: The family is being held captive by the "Pale Man," the spirit of a deceased serial killer named Edgar Mullins, who possessed the fathers of families living in his house to force them to commit murder [13]. 4. General Definition and Cultural Usage
: Instead of following the living people being haunted, the film focuses on Lisa Johnson (played by Abigail Breslin), a girl who realizes she and her family are ghosts stuck in a time loop [6, 13]. Haunter
In 2013, director Vincenzo Natali released Haunter , a supernatural thriller that subverts traditional ghost story tropes [4, 6]. : The family is being held captive by