The Zorba family, which is in financial dire straights, inherits a haunted house from their reclusive uncle but they must live in it in order to keep it. The house contains the deceased uncle's collection of ghosts which he was able to see with his special ghost goggles and process for capturing them.
Soon after moving into the haunted house, the family is playing with a ouija board that they find and they get contacted by their first spirit. At certain times throughout the movie, the audience is instructed to put on the ghost viewers and the screen turns a bluish color while the ghosts show up in a translucent red color. The housekeeper is played by Margaret Hamilton and she tries to help the family discover the secrets of the house and the ghosts within.
This is a fun old haunted house movie filled with ghosts, an old mansion and a "Leave it to Beaver" style family that tries to survive the terrors they encounter.
The Lambert family: dad Josh (Wilson), mom Renai (Byrne) and sons Dalton (Simpkins) and Foster (Astor) are haunted by the spirit world. We learn from Josh's mom, Lorraine (Hershey) that Josh has been haunted since he was a child by certain spirits that would show up in photos with him. Josh was hypnotized by ghost investigator Elise Rainier (Shaye) when he was a child so he would forget about those experiences. Unfortunately, Josh's son Dalton has similar abilities of astral projection which allows his spiritual body to go to "The Further" which is a place in the spirit world where tormented souls never move on.
In "Insidious", Dalton gets lost in the Further and Josh has to go after him, facing all his childhood fears head on. He rescues him and brings something back with him.
"Insidious Chapter 2" takes place immediately after the events in chapter 1. Elise's two assistant investigators, Specs and Tuker, have returned, bringing a bit of comedy amongst all the horrors found within the film.
The Insidious movies are not gory like James Wan's "Saw" movies. They are scary chillers that return to the style of old fashioned horror movies by building tension, providing eerie atmosphere and jump out of your seat scares. If you enjoy a good ghost story, check these movies out.
"Crooked House" (2008) is a British made for TV miniseries that was shown in three episodes. It is a trio of ghost stories centered around the same cursed house called Geap Manor, starring Lee Ingleby, Mark Gatiss and Derren Brown.
The first story is called "The Wainscoting" about an 18th century greedy rich man who makes a fortune on the backs of the local working folk and has purchased, renovated and moved into Geap Manor, the local "haunted house". He soon gets more than he bargained for when the house's walls start to haunt him.
"Something Old" is the second story that takes place in Geap Manor in the 1920s. A lavish costume party is taking place and the owner's grandson announces his engagement to a local woman. The grandmother is not pleased because there is some secret from her past that is haunting the halls of the house and will soon affect her grandson.
"The Knocker" is the final story which takes place in the present with Ben, the main character who found Geap Manor's door knocker in his suburban home that sits on the site of the old Manor. In addition to finding out more about Geap Manor, he discovers a doorway into the past where he sees what created the evil that continues to surround the house and the land it sits upon.
You can find these all together as one movie and it is a fantastic series of haunted house and ghost stories to keep you more than sufficiently scared!
James “Jamie” Findlay (Euan Douglas) is a
school teacher who inherits his family’s ancestral estate, Baldurrock House, in
the remote Scottish Highlands when his estranged mother dies. She also leaves him a letter reminding him of
the reason he left the home and why he must never return there. Upon reading the letter, Jamie’s subconscious
memories start to surface and he is once again being haunted by his past.
James discusses his mother’s death and his growing concern about
his past with his childhood friend and coworker, Allen Milton (Jamie Gordon)
who assures him he is just going through the grief of losing his mother. We also discover Allen is going through
his own trials with the illness of his father.
To discover what is behind his long lasting terror, James returns
to his childhood home, a large, old mansion in the remote Scottish countryside. Upon his arrival he meets Eve “Evie” Turner
(Lexy Hulme), a beautiful young American woman who has been staying on the
estate. Evie is quite striking and
extremely friendly and she quickly attracts the adoration of the lonely and increasingly
terrified Jamie. She helps him with his
investigation to get to the root of his terror.
Lurking on the estate is a tall, eerie, quite dapperly attired figure
with an oversized owl head and long talons for its fingers. What is the significance of this creature
that Jamie knows he has seen in his childhood and adult nightmares? The depth of his terror builds as he uncovers
the truth of what happened at Baldurrock House and what is yet to happen.
Director, Lawrie Brewster, has endeavored to
make his film "Lord of Tears" in the vein of classic British chillers
like "The Wicker Man", "The Haunting" and "The
Innocents". The multi-talented,
Sarah Daly not only penned the screenplay, she also wrote and performed some of
the hauntingly beautiful vocal pieces on the soundtrack as musical artist Metaphorest.
Lawrie Brewster - Director
After working hard to make a polished
horror film that created a unique and uncanny antagonist, the Owl Man, which drew
inspiration from classic mythology and lore, ancient history and modern legends,
the dynamic duo of Lawrie Brewster and Sarah Daly have been working overtime over
the last year to get this film released. They conducted a highly
successful Kickstarter campaign, found additional funding and formed their new
production company,Hex
Mediaand along with producing
partner, Dark Dunes Productions, successfully
released the film this month.
Sarah Daly - Writer
Certain scenes from “Lord of Tears” will remain with you long
after first viewing. The wonderfully
talented and beautiful Lexy Hume steals the show in some of her scenes
especially her scene where Evie is performing an extravagant dance for Jamie in
the main room. Evie’s classic beauty is
featured most in the scene where Jamie is in the swimming pool and she enters
down the spiral staircase to join him – with the haunting melodies and vocals that
Sara Daly (Metaphorest) has provided, the scene really shines. The scenes of Moloch, the Owl Man, are truly
eerie and the first time Jamie sees him appear in the forest brought chills down
my spine.
“Lord of Tears” is a supernatural and psychological thriller that
knows how to build suspense and terror. With
very little blood, lots of uncanny imagery, characters we care about and a house
that is a character in itself, the filmmakers were able to craft a very scary
film which reminds me of the atmospheric horror chillers of my youth that I have
always enjoyed the most in the horror genre.
If you enjoy classic horror movies that immerse you into eerie atmosphere and build an uncanny sense of suspense, check out “Lord of Tears” – you won’t be disappointed.
"Lord of Tears" had its World Premiere on 10/25/2013 at theBram Stoker International Film Festival. You can order the special collector’s edition DVD or Bluray, soundtrack CD and other Owl Man goodies direct from the Hex Media's website.
Professor David Ash (Quinn) is an American living and teaching in post World War I England. He has written a book debunking ghosts and the supernatural. He receives a letter from elderly Nanny Tess who lives at Edbrook estate with the Mariell family- siblings Christina, Robert and Simon, begging him to visit to help her figure out what is haunting her at the estate.
David goes to Edbrook and discovers that the three Mariell siblings have a rather peculiar relationship. They seem a little too close. David takes a liking to the highly flirtatious Christina much to the dismay of overbearing older brother Robert. None of the family believes what Nanny is seeing is real. David doesn't at first but little by little he starts to also see and encounter unexplained phenomena on the estate. He also starts to see sightings of his twin sister who died when he was young. Is he haunted by something at the house or just haunted by events in his past?
This is a great haunted house movie. Lots of roaming around the large mansion and estate. There is a good scary atmosphere throughout and it will keep you in suspense until the unexpected end.
Brilliant and erratic Peter Brock (Bryant) leads a research team for Ryan Electronics. The team is trying to discover the next storage medium other than cassette tape. The scientists and computer programmers include Jill Greeley (Asher) who immediately takes a dislike to the house. When they go to see the progress of the storage room, they find out from Roy Collinson (Cuthbertson) that the workers wouldn't finish it because they were scared of something. Jill immediately starts hearing screams and calls for help and seeing visions. She eventually convinces the others that there's something in that stone room.
Jill feeds the information into a computer program she has developed and comes to believe that what is seen and heard in that room is a psychic impression that is encoded on the stone walls. Peter believes this to be the discovery they have been waiting for and diverts the team's resources to studying this phenomenon and trying to figure out how to apply it to something they can sell. In his zeal for success, he drives the rest of the team toward madness.
"The Stone Tape" is a pretty good TV movie about not your typical haunted house. It even tries to explain using scientific theory how hauntings occur. It's characters are pretty good and it's good to see a brilliant female lead in a scientific/technical role.
"The Conjuring" (2013) starring Vera
Farmiga, Patrick
Wilson, Lili
Taylor and Ron
Livingston is based on the true case records of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. It's the truly frightening account of the haunting of the Perron family's old country house in Rhode Island.
The Perron family, Carolyn (Taylor) & Roger (Livingston) and their five daughters, moves from the big city to an old farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island. Not long after arriving, strange things start happening that no one can explain. The family dog won't go into the house. All the clocks stop at 3:07 each morning. The youngest daughter starts talking to a friend only she can see. Another daughter keeps having her feet grabbed in the middle of the night. Carolyn wakes up each morning with new bruises on her body. Plus, the family discovers a boarded up door to the cellar filled with an old piano and other furniture and cast offs from previous families. The hauntings continue to escalate until the family with no one else to turn to, seeks the help of demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Ed (Wilson) and Lorraine (Farmiga) Warren are a husband wife team of psychic and supernatural researchers who have solved many so called hauntings and documented some real ones too. Lorraine is a clairvoyant who can sense spirits. The Warren's initial investigation into the Perron home leads them to believe it needs an exorcism to get rid of the bad spirit that haunts the house after deaths there centuries ago. In order to convince the Catholic church to conduct an exorcism, they must gather documented evidence of the haunting or possession. It is that investigation that takes place during the movie.
"The Conjuring" is a real old fashioned type of haunted house, supernatural horror movie that uses all the types of scares one would expect and much more. The tension slowly builds as the hauntings escalate and the use of scary sounds, sights and atmosphere add to the general creepiness of this movie. If you are in the mood for a good haunted house ghost story without all the blood and gore, check this movie out. You won't be disappointed and you will definitely be scared!
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