Shirley Jackson

Depois da misteriosa morte de seu pai, as irmãs Blackwood vivem em completo isolamento em sua bela mansão. Quando um primo distante chega para visitar, sua presença ameaça revelar um segredo sombrio da família.

'The Lottery' is a loose adaptation of the Shirley Jackson story in a post-apocalyptic setting.

An adaptation of the 1948 Shirley Jackson short story of the same name -- a group of townsfolk flock to participate in the town's annual lottery. But things aren't what they seem.

Quando Theo, Nell and Luke aceitam participar de um estudo universitário acerca do sono e das insónias - de que os três padecem - são convidados a dormir em Hill House, uma enorme mansão cheia de detalhes e mobiliário rocambolesco. O que não sabem é que o estudo onde vão participar é acerca do medo, e a casa é assombrada por um mal que promete tirar-lhes qualquer vontade de dormir.

A tale about an independent-minded university professor who leaves her family to travel across the countryside to visit a friend.

On his deathbed in the hospital, Jason's father asks that his ashes be spread over the top of his wife's grave. Jason, who came to the city with his father at a young age, remembers little of the town or his mother, but he undertakes the charge. It is an idyllic place, but gradually snips of memory return, until he remembers the significance of the fact that most of the tombstones in the town cemetery, including his mothers, bear the same day and month, one death each year. Caught up in the memory of the lottery he saw as a child, and the one he is trapped in today, escape is difficult and retribution is... Written by Bruce Cameron

Based on Shirley Jackson's eerie short story The Summer People.

Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.

Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.

Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.

O Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson) faz uma pesquisa para provar a existência de fantasmas e, com isso, se interessa pela Hill House, uma mansão com 90 anos localizada na Nova Inglaterra e que tem em sua história mortes, violência e loucura. Junto com ele estão Luke Sanderson (Russ Tamblyn), um cético que está para herdar a casa, a misteriosa e clarividente Theodora (Claire Bloom) e a insegura e carente Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris), cujos dons psíquicos a transformam no instrumento de ligação com os espíritos da velha mansão. Gradativamente fica óbvio que eles encontraram algo muito maior e aterrorizante do que poderiam imaginar.

A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.