From Don't Move to Sam Raimi's New Project: the Directors' Rise
The upcoming adaptation of Every House Is Haunted pivots away from the naturalistic woods of California into classical supernatural terror. The source material draws from Canadian author Ian Rogers' 2012 collection of the same name, which won the prestigious Shirley Jackson Award.
Rogers' stories do not rely on standard spectral tropes. Instead, they present ghosts as structural, lingering contaminations, phenomena requiring investigation, clinical detachment, and specialized handling. The collection frequently tracks private investigators specializing in preternatural phenomena, balancing bone-dry cynicism against deeply unsettling metaphysical realities.
Adapting this material demands a tonal shift for Schindler and Netto:
- From Physical Immobility to Paranoia: While the Don't Move movie explored the terrifying loss of bodily control, Every House Is Haunted probes environmental decay and institutional secrecy.
- Rather than a two-character cat-and-mouse hunt across daylight wilderness, this project requires building an internal logic for how spirits inhabit built architecture.
- Backed by Raimi Productions, the film carries higher visual-effects requirements and narrative complexity than their previous, hyper-focused survival exercises.
For genre enthusiasts, the combination of Rogers’ cerebral prose, Raimi’s visceral instincts, and the directors' precision with suspense hints at a haunted house movie that favors dread over cheap jump scares.
