Apartment Complex… Of Horror!

Have you ever noticed the incredible number of haunted house movies vs the tiny number of haunted apartment movies? I always found this odd.

If hauntings are caused by terrible unresolved stuff happening then there should be waaaaay more haunted apartment movies. I’ve lived in apartments and my wife used to manage them. I assure you, terrible unresolved stuff is happening at an apartment complex far more than in your average house. Like all the time. Go look, I’ll wait. I bet the cops are there right now.

I think you see more haunted house movies because they are quieter and therefore spookier. In my old apartment it would have been hard to have a scary mood with the sound of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” thumping through the walls at 3:00 a.m. Which was a nightly occurrence for me. What the hell was that guys deal? Vanilla Ice?

Unless it was the ghost of Robert Matthew Van Winkle’s failed career that was playing that music every night. And I never knew. Mind blown. Also worst premise for an X-File episode ever.

I’m not saying you can’t have a haunted apartment story, I’ve seen some good ones. But a haunted house is far more scary than an haunted apartment complex. Even my old apartment… Which had a lot of scary people around it who smelled of patchouli and failure. I think even ghosts would have fled that.

But that place was scary for different more corporeal reasons.