Top 10 Movies Like The Conjuring, Ranked: Page 4 of 10
7. The House of the Disappeared
The House of the Disappeared Trailer
South Korea has quite a reputation for creepy horror movies. Lim Dae-Woong’s 2017 creeper, House of the Disappeared is a creative reworking of Alejandro Hidalgo’s The House at the End of Time (2013). Both incarnations deal (again) with the bonds of family, and the malevolent spirits that dare to meddle. While Hidalgo’s original built suspense with quiet passages and scenes showing sibling bonding, Lim chose to use a more Hollywoodian approach, favoring aesthetically pleasing sets and jump-scares, and a bit more about the parental dynamic.
There is confusion, and there are twists. There is yet again, the focus on motherhood as Mi-hee (Kim Yunjin of Lost fame) struggles to keep her family intact when something sinister invades their home. She is set on solving the mystery that led to her 25-year imprisonment for the death of her husband. With the same motif as House at the End of the Street and Oculus, Mi-hee finds herself in the empty house where she once witnessed pure evil. The psyche can only stand so much, and the viewer is along for the ride to decipher past from present and truth from fractured memories. To make things more confusing, the supernatural aspect is thrown in. A scary séance. Past and present colliding in ways they logically shouldn’t. This is a chance to see Conjuring-esque films made in other countries with different cultural influences. As with The Conjuring, there is a religious undercurrent coupled with the rites of purging evil spirits. Pay close attention to the presumably innocuous priest.
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