Why Hit Horror Movie Has Rattled a Catholic Diocese

Beyond the rusting gate of a deserted and dilapidated 104-year-old mansion, an elderly woman reassures a group of nervous schoolboys that despite its haunted reputation, there’s nothing to fear.

“There are no ghosts in here,” she tells the youngsters.

But the building’s owner, the Beijing Catholic Diocese, hasn’t been able to dismiss such fears quite so easily.

A lurid 3D horror movie called “The House That Never Dies,” inspired by the derelict downtown pile’s spooky legend, has been third on the domestic box-office charts this year, offering up silver-screen staples like a hand reaching out of a mirror and a bathtub full of blood.

Source: NBC News