In honor of Halloween, I watched a bunch of haunted house movies, and found them all to be eerily similar. With a little contemplation, I figured out why. I wrote about it for Broad Street review: "Haunted House, Haunted Family." And I also made a fun little BINGO game, or drinking game if such things drive you to hit the sauce. Enjoy.
Haunted House Bingo
Haunted House Bingo
A child in distress |
Old pictures/diaries/ newspapers/ letters related to the haunting are found
| Going into the basement or attic | Sleepwalking/ lost time | A psychic friend arrives |
A creepy doll, toy, or random ball rolling around
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The family pet freaks out
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Doors that open or shut by themselves/ furniture with a life of its own
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Info-dumpy
exposition explains the nature of the supernatural disturbance |
"Faulty wiring" causes the lights to blink
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A friend or animal scares you and you think it’s the ghost
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A Catholic priest arrives
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They stay in the house long past when a normal family would leave
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A camera exists that can take pictures of ghosts
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A murder took place there some time in the past
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Scary/creepy music (with or without creepy music box)
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Someone gets possessed by a ghost
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You think it’s over but… nooooo!
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Grossness: blood on the walls or in the toilet, disgusting insects
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Hapless red shirt who dies
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A hidden or secret room | It’s built on top of a cemetery/ burial ground | A team of ghostbusters with funky equipment | Disembodied footsteps/ laughter/ screaming | A parent with a secret |
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