Movies and TvShows featuring "old-dark-house" theme.
Dark Shadows is a gothic soap opera that focuses on the life of vampire Barnabas Collins and his interactions with the inhabitants of Collinsport, Maine. The show explores themes of family, love, supernatural powers, and the struggle between good and evil. Set in the 1960s, Dark Shadows combines elements of horror, romance, and mystery to create a unique and captivating storyline.
A macabre and eccentric family living in a haunted house in the 1960s deal with various comedic situations.
The Crain family moves into Hill House, an old mansion with a tragic history. As they renovate the house, they encounter supernatural phenomena that force them to confront their own demons.
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
The crafty Bad Guys crew embarks on a high-stakes Halloween heist to swipe a priceless amulet from a spooky mansion. What could go wrong?
Edward Scissorhands is a heartwarming story about a man-made creation named Edward, who has scissors for hands. Taken in by a suburban family, he discovers friendship, love, and acceptance. Despite initial fear and judgment from the townspeople, Edward's unique skills and compassionate nature win them over. However, when he is falsely accused and attacked, Edward is forced to retreat to his dark mansion. In the end, he is immortalized as a symbol of love and bringer of snow to the once-sterile neighborhood.
Escape the Night is a TV show about a group of YouTubers who are transported to different eras and must solve a mystery to survive. In each episode, they take part in a dinner party where they must complete challenges and eliminate one another until only one person remains. The show combines elements of adventure, fantasy, mystery, and horror.
Four teens are tricked by Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) into visiting a haunted house for a school project. The sequel to Scary Movie begins with a parody of The Exorcist, in which Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out. The exorcism doesn't go as planned, and a chain of The Exorcist-like vomiting occurs. Megan insults McFeely's mother and he shoots her in the head. One year later, Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans) and Shorty Meeks (Marlon Wayans) are at college, trying to live new lives, after the events in the previous movie. (Although all of them died in Scary Movie, in a deleted scene, Brenda says her death was a near death experience, and Cindy was never officially declared dead.) Cindy and Brenda get tagged by a dorky girl, Alex Monday (Tori Spelling); Ray, who is still confused by his sexuality, has two new friends, Tommy (James DeBello) and Buddy (Christopher Masterson); while Shorty is still the same stoner he was in the last movie. The story begins when a college teacher, Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) and his wheelchair-bound assistant Dwight (David Cross) plan to study the paranormal activity at Hell House, with the clueless teens as bait and for Oldman to get action with the college girls. Newcomer Theo (Kathleen Robertson) also becomes part of the study group. When Cindy arrives at the Hell House, she meets a talking Amazon parrot who is vulgar and slanderous, and the caretaker, Hanson (Chris Elliott), who has great people skills and a genetically malformed little hand. After some weird incidents on that night (Cindy being beaten up by a cat, a toy clown attacking Ray after he had sex with Brenda, Shorty getting attacked and smoked by a weed-monster, and Alex having sex with a ghost and it "humps" her. The teens finally learn about the professor's plan and try to escape the mansion. The professor gets killed by a female ghost with disfigured features as the ghost of Hell House's owner, Hugo Kane, seals all exits of the manor to prevent the surviving occupants from escaping. Realizing that killing the ghost is the only way out, the teens are equipped with several technological devices by Dwight that serve to harass and injure the spectral enemy. They are pursued all throughout the mansion. Cindy is chased by an undead skeleton and Brenda rips his bones. Shorty meets the ghost who killed the professor but puts a paper bag on her face and has sex with her. Hanson gets possessed, and Cindy, Brenda and Theo parody Charlie's Angels to get him, but end up beaten up. Eventually, they use Cindy as bait to lure the Kane ghost to a device that ultimately destroys him. Two months later, taking care of the parrot though he despises her for talking too much, Cindy and Buddy are in a relationship and go out on a walk until Buddy disappears without notice as she looks up to see Hanson serving at the hot dog stand. She screams "No!" while Hanson screams "Yes!". Hanson is instantly hit by a car driven by Shorty, who is receiving oral sex by the female ghost...with a bag over her head to hide her facial deformities.
In 1945, after the end of World War II, a woman and her two photosensitive children live in a haunted house in the Channel Islands. Strange things start happening and the mother goes on a hunt for intruders. She discovers that the servants she hired are actually ghosts who used to live in the house. As the hauntings intensify, it is revealed that the mother had smothered her children and killed herself. The present occupants of the house, a pianist father, mother, and a child, eventually leave the house.
Thriller is an anthology TV show that explores various paranormal phenomena, possession, curses, and supernatural elements. It features horror hosts who introduce and narrate each episode. The series includes episodes set in old dark houses, swamps, and showcases ghostly hauntings. With a somber tone, Thriller delves into the realms of parapsychology, magick, and revenge.
The New Addams Family follows the lives of the eccentric and unconventional Addams family, who find themselves in comedic and bizarre situations. With their dark humor and unique personalities, they navigate family relationships and face off against various challenges. This TV show is a parody comedy that mixes horror elements with comedic situations and explores themes of family, eccentricity, and unconventional living.
Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is a living, breathing, scary monster. DJ and his friends Chowder and Jenny embark on a mission to stop the monster house from terrorizing the neighborhood. They learn that the house is possessed by the soul of Mr. Nebbercracker's wife, Constance, and the only way to destroy it is to find its heart. With the help of an expert on the supernatural, they devise a plan to put the house to sleep long enough to douse the furnace, which they believe to be the heart of the house. As they explore the house, they discover a basement filled with toys and the body of Constance Nebbercracker encased in cement. With the house closing in on them, the trio manages to force the house to vomit them outside. They then confront Mr. Nebbercracker, who reveals the tragic story of his wife's death and the creation of the monster house. In a final showdown, DJ throws dynamite into the chimney, destroying the house and freeing the soul of Constance. The movie ends with DJ, Chowder, and Jenny returning the toys to their owners and going trick-or-treating.
The eccentric and unconventional Addams Family navigates family relationships and their haunted house in surreal and comedic ways.
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.<br/><br/>The film opens on August 18, 1973, revealing that a cemetery in rural Texas has been vandalized. Sally and her brother Franklin travel to the site with their friends to check on their grandfather's grave. They decide to visit the abandoned family homestead, where they encounter a strange hitchhiker. After picking up some barbeque sandwiches, they finally arrive at the family home. While exploring, Pam and Kirk get lured inside the house and are killed by a chainsaw-wielding killer known as Leatherface. Jerry goes to search for them but is also killed. Sally and Franklin are then attacked, with Franklin being killed by Leatherface. Sally manages to escape to a gas station but is captured by the hitchhiker and the owners of the house. They torture her and plan to kill her, but Sally escapes and is rescued by a passing truck. Leatherface chases after her but is eventually left behind as Sally makes her escape.
Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up. In 1954, six strangers are invited to a dinner party at Hill House, a secluded mansion in New England. They are met by the butler, Wadsworth, who gives each of them a pseudonym, with none of them knowing or being addressed by their real names. The guests - Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Green, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet - are served by Wadsworth and the maid, Yvette. During dinner, a seventh guest, Mr. Boddy, arrives. Afterwards, Wadsworth reveals the real reason they are there: Mr. Boddy has been blackmailing the other guests (as well as Wadsworth and his now-dead wife, it is later revealed) for some time now. The group is here to confront him and turn him over to the police. Mr. Boddy, however, reminds them that if he is arrested, their guilty secrets for which he has been blackmailing them will be exposed. He then gives each of the other guests different weapons as a gift (a candlestick, a dagger, a lead pipe, a revolver, a rope, and a wrench), suggesting that one of them kill Wadsworth instead to avoid exposure and humiliation. When he turns out the lights, a gunshot rings out, and when the lights are turned back on, they find Mr. Boddy apparently dead with no visible trace as to how. Wadsworth then goes on to explain that he was the one who arranged for everyone to meet at the mansion, knowing that Mr. Boddy was blackmailing them. He reveals that his late wife committed suicide as a result of Mr. Boddy's manipulations, which drove him to try and help free them from the same cycle of blackmail by bringing them all together to force a confession out of him and then turn him over to the police. Later, the cook Mrs. Ho is found dead, stabbed with the dagger, and Mr. Boddy's body disappears, only to be rediscovered dead again but with new injuries from the candlestick. Wadsworth locks the weapons in the cupboard and is about to throw the key out when a stranded motorist arrives and is locked in the lounge. Wadsworth then throws the key out onto the blacktop. Colonel Mustard proposes they split into pairs and search the house to make sure no one else is there. While they are searching, the motorist is killed with the wrench. Mustard and Scarlet find his corpse in the locked lounge and Yvette uses the revolver from the now-unlocked cupboard to break the keyhole. A police officer investigating the motorist's abandoned car arrives and comes inside to use the phone. The guests resume their search of the mansion. The electricity is then turned off. Yvette, the cop, and a singing telegram girl are subsequently murdered with the rope, lead pipe, and revolver, respectively. Wadsworth and the others regroup after he turns the electricity back on, and he reveals he knows who the murderer is. He proceeds to recreate the events of the night so far as to explain how the murders occurred. He reveals that the other five people who died with Mr. Boddy were his accomplices, who gave him vital information about the different guests. After an evangelist interrupts them, Wadsworth continues and shuts off the electricity again. In the theatrical showing, at this point audiences would then be shown one of the three following endings after Wadsworth brings the lights back up. In the home media, all three endings were included, with 'Ending A' and 'Ending B' identified as possible endings but 'Ending C' being how the events really occurred. Ending A: Yvette murdered the cook and Mr. Boddy under orders from Miss Scarlet, for whom she once worked as a call girl. Miss Scarlet then killed her along with the other murder victims. She wanted to keep her business of extortion safe and now plans to sell the other guests' secrets. She intends to shoot Wadsworth, who asserts there are no more bullets in the gun. Wadsworth then reveals himself to be an undercover FBI agent, takes the gun from Miss Scarlet and apprehends her. The evangelist is revealed to be a police chief, who arrives with police officers and federal agents. To prove that the gun was empty, Wadsworth fires it towards the ceiling. However, it still contained one bullet, and the gunshot brings down the hall chandelier right behind Colonel Mustard, narrowly missing him (again, the first time being when Yvette breaks the keyhole). Ending B: Mrs. Peacock killed all the victims to cover up her engagement of bribes from foreign powers. Mrs. Peacock holds the others at gunpoint while she escapes to her car, but she is caught by the chief (the evangelist). Wadsworth reveals he is an undercover FBI agent planted to spy on her activities as to secure her arrest. Ending C: Each murder was committed by a different person: Professor Plum killed Mr. Boddy, Mrs. Peacock killed the cook, Colonel Mustard killed the motorist (and picked out the key from Wadsworth's pocket), Mrs. White killed Yvette, and Miss Scarlet killed the cop. Mr. Green is therefore accused of killing the singing telegram girl, but Wadsworth reveals he killed her, and that he is, in fact, the real Mr. Boddy (the man Professor Plum killed was his butler). With the witnesses to each of their secret activities dead and the evidence destroyed, Mr. Boddy now plans on continuing to blackmail them all. Mr. Green suddenly pulls out a revolver and kills Mr. Boddy. He reveals himself as an undercover FBI agent who has been on Mr. Boddy's case. He brings in the chief/evangelist to arrest the others. Mr. Green then leaves, saying 'I'm gonna go home, and sleep with my wife', revealing his earlier claim of homosexuality was just part of his cover.
A young woman named Greta takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy family in a remote English village. She soon discovers that the family's son, Brahms, is a life-sized doll that the parents treat as a real child. As Greta becomes more involved in Brahms' care, she starts to experience strange occurrences and begins to suspect that the doll may be possessed by a malevolent spirit. Greta must unravel the mystery surrounding Brahms and confront the dark secrets of the family's past before it's too late.
Rebecca must confront a supernatural spirit that is attached to her mother and terrorizing her little brother. With the help of her boyfriend and the police, Rebecca fights to protect her family from the vengeful spirit.
When a family on vacation enters a haunted house, they must uncover its secrets and escape before it's too late.
A group of college students enter Michael Myers' childhood home to participate in a live-streaming event, unaware that Myers is waiting for them. They must fight for their lives as they are hunted down one by one.
Dark Shadows is a gothic drama TV show set in the 1790s in Maine. The show revolves around a family curse, a ghost, and a vampire. The story follows a governess who becomes entangled in the supernatural secrets of the Collins family, as she tries to unravel the mysteries of their cursed past.