11 Horror Movies About Creepy Houses
Creepy (adj.)—producing a nervous shivery apprehension
Creepy houses don’t always look creepy.
Some haunted houses look like normal homes on the outside, and oftentimes on the inside too. Just a box over your head to keep the weather out.
But what if it’s keeping something in? Or what if the house itself is alive and angry? What then?
When weird things, unexplainable things, start to happen, that’s your cue to get out … if you still can.
Here’s a selection of eleven horror movies about haunted houses or just plain creepy houses.
Would you visit any of these places? Be truthful, now.
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1. Poltergeist (1982)
Poltergeist is a supernatural horror movie.
The Freeling family lives in a planned community in California. One night, five-year-old Carol Anne talks to the television while it just shows white static. The next night, a ghostly hand reaches out from the screen, the earth shakes violently, and Carol Anne declares, “They’re here.”
Inexplicable phenomena start to happen, increasingly more sinister.
During a storm, while the family is saving eight-year-old Robbie from a menacing tree, Carol Anne is drawn into another dimension through a portal in the closet. When the family looks for her, they hear her voice calling out from within the television.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 7.3 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.7 out of 5
2. House (1977)
House is a Japanese comedy horror movie.
A young girl, upset over her father remarrying, invites six of her friends to say with her at her aunt’s house for the summer.
They don’t realise the house is haunted until it starts picking them off one by one.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 7.3 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
3. The Changeling (1980)
The Changeling is a supernatural psychological horror movie.
John is a composer who moves to Seattle after the deaths of his wife and daughter. He rents a mansion from Claire who’s an agent of the local historical society.
Not long after moving in, unexplained things start to happen. He hears a loud banging every morning and one night he finds all the taps turned on and sees the ghost of a drowned boy in a bathtub.
John and Claire start to investigate the history of the house and hold a seance to work out who the ghost is. They discover that the ghost is a sickly boy who was murdered by his father over a large inheritance.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 7.2 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
4. Hell House LLC (2015)
Hell House LLC is a found-footage horror movie.
A documentary crew investigates an unexplained accident at a haunted house attraction that left fifteen tour-goers and all crew members dead except for one.
They track down the surviving staff member who gives them film footage shot in the lead-up to the tragedy.
The attraction was set in an abandoned hotel in the small town of Abaddon in the state of New York. After the crew sets up at the old hotel, strange things start to happen to each of them but the CEO of the company is determined to get the story, no matter what.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 6.4 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.1 out of 5
5. Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)
Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell is a Japanese horror movie also known as ‘The Japanese Evil Dead’.
Bodybuilder Shinji agrees to help his ex-girlfriend with her research on haunted houses. Accompanied by a psychic, they visit an abandoned house that was once owned by Shinji’s father.
They find themselves trapped in the house, tormented by a ghost with a thirty-year grudge.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 6.4 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
6. House (1985)
House is a supernatural comedy horror movie.
Horror author Roger Cobb moves into his dead aunt’s house following her death. His only son has disappeared, his wife has left him, and he wants to write a story about his experiences in the Vietnam war instead of another horror novel.
After moving in, he starts to have graphic nightmares and strange things haunt him while he’s awake. His neighbour won’t help, there’s a monster in the closet, and gremlins try to kidnap a child he’s reluctantly babysitting. What else could go wrong?
Star Ratings
IMDB: 6.1 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
7. The Amityville Horror (2005)
The Amityville Horror is a supernatural horror movie based on the book of the same name by Jay Anson. This is technically the ninth movie in the Amityville Horror franchise and is a remake of the original 1979 movie.
In 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his family at their house in Amityville, New York. He claimed that voices in the house persuaded him to do it.
In 1975, the Lutz family moves into the house and they start to experience paranormal events. Things escalate and they ask a priest to bless the house but he flees in terror when he encounters inexplicable things too.
The family lasts 28 days before they also flee for their lives.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 5.9 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.7 out of 5
8. House on Haunted Hill (1999)
House on Haunted Hill is a supernatural thriller horror movie.
Five strangers arrive at Evelyn’s birthday party, which is being staged in a long-abandoned psychiatric institute. None of the people who turn up was invited and neither Evelyn nor her husband knows any of them.
But they decide to continue with the advertised party theme anyway: any guest who remains in the building until morning will receive $1 million and a share of the $1 million forfeited by any guest that flees.
When the building’s security system is mysteriously tripped, everyone is locked in.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 5.6 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.6 out of 5
9. Winchester (2018)
Winchester is a supernatural horror movie.
Sarah Winchester is the widow of gun manufacturer William Winchester. Grieving for her husband and daughter, she’s convinced she’s cursed by the ghosts of those who’ve died through the use of Winchester guns.
She seeks advice from a psychic and then begins to build a huge mansion in San Jose. The house is under constant construction and, in 1906, the Winchester company hires a doctor to stay at the house and assess Sarah’s fitness to remain in charge of the company.
However, the doctor is also grieving the death of his wife, and he witnesses things he initially puts down to his own drug use. It soon becomes clear that something paranormal is happening.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 5.4 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.4 out of 5
10. The Unnamable (1988)
The Unnamable is a supernatural horror movie based on the HP Lovecraft short story of the same name.
In the late-eighteenth century, Joshua Winthrop rushes through his house while something within it is screaming and banging on the walls. He opens a heavy door but is killed by whatever is in the room.
Randolph Carter is telling Howard and Joel, two of his university mates, about the Winthrops. They’re sitting in the graveyard surrounding the Winthrop house and Joel suggests that they all stay in the house overnight. Randolph and Howard leave Joel alone in the house and he doesn’t return.
A group of students decides to visit the house and they find themselves stalked by whatever is in Winthrop House. Howard convinces Randolph that they need to go back to the house and find Joel.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 4.8 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.1 out of 5
11. Dark House (2009)
Dark House is a supernatural horror movie.
Janet Darrode ran a foster home until she murdered all the children and killed herself.
Fourteen years later, Claire is seeing a therapist over an experience she had in the house. Her therapist suggests she revisit the Old Darrode House but she can’t bring herself to go past the gate.
A horror mogul turns up in her acting class, says he’s converted the house into a horror attraction, and he wants the class to work as hosts there.
Claire sees it as an opportunity to work through her issues since she’ll be safely surrounded by her peers.
Claire is wrong.
Star Ratings
IMDB: 4.8 out of 10 | Amazon: 4.3 out of 5
Published: 14 October 2022
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