Paste - The 50 Best Ghost Movies of All Time
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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.
We began with horror cinema in mind. 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.
But 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. 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. 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.
Here then, are the best “ghost movies” of all time.
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The Changeling
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Sixth Sense
1999, in 20 top lists Check -
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El orfanato
2007 — a.k.a. The Orphanage, in 3 top lists Check -
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Lake Mungo
2008, in 1 top list Check -
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The Others
2001, in 9 top lists Check -
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Ringu
1998, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Uninvited
1944, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ghost
1990, in 9 top lists Check -
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House on Haunted Hill
1959, in 1 top list Check -
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947, in 8 top lists Check -
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Janghwa, Hongryeon
2003 — a.k.a. A Tale of Two Sisters, in 5 top lists Check -
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Candyman
1992, in 1 top list Check -
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Session 9
2001, in 2 top lists Check -
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1408
2007, in 1 top list Check -
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The Legend of Hell House
1973, in 1 top list Check -
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Stir of Echoes
1999, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Oct 25, 2018; source