In this psychological thriller from the director of Eagle Eye and Disturbia, Dana and David move from Brooklyn to a once-grand southern mansion with their 5 year old son looking for a fresh start. But Dana’s discovery of a secret room unleashes unexplainable events that test her sanity and slowly reveal the home’s terrifying past.
4267 Roxbury Street - The Freeling family home - Poltergeist
This is the house used in Steven Speilberg's flick Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper. The legacy of the subsequent franchise was that there was a supposed curse on some of the cast members over the course of the original trilogy. Four cast members, including 12 year old Heather O'Rourke who played the youngest Freeling, Carol Anne - They're Here!. Save for those sequels and a color by numbers remake just a couple years ago the original still remains one of the great contemporary and scary haunted house movies.
Of course when you build your community on top of an Indian burial ground things are bound to go a little Topsy Turvy.
This house is clean.
1428 Elm Street - The Elm Street house
It is not so much that the house itself is troubled. Truth be known the only real connection to the psycho slasher Freddy is that his razor glove was kept in the boiler in the basement. Otherwise it was home to a few families over the duration of the popular franchise whose dreams were haunted by the psycho slasher. It was not the first time this house was featured in a horror film. Three years prior to the first Elm Street movie it was featured in a movie called Saturday the 14th.
Saeki House - Nerima district in Tokyo, Japan - Ju-On/The Grudge
You certainly cannot be an international film site and not touch on the most famous house in Japanese horror film history (save for that kray kray one in 1977's Hausu) the Saeki house from the JHorror flicks Ju-on and The Grudge. As the story goes the father Takeo went a little mad after he found out his wife, Kayako, had feelings for another man. He also he killed his son Toshio and his cat Mar. A curse fell upon the house and anyone who lives or enters into the house will eventually fall victim to Kayako and Toshio. The house makes another appearance in the most recent chapter, Japan's tete a tete, Kayako vs Sadako.
Hadley's Hope on LV-426
I will admit that this may be a bit of a stretch but if home truly is where the heart is then the terraforming colony Hadley's Hope in James Cameron's Aliens was a troubled home indeed. When the space marines land on the moon they discover that the sole survivor of the colony is Newt. She has managed to stay away from the Xenomorphs that landed on the planet long before the colonists set foot on the moon. Her father was not so lucky, the second human to be infected by a facehugger after First Officer Kane was infected some thirty seven years before
The Haunted Apartment And Beyond- The Inerasable
Another one from Japan, a contemporary example of just how far down the rabbit hole a troubled past can have. Much like the earlier example of Ju-on the curse in The Inerasable goes back entire generations. And travels. It all starts with an apartment of student Kubo hears a strange swishing sound from her bedroom. As she investigates with mystery author 'I' they discover how far back this curse goes. Trust, it goes back very very far. The film on a whole may not be scary enough for your average horror fan but considering when and where the curse in this film started it is no small wonder that the entire nation of Japan isn't doomed.
This may not be your scariest example of a home with a troubled past but it could very well be a home with the longest troubled past.