Films in the following century, like The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Old Dark House (1932), and Rebecca (1940), certainly presented creepy, decrepit manors, but their walls were haunted by ...

While haunted-house films like the 1992 Indian supernatural thriller Raat have long conjured dread by adopting the POV of the evil presence intermittently as it prowls through the house, spies on ...

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’ opens this weekend. We’ve rounded up 17 of the best in the genre, many of which Soderbergh draws from in his take on the haunted-house movie.