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- It (2017) There are a couple of basement scenes worth noting in It (2017), with both Denbrough brothers venturing into the deep dark abyss at one point throughout the plot.
- The Conjuring (2013) The Conjuring. R. March 20, 2013. James Wan. Cast. Vera Farmiga , Patrick Wilson , Lili Taylor , Ron Livingston , Shanley Caswell , Hayley McFarland.
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Silence of the Lambs. R. February 1, 1991. Jonathan Demme. Cast. Jodie Foster , Scott Glenn , Anthony Hopkins , Ted Levine , Brooke Smith , Anthony Heald.
- Barbarian (2022) Barbarian. R. September 9, 2022. Zach Cregger. Cast. Georgina Campbell , Bill Skarsgard , Justin Long , Richard Brake.
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- Martyrs. In Pascal Laugier's 2008 French philosophical horror movie Martyrs, young Lucie escapes from an abandoned building where she's been tortured for months.
- Silence of the Lambs. There are two serial killers featured in Silence of the Lambs, but only one of them has the honor of keeping one of the creepiest basements in horror movie history.
- The Amityville Horror. The Amityville Horror is based on the true story of Ronald DeFeo Jr., who murdered his whole family in their home in Amityville, New York — and the Lutz family, who later moved in and claimed the home was haunted by ghosts as well as a demonic presence.
- The Evil Dead. Let's go for a weekend at our cabin, they said. It'll be fun, they said. But for Ash and his friends in The Evil Dead, a weekend in the woods turns into a gory fight for survival after they find a Necronomicon in the cabin's basement and a tape-recorded message that releases a contagious demon entity who's been trapped down there for a long, long time.
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- Parasite. The Oscar-winning Parasite follows the Kims, a low-income family whose members successively con their way into service jobs working for a wealthy clan, without revealing they're related.
- The People Under the Stairs. Director Wes Craven delivered one of his wildest, weirdest works with the 1991 horror comedy The People Under the Stairs.
- The Boy. The Boy is about a young woman named Greta who is hired to be the nanny for what she thinks will be a little boy. In reality, her employers task her with caring for a life-sized porcelain doll named Brahms.
- I See You. A child abduction is at the center of I See You. A 10-year-old boy has gone missing, and Greg Harper is the detective on the case.
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Redditor auroredawn22 recommended "The Resident," which tells the story of Juliet Devereau who begins living in an apartment that she rents from Max, who seems mysterious but nice enough. Juliet has left her husband and is still figuring out the way that she feels about while hoping that a new location will give her a fresh start. The terror comes from the fact that someone is spying on Juliet and it turns out that her apartment is incredibly creepy as she can be watched through a special mir...
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When horror fans think about characters living in a rental that gives them the creeps, the film's tone is usually serious, but there are some goofy stories with this location. Redditor geengaween mentioned Botched as a good pick for a movie about a scary apartment. The fan wrote, "it's about a secret floor on a high rise building that contains the lair of a mass murderer. It's cheesy and silly but Stephen Dorff is a good actor." Botched maintains a sense of humor about its story, which focuse...
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Redditor geengaween suggested The Toolbox Murders, writing that it's a "Tobe Hooper film about a serial killer who lives in the walls of an old apartment building. It's not absolutely fantastic but it's worth a watch." Since many horror films about old, crumbling apartment complexes focus on the dismal appearance of the place, along with the supernatural things happening there, The Toolbox Murders features a different plotline. It's awful to imagine living in the same place as a killer and ev...
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1BR tells the story of Sarah, who rents an apartment and then learns that a cult lives in her new building. Redditor Steviebelladonnasuggested it and wrote, "Great movie but wish it'd been a bit longer, they should have explored the cult aspects more and expanded a bit on what happened to some other characters but generally it's a really good watch." 1br has one of the scariest horror movie cultsand Sarah realizes how hard it will be to get away from her evil new neighbors. The film has been...
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While the first film in the Poltergeist franchise often gets all of the attention, particularly thanks to the memorable scene of Carol Anne Freeling drawn to the TV by the house's spirits, the third movie has an apartment that is absolutely creepy. Redditor stevensi1018 wrote that this is "Probably one my favorite location in horror movies" and recommended Poltergeist 3. Carol Anne begins living with her aunt and uncle in a Chicago apartment building, and it's clear from the start that the gh...
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One Redditor recommended "Rosemary's Baby," which is definitely the most famous movie about a creepy apartment building. Rosemary Woodhouse is excited to make a home with her husband Guy, especially when they find out that they're expecting their first child. They have barely furnished and decorated the place when Rosemary begins having strange experiences and feeling sick. The old-fashioned New York City apartment building has dread-inducing hallways and even from the outside, it doesn't loo...
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One Redditor recommended the 2007 movieRECas a "really nice surprise I saw recently" and "takes place in an apartment complex." The fan added, "I strongly recommend." When a journalist named Ángela Vidal covers a big story, she enters a building where the residents keep getting a mysterious illness and then becomes part of the horror herself. Rec is one of the scariest Spanish filmsand the movie paints a really detailed picture of what it's like for the characters to get sick and turn into zo...
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When replying in a thread about horror films with apartment settings, Redditor AlwaysThatOneGuy wrote, "The Tenantis #1, one of the scariest movies of all time." The main character, Trelkovsky, moves into a Paris apartment with a tragic past. The Tenant has a mysterious tone as audiences are eager for Trelkovsky to learn more about the place that he is now calling home. This ends up being a nightmare rental as Trelkovsky gets sick, someone steals from his place, and he keeps getting noise com...
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While movies about haunted houses can vary in quality, it's still fun to see all of the supernatural problems that characters can run into when they move to a new place. Seeing a haunted apartment is equally fun. Redditor Steviebelliedonna suggested Apartment 143 and wrote that the movie is about "A team of parapsychologists set out to investigate a series of strange phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment." One of the best supernatural horror movies, Apartment 143 features a tru...
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Moving into a new place can be stressful if there are noisy neighbors or if appliances break. One Redditor suggested "Dark Water," which sees a mother and daughter experiencing more than the average frustrations when moving into a apartment building. Both the Japanese film from 2002 and the American remake from 2005 feature the same storyline. While some water damage on the ceiling happens in older buildings, Dark Water takes this to another level and Yoshimi and Dahlia find themselves learni...
The Evil Under the House (Basement horror movies) by Oslo_Jargo • Created 1 year ago • Modified 1 week ago. “She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.” Norman Bates (actor Anthony Perkins) Psycho (1960) ”The Three Mothers rule the world with sorrow, tears and darkness.
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Apr 26, 2021 · Basements are already terrifying enough without seeing them in a horror film. Most normal basements are dark, smell terribly musty and old, and are definitely infested with spiders, bugs, rats,...
Oct 28, 2021 · Any time you see someone go into a basement in a horror movie, chances are they’re going to end up in a pretty spooky experience. However, if you really want a chilling experience, you’re going to need to seek out the absolute best movies that also happen to have horrifying basements in them.
