5 Worst Haunted House Movies
Is there a scarier horror movie setting than a haunted house? So much is here: spirits who have unfinished business, characters who have no idea what's going on, and someone who wants to investigate (and, naturally, a few people who are skeptical). But even though this is often the perfect locations for a scary story, not every film set in a house with ghosts is as frightening as it should be.
Over the past few decades, there have been plenty of haunted house horror films, but only a few stick out as having well-crafted scripts and surprising moments. There are a few movies that follow the basic formula of this subgenre but they're all missing something.
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Cold Creek Manor has a star-studded cast and a premise that fans have seen before: the Tilson family moves into a mansion in the country. Leah (Sharon Stone) and Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) think that this will be the perfect place to raise their kids Jesse (Ryan Wilson) and Kristen (Kristen Stewart). The only problem? Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) used to live there, and oh yeah, he's just come out of prison. But the Tilsons shouldn't worry because Dale seems sweet.
Unlike other movies starring Kristen Stewart, this one doesn't show off her acting skills very well, as she isn't given a lot of opportunity to prove her talent. The movie is flat and it takes a long time for anything to happen, and it's obvious from the start that Dale is meant to be the villain here. When a movie makes the «bad guy» that clear, fans wish that there would be more real clues and red herrings.
Kristen Stewart also stars in The Messengers which is one of the worst horror movies from the 2000s. The plot is actually very similar to Cold Creek Manor's: the
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