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In a haunted house film, either one or multiple psychic detectives reside on a property with reports of paranormal activity for research, or a family moves into a house only to be harmed by its spirits.

History
One of the earliest examples of a critically-acclaimed American haunted house film is The Haunting (1963), an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (1959).

Popularity
Kim Newman perceived the popularity of haunted house films as perennial, unlike other horror film sub-genres which rise and fall in cycles. Conversely, film academic Mark Jancovich explained that in the 1970s and 1980s, horror films from the 1950s and 1960s were being remade, haunted house films included.