The Haunted House

1921

Comedy / Horror

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 83%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 4002 4K

haunted house silent film short film short

Plot summary

A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Director

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton

Top cast

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton as Bank Clerk
Mark Hamilton Photo
Mark Hamilton as Tallest Ghost
Natalie Talmadge Photo
Natalie Talmadge as Fainting Female Bank Customer
Edward F. Cline Photo
Edward F. Cline as Customer in Bank
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
219.4 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
12 hr 23 min
Seeds 1
407.37 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
12 hr 23 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tgooderson 8 / 10

Great laugh per minute ratio!

Reviewed by Polaris_DiB 7 / 10

Fun stuff

I have to give Buster (more) props: carrying on a single gag through many different encounters and many different characters and keeping the looks of confusion and chaos fresh the entire time is very hard to do, but he does it here, and admirably. Anyone who's seen this and Benny and Joon will recognize that little flick Keaton does with his arm was mimicked so incredibly perfectly by Depp that it's difficult to separate the two images as distinct.But about this, that is, this short, it's typical Keaton fun-fest: machinery, badguys, booby traps, and hilarity, all intersperced with really clever titles. However, this one's plot didn't really flow as well as most of the stuff I've seen of his. I'm still rather unclear as to how Keaton's character ended up in the house in the first place. That said, the surreal moment with the skeletons building the living man made it all very worth it. Watch that shot, it's amazing.--PolarisDiB
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