The Orphanage
2007 · Horror · J. A. Bayona · 1h 41m
A woman moves back into the seaside orphanage she grew up in to reopen it as a home for children, and her young son starts talking about friends nobody else can see. An old-fashioned ghost story built on quiet, not jump scares.
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly intimate
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2020 · Horror
A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly intimate
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The Babadook
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2014 · Horror
A widowed mother and her difficult six-year-old find a pop-up book on the shelf about a thing that visits once you know its name, and the boy stops sleeping. Almost all of it happens in one tired house.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly character-driven
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2020 · Horror
A schoolteacher is left alone in the lake house her husband built for her after his sudden death, and starts finding things in it she cannot explain. A quiet film about grief with a lot of standing in the dark, listening.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly character-driven
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