The first movie on our list tells the story of a group of friends who make a classic horror film mistake - they decide to spend a night in the abandoned Mysteria casino, a place rumoured to contain ghosts of Vegas mobsters Roy “The Word” Donahue and his goon Gil Wachetta.Īs they explore the casino, they discover that the ghosts are real, and intent on settling an old score. Notable recent examples include His House (2020), set in a shabby and possessed house on the outskirts of London, and the 2005 slasher House of Wax, which plays out in an abandoned town’s wax museum. Casinos have also been a popular setting for numerous horror films over the years, utilising the unique atmosphere of gambling halls as a backdrop for scares and screams. The setting is a big part of any successful horror film, and we’ve seen no end of creative locales for scary scenes to play out. Horror is one of the most enduring movie genres, keeping audiences riveted to the edges of their seats since the earliest days of cinema - Georges Méliès’s pioneering short Le Manoir du Diable dates all the way back to 1896.
