House of Fears

"Six friends sneak into a haunted house the night before it opens for Halloween, only to find that their evening of fun has turned into their worst nightmare."

Director: Ryan Little Year: 2007 Runtime: 86 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.3
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Synopsis

The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.

Dev Malhotra is returning home when his car breaks down at night, and a mysterious woman emerges, seeking his help. He takes her to a friendly doctor's hospital who concludes she has lost her memory. While in the hospital, the woman is terrorized by a spirit. Worried and concerned, especially since no family members responded to the woman's missing poster, Dev takes her home and names her Anamika (meaning an anonymous woman), introducing her to his maid and mother figure Shantabai. However, the spirit does not stop pursuing Anamika and terrorizes her once again. This prompts Shantabai to take Anamika to a blind woman named Kesar Ma, who deals with the occult. When she tries to interact with the spirit at midnight, the spirit possesses Kesar Ma's daughter Guddi and tries to strangle Anamika, before being interrupted. Dev refuses to believe in the occult but decides to help Anamika, and along with Kesar Ma, they meet Niranjan Baba, an exorcist who baits the spirit into a mirror by instructing Anamika to recite hymns and thereby force the spirit to enter a corpse in defense. When this happens, it chases after Anamika and is lured into the mirror dimension. The exorcist covers the mirror with a cloth, smashes it to pieces and gets it submerged into water. With the spirit gone, Anamika and Dev confess their love for each other and Dev leaves to meet his parents and talk about their marriage. However, Anamika returns home and meets Rajat Saxena, who claims her to be his wife Sanjana. Rajat takes her home and reveals that Sanjana had a miscarriage, which she blamed on him before he left for London, and since she had been staying at her friends' homes at night every time after quarrelling, he did not suspect anything wrong. On the other hand, Dev returns home and tells Shantabai that his parents have agreed for the marriage, before she reveals Sanjana has been taken away by her husband. A drunken man unwittingly frees the spirit, mistaking the pot containing the mirror pieces to be money. The spirit terrorizes Sanjana once again and tries to drown her in the swimming pool, before Rajat rescues her. However, she refuses to divulge anything about the spirit. Dev meets her at a restaurant and supports her decision to return home, but also becomes aware that the spirit is back and since it is connected to her past, she needs to find evidence at her husband's home. In the process of doing so, she is led to the trunk of a car containing Rajat's wristwatch and finds blood dripping from the ceiling with "murder" writing in blood. Rajat finds her and asks her to hand over his watch, leading Sanjana to believe him to be a murderer. Rajat admits that a murder did indeed take place in the house, but the murderer was Sanjana and the victim was his friend Rocky who manipulated Sanjana sexually. Once she found out, Sanjana ended up stabbing him to death in a scuffle before contacting Rajat and leaving away in her car. Rajat shoved the corpse in his car's trunk, during which the watch eventually dropped inside. Besides Dev, Sanjana tells about this to Kesar Ma, who deduces that the spirit wanted Sanjana to be aware of what she had done, and now she must reach a Kali temple by passing through a maze-like tunnel and take a dip in the lake near the temple, which will free her from the spirit's clutches. Sanjana passes out, and possessed by the spirit, reaches her house where she discovers that Rajat's story was a lie; he cheated on his wife Neha with her and killed her when she confronted him regarding the same. Since Neha couldn't swim, she died by drowning, following which Rajat hid her corpse in the tank of Sanjana's house. Back to the present, Rajat, obsessively in love with Sanjana, abducts her but Neha helps free Sanjana and disguised as her, lures Rajat into an abandoned house. She wounds and sets him on fire, and having survived the death trap set by Rajat, Dev and Kesar Ma arrive to witness the spirit of Neha to smilingly depart.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

a dog dies
spoiler Dog acts weird and goes into a haunted building, becomes possessed and attacks its owner. The scene changes as it lunges towards him, so we don't see what happens
there are snakes
Yes
there are bugs
Yes
someone is stalked
Yes
someone is restrained
Yes
there's torture
spoiler psychological mostly
there's genital trauma/mutilation
Yes
there are hangings
spoiler You briefly see a man being hung but it is for the haunted house and only shown for a moment
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler People get cut if that counts?
someone asphyxiates
Yes
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
somebody is choked
Yes
someone falls to their death
spoiler Someone does fall through the ceiling though, they survive this
someone is buried alive
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler High schoolers but still kinda kids
someone dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
a family member dies
Yes
someone cheats
spoiler At one point, these two couples switch dates and neither of the girls seem okay with it at first but its.. fine in the end I suppose?
a parent dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there are clowns
Yes
someone vomits
spoiler I haven't seen anything triggering But no v*
There's audio gore
Yes
there's spitting
Yes
there's a mental institution scene
Yes
electro-therapy is used
spoiler But someone is electrocuted
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
the black guy dies first
spoiler He isn't the first one to die, but he is killed
there's end credits scenes?
Yes
a plane crashes
Yes
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes

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