A grieving tour guide helps a single mother rid herself of the ghosts haunting her new home in Haunted Mansion. Ben Matthias (LaKeith Stanfield) is a former astrophysicist, who has been giving ghost tours in New Orleans since the tragic death of his wife. Ben is recruited by Father Kent (Owen Wilson) to visit the…
A controversial livestreamer sets out to spend a night alone in a haunted house in Deadstream. Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter) is the controversial host of the “Wrath of Shawn” live stream, who has just returned online after an incident that cost him his sponsors. To bounce back, Shawn decides to spend a night in the…
A family fights to survive a demonic presence in the funeral home where they live in The Undertaker’s Home. Bernardo (Luís Machín), wife Estella (Celeste Gerez) and stepdaughter Irina (Camila Vaccarini) all live together in Bernardo’s funeral home, which is also home to a number of spirits that haunt them a night. However, the nightly…
Guillermo del Toro produces a film adaptation of the popular book series of young adult horror stories in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Stella Nicholls (Zoe Margaret Colletti) is a teenage girl living with her father Roy (Dean Norris) in the small town of Mill Valley. Her only friends are Auggie Hilderbrandt (Gabriel…
The two icons of J-Horror clash in Sadako vs. Kayako. Yuri (Mizuki Yamamoto) and Natsumi (Aimi Satsukawa) are two university students, who purchase an old secondhand VCR to transfer some old home movies to DVD. However, inside they find a strange tape, which they soon realize is the cursed video tape mentioned to them by their urban…
The two icons of J-Horror clash in Sadako vs. Kayako. Yuri (Mizuki Yamamoto) and Natsumi (Aimi Satsukawa) are two university students, who purchase an old secondhand VCR to transfer some old home movies to DVD. However, inside they find a strange tape, which they soon realize is the cursed video tape mentioned to them by their…
A young hospice nurse encounters ghostly activity at the house of an elderly author in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. It is said that a house with a death in it can no longer be bought by the living, only borrowed from the ghosts that live there. 28 year old…
The review was originally published as part of my coverage of TIFF 2015 A groom gets possessed during his wedding day in Demon. Peter (Itay Tiran) is preparing to marry his fiance Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska) at her family’s country home in Poland. The night before the wedding, Peter finds skeletal remains on the property, after which he…
Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate a haunting in north London in The Conjuring 2. After assisting the Perron family, Ed and Lorraine (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) go on to investigate a haunting in Amityville, Long Island, which gives them both public fame and increased criticism by skeptics. Meanwhile in Enfield, North London, Peggy Hodgson (Frances O’Connor) begins…
A young woman who sees ghosts becomes enamoured with a mysterious aristocrat in Crimson Peak. Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) is an aspiring author, who has seen ghosts since she was a child, particularly the spirit of her dead mother, who warns Edith to “Beware of Crimson Peak.” Edith meets Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) and his…
