Ghost Ship (2002) Review
Ghost Ship (2002) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A salvage crew boards a liner missing since 1962. The first twenty seconds are among the best in modern horror and the remaining eighty minutes cannot follow them.
Genre: Supernatural
Ghosts, hauntings, and forces that do not answer to physics. Supernatural fiction lives on the border between the explained and the impossible, and these stories walk that border deliberately.
ChristmasMiracle on 34th Street (1947)
A department store Santa claims to be the real Kris Kringle, and a lawyer must defend him in court. Miracle on 34th Street is George Seaton's 1947 American Christmas drama about a department store Santa who claims to be the…
ChristmasThe Bishop’s Wife (1947)
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ComedyThe Cabin in the Woods (2011)
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HorrorIt Follows (2014)
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Haunted HouseInsidious (2010)
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Haunted HouseThe Conjuring (2013)
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Folk HorrorThe Blair Witch Project (1999)
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ChristmasScrooge (1951)
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Foreign MoviesJu-On: The Grudge (2002)
Takashi Shimizu's haunted house horror where a curse spreads from anyone who enters a Tokyo home where a murder occurred. Ju-On: The Grudge is Takashi Shimizu's 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film depicting a curse that spreads from anyone who enters…
HorrorCandyman (1992)
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Foreign MoviesRingu (1998)
Hideo Nakata directs the Japanese supernatural horror about a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching. Ringu is Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese supernatural horror film adapted from Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel, depicting a Tokyo television reporter investigating a…