To really miss traditional ghost story movies?

There's an old BBC adaptation of a Charles Dickens story called The Signalman with Denholm Elliot. Required watching in this house around Halloween.

The christmas ghost story this year is EF Benson, The room in the Tower, I think it will be good.

i wasn't very good at spotting those ghosts either! Of course, Blye Manor! I thought it was Hill House 😄

The Orphanage is good as a simple ghost story, as is The Awakening.

I also like a good ghost story, Paranormal Activity really frightened me

I’m the same, love a good ghost story but can’t stomach overdone splattery gore! Crimson Peak was a great one, visually stunning and well…Tom Hiddelston 😁

I love a proper tension based ghost story too - I want a story, not just random gore. I enjoyed Ghost Stories too and I loved the Haunting of Hill House.
Some of the Blumhouse ones are quite good. Night Swim was good and so was The Visit.

I also loved The Black Phone and Sinister. Sinister was one of the scariest I have seen.

OMG Afterlife! No one ever remembers it but it had some terrifying moments.

Big ghost story fan here , this one of the creepiest films I have ever watched !! The autopsy of Jane Doe .

agree with @HRTQueen- the original Woman in Black remains the program that completely terrified me. I still have to sleep with an eye mask because of that particular scene where the ghost is above the bed!!!!!

Don’t think I can watch ghost stories any more, having children seemed to have altered my emotional state so I just can’t take them now, but coming here to celebrate the 15 years or so of my life when The Others was my favourite film. Even the memory of jumping watching the trailer in the cinema makes me smile.

I got DS13 to watch the Sixth Sense recently (part of my “90s education” for him ;)) and he got the twist really early.

Oh blimey, I tried to watch that once on a plane, and it was so stressful I had to switch it off as soon as the first ghost appeared! Even on a tiny screen with people crammed in all around me. I might have to give it another go though; I’m outside the UK and can’t access iplayer, so it will have to be on YouTube and the cheesy ads every 10 minutes should break up the tension.

Another vote for Haunting of Hill House - fantastic! My favourite film wise is the original Poltergeist or Paranormal Activity but I would agree that a lot of ghost stories just aren’t hitting.

I have begun listening to recordings of old radio dramas from the 30s-50s. Really clever, well-written and classy yet scary stories.

Watching because I love creepy and hate gory. El Orphanato is one of my all time favourite movies ever.

It’s years since I watched The Sixth Sense and even now scenes from it pop into my head and give me a cold feeling. For some reason, the scene at the start when Cole gets shut in the cupboard at the party scared me so much, even though we didn’t see the ghost. It was worse to just imagine what was in there!

I haven’t seen Hill House, but The Haunting of Blye Manor by the same team was very good. Not terrifying (although I was crap at spotting the background ghosts) but eerie and quite moving. The feeling of dread and despair in the episode where the housekeeper realises what’s going on particularly got under my skin.

Other ghost story films I’ve enjoyed are The Orphanage and The Devil’s Backbone. Both Spanish and featuring creepy ghost children.

Ghost Stories is on Iplayer right now. Watched it last week and was really good.

Yes love a good old fashioned British ghost story. I used to enjoy the Christmas ones on the BBC based on MR James stories but the last couple have been a bit crap.

Liked Ghost Stories with the Martin Freeman and Paul Whitehouse… that was good. Also Requiem as pp mentioned.

Ghost movies are my favorite kind of scary movie. I loved how in “The Sixth Sense,” most of the ghosts had less than a minute onscreen, but they each make a huge impression. To me, the scariest ghost is the one we never see who’s in the cupboard and shouting, “I didn’t steal the master’s horse!” Oh, just gives me chills.

For Halloween decorations, I have wooden tombstones outside my house that I painted to be the tombstones of famous ghosts, and one of them is for…a particularly famous ghost from that movie. (Not specifying just in case there’s someone here who hasn’t seen it and doesn’t want spoilers!)

I also loved the haunting of Hill house

I'm not going to do any spoilers but just to say, oh my God - BNL! That was an absolute piece of genius. Actually there were loads of bits of genius in there especially visually in the last few episodes.

Yes to Woman in Black and The Others. I love a period, English set ghost story. I also really liked The Little Stranger and The Awakening.

Jump remembering the jump scares now you mention them - the boat scene in Midnight Mass, the jester in House of Usher and loads of others 🥺

We still have a red wine stain on our sofa from one particular jump scare 😂.

Im a big scaredy cat so it terrified me, but in the best way. I also was infinitely more emotionally engaged with the characters and their stories because of the series format, which made it so much more impactful.

I love everything he has ever done but I don't find them particularly scary, but that one was perhaps the scariest out of the all anthologies.

I've put YABU just because I think it's been a wonderful time for horror recently. Like you I dislike monsters and ott cgi. But I've seen some amazing innovative horror the last decade.. to name a few
Weapons
Longlegs
Barbarian
Kill List
Late Night with the Devil
The Witch
Hereditary
Bring Her Back
Harvest
A Dark Song
Ghost Stories (British film)
The Canal
Wake Wood
Starve Acre
The Relic (Australian film)
Hagazussa
February/blackcoats daughter
It Follows
Heretic
Oddity
In Fabric

I also really loved and highly recommend the tv show "Requiem"
I also loved the older tv show "Afterlife" from 2005 with Andrew Lincoln and Lesley Sharp.. really creeped me out