The genre goes right back to 1927 (The Cat and the Canary), through The Amityville Horror, The Shining, and The Others; four high-profile haunted-house movies have come out just this year. Why does a trope that seems so hackneyed retain such power?
The genre goes right back to 1927 (The Cat and the Canary), through The Amityville Horror, The Shining, and The Others; four high-profile haunted-house movies have come out just this year. Why does a trope that seems so hackneyed retain such power?