Halloween film fest: 15 classic ghost stories

From <em>The Uninvited</em> to <em>Crimson Peak</em>, these films will help you set the tone for spooky season.

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Truly, Madly, Deeply should be on there.

 

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The 40th anniversary 4K release of Poltergeist is absolutely fantastic. I think the last time I watched the movie it was back when dead channels on television still looked like static, so watching the newest physical release was a jaw-dropping upgrade. (Apropos, younger readers of Neuromancer probably think that the sky above the port is a beautiful, cloudless blue. Digital broadcasting has really screwed over that glorious opening line.)

The blue screen of death is rather appropriate

 

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For non-scary ghosts don't, uh, overlook, Topper and Blythe Spirit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blithe_Spirit_(1945_film)

Margaret Rutherford in Blithe Spirt is a tour de force. The best chin acting in history

 

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If you can find them, the 1970s BBC adaptations of classic MR James ghost stories are genuinely spooky (the more recent adaptations by Mark Gatiss have generally been disappointing). There are also some straight readings of the stories filmed around 2000 which are just the late, great, Christopher Lee sitting by a crackling fire. Amazingly spooky stuff.

Then of course there are the BBC plays 'The Stone Tapes' (which gives its name to a theory for hauntings used by many paranormal researchers; and the all-time classic '' which was broadcast 'as live' with a cast of known journalists and presenters and which caused a national meltdown the next day.

And if you like your hauntings extra chilly, the Icelandic movie 'I Remember You' is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir about a group of friends renovating a lonely house on the Icelandic shoreline.

I don't remember Ghostwatch being that big of a deal. Admittedly I went the full going out out that Saturday but at work on Monday it wasn't mentioned at all.

 

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I still don't get it, a dead channel to me is the fuzzy, scrambling black and white dots of static.

Have you been eating those "special mushrooms" again?

 

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Howard the Duck is a true horror film, its so terrifying I hesitate to mention it. There a scene that still gives me flashbacks 40 years later.

 

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Does The Ring count as a ghost story?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

I include the Japanese original but the remake was good.

Also, although it’s mostly comedy, Ghostbusters did have a few genuinely scary moments.

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