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Here, you'll find our top
thirteen favorite Ghost
films to watch.
The Woman in
Black
Arthur is on the verge of losing his job when an
important client of the firm dies, and his boss offers him
one last opportunity to prove his worth by settling the
woman's affairs. Determined to succeed, Arthur travels to
the remote village and receives a chilly welcome. Something
horrible once happened here, and it seems that the locals
are determined to ensure Arthur never finds out what it was.
Now, the more time Arthur spends in his client's crumbling
estate, the more aware he becomes of a presence that isn't
quite human. In this house dwells a woman's ghost. In life
she lost something precious, and now in death she'll do
whatever it takes to get it back. Until she does, her
spectral presence will serve as a harbinger of doom, always
to be followed by the death of an innocent. A classic
Victorian style ghost movie. 2012
Grave
Encounters
Lance Preston and the crew of Grave Encounters, a
ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an
episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric
Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for
years. On a quest to expose the truth, the crew voluntarily
lock themselves inside the building for the night and begins
a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera.
They quickly find themselves lost in a labyrinth of endless
hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the
former patients. Soon they realize that the building is more
than just haunted. Its alive, and it has no intention of
ever letting them leave. 2011
The
Conjuring
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. Based on
the true life story, The Conjuring tells the tale of how
world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine
Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a
dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a
powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught
in the most horrifying case of their lives. 2013
Kill Katie
Malone
College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim
Duncan, and Kyle Dixie Canning, pool their cash to buy a
ghost in an online auction. The three think it's all a
prank, but once they open up the antique box to examine
their treasure, they unleash the vengeful spirit of a
servant girl who has been wreaking havoc on her owners
throughout the generations. 2010
Ghost Ship
In the midst of a 1962 pleasure cruise, the passengers and
crew of Italian luxury liner the Antonia Graza are
all killed. Forty years later, the ship is spotted drifting
in the Bering sea. An
Alaska-based seafaring salvage team lead
are approached by a Canadian weather spotter who noticed the
derelict vessel on a flyover. Tempted by the possibility of
untold riches, the crew takes on the job of tracking down
the ship. Once aboard though, strange things start to
happen, beginning with the sighting of a ghost of a
little girl. After the team finds a cache of gold, all hell
breaks loose, and the angry ghosts make themselves
known, and begin killing the intruders one by one. 2003
The
Messengers
Desperate for a fresh start after a tough two years in
Chicago, the Solomon family retreats to a desolate sunflower
farm in North Dakota. But the calm of farm life is shattered
when 16-year-old Jess and her 3-year-old brother Ben begin
to see nightmarish apparitions throughout their new home –
visions that nobody else can see. As the visions grow
darker, they become fear-inspiring experiences and Jess’
parents start to question their daughter’s sanity. Now, Jess
must find a way to save her family and win. 2007
Thirteen
Ghosts
A financially strapped widower struggling
to raise two children after losing his
wife in a house fire. A stroke of apparent luck arrives when
Arthur learns he has inherited a mansion from his mysterious
Uncle Cyrus. Ecstatic, Arthur whisks the kids and nanny off to their new home, a bizarre glass and steel
structure with strange Latin inscriptions carved on the
walls. The family is thrilled, until a psychic and former
employee of Cyrus's, reveals that Arthur's departed
uncle was a power hungry ghost collector who captured twelve
spirits in the house. Arthur is skeptical. But when his
children disappear, and Rafkin gives him a pair of special
glasses that allow him to view the house's gruesome
inhabitants, he believes. The two men race against time to
find the children as the house's strange internal mechanism
begins sealing off the exits and freeing the angry ghosts. 2001
Paranormal
Activity
Played over four full length films, the Paranormal
Activity movies are chilling and creepy!
Paranormal Activity 1 - This
horror film follows a young suburban couple who record
the sinister disturbances in their home while they sleep
– even as the domestic haunting becomes more frequent,
more threatening and all too personal. Hypnotic and
harrowing, this movie delivers frightful suspense
punctuated by moments of sudden and unexpected terror,
all the way to the shocking ending. 2009
Paranormal Activity 2 - Is as groundbreaking as the
original. Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby
into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing
them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it
into an inescapable nightmare.
Paranormal Activity 3 - Takes you back to where it all
began and the activity is more intense than ever. The
cameras are on and recording the chilling moments when
evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi
for the first time.
Paranormal Activity 4 - Everything has led up to this! When Katie
disappeared with her nephew Hunter, there were no
survivors. Five years later she's returned with a
mysterious boy, ready to target new victims with her
demonic rage.
Believe
Ben Stiles loves to play scary tricks on people. And after
getting expelled from prep school, he has even more time to
devote to such shenanigans. When he and his friend Katherine
decide to transform spooky, abandoned Warwick House into a
haunted house, he doesn't take into account that the
ramshackle old place may not need his help! When a
mysterious wailing ghost makes itself known, the two get
sucked into the world of the supernatural and try to find
the truth behind the haunting. A fun ghost story for the
whole family. 2000
The Legend of
Hell House
In sits there, shrouded in mist and mystery, a nesting place
for living evil and terror from the dead. It's Hell House.
Roddy McDowall heads the cast of this exciting chiller about
four psychic investigators and the dark, brooding mansion
they themselves call "the Mount Everest of haunted houses."
It's already destroyed one team of researchers. Now this
brave quartet ventures in for another try at unraveling its
secret. But before they succeed, they must suffer through
madness, murder and everything else the spirits that dwell
there have in store for them. Yet learning the truth just
might drive them all insane.
1973
The
Frighteners
In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has
awakened...an evil so powerful, its reach extends beyond the
grave. For Frank Bannister, death is a great way to make a
living: ridding haunted houses of their "unwelcome" guests".
But he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to
evict! It's the perfect scam...until Frank finds himself at
the center of a dark mystery. A diabolical spirit is on a
murderous rampage, and the whole town believes Frank is
behind it. This supernatural chiller is so fiendishly
entertaining, it's scary! 1994
House on
Haunted Hill
When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites
$1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House"
with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get
quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made
up story just to mess with their heads a little and test
their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start
to think about the mistake they made in coming there when
mysterious things start to happen. 1999
Poltergeist
This awesome supernatural thriller about a California couple
swept up in a wave of horror after sinister spirits invade
their home and kidnap their child. Life in the Freeling
family's tract home is comfortably bland, but frisky
poltergeists soon put a little excitement into their daily
routine--moving furniture and communicating with their
youngest daughter, Carol Anne, through the television set.
Unfortunately, harmless pranks quickly turn nasty and the
previously friendly ghosts kidnap Carol Anne, trapping her
in the spirit world. To win the child back, the family calls
in a team of parapsychologists and a psychic who conducts an
elaborate exorcism. The apocalyptic finale is deliciously
macabre. 1982
Darkness
A terrifying tale in which an ordinary American family moves
to a large, creaky Victorian home in the Spanish countryside
that, unbeknownst to them, was the scene of some awful
experiments on the night of a total eclipse 40 years before.
Teenage daughter Regina decides to investigate after
unexplained bruises show up on her younger brother, and her
father displays oddly enraged and erratic behavior. Although
her mother and her grandfather refuse to believe her, Regina
is convinced that something within their new home is the
cause of the trouble. As another eclipse looms, Regina
enlists the help of her new boyfriend and uncovers truths
that could literally destroy her family.Balaguero mixes
tried and true cinematic scare devices with his own brand of
macabre originality to bring a well-paced, ominous
atmosphere to the supernatural ghost story genre. 2005
The Shining
From writer Stephen King and director Stanley Kubrick comes
a classic tale of madness and terror. Struggling writer Jack
Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their psychic son Danny spend
the winter overseeing a deserted resort hotel where the
ghosts of the site's shocking and bloody past drive Jack
slowly insane. 1980
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