Horror movies directed by Sandor Stern

How Amityville: The Evil Escapes scares: Watching this feels like a low-budget TV horror movie, with cheap scares and a made-for-television gloss rather than real dread. The pacing leans on sudden jolts and haunted-object mischief more than slow-building unease, so it plays more like a string of spooky incidents than a mounting nightmare. It's part of a franchise stretching a real-life haunted house legend into cheesy supernatural territory, with a cursed lamp standing in for real menace. Good for fans of goofy, dated haunted-house schlock rather than anyone looking to be truly unsettled.

How Pin : A Plastic Nightmare scares: Pin creeps up on you slowly, building unease through family dysfunction and a growing sense that something is deeply wrong in this house rather than through shocks or jolts. The fear here comes almost entirely from watching a mind unravel and from the discomfort of not knowing how far someone's delusions will go. There's very little blood or violence shown on screen, but the mood stays quietly disturbing and gets under your skin rather than giving you a fun scare. It's a better fit for viewers who like slow, character-driven dread over viewers looking for thrills or gore.