Horror fans! Please recommend a good ghost story film

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Morning

I am looking forward to the release of Ghost Stories next April:
www.imdb.com/title/tt5516328/

Looks very good from the trailer, and the theatre version is said to be very good.

I love MR James, Woman in Black and all the classic style ghost stories. Also love The Ring, Paranormal Activity series, and anything Stephen King.

I don’t like anything very gory or that has excessive violence/torture in it, do not find that entertaining whatsoever. Having said that, I did enjoy and highly recommend The Last Shift (which was fairly gory but not ott) www.imdb.com/title/tt2965466/

What are your favourite ghost story style films? I am looking for good scary films to watch on dark and gloomy nights!

Thanks so much.

Not ghost story but Stranger Things on Netflix is awesome. We binge watched Series one in a weekend and now onto series two.

It's set in the 80s and a homage to 80s films like the goonies, stand by me, ET. It's heavily influenced by Stephen King novels.

The child actors in it are incredible and the characters have depth which is refreshing. I'm hooked!

It's not gore in the slightest. (I hate gore).

Thanks
I’ve heard good things about Stranger Things, will give that a go as we have Netflix.

What lies beneath is my all time favourite

Room 1408

Here's the trailer for episode 1 of Stranger Things.

Winona Ryder is also brilliant in it.

You’ll enjoy The Conjuring and Annabelle. Insidious is very good too. The old poltergeist films are pretty scary.

Stranger Things is just brilliant. I finished season 2 this morning and wow. I wouldn’t say it’s horror but definitely give it a go.

Cross posts! You won't be disappointed. If you like classic horror I don't see how it's even possible not to like Stranger Things!

Sure it's not horror by modern shit scary standards but it's heavily influenced by classic 80s horror films.

Some great suggestions thanks!
I would LOVE to watch room 1408. Shame it’s not on Netflix or Amazon Prime. I will have to hunt down the dvd.
Love Insidious 1 and 2, need to see no. 3.
What lies beneath is excellent, watched that some years back.
Loved the Conjuring but have yet to see Annabelle.

I watched GhostWatch yesterday, the BBC Halloween programme from 1992. I watched some of it at the time (was only 9). It’s pretty good, looks naff now by today’s standards, but can see how people were scared at the time.

The Others is my absolute favourite

One of my favourite ghost story films is The Others. It's not a scary film but it's exactly a ghost story in film.

DP wasn't so keen though as he guessed the twist early on!

Cross post!

It's great isn't it!

The Awakening is so atmospheric, it's set just after ww1, in a haunted boys boarding school, there's sexual tension, a frightening dolls house a good plot and the very attractive dominic West. I love M R James too so I think you would like it. Also tv series on Netflix - originally bbc- called the living and the dead. It stars the guy who was Merlin, as a psychologist in late Victorian manor house, it has haunting music and strange pagan folklore e.g. harvest customs, there's a different ghost every week but also a unifying story arc. I binge watched it last week and it is perfect for this time of year.

I just watched The Boy which was much better than I expected (if you ignore that fact it is supposed to be set in "England")

Loved The Others and Living and the Dead. Was a shame they decided not to do series 2 of the Living and the Dead. There was a clear hint at the end of series 1 (won’t spoil it) that indicated there might be a second series.
I also liked the Sixth Sense and Devil (M Night Shyamalan)

(Goes off to grab notepad to write down all your suggestions!)

I really liked An American Haunting.

DP says his all time favourite is The Shiny

Ha stupid phone sorry!

The Shining!

Old film, The Innocents, based on The Turn of the Screw (The Others was loosely based on the same).

The shiny lol
I bet there is really a film called that though

Have seen the Turn of the Screw at the theatre, it was excellent.
Be interesting to see a film version of it to see how it compares.

The Orphanage and The Devil's Backbone are fantastic ghost stories, both Guillermo del Toro with subtitles if you don't mind them. I feel they add to the atmosphere somehow.

I adore classic horror and ghost stories, but I have to say I was very ambivalent about Stranger Things. I got to the penultimate episode and then decided I'd wasted enough time on something I didn't care much about. I thought the main girl and Winona Ryder were both quite bad actually. But I know I'm in a minority here!

Haha - what would the plot be?

The Shiny - a psychological thriller - a posessed magpie and his descent into madness

The Shiny - beware bald men - all is not what it seems!

Raisins I would totally watch those films, should they come to pass