Ghost Story (1981)

Ghost Story (1981)

Four old friends (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman) have a secret, and when the son of one them (Craig Wasson) meets a beautiful, but strange woman (Alice Krige), death soon follows.  It’s up to the son to uncover what happened years ago before the beautiful ghost takes her revenge. A sad

The Crow (1994)

The Crow (1994)

A year after Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée were murdered, Eric is brought back from the grave to act as an avenging spirit.  However, the city’s crime boss, Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), wants to steal Eric’s power and only police Sergeant Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) can help the ghost. This review is going to

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

Amy (Ann Carter), the daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed (Kent Smith, Jane Randolph), is a lonely and overly imaginative child.  With no friends, she wishes for one, and Irena, the ghost of Oliver’s first wife, appears.  Amy also meets an old, pleasant, but mentally unstable neighbor (Julia Dean), who is cared for by a

Dark Water (2002)

Dark Water (2002)

Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki), a recently divorced mother going through an unpleasant custody battle, moves with her young daughter (Rio Kanno) to an apartment with a water-damaged ceiling. Soon, water is dripping into the bedroom, and a missing girl is appearing and disappearing around the building. Director Hideo Nakata created a new horror film movement in

Dark Water (2005)

Dark Water (2005)

Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly), a recently divorced mother going through a custody battle, moves with her young daughter (Ariel Gade) to an apartment with a water-damaged ceiling.  Soon, water is dripping into the bedroom, and mysterious events are occurring that relate to a missing girl. Dark Water is the result of a group of primarily talented

Darkness Falls (2003)

Darkness Falls (2003)

One hundred and fifty years ago, a woman nicknamed The Tooth Fairy was lynched, leaving a curse on the town.  Twelve years ago, young Kyle Walsh saw The Tooth Fairy; he escaped but she killed his mother.  Now, Kyle’s old love, Caitlin Greene (Emma Caulfield) needs Kyle’s help as her brother has seen The Tooth

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

During the Spanish Civil War, Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is left at an isolated orphanage with an unexploded bomb buried in its courtyard.  There he must deal with aggressive students, a violent handyman named Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega), and the ghost of a boy who disappeared the day the bomb hit.  The orphanage is a place of

The Eye "Jian gui" (2002)

The Eye “Jian gui” (2002)

A blind woman, Wong Kar Mun (Angelica Lee, also known as Lee Sin-je), is given an eye operation that restores her sight.  But her blurry first images include dark shapes that visit the beds of the dying.  Soon she is seeing the dead everywhere, and she starts to break down. One of the more significant

Field of Dreams (1989)

Field of Dreams (1989)

Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), an Iowa farmer going through a mid-life crises, hears a voice telling him “If you build it, he will come.”  He takes this to mean he needs to build a baseball field so that the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) can come and play baseball.  When eight ghosts show

The Fog (1980)

The Fog (1980)

A hundred years ago, a ship of lepers sank off the shore of what would become the town of Antonio Bay.  Now a strange fog is rolling into town and citizens are dying. Part ghost story, part slasher, part curse flick, The Fog is an atmospheric tale that puts multi-dimensional, everyday people into a horrific

The Forgotten One (1990)

The Forgotten One (1990)

Bob Anderson (Terry O’Quinn), a recent widower, moves in to a new house and starts a relationship with his neighbor (Kristy McNichol).  But the ghost of the house has other ideas. Quick Review: This film hits all the right notes for me.  There are some blatant flaws (the clichéd narration, the limited camera work, the

The Ghost {Ryeong} (2004)

The Ghost {Ryeong} (2004)

Ji-won (Ha-Neul Kim), suffering amnesia after an “incident” a year ago, has decided to study abroad, much to the chagrin of her possessive mother.  When one of her old friends drowns in her kitchen, Ji-won begins to investigate the past, and discovers she was a rather unpleasant girl, with three unpleasant friends, all of whom