Or are you? Like home-invasion movies, haunted-house films tap into the universal fear of being attacked in the one place you’re meant to feel the most secure. Unlike home-invasion movies ...

“It doesn’t take much to make us scared inside a haunted house,” Leonard Maltin, film historian and cohost ... spin on this ...

But we know it’s there from the first frame, because the entirety of the film takes place from the ... makes the spooky bits superfluous. The haunted-house aspect is almost a red herring.

The screenplay is the one about the group of people who promise to spend the night in a haunted house. In this case, it's for pure monetary gain. Vincent Price, owner of the house, is offering $ ...