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1) The shining
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A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
2) Backtrack
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Psychiatrist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his patients all share a similar, dark secret. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret, which only he can put right.
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A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client's papers. While he works alone in the client's isolated house, he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman who is terrorizing the locals. This leads him on a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
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Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top)
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A debunker of all things paranormal, Professor Philip Goodman has devoted his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans on his own television show. His skepticism is put to the test however, when he receives a file of three chilling, inexplicable cases. Even scarier, each of these macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to Professor Goodman's own Ife. Will they make a believer of him yet?
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Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
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Claudia, a young student at an all-girl boarding school, suffers terrifying dreams of a woman's hanging body. She enlists the help of other students to investigate the source of these all-too-real dreams and soon learns the hanged woman is the tormented and restless spirit of a past student, who is hellbent on enacting her revenge.
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"El suicidio de una mujer enloquecida, que tiene lugar a finales del siglo XIX, viene a tener consecuencias terribles en la época actual, como si un destino oculto y fantasmagórico moviera sus hilos para desencadenar una historia de terror y hacer despertar, desde lo profundo, el miedo mas incontrolable, envolviendo a nuestra protagonista en una pesadilla cuyo despertar amenaza ser su propia muerte"--Container.
In the late nineteenth century, an...
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An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that's been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family's teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and tragic love story of Sir Simon's beloved wife, Virginia...
11) Kiss me goodbye
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The spooky fun begins when Kay Villano is one week away from marrying the serious Dr. Rupert Baines and an uninvited guest appears on the scene; the ghost of Kay's dead, but oh so debonair, husband Jolly.
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The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage. The story concerns an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
13) Kwaidan
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After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously...
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