Foster on Film

Three stories introduced by Boris Karloff. (1) A woman steals a ring from a corpse that may have died due to the actions of ghosts. (2) A woman receives a series of threatening phone calls from a dead man. (3) A vampire hunter (Boris Karloff) returns to his family after a hunt, and after the

Quentin Collins (David Selby) and his young wife Tracy (Kate Jackson) have just inherited the sprawling gothic estate of Collinwood, complete with weird housekeeper, Carlotta (Grayson Hall). Quentin starts getting strange dreams, seeing things, and begins to stare off into nothing. He just might be the reincarnation of Charles Collins. Years ago Charles’s lover and

A man (Casey Affleck) dies and rises as a ghost, returning to his home. He watches over his widow (Rooney Mara) for a time, but she leaves the house and he stays on. He watches, occasionally acting  but mostly watching as people come and go. If you haven’t heard about A Ghost Story, it’s the

Secretive professor Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco) and his unstable wife Lucy (Katherine MacColl) move into a strange old house, along with their deeply annoying son (Giovanni Frezza) who sees a ghost girl that tells him not to go. The house had been inhabited by a colleague who was doing some unusual research when he killed

After a man dies at night from the cry of a woman, Don Fernando (Paco Martínez) tells his nephew Dr. Ricardo de Acuna (Ramón Pereda) of the great danger his child is in. All the first born sons of the family die when they are four years old. He claims this is due to a

Ann Carrington (Carole Landis) and her sarcastic friend Gail Richards (Joan Blondell) arrive at the Carrington estate for Ann to be reunited with her sick father (H.B. Warner). He is looked after by sinister butler Rama (Trevor Bardette), more sinister housekeeper Lillian (Rafaela Ottiano), and extremely sinister live-in doctor Jeris (George Zucco). Gail is murdered

Callie (Carrie Coon) brings her teenage son Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and awkward, precocious daughter Phoebe (McKenna Grace) to live on her recently deceased father’s ramshackle farm. Phoebe quickly discovers a connection to the Ghostbusters and with the aid of her teacher (Paul Rudd) and new friend (Logan Kim), sets out to solve the mystery of

Murdoch Glourie (Robert Donat) of the clan Glourie dies a ignoble death and is cursed by his father to exist as a ghost until he can humiliate a member of the clan MacClaggan. Two hundred years later, Donald Glourie (also Robert Donat) is forced to sell Glourie castle to a crude American businessman (Eugene Pallette)

A physicist (Kristen Wiig), a ghost hunter (Melissa McCarthy), an engineer (Kate McKinnon), and a mass-transit ticket-taker (Leslie Jones) join forces to form the Ghostbusters. A disgruntled janitor is summoning ghosts in order to carry out a larger scheme that will wipe out humanity and our team must use their high tech gadgets to defeat

During a period of unrest in Japan, a mother and her daughter-in-law (Nobuko Otowa & Kiwako Taichi) are raped and murdered by a band of disheveled samurai. They return as ghosts, seducing and then killing samurai. The local samurai lord Raiko (Kei Sato) tasks newly minted samurai Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) with finding who or what

Detective So-Young (Song Yoon-Ah) and her rookie  partner investigate a murder where the autopsy reveals the victim was killed from the inside.  The death, and several others, are connected to a drunken brawl ten years ago where a barman died and his girlfriend disappeared.  Is the girl’s ghost finally getting revenge or is this a

Henry and Ann Bergner (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker), who have just committed suicide, find themselves on a ship.  They are joined by a group of people killed in an air raid, including an unhappy newspaperman (John Garfield).  Only the suicides understand that they are dead and they are warned by Scrubby (Edmund Gwenn), the steward,