A Facebook friend asked this and I thought it might be fun here. What is your favorite movie (not necessarily a horror film) that features ghosts?
My choice is The Time of Their Lives. It’s an Abbott and Costello film, with Lou playing the ghost of a tinker from revolutionary times, who us cursed to haunt an estate forever unless it can be proven he’s not a traitor (it was untrue). He’s the star (he was feuding with Abbott at the time, so they have very few scenes together, and no comedy routines) and is very charming. It’s my favorite A&C film.
Bud Abbott claimed this was one of his favorites because he got to do a lot of physical comedy, something he didn’t get enough of in most of the A&C movies.
I think of this film when I hear that Gordon Lightfoot song If You Could Read my MInd, because it’s the only story I know of “about a ghost from a wishing well”
If it weren’t for TCM no-one would know about this one any more. By the way, the real co-star was one of my favorites, Ruth Hussey. Interesting tidbit: the part of the sinister Miss Holloway, who tried to kill Gail Russell’s character, was played by Cornelia Otis Skinner; Gail Russell played Ms Skinner as a young woman in two later movies (Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, and Our Hearts Were Growing Up).
At least two of the internal stories definitely involve ghosts, anyway. This one is a classic that everyone should see, if for nothing else than Michael Redgrave’s turn as a ventriloquist.
My choice is an old Japanese film called Kwaidan. It’s four folk tales, two of which are definitely ghost stories, and one of the others is arguably also. Unlike Dead of NIght, the stories are not connected by a central story.
Black Sabbath. Three part Mario Bava horror film. The first two parts are ghost stories and the final one is a vampire tale. Boris Karloff stars. I’m in my mid-50s and this still gets under my skin–especially the first story.
The Frighteners. Michael J. Fox is a con man who buddies up with some ghosts to scam people…until he gets involved with the ghost of a serial murderer.
