Poetry: Haunted houses

Haunted Houses

There’s no ghost,

in this house of mine.

Just a haunted past,

that scares my mind.

And there was that time,

when I begged you to leave,

you took the car,

then you came back in a week.

You threatened my life,

and before you actually tried,

I informed the police,

and they still took your side.

I don’t like the fact,

when I walk through the door,

I remember the day,

you left blood on the floor.

The books and the T.V.’s,

and the mirrors and such,

breaking and throwing these,

you had so much luck.

So this house that scares me so,

is haunted because you didn’t want me to go,

But too bad, I left anyways,

This house that’s haunted,

because of those days.

Great movies about haunted houses – Part 6

What was that knocking? And where is that groaning coming from? I would have to say “The Haunting” is the basis for the ultimate haunted house, by far. There is no other house that could come close to it. Not even the 1999 remake could triumphantly come near to the original movie set in 1963 starring Julie Harris, Clair Bloom, Richard Johnson, Fay Compton, and Russ Tamblyn.

A superb novel written by Shirley Jackson is about a doctor with students who goes to study the unsettling disturbance of ghost inhabiting a majestic place called Hill House, which once belonged to a wealthy man, a mean tyrant who labored children at a workhouse, and winds up killing them. Well it is said that this wealthy man didn’t leave, die, happily. Not only is his anger more vivid in the house, but so is his presence. Poltergeist plays dramatically in this 1963 version “The Haunting.” Even with little gore, its ability of scaring you without all the blood and gore can be produced. You don’t need a special effects team to show the magnitude of fear.

The actors proved worthy, each of them, when the rapping’s from the ceilings were heard, the pouncing of the walls, the rattling of the doors, and the hideous giggles from beyond the dooroutside, waiting for them, to open that door and see the horror which hides in the darkness gloating. They didn’t play with it; they knew it was stronger than them all, but yet they stayed within until it was through.

A course of chills kept running up and down my back what those poor people were going through, not just for me but seeing the actors petrifiedI knew it got to them too, and that’s acting. It’s really a high intense thriller. However in Shirley Jackson’s book at the end was the ultimate shocker, when Theo announces that she is homelesskicked out of her families house, living in a car she stole from her sister, all the while there’s a study about ghost going on and not the study about what condition one in the group is going through, and she without anybody’s knowledge finds her a home in a haunted house, and wants to stay with themthe ghost of all things. She feels at home with them and wants to stay at Hill House. Now that blew me away.

By far both the book and the movie were both phenomenal. One must give it a read and a look.

Poetry: Haunted houses – Part 16

The walls of this house hold a secret

Things happened in here you wont forget

The chill when you walk in a room

Will surely make you face your doom

The squeaky sound walking down the hall

Making sure you look so you don’t fall

Wondering what happened in this house

At time being as quite as a mouse

Seeing things every now and then

Afraid to ever see them again

Great movies about haunted houses – Part 2

What is the Horror movie genre’s favorite and most easiest set-up? The haunted house. In a horror movie, the haunted house sets the scene for most anything to happen: ghosts, crazy people living under the stairs, dead bodies reappearing, etc. And haunted house movies are personally my favorites of all the types of horror movies. That being said, there are many to choose from but I will share my two of my personal favorites.

The Shining (1980) is the king-daddy of all haunted house movies. Although it is set in a hotel (imagine a really big house), the story is highly unsettling with a realistic-feeling. Based on a short story by horror author Stephen King, it was director Stanley Kubrick who’s vision brilliantly translated the story to the screen. The storytelling is layered with such anticipation that it builds and builds until the climax when you are sure the main character Jack has gone mad.

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”…who hasn’t heard of that line? The plot is quite basic actually, a family becomes the caretakers for a hotel with an unusual dark history during the winter season while its closed. From there the movie takes on a realistic day by day feeling. The filming is more about what is not said and shown than what is and leads to horrifying results. *Spoliers* The scene where Jack is talking to the old caretaker, Jeeves, in the ballroom and the viewer comes to realize that everyone in the room dancing is dead, is extremely chilling. And the end where you see the picture from the 1920’s and finally realize that the caretaker has always been Jack and he’s always been there is just an amazing ending. The Shining is just a great example of a haunted house movie.

The AmityvilleHorror (originally 1979) is anotherfine example of a great movie about a haunted house. Based on a true story the film begins when a couple, just married, moves into a house in the country where the previous inhabitants were murdered. The family begins to experience strange manifestations that will drive them away. This movie was more recently remade with the same scary seventies vibe yet with better acting and special effects. The key to this movies success is the believability that it was based on a true story, that somewhere a family experienced a lot of what is in the movie. That makes it doubly spooky.

So, whether its these two great examples of Haunted House movies or two others, the horror genre will always rely on its old standby to scare viewers with the classic Haunted House.

Poetry: Haunted houses – Part 7

From the howls and screams in the dead of night,

To the creeks and whispers that give you a fright,

The flashers of light and the loud bangs there,

The ghosts that pop out to give you a scare,

The still of the clock as it stops it’s chime,

It’s hands frozen out of time,

Cold air flows through out the house,

The twisted staircase and a squeak of a mouse,

Haunted houses are full of magic,

If you want to get out, You have to be quick.

Poetry: Haunted houses – Part 9

Every night i shut my blinds

The haunted house is on my mind.

So i meditate to unwind.

Poetry: Haunted houses – Part 11

Haunted was the place

laughter and smiles erase

sent-feet to fast pace

and caressing embrace

as fear chased.

The night seemed out of place,

nothing there but hast…

someone was there,in that haunted place

A feeling without a face.

Great movies about haunted houses – Part 4

Thats a tough one there are so many great movies about haunted houses. So many that I can

t choose just one. Haunted houses are amazing and mysterious and totally spooky. Any movie with a haunted house is the bomb but its not the house it is the history of the house. A house is just building it is what goes on inside the building that makes it spooky.

Like the residents that reside there whither they are dead or alive.

The bloodier the history the more haunted the house.

Like if the house had been owned by a demon worshiping clan. Or if violence deaths had taken place there. Or if pieces of the house had been taken from graveyards, morgues, old churches anywhere were violence have taken place.

If it had been built over a graveyard etc, etc, etc.

Thirteen ghosts would fall under a lot of this examples I have stated above. The man who built the house was a demon worshiping loony. Then there was the violent deaths that had taken place there. Most of the ghosts had been transfered there by the loony mentioned above. Okay so there is no graveyard, morgues or old churches. It had to do with demons or at least opening the door to the demon world and the basement was nothing but a maze containing ghost being held against their wills.

A lot of people died in this unique house but not by the spirits who actually died in the house because not one of those ghosts died in the house they were transfered there but they did have violent deaths.

Everyone involved had a bloody history some bloodier then others.

What really made it haunted was that it was a gateway to hell and damnation and it was created by someone who thought they could control what would come out the other side.

The sad thing was that he hadn’t been able to control things on his side of the gateway and he played the ultimate price which was death and everything he had worked to accomplish fell apart.

It was sad the way he used his own flesh of blood.

He used his cousin and his cousin’s wife which was one of the ghosts he had capatured to power his gateway and it was the love for his cousin’s children that made him give himself to the darkness which was trying to escape into our world.

And the pain there was so much pain.

Poetry: Haunted houses – Part 5

Poetry: Haunted houses

So long ago it seems

I saw a dark, scary house in my dreams

Its very appearance would offend

Anyone who is a Christian my friend

Victorian design with bats in the belfry

Dirty and dingy, really not much to see

When I walked by last night

I saw something that gave me a terrible fright

I recognized that it was the house of a friend from long ago

A boy who died so young that I used to know

Walking hastily up the hill to the home

A presence was there with me as I roam

Near the old friend’s home that night

When I passed by the house I saw a light

It whizzed near my head and I heard a shout

A familiar voice telling me to get out

Blood rushed to my feet

I felt my heart beat

As fast as could I ran down the hill

Away from the house and my dead friend Bill

Great movies about haunted houses

There are a lot of scary movies out there these days. Many of them have one or two great scary moments during the movie that everyone remembers. However, when it comes down to the greatest scary “haunted house” movies it gets tricky. Some people look at the classic horror films as the ultimate thrill ride. When others may look at them and think they are boring and find that today’s films are the greatest. The way I look at it, horror is horror. If you can scare somebody in a film you’ve done a good job. I have worked in the Haunt industry for over a decade and have learned the tricks about scares.

I always had a thing for the movie “Halloween”. It is your classic, simple, eerie horror flick. Not only did that movie have one of the greatest scary characters in horror movie history BUT it had some of the newest touches of evil. There is a right way and a wrong way to shoot a film and I think Halloween was done the right way. The camera leads the audience on the edge of their seats thinking of where the boogie man was hiding. In addition to the scariness the theme music, the famous pail white John Doe masked face, the suspicion of where the boogie man was hiding, and the point that the boogie man could never die, SOLD!

Rob Zombie is currently working on the remake of “Halloween”. I expect it to be a decent remake. On that note, any film that is remade says a lot. For that someone liked the film enough to remake it into their own style.

Here are my top scary “haunted house” movies: (in no order)

*Halloween (1978)

*The Shining (1980)

*House of a Thousand Corpses (2003)

*Last House of the Left (1972)

*Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

*Friday the 13th (1980)

*Night of the Living Dead (1968)

*Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, 2003, 2006)

*Poltergeist (1982)

*Seven (1995)

*Saw Series (2004, 2005, 2006)

*The Grudge (2004)

*Hostel (2006)

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