I'm kinda on a roll with this Thursday Movie Picks stuff. And now, we're coming into my wheelhouse. It's October. That means 31 Days of Horror is starting up here on the blog. I know, I know, last year was a disaster. I'll do better this year. I just can't promise all 31 days...yet.
Anyhoo, this week's topic, chosen by the leader of this undead mob, Wanderer at Wandering Through the Shelves, is horror movie houses. I think I can handle this.
Lots of horror movies play with the idea of a house being somehow alive. Monster House goes the extra mile. This house really is alive. It quite literally seems to be eating neighborhood kids. Of course, this fascinates 12 year old D.J., who lives across the street. Him and his friends spend the movie trying to get to the bottom of this mystery.
In this underrated flick, the house isn't so much alive as it is harboring the past. In that sense, it's not haunted like most horror houses, yet it feels exactly like it is. What separates this from your run of the mill haunted house movie is the reason behind it all.
This is one of the most unique haunted house movies of all-time. It's told from the point of view of the ghost, which has been done before. The twist is that we're with this ghost throughout the history of the house. Families come and go and the house goes through changes. In the end, we get a melancholy love story.
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