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<\/a><\/p>\nThe original haunted house is found in Hopper\u2019s painting \u201cHouse by the Railroad\u201d (above). It depicts a building of the late-Victorian style standing silvery and pale under an empty blue sky. It is a tall, steepling structure with ill-proportioned windows and ornate pediments. Cold sunlight strikes the house\u2019s left side casting razor-sharp shadows across the veranda, obscuring the entrance. A railway line bisects the front of the picture, further cutting the viewer off from admittance. It appears to be a house that you cannot reach and cannot enter. Its stillness and desolation make you think of a coffin.<\/p>\n
Hopper painted \u201cHouse by the Railroad\u201d at a time when Victorian architecture was out of fashion. Tastes had moved away from the overwrought creations of the Gilded Age of the 1880s and on to the sleek simplicity of Arts and Crafts bungalows. Hopper took these aesthetic prejudices and infused them with existential dread. His house is not only out of time but out of place, isolated, empty and alone. He marvelled at how houses can be \u201cmore moody than nature\u2026in the daytime they have an astonished look; at dusk they are evil, seem to brood over some crime.\u201d Here he created a symbol of domestic melancholy and dread that has since appeared again and again.<\/p>\n
The Addams Family (1945)<\/p>\n
\u201cPsycho\u201d (1960)<\/p>\n
\u201cDays of Heaven\u201d (1978)<\/p>\n
\u201cBeetlejuice\u201d (1988)<\/p>\n
\u201cTransitional Object (Psychobarn)\u201d (2016)<\/p>\n