Cinema’s Architects of the Uncanny: The Walls are Closing In

Dario Argento follows up Suspiria with this second chapter in his Three Mothers trilogy. An imposing New York apartment block is home to a coven of witches, a submerged ballroom and a mystery ‘beneath the soles of your shoes’.

A west London apartment transforms itself into a charged psychological space in Roman Polanski’s artfully realised Sixties shocker.

A compendium of absurdity and surrealism, Buñuel’s 1974 film is structured like a house in which every door and passageway leads you to another room that holds its own surprises.

Buñuel’s stinging satire of the upper-classes finds a group of guests invited to a mansion for an elaborate dinner party. Once seated however, they find themselves strangely unable to leave.

A sailor returns from his travels to his family estate of Malpertuis, an ominous mansion distinguished by its series of mysterious spaces and tenants.

Roger Corman’s adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe story tells the story of a hereditary curse that bleeds into the very walls of the family house.

Jacques Rivette’s beloved classic, in which two young women imagine themselves into a domestic story playing itself out in a Parisian mansion.