Ghost [DVD]

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This is as fascinating a mystery story about a ghost as it is a mediation on the nature and journey of unfathomable grief. This is a cult classic for a reason. Michael J. Fox Tells Whoopi Goldberg He Regrets Turning Down ‘Ghost’ Role & The Chance To Work With Her The Fog is a pretty simple story about ghosts, inheriting the sins of our ancestors, and revenge. Yet other movies dealing in such things often fail to approach one of John Carpenter’s best movies, in which a dense fog brings about the ghosts whose murders helped build a town. Rubin noted that he "wanted to tell a ghost story from the ghost's perspective": "One day, I was watching a production of Hamlet, which begins with the ghost of Hamlet's father saying, ‘Revenge my death,’" he recalled. "I thought, ‘Wow, let's transpose that into the 20th century; it'd be an interesting story.’ And the idea hit me." [16] Deborah Kerr as young governess Miss Giddens is the key element to just how deep this movie can get into your head. Her performance is so perfect to the unfolding of this bizarre story, it drives the atmosphere and tension like nothing else.

The best ghost movies can be straightforward endeavors. They can deal in some heady ideas about the afterlife, but they ultimately follow a pattern we can more or less understand.

To put it another way, our minds can make a lot out of a sound we didn’t expect. That thought informs many of the entries on this chronological list of the best ghost movies. When estranged brothers Adam and Clint attempt to reconnect over a week-long hunting trip in remote British Columbia, they find the tables turned by a mysterious presence lurking in the forest. Convin... It has more potency than a lot of other famous hauntings, if only because it has the benefit of being connected, however loosely, to an entire franchise of books, movies, and even TV shows. Most of the locals certainly seem to like contributing to its enduring appeal, as well. If nothing else, the part that is wholly true, where Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his entire family, seemingly out of the blue, is harrowing stuff. We can’t help but want to attach a ghost story to something so grisly.

Beyond the Friday the 13th series, writer/director/producer Sean S. Cunningham also helmed a handful of fairly entertaining comedy-horror hybrids in the form of the House franchise. The first one is perhaps the best, although the plot and humor occasionally lose their momentum. Oscar-winner Ray Milland has one of my favorite filmographies of all time. A Welsh-American actor whose career spanned seven decades, Milland’s resume includes the Best Actor Oscar for 1945’s The Lost Weekend, sharing a body with Rosy Grier in The Thing with Two Heads, an appearance on the original Battlestar Galactica, and much more. Beetlejuice does some fantastic worldbuilding as a ghost story. You could make the cast that it spends more time doing this than a lot of ghost stories. Personally, I never feel as though we get to spend enough time on the other side. There’s an argument to be made that his 1996 film The Frighteners was the last time he made a movie that was just fun, with the grandeur being more in trying to make silly things as scary as humanly possible.

GHOST The Musical – About - Opening in Manchester 28 March 2011". GHOST The Musical.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2011 . Retrieved January 9, 2011. What we are left with is a fascinating combination of Steven Spielberg’s commercial filmmaking sensibilities with the ability of director Tobe Hooper to put decent people through absolute hell. Poltergeist is also another good example of a ghost story in which some of the scariest parts consist of things we are largely left to imagine.