New House, New Problems

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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.

Examples:

• Insidious: We in fact see this happen twice before we find out that it isn't because of the house...
• The Money Pit.
• The Mirror Crack'd.
• Two first The Amityville Horror movies and the remake.
• Juon and its American remake The Grudge: woe betide anyone who moves into the cursed house shown in this film series.
• Tends to happen in practically every other Goosebumps book.
• Walsh family in the second A Nightmare On Elm Street film has just moved into the house on 1428 Elm Street when Freddy starts making his comeback.
• The entire (innermost) plot of House of Leaves is built around this.
• Coraline begins when Coraline and her parents move to a new house, which contains a door into a spooky Mirror Universe...
• The hotel from The Shining, though the Torrances are only planning a temporary stay.
• The Deetzes move into a Haunted House in Beetlejuice. However, the lackluster haunting job done by Adam and Barbara Maitland does nothing to scare them away.
• Parodied in Something Awful's 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 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, be careful what you dream for, because you just. Might. Get it."

• A non-supernatural example in Panic Room. Meg and Sarah move into a big house in New York, and get trapped in the titular panic room by thieves the first night. The ending shows them looking for another house.