Nothing screams classic haunted house like an eerie, abandoned mansion or a secluded, rickety country home. The floorboards creak, the basement’s dark and full of secrets, and the ghost unveils themself hunched in a corner or over someone’s bedside. Many films have transformed the comfortable, safe perception of the home into grueling sites of demon-provoked massacres (The Amityville Horror), stalkings (Insidious), or straight-up possessions (The Conjuring). There’s no shortage of scary movies that do justice to that old-age fear of one’s sanctuary being corrupted by the supernatural, and many contemporary, fast-paced titles like Lights Out throw the evil presence right in your face from the get-go.
