Haunted Kate Beckinsale Film Where To Watch
Kellye Tunks
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
Kate Beckinsale Aidan Quinn Anthony Andrews John Gielgud Anna Massey Alex Lowe Geraldine Somerville Victoria Shalet Linda Bassett Liz Smith Peter England Alice Douglas Hilary Mason Edmund Moriarty Emily Hamilton
Qualitywise I am overrating this, but I've just always had a soft spot for this film. It's not up there with the best haunted house films but the slow burn, Aidan Quinn's captivating performance, the skincrawling relationship between the 3 siblings, the bonkers ending. Not to mention the fact it opens with a kid drowning (muahaha) and one of those phony seance scenes, well, what's not to love?!
This is a really sweet romantic film with a few great elements of gothic horror and haunting house tropes. Everyone does a great job with their performances and there's a nice eerie vibe that helps setting the tone a la The Haunting or The Innocents. Some of the special effects haven't aged that well, but a few of them were still pretty good.
A pretty horror film, that makes great use of it's English countryside and stately home locations, but forgets to be scary. Adapted from a James Herbert novel, Haunted sees a paranormal investigator, haunted by the accidental death of his twin sister, attempt to debunk the supernatural goings on in a Sussex manor house. It isn't atmospheric or scary in any way which, considering the impressive locations, is a massive crime. Kate Beckinsale's propensity for taking her clothes off perks up proceedings though.
A paranormal sceptic goes to an estate to investigate some ghostly goings on. If you cant see the bloody twist (and I use that loosely) then you must be in a different room wearing ear muffs and a balaclava.
Quinn has the charisma of a wet sock and Beckinsale is hot, but isnt given much meaninful to do besides bat her eyes and stand aside for the body double. This is standard English ghost house schlock, so you have a middling mystery, little to no scares, implied incest, and lots of hurrumphing. It's fine mainly because of a recognizable cast, but fails to deliver the spooky. Classics like The Innocents and The Uninvited or more recent fare like The Awakening and even last year's The Banishing all do it better.
Lewis Gilbert couldn't even be arsed to throw in any of the expected jump scares. Aside from the fact that all of these The Turn of the Screw-esque adaptations and incarnations are more or less the same, and also usually not very good, Gilbert just doesn't make any effort at all.
Its only selling point is 'Kate Beckinsale topless and nude a lot' although I personally enjoyed Liz Smith reprising her role from Bottom as a gypsy fortune teller. I was very upset she didn't tell Aidan Quinn she knew all about his nudey picture of Julia Somerville though.
Surprised how much I loved this one. Haunting, gripping and tense from start to finish. It's a little hammy and outdated at times, but I think it just lends to its charm. Some nice little twists and turns (some pretty obvious from the get-go), and maybe about 20-minutes too long, but over-all it's highly entertaining. Kate Beckinsale (I believe, her first role), is stellar!
American professor David Ash (Aidan Quinn) who has spent his life disproving paranormal events is called to the lavish Edbrook House in Sussex by three adult grandchildren, concerned by their grandmother's insistence that she is being haunted by ghosts. When David arrives he finds the trio to be fairly eccentric, and is especially taken by the beautiful Christina (Kate Beckinsale), who starts flirting with him almost immediately. Needless to say explaining the unexplainable is not so straightforward this time around.
From creaking floors to mysteriously open windows to figures looming in the dark shadows, the haunted house is one of the most hallowed tropes in horror. While the '90s is known for its psychological scary features, from The Silence of the Lambs to The Sixth Sense, the decade is also host to a plethora of good haunted house movies.
Many of these films have fallen by the wayside with the passage of time. Some for good reason: they are more cheesy than horrifying. However, the often visually appealing and character-driven haunted house features on this list deserve another day in the sun.
In 1992, the BBC pulled a fast one on viewers when it aired this mockumentary on Halloween night. Even though it was recorded in advance, Ghostwatch was marketed as a live television broadcast following a camera crew as they investigate the most haunted house in Britain.
Adapted from the 1959 novel by Richard Matheson, Stir of Echoes centers around the spirit of a teenage girl who haunts the homes and minds of her Chicago neighbors in her search for justice against those responsible for her death. Kevin Bacon stars as a phone lineman who opens up a special line of communication with the girl after undergoing hypnosis.
Between Bacon's stellar, genuine performance and director David Koepp's ability to build suspense, Stir of Echoes is a first-rate ghost story. It also functions as a thrilling psychodrama set in a working-class neighborhood.
Set in 1928, Haunted follows an American professor who travels to a British estate to investigate alleged paranormal occurrences there. Aidan Quinn plays the professor, a debunker of the supernatural who is dead set proving the hauntings a hoax.
However, when he arrives at Edbrook House outside Sussex, his skepticism quickly subsides once he gets a taste of what's really happening there. A young Kate Beckinsale co-stars as Christina Mariell, one of the estate's inheritors who develops a romance with Quinn's character David Ash.
This eccentric addition to the Amityville Horror franchise is a surreal, acerbic nightmare about an architect who brings a click from the original Amityville house into his living room. The possessed clock sets off a series of strange events.
The family who live in the house, decorated like a plush suburban McMansion, experience hallucinations, mental breakdowns, and murderous inclinations as the clock's power takes hold. Equal parts comedic and horrific, It's About Time is a testament to '90s interior design and demonic excess.
Long before Patrick Wilson and Ver Farminga portrayed Ed and Lorraine Warren in James Wan's The Conjuring films, Stephen Markle and Diane Baker played the Warrens in this made-for-TV movie. The Haunted is inspired by the real-life case of the Smurls, a Pennslyvania couple who claimed their home was possessed by ghosts and demons.
For years, the Smurls dealt with violent paranormal attacks and incidents before they sought the help of the Warrens, married demonologists. The film is inspired by the book the Smurls wrote with the Warrens.
This Thai horror film is based on the story of Mae Nak Phra Khanong, a well-known female ghost in Thai lore. During the Siamese-Vietnamese War in the 1800s, a villager is conscripted to participate and leaves for battle with a pregnant wife at home.
When the man finally returns from the war, he is greeted by his wife and their child. Unaware the woman died during his absence, villagers try to warn the man it's the ghost of his heartbroken wife who now resides with him.
Bollywood tackles ghosts in Raat, an Indian horror movie that retains cult status to this day. In the film, the Sharma family relocates into a new house notorious for supernatural events, only to discover the rumors are true.
The ghost targets the family's only daughter, nicknamed Mini, using her body as a vessel for conducting evil. The result is an atmospheric and unsettling story that develops slowly without the use of jump scares.
When Yumeji encounters the stunning ghost of a woman in a nearby lake, he dives headfirst into a fantastical flirtation. While the ghost wants to bring the bandit who killed her to justice, Yumeji just wants to soak up her beauty.
A prime example of Korean horror, Whispering Corridors uses the haunted house trope to make bold statements about South Korea's historically authoritarian education system. Instead of a home, the possessed building is an all girl's school full of terrible secrets.
Traumatized, vengeful ghosts lurk in the shadows while a sadistic teacher known as Mrs. Park makes life even worse for the teenagers at the school. A hit in South Korea, Whispering Corridors was followed by four sequels that all explore taboo subjects.
Made between Peter Jackson's splatter phase and his ascension into directing blockbusters, The Frighteners is an underrated and hilarious horror venture about a former architect who decides to try his luck as an in-home exorcist for folks with haunted houses.
Michael J. Fox stars as the psychic, Frank Bannister, who practices necromancy to hone his skills. Bannister works with the ghosts he meets along the way to scam his clients, eventually running into a ghostly serial killer who poses a major threat to both the spirit and human worlds.
Asylums and mental health hospitals, for all the good they might do in real life, are often synonymous with horror movies. The setting can lend itself to multiple kinds of horror, from being held prisoner by cruel staff to being unfairly deemed insane, by way of haunted halls and cruel ghosts. However, outside of horror video games which feature this setting regularly, how many horror movies actually take place in asylums? Excluding dramas and thrillers like Girl, Interrupted and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, this list curates the best horror movies set in asylums for your perfect mad-house movie marathon:
"Master of Horror" John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) returns to the genre for his most recent film to date. Set in Oregon in 1966, The Ward stars Amber Heard as Kristen, who, after setting fire to an abandoned farmhouse, is institutionalized, only to find herself being haunted by the ghost of a former psychiatric patient. Marrying both the horror of unfair imprisonment with the idea of haunted halls, this supernatural psychological thriller also stars Chernobyl's Jared Harris.
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