# Favorite movies featuring ghosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313 "2016-10-31T23:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/1 "2016-10-31T23:09:17Z")
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](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. How about yours? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/2 "2016-10-31T23:10:55Z")
**The Ghost and Mrs. Muir**. Over and over and over. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/3 "2016-10-31T23:37:57Z")
Ghost. Seriously. Also enjoyed that movie with Nicole Kidman-- The Others was it? Even though I figured out the end during the middle. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/4 "2016-10-31T23:39:32Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > 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](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. > > How about yours? 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” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/5 "2016-10-31T23:46:04Z")
\*\*Truly, Madly, Deeply. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/6 "2016-11-01T00:19:57Z")
_The Uninvited_ (1944, Ray Milland, Gail Russsell). Just saw it the other day on TCM. _13 Ghosts_ (1960, the William Castle original). _Dead of Night_ (1945), which I choose to see as a ghost story, at least in part. It could be otherwise interpreted, though. The 1938 version of _A Christmas Carol_ with Reginald Owen. It’s a Christmas story, so people forget it’s also a ghost story, but it is, and a good one. _Carnival of Souls_ (1962) _Ju-On_ (2003) “The Grudge”-- the original Japanese version. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/7 "2016-11-01T00:22:54Z")
+600 for Truly, Madly, Deeply The Sixth Sense Haunted (with Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale) Practical Magic ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/8 "2016-11-01T00:29:50Z")
**Beetlejuice.** Also, **The Devil’s Backbone** and **The Others.** Also also, I agree that **Ghost** is a much better film than most give it credit for. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/9 "2016-11-01T00:36:47Z")
It’s cheesy today by some people’s standards, but I really like the 1980 movie The Changeling with George C. Scott. Creepy and haunting! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/10 "2016-11-01T00:37:27Z")
Poltergeist. Absolute favorite ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/11 "2016-11-01T00:51:04Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > \*\*Truly, Madly, Deeply. \*\* > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Poltergeist. Absolute favorite These two, in that order. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/12 "2016-11-01T01:24:45Z")
_Field of Dreams_ - what do I win? Or aren’t they scary enough? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/13 "2016-11-01T01:26:13Z")
“He slimed me! I feel so funky!” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/14 "2016-11-01T01:54:45Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > **The Ghost and Mrs. Muir**. Over and over and over. 🙂 Yes, definitely. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > _The Uninvited_ (1944, Ray Milland, Gail Russsell). Just saw it the other day on TCM. 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). > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > _Dead of Night_ (1945), which I choose to see as a ghost story, at least in part. It could be otherwise interpreted, though. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/15 "2016-11-01T02:12:17Z")
_The Empire Strikes Back._ ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/16 "2016-11-01T02:18:26Z")
_Kwaidan_ is EXCELLENT. A more recent J-horror film with horrific ghosts is _Pulse_ (2001). They come and getcha through the INTERNET. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/17 "2016-11-01T02:28:21Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/18 "2016-11-01T02:41:27Z")
[The Frighteners](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116365/). 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. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/19 "2016-11-01T02:59:06Z")
> [@Tapiotar](#): > > Haunted (with Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale) That would be my favourite. Also _The Others_. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/20 "2016-11-01T03:01:48Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [The Frighteners](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116365/). 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. John Astin is a hoot! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313.md?page=2)