Old Dark House Movies
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1. The 9th Guest (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis
Votes: 673
2. The Hidden Hand (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best
Votes: 677
3. The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Approved | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson
Votes: 1,566
4. The Haunting (1999)
PG-13 | 113 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dr Marrow enlists Theo, Luke and Nell for a study of sleep disorders at the Hill House. As soon as the terrifying truth about the mansion is revealed, everyone is found fighting for their lives.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor
Votes: 80,496 | Gross: $91.41M
5. One Body Too Many (1944)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 1,568
6. The House of Fear (1945)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 5,537
7. Fog Island (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An inventor recently released from prison invites a group of former business associates to a holiday in his island home, intending to exact revenge on them.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan, Sharon Douglas
Votes: 981
8. The House of Secrets (1936)
Passed | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Director: Roland D. Reed | Stars: Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 521
9. Night of Terror (1933)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Sally Blane, Bryant Washburn
Votes: 792
10. Before Midnight (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer, Claude Gillingwater, Bradley Page
Votes: 326
11. Murder by the Clock (1931)
76 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An elderly woman installs a horn in her crypt in case she's buried alive.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Lilyan Tashman, Irving Pichel, Regis Toomey
Votes: 379
12. The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Helen Parrish, Dick Purcell, Tim Ryan, Frank Faylen
Votes: 851
13. The Monster Walks (1932)
Passed | 57 min | Horror, Mystery
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds
Votes: 1,085
14. The Old Dark House (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 13,105 | Gross: $0.03M
15. The Black Raven (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Horror, Mystery
A group of strangers are brought together in an old, dark house and must contend with two murders and $50,000 in stolen money.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Noel Madison, Robert Livingston
Votes: 828
16. One Frightened Night (1935)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery
An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl, Wallace Ford
Votes: 454
17. The Living Ghost (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A retired detective, Nick Trayne, is hired to look for a missing banker. During the investigation, the aforementioned banker returns in a zombie-like state. Trayne must track down the madman responsible for the banker's state.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey, Vera Gordon
Votes: 682
18. Pillow of Death (1945)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
An unfaithful attorney is suspected of murdering his wife.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Edward Bromberg, Rosalind Ivan
Votes: 792
19. The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Horror
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Maxie Rosenbloom, Larry Parks
Votes: 1,263
20. The House of Mystery (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Mystery
An ancient curse and a killer ape are contained inside an old dark mansion.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Ed Lowry, Verna Hillie, John Sheehan, Brandon Hurst
Votes: 398
21. The Rogues' Tavern (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Wallace Ford, Barbara Pepper, Joan Woodbury, Clara Kimball Young
Votes: 557
22. House of the Long Shadows (1983)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An American author finds a dilapidated Welsh manor perfect for writing until the residents host a bizarre family reunion.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Votes: 4,611
23. The Bat (1959)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton
Votes: 6,196
24. Knives Out (2019)
PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis
Votes: 773,826 | Gross: $165.36M
25. And Then There Were None (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young
Votes: 16,644
26. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,167
27. The Ghost Walks (1934)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
During a stormy night at an old dark mansion, people who claim to see ghosts roaming the halls are later found murdered.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Miljan, June Collyer, Richard Carle, Henry Kolker
Votes: 631
28. The Haunting (1963)
G | 112 min | Horror
Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 42,489 | Gross: $2.62M
29. The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Passed | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen
Votes: 3,011
30. The Ghoul (1933)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Drama, Horror
An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson
Votes: 3,248
31. The Bat Whispers (1930)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Una Merkel, William Bakewell, Grayce Hampton
Votes: 1,146
32. The Black Cat (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery
Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi
Votes: 2,082
33. Night Monster (1942)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey
Votes: 1,853
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