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The
Haunting
Directed by Robert Wise
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates
Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death
and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit
the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor,
whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits
inhabit the old mansion. As time goes by it becomes obvious that they have
gotten more than they bargained for as the ghostly presence in the house
manifests itself in horrific and deadly ways.
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The
Sixth Sense
Directed by M. Night Shamalyan
Child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe is confronted one night by his former patient
Vincent Gray who he failed to help. After Vincent shoots Crowe in the stomach
and kills himself, Crowe can't stop thinking about it. A few months later
he is hired to help a troubled boy named Cole Sear, who has many of the
same problems Vincent had. Crowe sees a chance to redeem himself, but doubts
his ability to reach the boy, particularly when Cole claims to see ghosts
who don't know they're dead.
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The Others
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey,
towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband
to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they
cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They
will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules,
until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will
accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.
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Legend
of Hell House
Directed by John Hough
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and
the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell
House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either
been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week
in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
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The
Entity
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by
an unseen presence. Terrified of what's happening to her, and shunned by
friends and family who think she's lost her mind, she seeks help from parapsychologists.
The researchers soon discover that evil spiritual force has been drawn to
Carla and is responsible for the violent attacks. The question now, however,
is how do they stop it? Based on a supposedly true story.
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Ghost
Ship (2002)
Directed by Steve Beck
A salvage crew that
discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote
region of the Bering Sea soon notices, as they try to tow it back to land,
that "strange things" happen...
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House
on Haunted Hill (1959)
Directed by William
Castle
Five
diverse people are invited to a 'haunted house' party. They are offered
$10,000 each by an eccentric millionaire and his wife to spend the night
in a house with a murderous past.
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House
on Haunted Hill (1999)
Directed by William
Malone
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.
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Casper
(1995)
Directed by Brad
Silberling
Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion
rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden (Moriarty) is ready to burn
the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden
in the house. But when she enters the rickety mansion to seek her claim,
she is frightened away by a wicked wave of ghosts.
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House
(1986)
Directed by Steve
Miner
Roger Cobb is a author who has just separated from his wife. He moves
into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences
in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little
things at first, but as they become more frequent, Cobb becomes aware
that the house resents his presence.
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Poltergeist
(1982)
Directed by Tobe
Hooper
A young family are
visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly,
moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they
turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap"
the youngest daughter.
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The
Exorcist (1973)
Directed by William
Friedkin
Based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist marries
three different scenarios into one extraordinary plot. A visiting actress
in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior
and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest
at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing
with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail,
elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic
enemy.
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Ghost
(1990)
Directed by Jerry
Zucker
Sam and Molly are
a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment
after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley,
and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises
that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that
she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and
so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic
who didn't even realise that her powers were real.
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Ghost
Dad (1990)
Directed by Sidney
Poitier
Elliot, a widower
with three children, suffers an accident and stays some days in coma.
But his spirit leaves his body during that time and turns into a ghost
who roams around and only materializes in the dark.
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Thirteen
Ghosts (2001)
Directed by Steve
Beck
When ghost hunter
Cyrus Kriticos is killed during a hunt, he leaves his house and fortune
to his nephew Arthur and his children. Upon entering the house, they activate
a machine that one-by-one releases the houses inhabitants: 12 very angry,
and very deadly, ghosts.
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The
Haunting (1999)
Directed by Jan de
Bont
A remake of the classic
1963 movie "The Haunting" about a team of paranormal experts
who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated house. Through the course
of the night some will unravel, some will question, and all will fight
for their lives as the house fights back.
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The
Frightners (1996)
Directed by Peter
Jackson
A psychic private detective who consorts with deceased souls becomes engaged
in a mystery as members of the town community begin dying mysteriously.
While investigating, he is aided by a friendly doctor who believes in
his psychic abilities and is hindered by a crazed G-Man, a woman involved
in an old serial killing, and what may be the spirit of Death itself.
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The
Devil's Backbone (2001) (Spanish)
Directed by Guillermo
del Toro
In 1939, young Carlos
is sent to an orphanage where the ghost of a former child whose death
is not the only secret that is within the orphanage's walls.
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Death
Ship (1980)
Directed by Alvin
Rakoff
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black
ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship
is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring
unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
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Scrooged
(1988)
Directed by Richard Donner
Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of
Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant
one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the
help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises
he must change.
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The
Shining
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
A male novelist is having writer's block. He, his wife, and his young
son become the care-takers of a haunted hotel so he can go back to writing
again. Once they start meeting the ghosts, they talk to them by "shining"
(telepathic conversation). This slowly drives the novelist crazy until he
finally snaps with the help of Mr. Grady and he starts chasing his wife
around with an axe (and eventually kills an ex-employee that went to rescue
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