Top 10: Best ghost horror movies

 

1. The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick

 

 

2. Dark Water/ 仄暗い水の底から (Honogurai Mizu no Soko Kara) (2002) - Hideo Nakata  

 

3. The Abandoned/Los Abandonados (2006) - Nacho Cerdà

 

 

4. The Devil's Backbone/El Espinoza del Diablo (2001) - Guillermo del Toro

 

 

5. Lake Mungo (2008) - Joel Anderson

 

 

6. Insidious (2010) - James Wan 

 

 

7. The Conjuring (2013) - James Wan  

8. Black Sabbath/I Tre Volti Della Paura (1963) - Mario Bava

 

 

9. Silent House (2011) - Chris Kentis, Laura Lau

 

 

10. Mama (2013) - Andy Muschietti  

Selected from 23 titles labeled 'ghost horror'

Previous Top 10 lists:

Best action movies
Best adapted movies
Best adventure movies
Best 'big flop' movies
Best B/W movies
Best true story movies
Best 'big hit' movies
Best biopic movies
Best 'box office success' movies
Best car chases in movies
Best comedies
Best cop movies       
Best crime movies 
Best debut movies   
Best Danish movies
Best Disney movies 
Best documentaries 
Best dramas
Best drama-thrillers
Best dramedies

Best drug-themed movies

Best UK movies

Best epic movies

Best erotic movies

Best family movies

Best fantasy movies

Best films about filmmaking 

Best first-of-franchise movies 

Best 'flop' rank movies

Best Twentieth Century Fox titles 

Best French movies

Best franchise movies 

Best future-set movies 

Best gangster movies

Best gay-themed titles

Best German movies 

What do you think of the list?
Which ghost horror films would make your personal Top 10?

Silent House (2011) - A scream queen is born

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+ Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year (Elizabeth Olsen)

The 'true events' that the poster refer to is actually a case from Uruguay that not even the makers of Silent House, Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, know any details about

A young girl arrives at her uncle's house, which she is going to help empty for future sale with her father. But there seems to be a squatter in the house...

Silent House, written by Laura Lau (Grind (1997)) and co-directed by her and her husband Chris Kentis (Open Water (2003)), is based on the Uruguayan horror movie The Silent House/La Casa Muda (2010). It is made with an intense real-time concept that makes the whole film seem like it was shot in a single shot, (although it was mostly shot in 12 minute blocs, - which is also impressive, however, - with cuts hidden by various techniques.) Cinematography by Igor Martinovic (Man on Wire (2008)) The film has an intensely uncomfortable story at the its center.
Silent House works! Because you get scared shitless and highly uncomfortable not far into the proceedings. Elizabeth Olsen (Godzilla (2014)) gives another kick-ass performance in a fearless role, a journey into the darkness within.
The film and its concept, which only works to heighten things, do, however, become too uncomfortable for some people. - Beware, if you have weak nerves! Silent House is a wild round of visually equilibristic scares, but also, when it sheds its robes, a true feel-bad movie. Luckily at 87 minutes, it is generously compressed lengthwise.

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Scream queen Elizbeth Olsen faces terror in Chris Kentis and Laura Lau's Silent House

Watch the trailer for the film here

Cost: 2 mil. $
Box office: In excess of 13.1 mil. $
= Huge hit
[Silent House earned mixed reviews and bad audience reactions, as people were put off by the real-time concept, the film's themes and other things. It still made 12.5 mil. $ in North America. Its final gross seems to be somewhere around 16 mil. $.]

What do you think of Silent House?