Ghost Movies

This is the best horror movie in my opinion. It is the only horror movie that I am still unable to fully watch by myself. And since you can't see what's going bump in their upstairs attic, this qualifies as a ghost story. Some ghosts are just more evil than others! This story is about the daughter of a divorced actress who has a little too much time on her hands and starts to play with the Ouija board with "Mr Howdy." Mr. Howdy however has more interest in her than sliding around an oracle and pretty soon all hell breaks lose with noises in the attic, objects flying around her room and eventually full blown possession. This is one scary film and not for the faint of heart!

I like this movie for the house! If I were a ghost I'd make my home there too. Or if I were a visitor, I'd risk a night of chain rattling just so I could explore this phenomenal place. It's got some cool visual effects, interesting characters, and an unbeatable setting. A group of insomniacs are invited to this house under the pretense that they are being analyzed for their disorder, but the scientist conducting the experiment is really using them for his research on fear. Everyone has their own agenda, including the house which comes alive! While this movie did not scare me (it got low public ratings for this), it was visually very enjoyable.

This is an older ghost movie but I like it for its atmosphere as well as George C. Scott, who I enjoy as an actor. His wife and daughter are killed in the opening scene due to a freak car accident. As part of his healing, he rents a mansion to work on his music composition. Although he thinks he's found the perfect place of solitude and quiet, it is neither! The house has someone intent on using him to help uncover a sordid past of murder and conspiracy!

I just love this old ghost movie! It's a sweet story about a man by the name of Roderick Fitzgerald and his sister Pamela who move from London to enjoy the country setting of a mansion on a cliff overlooking the sea. As they soon find out, there are uninvited guests already living there! Roderick meets a lovely young girl who lived there in her youth, pines to live there again, and he and Pamela realize that she (Stella) may be more attached to the ghost than any of them know. It's a mystery that needs to be unfolded before Stella quite possibly loses her life to one of the ghosts. This is a very good black and white classic ghost film.

Be afraid. Be very afraid..." I'm always tickled to see a good thriller come out that works the angle of mystery versus relying on gory thrasher scenes, and this film is one of them. This movie is about a videotape, when watched, results in a horrible death seven days later. After local teenagers view the movie and all die within this week, a reporter feels she's onto a good story. She tracks down the movie, watches it, and now her own life is unraveling with the sound of the same death clock ticking away her fate. This movie is about a ghost who is evil pure and simple. Not the kind of evil that grows through hate, but evil that is timeless and born that way. As a hint to its scariness, a friend of mine said someone made a dash from their seat in the theater and ended up "barfing all over the last seat and a few people." So I would venture to say viewer discretion advised! The only reason I didn't give this five stars is that I would have liked to have seen stronger acting from Naomi Watts (something rivaling Nicole Kidman in The Others).

This movie ranks up there with the Exorcist in terms of fright factor. It's intelligent, suspenseful and well... scary! Emily is a virtuous young girl who goes off to college for the start of a promising life. What she ends up with is a demonic ghost intent on possessing her. She fights this demon with her trusted priest and unfortunately it is too much for Emily and she dies a horrible death. This may sound like I'm giving the whole plot away, but you know Emily is dead pretty much in the first few scenes because this movie is about the trial of the priest who is accused of causing her death through negligence. There isn't an actor who fails in this movie. They are all good! This story also has an interesting spiritual moral. It's about how sometimes good people suffer in order to bring awareness to this planet and subsequently explains why "God allows bad things to good people." The other moral to this picture is that the supporting characters know that integrity weighs more than the power pressures from bosses and churches.

What if you could stop your heart to simulate a temporary death, and then be revived so you could describe your near-death experience to others? The mysteries of life -and the afterlife- compel five medical students to experiment with their own mortality, and what they discover has unsettling psychological implications. That's the intriguing premise of this neo-Gothic horror thriller. The movie borders on silliness at times, and the near-death recollection of memories results in some repetitious scenes, but the dynamic young cast takes it all quite seriously, which is what keeps this gaudy thriller on the edge.