A Haunting at Alma Drive
2026 · 7m
Directed by Dalton Allen
Genres: horror
A man moves into a new house that clearly does not want him there, and decides to stay anyway.
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Finally—a haunted house film that inverts the entire tired trope by making the protagonist's stubbornness the actual horror, not the ghost. This is the kind of premise that makes you genuinely unsure whose side you're on, and that discomfort is the whole point.
Allen demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of the genre's visual grammar, using spatial composition and the grammar of domestic unease to position this squarely within a lineage stretching from Polanski through contemporary elevated horror—formally assured work that respects its precedents while maintaining its own clarity.
The decision to center the film's tension not on jump scares but on the protagonist's refusal itself—that single behavioral choice that defies convention—becomes the engine that transforms what could've been generic into something psychologically singular and genuinely unnerving.
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A HAUNTING AT ALMA DRIVE is a found footage horror short about a man who moves into a house that doesn't want him there — and decides to stay anyway.