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Found footage films in hardcore horror circles are typically known for cheap thrills and load noises while nothing actually happens. While the victims scream and run from unseen forces throughout nauseously jarring camerawork, you may get lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the malicious antagonist. Stephen Cognetti’s 2015 first …

When you imagine a haunted house, what’s the first things that come to mind? You probably think of creaky doors, broken windows and sagging porches, but in Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, the house the Freeling family move into is brand new. It looks like all of the houses next to it, just …

Although considered places of refuge, asylums were often used by society past as a place to leave their sick and troubled individuals, a way to hide the mentally and physically challenged away from prying eyes and judgmental colleagues. Unfortunately, once these people were dropped off on the steps of these supposed havens, they …

The idea of a haunted house brings quite a specific image to mind. On the edge of a craggy hill, a rambling mansion sits silent and brooding, its many turrets and gables jut sharply into a sky bleached white by lightning flashes. The wind is always howling, the moon is …