Old Dark House
see all genres ›A classic horror archetype drawn from Gothic romance fiction and stage thrillers, the "old dark house" story terrorizes its protagonists with ghostly apparitions, hidden passageways, clutching hands and other frights that may or may not be supernatural in origin.
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Castle of Blood
When American author Edgar Allan Poe visits London, he is approached by British journalist Alan Foster, who becomes the target of a peculiar wager. Not believing Poe’s assertion that all of his macabre stories have been based on actual experience, Foster accepts a bet from Poe and his friend Sir Thomas Blackwood that he...Start your free trial to watch -
The Cat and the Canary
A decaying mansion and a stormy night are the archetypal setting for mystery and chaos when a pack of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a twenty-year-old will. But before the fortune of Cyrus West can be handed down, the family must endure a night in the cavernous manor, unnerved by the news that...Start your free trial to watch
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Growing Out
To a troubled songwriter like Tom (Michael Hampton), cleaning and old house in exchange for free room and board seems like a great deal. But Tom's about to get way more than he bargained for. There's something strange growing in the basement floor. Something dark. Something disturbing. Something...human. Join Tom as he delves...Start your free trial to watch -
Gurozuka
A fun getaway turns into a journey to Hell for some teenage girls visiting an isolated house to rehearse and perform a play for their private movie club. Taking the trip with an adult chaperone, the girls learn a previous club member supposedly went missing in the house and another insane! Shortly after they arrive, a...Start your free trial to watch -
Hansel and Gretel
What if Hansel and Gretel decided to stay in the gingerbread house and look for new parents who would love them forever? When Eun-soo gets lost in the country, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairy-tale house in the woods. Trapped with the girl and her ageless siblings, he soon learns that all...Start your free trial to watch
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The Haunted Castle
I've yet to see anything to disprove the claims that this spooky affair is the first supernatural horror film of all time. Some also call it the first vampire film, most likely because of the presence of a large flying bat-creature early on. For Méliès devotees, it holds another more important position...Start your free trial to watch -
The Haunted House
Buster Keaton, on the run, hides in an abandoned house where a visiting opera company of "Faust" also seeks refuge. The film's great moment is a dream sequence in which Buster dreams he is an angel ascending to heaven. At Saint Peter's gate he is rejected and slides down a chute to hell where he discovers...Start your free trial to watch -
Have a Heart
In this lively late silent two-reeler, blundering blowhard Jimmy is “always looking for work; someday he'll find it, then he'll have to quit.” But meanwhile he applies for a job at a newspaper whose editor really, really wants to solve the mystery of the “haunted” Klutz Mansion. So our hero and the boss' daughter go to...Start your free trial to watch
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The Headless Ghost
Three foreign exchange students, Americans Ronnie and Bill, and Danish Ingrid, go on a day-trip to the supposedly haunted Ambrose Castle. The students decide to spend the night in the castle to find out if it is really haunted, and meet the ghost of the Fourth Earl of Ambrose and various other spooks.Start your free trial to watch -
House of Whipcord
There is a large and old home just a few hours drive from London. A home that use to be a house of corrections, where bad girls were brought and bad girls were punished for crimes against society. A young man is pressured by his insane mother and father (who both worked for the British court system) as he...Start your free trial to watch -
House on Haunted Hill
Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren (Vincent Price) and his fourth wife Annabelle have invited five people to the HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, an old mansion with a murderous history, for a "Haunted House" party. The rules? Simple. Whoever will stay in the house for one full night will earn $10,000. As an extra...Start your free trial to watch
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Jasper and the Haunted House
George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like TOM THUMB, THE TIME MACHINE and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. But he drew industry esteem earlier as an innovative animator, including this entry in a successful "Puppetoon" series starring...Start your free trial to watch -
La nuit de la mort
There's something strange going on at Deadlock House, a secluded French retirement home. The residents seem like nice people but employees are disappearing and the whole place seem a bit odd. The boarders are vegetarian, the house director plays the same creepy tune on the piano over and over again and one...Start your free trial to watch -
Once Upon a Time
"I had been intrigued for many years at the idea of filming a haunted castle. In turning to a set of very old platinum-plate photographs of the Fontainbleau interiors I was finally able to approach this subject through animation. The palace is actually haunted by fragments of Buddhist tenets (heard on the...Start your free trial to watch
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Un sussurro nel buio
Equal parts melodrama and ghost story, this beautifully appointed tale confirms that money can't buy you love or tranquility when the spirits are restless. Martino is a poor little rich kid living on a fabulous northern Italian estate with the usual servants and troublesome family members: two bratty...Start your free trial to watch -
Tomb of Torture
Anna, a young woman who is the reincarnation of a murdered countess named Irene, is afflicted with nightmares in which she reenacts the murder. In an effort to help her, her father, Dr. Darnell, takes her to the scene of the crime. There, in the manor where Irene was murdered, other strange murders have taken place. Two young...Start your free trial to watch -
Wot a Night
Tom and Jerry (not the later cat-and-mouse duo but a Mutt and Jeff-type pair of button-nosed, humanoid pals) are taxi drivers who pick up a couple of beardos at the train station. They take these passengers to a creepy castle where they end up trapped themselves as skeletons cavort and spirits sing spirituals. This haunted...Start your free trial to watch




