It's been a long time coming, but at last the digitally remastered version of the original 1982 horror movie has arrived. Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist, about a haunted suburban home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Craig T Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'Rourke
Directed By: Tobe Hooper

Certain to remain one of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is antithetical to all the gory horror films of subsequent decades, because its considerable frights remain implicitly rooted in the viewer's sensitivity to abject fear. A classic spook-fest based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House (which also inspired the 1999 ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton
Directed By: Robert Wise

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins, Zelda Rubinstein
Directed By: Brian Gibson

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein
Directed By: Gary A. Sherman

A by-the-numbers haunted house movie, albeit one with some neat twists, a couple of good performances and impressive design work, Thirteen Ghosts is a remake of the 1960 original by exploitation superstar William Castle. When ghost-hunter Cyrus (F Murray Abraham) dies his quietly decent widower nephew Arthur (Tony Shaloub) inherits his house. With almost infinite predictability, he, his ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Shannon Elizabeth, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Alec Roberts
Directed By: Steve Beck

Manufacturer: Orbit Media Ltd.

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington
Directed By: Steve Beck

House on Haunted Hill is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like Deep Blue Sea, and a particularly effective example at that. The plot is pure contrivance: For a party stunt, a wealthy amusement-park manufacturer (Geoffrey Rush) offers five people a million dollars if they spend the night in a former insane asylum where the patients murdered the sadistic staff. ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan
Directed By: William Malone

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Ha-Neul Kim
Directed By: Kim Tae-Kyung

Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern
Directed By: Jan de Bont