Movies and TvShows featuring "old-dark-house" theme.
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?
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
An insomniac office worker seeks relief from his insomnia by attending support groups, where he meets a soap maker named Tyler Durden. Together, they form an underground fight club that spirals out of control. As the narrator delves deeper into the world of fight club and Tyler's extreme philosophies, he begins to question his own reality and identity. The boundaries between reality and madness blur as the narrator's life unravels.
A macabre and eccentric family living in a haunted house in the 1960s deal with various comedic situations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 'Burbs is a dark comedy about a suburban neighborhood that becomes suspicious of their new neighbors. When strange events start happening, like mysterious disappearances and power outages, a group of neighbors launch an investigation to uncover the truth. As they dig deeper, they uncover a dark secret that puts them all in danger.
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.
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.
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.
When a family on vacation enters a haunted house, they must uncover its secrets and escape before it's too late.
In a distant fairy-tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
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.
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.
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.
13-year-old Nala takes her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside in search of a cure for her sister's illness. However, they soon discover that her granny is hiding a sinister secret.
A wealthy amusement park mogul invites a group of strangers to spend the night in a haunted house for a chance to win $1,000,000. As the night progresses, they encounter paranormal activities and must confront their fears to survive.
A young couple on a romantic date at the cinema find themselves immersed in a horror movie. The boyfriend transforms into a werewolf, while the girlfriend becomes a zombie. They dance through the streets with other zombies and creatures of the night, causing chaos and terror. The film ends with a freeze frame of Michael Jackson's iconic pose.