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It offers a few fun twists and turns, and evokes classic British haunted house movies of the past, as Radcliffe stalks through dark, cobwebbed rooms with a flaming candelabra to light his way. This CGI specter has a particular fondness for targeting children, and the film becomes a mystery in the “placate this restless spirit and set her free” mold. Daniel Radcliffe, fresh off his final Harry Potter appearance, took a role playing “an adult” as Arthur Kipps, a Victorian era lawyer who travels to the country to negotiate the sale of a house that is revealed to be haunted by the spirit of the Woman in Black.

With that said, you could argue that simply producing a ghost story this traditional in 2012 offered a bit of novelty. There’s not much to this 2012 modern Hammer Horror film-nothing unique about it, but it’s quite competently assembled. The Woman in Black (2012) Director: James Watkins You can certainly do worse for a weekend afternoon on the couch with the kids. A strong cast, anchored by Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Brad Garrett and a wonderful Eric Idle help it rise above the muck, and even get a wee bit philosophical. In fact, death happens quite a bit in Casper-no surprise, I guess, in that it’s a film about ghosts, but it really stacks some bodies nevertheless.

Still, this is a memorable yarn for younger audiences, one that is surprisingly morose and mature at times in terms of its depictions of death and grief. Casper (1995) Director: Brad SilberlingĬasper is a relic of the infancy of CGI, and thus is a little strange to watch today-compared with the likes of Jurassic Park, its effects have a much harder time holding up, which renders some of its ghostly characters a bit less effective. Here then, are the best ghost movies of all time:ĥ0. So yeah, there’s plenty of horror on this list-but there’s also plenty more ghost movies suitable for fans of every genre, from romance to comedy to science fiction. Even more so than our list of the best zombie movies, “ghosts” have been co-opted into seemingly every genre, and they all belong on a list of the “best ghost movies.” After all, A Christmas Carol revolves entirely around its visiting ghosts, doesn’t it? So does Field of Dreams and its ghostly major leaguers, or the title character of Beetlejuice. Sure, there are hundreds of classical cinematic ghost stories and haunted house tales, right? All the way back to 1944’s The Uninvited, through The Amityville Horror and onto The Conjuring and others-it’s not like there’s a shortage of malevolent spectres out there.īut then, in assembling the list, it became clear that this was another beast entirely from our recent ranking of the 50 best slasher movies of all time.

When we set out to create a list of the best “ghost movies,” we didn’t quite realize at the start exactly how diverse that list would eventually be.