Entertainment
Home discomforts: why haunted-house horrors are making a comeback – The Guardian
Stuck at home facing an invisible enemy? From Rebecca to Shirley, movies telling tales of domestic spookiness are more resonant than ever
Not now, haunted house horrors! Never has the prospect of watching a movie about being confined to your home and beset by unseen terrors seemed less like escapism. Well soon see if the pandemic has sharpened our appetite for haunted house movies or put us right off them, as they seem to be the theme of this Halloween and almost all of them centre on women.
Thats not such a surprise, really. Unlike so many areas, ghost stories and houses of horror have been almost a haven for women, on the page …
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