# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/21 "2016-11-01T03:25:07Z")
The Haunting ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/22 "2016-11-01T04:00:20Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > _Kwaidan_ is EXCELLENT. > > A more recent J-horror film with horrific ghosts is _Pulse_ (2001). They come and getcha through the INTERNET. Definitely second Kwaidan. My favorite segment is “the Tale of Hoichi the Earless”. “The Haunting” (original with Julie Christie and Claire Bloom) “The Shining” (I don’t buy the theory that it’s all happening in Jack Torrence’s head; I say the Overlook is Hell/Limbo) Another second for “Carnival of Souls” For more light-hearted ghosts, there’s “Topper” starring Cary Grant. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/23 "2016-11-01T04:22:24Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > “The Haunting” (original with Julie Christie and Claire Bloom) Nitpick…Julie Harris. 🙂 ---
**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, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/24 "2016-11-01T04:26:14Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Nitpick…Julie Harris. 🙂 Yeah, that would have been a whole nother movie, with Julie Christie as the repressed spinster (but beautiful and with a fabulous figure). I don’t think Claire Bloom’s character would have been able to keep her hands off… ---
**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, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/25 "2016-11-01T07:22:45Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Yeah, that would have been a whole nother movie, with Julie Christie as the repressed spinster (but beautiful and with a fabulous figure). I don’t think Claire Bloom’s character would have been able to keep her hands off… On the other hand, there’s _Don’t Look Now_ with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, which may be about a ghost, or may be about a creepy, serial killer-little person. Hmm. Claire Bloom and Julie Christie. ---
**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, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/26 "2016-11-01T07:24:58Z")
Oh, BTW: _Ghostbusters_. Both versions. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/27 "2016-11-01T08:47:24Z")
Does _Spirited Away_ count? If not, then _Beetlejuice_. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/28 "2016-11-01T12:47:27Z")
I like everything that’s been mentioned so far. How about _Ghost Story_. “Dance with me, you little troll”. What an underrated gem. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/29 "2016-11-01T13:46:50Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > 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! I came here to recommend The Changeling. I think it holds up very well. It’s a classic, timeless ghost story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313.md?page=1)