Peter Cornwell
Starring: Kyle Gallner, Virginia Madsen, Amanda Crew, Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan, Sophie Knight, Ty Wood, Eric J. Berg, John Blutner, D.W. Brown

The Campbell family is forced to live in a rented mansion near the hospital as son Matt undergoes treatment for cancer. After the housemates discover a mysterious door in the basement, Matt begins to behave in strange and frightening ways. At first it’s written off as side effects from chemotherapy, but it’s not that simple – because the house has a sinister history.

The movie is based on real events from the life of the American Snedeker family. In a rented house with them there were creepy stories, as it was believed that the house is inhabited by many aggressive phantoms. However, all subsequent residents of the house did not encounter any paranormal phenomena.

The Dark

IMDB Rating – 5.4
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: UK, USA, Germany / 2005
Budget: £3,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $6,567,422
Director: John Fawcett
Starring: Maria Bello, Sean Bean, Maurice Roeves, Sophie Stuckey, Abigail Stowe, Richard Elfin, Casper Harvey, Elund Jones, Gwenyth Petty, Robin Griffith.

American Adele decides to reunite with her ex-husband and moves to a secluded house on the Welsh coast. Adele’s relationship with her daughter Sarah is not going well, and in England, it would seem, they find common ground. But the gloomy past of the new home does not allow the woman’s plans to materialize. Once here, members of a sect practicing Celtic mythology committed mass suicide.

The horror movie about children in a house of ill repute is based on Simon Maginn’s novel The Sheep.

Delirium

IMDB Rating – 5.8
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: USA / 2016
Russian box office receipts: $251,456
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Starring: Topher Grace, Patricia Clarkson, Genesis Rodriguez, Callan Mulvey, Harry Groner, Robin Thomas, Daisy McCrackin, Cody Sullivan, Jorge Paglio, Braden Fitzgerald

A young boy Tom Walker is completely confused about what is real, and what horrors are only happening in his head. The guy has been treated in a psychiatric clinic for 20 years, and now he has to spend 30 days in a large dilapidated house under house arrest. Tom is tormented by the ghosts of his dead brother, father and his mother, who left him when he was still a child.

Hysteria is an outdated medical diagnosis, currently corresponding to a range of mild to moderate mental disorders.

The Amityville Horror

IMDB Rating – 6.0
Genre: Horror
Production: USA / 2005
Budget: $19,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $108,047,131
Director: Andrew Douglas
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloe Grace Moretz, Rachel Nichols, Philip Baker Hall, Isabelle Conner, Brendan Donaldson, Annabel Armor

The young Lutz family with three children faces the most terrifying ordeal of their lives. Moving into an old house, Jord and Katie didn’t pay much attention to the dwelling’s dark past. A year ago, a young boy, at the behest of the spirits that haunted him, shot his entire family. And now the horrifying events are repeating themselves in the Lutz house.

The Amityville story happened in reality. On November 13, 1974, a young boy named Ronald Defeo massacred his father, mother, two sisters and two brothers. Ronald claimed he was guided by the voice of an Indian tribal chief.

After Defeo, the Lutz family moved into the house and encountered horrifying phenomena in the dwelling. Contemporaries, however, accused the family of conspiring with writer Anson to promote his book The Amityville Horror.

The Orphanage

IMDB Rating – 7.4
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: Spain, Mexico / 2007
Budget: €3,400,000
Worldwide Box Office: $78,638,987
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Rojer Prinsep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Andres Gertrudix, Edgar Vivar, Oscar Casas, Mireya Reno, Heorhina Avelaneda Rita.

Laura, a young woman, has only fond memories of the orphanage where she grew up. To help children with disabilities, Laura and her husband Carlos decide to reconstruct the orphanage and bring up orphans again. However, the couple’s son, Simon, disappears without a trace and Laura discovers the orphanage’s terrible past while searching for him.

To make the thriller truly frightening, director Juan Antonio Bayona often hid and frightened the actors at the most unexpected moment.

For example, on the first day he grabbed actress Geraldine Chaplin’s leg, so the viewer can enjoy her genuine scream of terror.

To Let

IMDB Rating – 6.2
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: Spain / 2006
Director: Jaume Balaguero
Starring: Macarena Gomez, Nuria Gonzalez, Adria Collado, Ruth Diaz, Roberto Romero, David Santanya, Julieta Morocco.

People should trust their premonitions more. A young couple Mario and Clara are looking for a comfortable apartment – they are about to have a baby. According to an advertisement they visit the apartment, which Clara did not like at once. But it seemed unseemly for the young people to leave at once, and Clara felt unwell. It would be time to say goodbye, but the landlady is against it.

The tagline of the Spanish horror movie “The perfect apartment … to relive your worst nightmare.”

Thir13en Ghosts

IMDB Rating – 5..6
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Production: USA, Canada / 2001
Budget: $42,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $68,467,960
Director: Steve Beck
Starring: Tony Shalub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, Alec Roberts, J.R. Bourne, Ra Digga, F. Murray Abraham, Matthew Harrison, Jacob Rupp

Arthur, a widower with two children, received a very unusual inheritance from his millionaire uncle – a haunted house. The deceased collected ghosts and with the help of a medium placed in special cages right in the mansion.

During a tour of the new dwelling, an unknown person blocked the exits of the house and opened the haunted cages. Arthur and his children will have to make every effort to survive and not become part of the eccentric uncle’s collection.

The creators of the film have worked hard to create a house with ghosts as different as possible from other dwellings with a bad reputation. More than 45 tons of steel and 2500 tons of special glass were used to make the scenery. Some rooms of the house were made entirely of glass.

The Last House on the Left

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Horror, thriller
Production: USA, UK / 2009
Budget: $15,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $45,286,228
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Starring: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sarah Paxton, Garrett Dillahunt, Aaron Paul, Ricky Lindhome, Martha McIsaac, Spencer Trit Clark, Michael Bowen, Josh Cox.

A tense horror movie about a house in the woods by a lake, terrifying with the reality of what is happening. The brother helps to escape the maniac Craig during transportation to the place of detention. The criminals escape, but on the way they get two girls who are taken hostage by a crazy family.

The director of the film was inspired by Swedish director Ingmar Begman’s 1960 film “Maiden Spring”. Before choosing Dennis Iliadis to direct the film, the film company considered at least 100 directors.

House on Haunted Hill

IMDB Rating – 5.6
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Crime, Detective
Production: USA / 1999
Budget: $37,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $42,593,455
Director: William Malone
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan, Eli Larter, Bridget Wilson, Max Perlich, Jeffrey Combs, Dick Beebe.

To spite his wife, eccentric millionaire Vincent Price decided to organize an unusual celebration of her birthday. Price rented the building of a former psychiatric hospital, where the sadistic psychiatrist Venekkat experimented on patients. Randomly invited guests are invited to spend a night alone with the ghosts in the mansion. Each survivor will receive 1 million dollars.

On the first day of distribution in the United States, the tape earned $15,946,032.

Dark Water

IMDB Rating – 6.7
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: Japan / 2001
Worldwide box office receipts: $1,686,839
Director: Hideo Nakata
Starring: Hitomi Kuroki, Ryo Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yu Tokui, Isao Yatsu, Shigemitsu Ogi, Maiko Asano, Yukiko Ikari.

A young Japanese woman, Yoshimi Matsubara, and her daughter move into a new apartment. Soon it turns out that in the same house lived a married couple, whose daughter named Mitsuko is missing. The spirit of the deceased Mitsuko begins to haunt her daughter Yoshimi. The woman has no choice but to agree to replace Mitsuko’s mother and become a ghost.

A horror film by acclaimed Japanese director Hideo Nakata, creator of the iconic and most successful Japanese film at the worldwide box office, “The Call”.

The Haunting

IMDB Rating – 5.0
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Detective
Production: USA, UK / 1999
Budget: $80,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $177,311,151
Director: Jan de Bont
Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern, Marian Seldes, Alix Koromzai, Todd Field, Virginia Madsen, Michael Cavanagh.

Four sleep-deprived young men are offered an unconventional treatment by psychiatrist Murrow. They are to spend a few days in the abandoned mansion of textile magnate Hugh Crane. The mansion is notorious and the psychiatrist is suspicious… It comes to the point that not everyone will be lucky to return home.

In order for the actors’ reactions to be authentic, creaks, groans and other imaginative sounds were recorded in advance and played during filming. One of the highest-grossing horror films about abandoned houses, the horror film grossed almost 180 million dollars at the box office.

House at the End of the Street

IMDB Rating – 5.6
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Production: USA, Canada / 2011
Budget: $10,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $44,287,131
Director: Mark Tonderai
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Max Theriot, Elisabeth Shue, Gil Bellows, Eva Link, Nolan Gerard Funk, Ally McDonald, Jordan Hayes, Krista Bridges, James Thomas.

Single mom Sarah and her daughter Elissa move to a backwater American town. There is only one landmark in it – the house where a teenage girl killed her parents and fled to an unknown destination.

Elissa starts dating a nice guy Ryan Jacobson, who turns out to be the brother of the murderer. There is talk in the town that the ghost of the murderous girl is wandering around, and Elissa has to learn all the secrets of the Jacobson house.

In 2012, with the participation of Jennifer Lawrence, the performer of the title role, released two more movies: sci-fi action film “The Hunger Games” and comedy melodrama “My Psycho Boyfriend”.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

IMDB Rating – 5.6
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Production: USA, Australia, Mexico / 2010
Budget: $25,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $38,269,529
Director: Troy Nixey
Starring: Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Jack Thompson, Bruce Gleason, Eddie Richard, Harry McDonald, Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen, Julia Blake, David Tocci.

An architect Alex, his girlfriend Kim and the man’s daughter Sally come to live at Blackwood Manor. The estate is notorious for being the home of Emerson Blackwood, a mad artist and biologist. Exploring the dwelling, Sally finds a fireplace, the lid of which is bolted shut. Voices whisper to Sally to open the fireplace, which the girl does. From that moment on, dark entities begin to rule the house.

In the United States, the rental rating of the thriller was raised to R (under 17 accompanied by an adult) due to the presence of “particularly frightening scenes” in the film.

Out of the Dark

IMDB Rating – 4.8
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Production: Spain, Colombia, USA, UAE / 2014
Worldwide box office receipts: $1,437,650
Director: Juiz Quiles
Starring: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, Stephen Rea, Pixie Davis, Vanesa Tamayo, Alejandro Firth, Elkin Diaz, Maria Fernanda Yepez, Frank Cuervo

A married couple, Sarah and Paul, didn’t heed warnings about the dangers of moving with their children to the Colombian city of Santa Clara. Settling into an old mansion, they quickly realize their mistake. The spirits of dead children come to the household, and they especially annoy the couple’s young daughter.

A Spanish-Colombian horror film, filmed in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia.

House of 1000 Corpses

IMDB Rating – 6.1
Genre: Horror
Production: USA / 2003
Budget: $7,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $16,829,545
Director: Rob Zombie
Starring: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Erin Daniels, Jennifer Jostin, Walton Goggins, Chris Hardwick, Rainn Wilson, Chad Bannon.

Two young couples traveling in America are interested in a local attraction – the execution site of the maniacal killer Dr. Satan. Having gone to look for this place, the young people find themselves in an abandoned house. In it awaits them Dr. Satan and the monstrous trials he has prepared.

One of the bloodiest horror movies about old houses. Due to senseless cruelty “House of 1000 Corpses” is banned for screening and distribution in the Republic of Belarus.

Other Horror Movies About Houses

2 Bedroom 1 Bath (2014)
Toolbox Murders (2003)
The Lodgers (2017)
Deep Dark (2015)
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Havenhurst (2014)
Beyond Darkness (1990)
The Shining (1980)
Poltergeist (1982)
House (1977)
Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)