The Spiral Staircase (1946), The Old Dark House (1932), Candleshoe (1977), The Beast With Five Fingers (1946), The Skeleton Key (2005), Doctor X (1932), Mousehunt (1997), Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Old House movies.
Storyline: In 1916, beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for elderly, ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two adult sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. Warren becomes concerned for Helen's safety when a rash of murders involving 'women with afflictions' hits the neighborhood. She implores her physician, Dr. Parry, to take Helen away for her own safety. When another murder occurs inside the Warren mansion, it becomes obvious that Helen is in danger.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, film noir, horror, psychological thriller, crime, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, malevolent sister Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases the long pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy the residence by setting it on fire.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, thriller, gothic, dark, storm, family secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!—David A Sparling <d.a.sparling@bradford.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, comedy, mystery, treasure hunt, british, disney ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, classic, 1940s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young hospice worker helping care for an invalid who lives in a remote mansion in the Louisiana bayous finds herself caught in the middle of morbid happenings centered around a group of Hoodoo practitioners.
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, thriller, supernatural, louisiana, paranormal, enigmatic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A monster lurks as New York newspaperman Lee Taylor investigates one of the "Moon Killer" murders, in which the victims are strangled, cannibalized and surgically incised under the light of the full moon. The trail leads to the cliffside mansion of Dr. Xavier, where the doctor and his colleagues conduct a strange experiment.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, mystery, science fiction, film noir, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A family film about a mouse that lives in an old house where the geriatric owner dies, and Ernie and Lars Smuntz have plans for, but they have trouble getting rid of the mouse. It's like Home Alone with a mouse.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, adventure, dark comedy, brotherhood, inheritance, chase ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Patricia Carroll arrives in London to get married with her fiancé Alan Glentower. However, the stubborn Pat decides to pay a visit in the country to Mrs. Trefoile, the mother of her former fiancé Stephen, who died in a car accident. Once there, the religious fanatic Mrs. Trefoile insists to Pat to stay overnight to go to the mass on the next morning. After going to the church, the naive Pat tells Mrs. Trefoile that she was not going to marry Stephen, triggering her insanity. Mrs. Trefoile abducts Pat to purify her sins and make her pure for her beloved son.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, crime, psychological thriller, film noir, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Katie McGovern is a struggling actress living with her husband and her student brother, who is visiting. She attends an audition that she found in the paper and is selected to shoot a short video which will be sent to the director for his approval. Mr. Murray, the man holding the audition, picks Katie up and takes her to a remote mansion where they shoot the video. Katie is selected to replace the previous lead in the film who looks remarkably like her. Soon, however, things begin to look as if they are not what they seem. Katie soon realizes she is in danger and attempts escape.—Brian D. Switzer <bswitzer@uoguelph.ca>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, horror, crime, psychological, film noir, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, crime, film noir, murder, detective, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later, Susannah Whately Kelton (Carol Lynley), now married, persuades her husband to spend a vacation in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike Kelton (Gig Young) soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan (Oliver Reed), Susannah's brutal cousin.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, suspense, psychological horror, supernatural, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, crime, film noir, murder, detective, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young girl is sent to live with her estranged father and his girlfriend at their new home. The father, Alex has plans to spruce up the home with the help of his interior decorator girlfriend, Kim. The previous owner of the home was a famous painter who mysteriously disappeared. Alex's daughter, Sally, soon discovers the cause of the painter's disappearance.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, dark fairy tale, supernatural, monsters, child protagonist, family secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jane Hardy decides to stay the summer in the house her aunt left her when she died, to try and recoup from a bad divorce. Little does she know, her aunt practiced witchcraft and is still thought of very badly by the town's citizens. As soon as she moves in, she is haunted by a old black hearse and its creepy driver. Is she going insane or is she truly being menaced? She meets a friendly young man and becomes involved with him, but is he and the creepy driver one and the same?—<VRSC26B@PRODIGY.COM>
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, psychological thriller, paranormal, ghosts, haunting, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a remake of the 1940s film, Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, horror, crime, psychological, murder, detective ...
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