Old dark house movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant old dark house movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful, spooky, slasher and weird films and TV shows about / with old dark house, supernatural, ghost, haunted house, murder, blood, danger, haunted, death and house plots mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as old dark house: Deadly Manor (1990), Burnt Offerings (1976), The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Gretel & Hansel (2020), The Woman in Black (2012), The Baby's Room (2006), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Murder by Death (1976), Cookers (2001), Clue (1985).
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List of old dark house movies
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of teenagers take refuge in an old, deserted mansion. Soon the members of the group start turning up dead, and the teenagers realize that they're not alone in the mansion.
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
old dark house, motorcycle gang, haunted house, nudity, stopped by police, female nudity, motorcycle, murder, masked killer, haunted, death, friendship ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Style:
gothic, scary, sexy, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, old dark house, macabre, haunted, psychosis, losing-it hero, obsession, mansion, old woman, haunted house, cemetery, possession ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Style:
scary, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, demonic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, old dark house, supernatural horror, mysterious past, addiction, haunted, sibling relationship, past coming back to haunt, haunted castle, supernatural, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A long time ago 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.
Style:
dark, fairy tale, dark fantasy, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
witch, witchcraft, folk horror, old dark house, forest, danger, woods, good versus evil, black magic, medieval, supernatural power, blood ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, dark, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, estate, isolation, afterlife, revenge, old dark house, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror, supernatural, folk horror, ghost child ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 1900s, year 2012, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When Juan's sister and her husband visit the couple, they give ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, spooky, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, old dark house, supernatural horror, paranormal, family in danger, family problems, obsession, parallel world, missing child, mind game, haunted, baby ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales ...
Style:
scary, enigmatic, spooky, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children, adult
Plot:
urban legend, halloween, small town, teenager, haunted, old dark house, haunted house, monster, scarecrow, ghost, fear, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Style:
gothic, suspense, suspenseful, dark, intense ...
Plot:
haunted house, creature, child in peril, deadly creature, supernatural, old dark house, parents and children, danger, monster, supernatural horror, hearing voices, little girl ...
Time:
year 2000, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are ...
Style:
parody, spoof, surprise ending, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
murder, whodunit, private detective, butler, who done it, old mansion, dark and stormy night, old dark house, murder mystery, satire, riddles and clues, mansion ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century, 1930s
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
old dark house, hallucination, addiction, drug abuse, woods, ghost, supernatural, couples, life is a bitch, drug dealing, experiment, methamphetamine ...
Time:
21st century
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121K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style:
parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
whodunit, twists and turns, butler, murder, murder mystery, multiple suspects, mansion, old dark house, investigation, mystery killer, blackmail, murder investigation ...
Time:
year 1954, 90s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
new england
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Angela, the universe's most unpleasant party crasher, returns! Angela's sister, Mouse, is taken by her bullying Catholic school classmates to a party at Angela's favorite haunt, and before long, everybody's being turned into ...
Style:
sexy, slasher, scary, demonic, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, demonic possession, demon, old dark house, monster, halloween party, holy water, lesbianism, sex, haunted, fear, psychopath ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, massacre, cannibalism, chainsaw, masked killer, murder, homicidal maniac, psychopath, danger, macabre, killer, maniac ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1973
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, north america
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim ...
Style:
gothic, medical horror, scary, suspenseful, lovecraft ...
Plot:
old dark house, mad scientist, monster, supernatural, mutant, paranoid, experiment gone awry, cosmic horror, danger, fiancee, cthulhu, man eating plant ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set one year after the events of Hell House LLC II, the hotel is on the verge of being torn down when it is purchased by billionaire Russell Wynn as the new home for his popular interactive show, Insomnia. He invites journalist Venessa Sheppard and ...
Style:
mockumentary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
hotel, found footage, halloween, interview, old dark house, killer clown, clown, ghost, fire, supernatural horror, supernatural, motel ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
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107K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Three siblings who move into their ancestral estate after their father's gruesome murder discover their new home's magical keys, which must be used in their stand against an evil creature who wants the keys and their powers.
Style:
captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, spooky ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, magic, siblings, family bonds, small town, supernatural power, demon, puzzle, old dark house, father, murder, good versus evil ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
nova scotia, massachusetts
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
Style:
slasher, controversial, suspenseful, slasher horror, scary ...
Plot:
clown, child in peril, home invasion, circus, childhood trauma, brother brother relationship, evil clown, killer clown, boy, old dark house, chase, bully ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
John has inherited a castle and Italy and he moves there with his wife Susan and their blind daughter Rebecca. What they don't realize is that there is somebody else in the castle. An abused child left to die in the basement who has now become ...
Style:
lovecraft, scary, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, haunted house, cannibalism, violence, blindness, brutality, freak, monster, inheritance, macabre, murder, redemption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two rival reporters compete for the story.
Style:
parody, not serious, suspenseful, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
dark and stormy night, ghost, murder, mysterious character, who done it, characters killed one by one, seance, old dark house, journalism, estate, last will and testament, mad woman ...
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Biography, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Firearm heiress Sarah Winchester is convinced that she is haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she throws herself into the construction of an enormous mansion ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, spooky, demonic, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunted, curse, old dark house, supernatural horror, fictional biography, widower, seeing dead people, widow, supernatural, doctor ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save ...
Style:
parody, scary, humorous, satirical, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
old dark house, vampire, supernatural, haunted house, nothing goes right, monster, book, transformation, curse, little boy, satire, danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
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108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doll, haunted house, supernatural, plot twist, haunted, violence, nanny, mansion, old dark house, macabre, murder, governess ...
Time:
year 2016, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
england, america, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
Style:
scary, gothic, demonic, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, demon, halloween, gory, demonic possession, killed during sex, dark humor, teenager, voyeur, supernatural, old dark house, halloween party ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried, people ...
Style:
splatter, scary, spooky, cult horror, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, old dark house, supernatural horror, ghost, supernatural, elevator, death, haunted, exorcism, possession, demon, car accident ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. ...
Style:
slasher, scary, cult horror, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mannequin, serial killer, psychopath, insanity, murder, psychic, fear, group of friends, masked man, chase, old dark house, blood ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
British remake of the classic comedy thriller play. A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
Style:
psychotronic, horror comedy, slasher, erotic, queer horror ...
Plot:
old dark house, lesbian, house, black cat, haunted house, mysticism, woman in danger, murder, supernatural, danger, investigation, mysterious character ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 1900s, 1930s, year 1934 ...
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159K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style:
sweet, fairy tale, light, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
friendship, halloween, ghost, haunted house, single father, supernatural, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, teenage girl, mischievous children, daughter ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s
Place:
maine, new england, usa, new mexico, santa fe new mexico
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55K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
Plot:
ghost, blindness, blind woman, psychic, murder of wife, mannequin, home renovation, old dark house, mental patient, flashback, medium, murder ...
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental ...
Style:
surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, female nudity, pregnancy, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, housekeeper, elevator, kitten, mirror, insanity, orphan ...
Time:
year 1958, 1950s, year 1946, post world war two, year 2004 ...
Place:
alps, france, europe
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