This Place Is Evil: Top 10 Horror Movies That Take You to Terrifying Locations

We love a haunted house. There is something so mystifying about a building so ancient and dipped in tragedy that the remnants of the past have stuck around to make themselves felt. Haunted houses remind us that the spaces we occupy don’t belong to us, and that maybe we should be afraid of things that go bump in the night. That said, the Haunted House as a concept, has of late fallen into disrepair and ironically become an echo of its former self. Though movies like Insidious try to flip this script, eventually they too have fallen prey to the clichés they were once subverting.

​ What happens when the humble Haunted House becomes a tired trope? Filmmakers are pushed to improvise.