History Main / NewHouseNewProblems

Common things to find include a HauntedHouse, a TownWithADarkSecret, and maybe a MadwomanInTheAttic.

* In ''Film/{{Sinister}}'', a crime writer moves into the house where a grisly murder took place. You'll never guess what happens.

An incredibly prevalent trope in horror movies made within the last decade, New House, New Problems sees a new family move into a new home, whereupon strange happenings will begin to reveal themselves.

* ''Film/TheMoneyPit'' plays the trope [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]].

* ''Film/HomeSweetHome2005'' is a horror film where a new couple moved into a high-rise apartment in uptown Hong Kong, only to discover an urban legend about a mysterious "monster" lurking in it's basements. Said monster then abducts the couple's only son, and all hell breaks loose.
* ''Film/{{Juon}}'' and its American remake ''Film/TheGrudge'': woe betide anyone who moves into the cursed house shown in this film series.
* Walsh family in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge'' has just moved into the house on 1428 Elm Street when Freddy starts making his comeback.
* The Deetzes move into a HauntedHouse in ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. However, the lackluster haunting job done by Adam and Barbara Maitland does nothing to scare them away.

* Tends to happen in practically every other ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book.
* The entire ([[{{Metafiction}} innermost]]) plot of ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' is built around this.

* The hotel from ''Literature/TheShining'', though the Torrances are only planning a temporary stay.

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* In ''VideoGame/HelloNeighbor'', the protagonist moves to a new house and gets suspicious of his neighbor's locked-up CreepyBasement. The plot of the game is them attempting to open the basement door and find out what's down there.
* The Sardinis in ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'' go through no less than four houses. All of them are haunted.

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* Recurring trope in the ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}'' series, either by a family moving into a HauntedHouse, or by receiving a cursed item that thing brins problems to their new home.

* Parodied in ''SomethingAwful's'' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeBjr8Bm_wA Doom House]]''. Or possibly played straight, if it's possible to think of anything used there without being parodied. It's just a one-person "family", though. The house turns out to be [[spoiler: haunted by a strange doll and built over a terrorist burial camp]].

An incredibly prevalent trope in horror movies made within the last decade, NewHouseNewProblems sees a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin new family move into a new home]], whereupon strange happenings will begin to reveal themselves.

* Two first ''TheAmityvilleHorror'' movies and the remake.
* ''Film/{{Juon}}'' and its American remake ''TheGrudge'': woe betide anyone who moves into the cursed house shown in this film series.

* Tends to happen in practically every other ''{{Goosebumps}}'' book.

* The entire ([[{{Metafiction}} innermost]]) plot of ''HouseOfLeaves'' is built around this.

* ''[[MissMarple The Mirror Crack'd]]''.
* ''TheConjuring'' has the family start being haunted by a demonic witch after moving into their new house.

* A non-supernatural example in ''PanicRoom''. Meg and Sarah move into a big house in New York, and get trapped in the titular panic room by thieves the first night. [[spoiler:The ending shows them looking for another house.]]

* The setting of the first season of ''AmericanHorrorStory''.

* ''TheMoneyPit''.

* The setting of the first season of AmericanHorrorStory.

* ''{{Insidious}}'': We in fact see this happen ''twice'' [[spoiler: before we find out that it isn't because of the house...]]

* Tends to happen in practically every other ''{{Goosebumps}}'' book.

* The entire ([[{{Metafiction}} innermost]]) plot of ''HouseOfLeaves'' is built around this.
* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'' begins when Coraline and her parents move to a new house, which contains a door into a spooky MirrorUniverse...
* The hotel from ''TheShining'', though the Torrances are only planning a temporary stay.

* Parodied in ''SomethingAwful's'' ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeBjr8Bm_wA Doom House]]''. Or possibly played straight, if it's possible to think of anything used there without being parodied. It's just a one-person "family", though. The house turns out to be [[spoiler: haunted by a strange doll and built over a terrorist burial camp]].
--> "My name is Reginald P. Linux, and ever since my wife died, I've been very depressed. This is why I've been searching for the house of my dreams. But as a philosopher once said, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor be careful what you dream for]], because you just. Might. Get it."

* {{Sinister}}: A crime writer moves into the house where a grisly murder took place. You'll never guess what happens.

* Walsh family in the second ''ANightmareOnElmStreet'' film has just moved into the house on 1428 Elm Street when Freddy starts making his comeback.

* ''[[{{ptitle319iyvng}} Ju-On]]'' and its American remake ''TheGrudge'': woe betide anyone who moves into the cursed house shown in this film series.