The Haunted House

Recommended for age 5and older. Fun and scary Halloween films include the Buster Keatonclassic, The Haunted House (1921), in which clumsy bank teller Busterfoils a robbery in spite of himself, then hides out in a haunted house.All manner of absurd complications and mistaken identities-plus a dreamsequence in which Buster is turned away from the pearly gates-make thisone of Keaton's most complex short films. Shown with The Legend ofSleepy Hollow and cartoons about magic mummies and dancing skeletons.

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