Because you guys are so excellent at suggesting movies (and stories! I’ll take stories!), I need help. I’m doing a bit of writing research for a class I’m taking and I need some ghost movies to watch. Haunted House movies are best but also anything involving curses, voodoo, tarot cards or fortune telling, New Orleans. Or horror/comedy that sort of comes close to that, any films that are a deconstruction of the genre (does that sound pretentious? I feel like that sounds pretentious).
Here’s my list so far:
The Frighteners
The Innkeepers
Woman in Black
Drag Me to Hell
Scream
Cabin in the Woods
Skeleton Key
Haunting of Hill House
Thinner
Dead Alive
Phantasm
The Exorcist
Beetlejuice
The Innocents
Poltergeist
What have you guys got for me?
UPDATE
For books or stories, I’m pretty good on the Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe and Clive Barker. Though if there’s any Lovecraft suggestions, I’ll take those!
Oh and also, I’m mostly looking for North American or maybe British flicks. I love the crazy Asian ones but for cultural references, they’re not as much what I’m looking for with this project.
August 7, 2012 at 2:26 pm
THE SHINING is a great haunted house film! I don’t know what the miniseries was like (dumb, I’m assuming), but BAG OF BONES by Stephen King was a great ghost story.
August 7, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Bag of Bones was unwatchable. I tried and couldn’t even make it through the first part. I mean, maybe it gets better but I was so bored I’m not really inclined to see more.
August 7, 2012 at 7:23 pm
I heard it was terrible. Maybe not for this project, but give the book a try some time! It’s wonderful.
August 10, 2012 at 2:11 am
I love The Others! Also The Haunting and The Amityville Horror are important. I was bored through The Haunting in Connecticut, but it counts.
And I know you’re not looking for Asian films, but The Grudge is pretty highly haunted housey and the US version very nearly made sense. If you’re open to Spanish flicks, I adore The Orphanage and The Devil’s Backbone.
August 10, 2012 at 6:44 pm
I still haven’t managed to watch Haunting in Connecticut. I could give that a go.
I rewatched the Grudge over Halloween and the movie STILL SCARES ME. Gah.
I also still need to see The Devil’s Backbone! I don’t know how I haven’t seen that yet. And The Orphanage is great