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Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
日本語
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
2) Beetlejuice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
After a tragedy strikes, a family discovers that the home they've inherited from an eccentric uncle is inhabited by sinister phantoms. Once the 12 ghosts are unlocked from the basement of the house, there is only the need for one more fresh ghost to fulfil an evil prophesy. Which member of the family will it be?
6) Bag of bones
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A novelist goes to the family summer house in Maine with the hope of completing his book. Once there, he is haunted not only by his late wife but also by other inhabitants at Dark Score Lake.
7) Casper
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Determined to get her hands on her father's hidden fortune, Carrigan is forced to hire an afterlife therapist to exorcise the ghosts that keep frightening her away. Dr. Harvey and his daughter, Kat, move in and soon Kat meets Casper, the friendliest ghost. But Casper's uncles are still determined to drive all the "fleshies" away.
9) Scrooged
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Alison accepts that the spirits she has seen since she was a child will never leave her. After nearly dying during a seance in which she was inhabited by the spirit of Robert's dead son, she determines that the dead should not dictate her life and she wants to help the living. Robert, meanwhile, is in turmoil. Once a total skeptic, his beliefs have been shaken by what he witnessed at the seance and he now struggles to make sense of his life.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In Ghostbusters, the doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler suddenly find themselves downsized from the University's parapsychology department, they decide to go the entrepreneurial route, chasing down ghostly ghosts, unappetizing apparitions and the occasional insolent succubae. In Ghostbusters 2, the doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler regroup to nuke the spooks in this high-spirited comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York CIty...
13) The changeling
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A man becomes the unwilling instrument of a ghost's revenge.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ever since she was a young girl, Melinda Gordon has been able to see and talk to dead people. Earth-bound spirits who have yet to cross over to the other side seek her help in communicating and resolving unfinished business with the living.
16) Don't look now
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Psychic terror in a Gothic setting provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter.
Publisher
Viz Media, [2008?]
Pub. Date
2008
Language
日本語
Description
For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as Hollows, he finds his life changed forever. Now with a newfound wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling: to protect the living and the dead from evil. And when he vows to defend Rukia from the ruthless justice of the Soul Society, he and his friends must cross over and do battle...
18) ParaNorman
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
From the makers of Coraline comes the story of Norman, a boy who must use his special powers to save his town from a centuries-old curse. In addition to spooky zombies, he'll also have to take on unpredictable ghosts, wily witches, and, worst of all, clueless grown-ups. But this young ghoul whisperer will soon find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1938]
Language
English
Description
The timeworn Dickens' story about the old merchant Scrooge and how his own disappointments in life shape his view that both life and men are not worthy of his notice or concern.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
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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