Haunted Homes

Haunted Homes  is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like  The Old Dark House  to contemporary works like  Hereditary  and the Netflix series  The Haunting of Hill House , Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse. She traces how the haunted home film was intertwined with the expansion of American suburbia, but also explores works like  The Witch  and  The Babadook , which transport the genre to different times and places. This lively and readable study reveals how and why an increasing number of films imagine that home is where the horror is.