Horror House Film: Possession, Obsession, Domination, Masculinity

Houses have a long history in horror. They often figure as the locus of hauntings, or play significant allegorical roles as embodiments of their proprietors' minds. Such houses belong to the spectral English and Dutch language Gothic. Horror House Film takes a different approach and analyses a collection of horror films - in different subgenres - in which the house is a solid, massive and often overbearing presence in the lives of the protagonists. These films are about the potentially pern...