While haunted-house films like the 1992 Indian supernatural thriller Raat have long conjured dread by adopting the POV of the evil presence intermittently as it prowls through the house, spies on ...

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’ opens this weekend. We’ve rounded up 17 of the best in the genre, many of which Soderbergh draws from in his take on the haunted-house movie.

The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing challenges in the real world ...