"House with the ghosts". How tempting it sounds to horror fans. The directors skillfully use this bait and create real masterpieces. The main thing is that with their help they can not only scare people, but also make people laugh, so everyone can find a movie with a similar theme to their liking.
Horror
You can't do without classics of the genre in the list of such horror films. The Shining (1980) still causes a lot of horror among grown-up children, who saw it for the first time in the year of its premiere. An empty hotel, Jack Nicholson, two non-existent twins, appearing for just a few seconds, a mysterious story - and now the audience is already glued to the TV screens. No matter how critics perceive this picture, it is still included in the lists of the most terrible films of all times and peoples.
A cute little boy says an unusual phrase "I see dead people", and everything inside the viewer just turns over. In The Sixth Sense (1999), Bruce Willis does not save humanity and the entire planet, but wants to help that very boy. After the first viewing, few people knew for sure who was still alive in this film and who was pestering the boy from the dead. And so the audience over and over again deal with real and ghostly characters, looking at the picture to the holes.
The film that keeps you on your toes all the time is The Others (2001). At first, no one guesses whether there will be ghosts in the old mansion at all, why it is always so dark, and what is the main problem. And the ending is simply amazing. Of course, the director's move is more than original - to make almost all of his heroes ghosts. But even knowing the ending, watching a movie is incredibly scary again.
The Amityville Horror (2005) is considered a masterpiece on the list of the scariest haunted house movies. Anyone who has never been scared has not watched this film. And even if everything is pretty standard: a happy couple with three children moves into the house, not knowing that six people were killed here earlier, but the frightening phenomena and situations taking place in the house with the heroes lead to a state of horror. Whether they can figure out the secrets of the house or not depends only on the new owners.
Another film with the telling title "The Messengers" (2007) also fits into the scheme quite well: a family with not the best relationship between a daughter and a mother moves to a distant home. There she is faced not with expected happiness, but with strange incidents. Ghosts who communicate with one child and seek to kill another, even more quarrel between the daughter and her parents. As a result, the girl alone will unravel the whole tangle of riddles that are happening in this house.
The film "Psychic" (The Awakening, 2011) has many standard techniques for this genre: a skeptical scientist (here it is a young woman), an old school building outside the city, heightened spiritual activity and myths that the guest seeks to debunk. The fact that she will soon face the otherworldly world, that these otherworldly guests are associated with herself, the woman, of course, has not yet guessed.
One of the last pictures, frightening already because it is based on real events, is The Conjuring (2013). Researchers of the paranormal arrive at a secluded home, where, according to the owners, something strange is happening. The fact that settling far from people is not the best solution, all horror fans understand, but not the heroes of this film. The most frightening case from the practice of real-life people looks tempting on the screen: a strange noise, the instillation of an evil spirit, ghosts, old secrets and, what pleases, a pretty good ending.
Scary funny
Some directors do not frighten their viewers with evil ghosts that keep mystical secrets, but quite even make them laugh. Although in some pictures it is rather black humor, such pictures are perceived much easier than horrors.
Who doesn't know the movie Casper (1995) about a good ghost? This is a typical family film about good and evil, about friendship and love, about hooligan representatives of ghosts and Kasper, who is different from them. Funny tricks of ghosts, Kasper's help to his girlfriend and various funny situations do not frighten, but only cause a kind smile.
Tim Burton knows how to show the otherworldly, probably better than anyone else in the world. And he does it brightly, colorfully and with humor. In the movie "Beetle Juice" (1988), viewers take the side of the ghosts who are trying to drive the new owners out of their former home. The so-called anti-exorcist Beetlejuice will help them in this. It looks like a children's fairy tale, but the heroes' adventures are incredibly funny.
Another film - "The Frighteners" (1996) presents the main character surrounded by translucent ghosts. After the death of his wife, he began to see spirits and even communicate with them. With this he decides to earn his living, which makes both ghosts and local residents nervous. Soon he is faced with something that scares him and even the ghosts. And all this is seasoned with humor and some kind of childlike spontaneity. The film evokes positive emotions even after almost 20 years.
