The Red House (1946)

This dreary 1946 film is about an abandoned red farmhouse that conceals a dreadful secret, but given no one can find the house, most of the movie is taken up with the characters in-the-know, like Edward G Robinson's histrionic farming family man, being annoyingly, whiningly circumspect about the importance of not visiting the house while all the other characters not-in-the-know, like adopted daughter Meg and her farmhand chum Nath, make repeated attempts to find it, walking in circles and talking in circles through the woods, padding out the dreariness before a final underwhelming reveal.

★★☆☆☆

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