Ju-On is pretty good, overrated, but pretty good. Ringu too. I didn't like The Ring and so never bothered to watch The Grudge. Not into remakes most of the time, probably will never watch The Pulse remake, and just watch the original again when I get a chance.

Session 9 is not about a ghost/doesn't have a ghost in it, at all. I suppose I could maybe see why you thought there was a ghost, but, no, no ghost.

tinyP hates ghostbusters 2 while i love it
unless you mean that we argue about the movie anyway ;p

I think "hauntings" is a better, broader term, and is why I included things like The Pulse and The Entity.

You could gather from the evidence that the original girl on the tapes was possessed, and further that the killer was also possessed by the same spirit, without spoiling too much. I mean I know it's supposed to be a psychotic break but then, you can't be too sure, can you?

That was the general implication, yes.

Ghostbusters (2016)

The beginning of the movie, in particular, felt like horror to me.

(This post, I believe, marks the point where all 3 Ghostbusters movies have been mentioned in the topic.)

One that I saw recently that isn't a bad popcorn flick is "The Forest".

Darkness Falls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfvAF-UdS_o


I am surprised no one mentioned

"The Sixth Sense"

By far, in my book, "The Eclipse" (McPherson 2009). One of my favorite movies full stop. Haunting plays a marginal role in it, but is very accurately true to what ghosts mean to me (and, I'd say, to people in everyday life).

TinyE mentionned "The Changeling" (Medak 1990), which I consider as the most efficiently terrifying one, but it's been too many years I've seen it and I don't always trust my past judgements on movies anymore.

I consider "The Grudge" (I don't even remember if I saw the original or the remake) fantastically scary and fantastically dumb. It's like a loosely tied series of vignettes, with barely any pretext story, but the cinematography alone makes them very efficient.

Kubrick's "Shining", duh.

I loved Young-Tak Kim's "Hello ghost" (2010), but it's more of a -sensitive- comedy.

And you'll find a handful of suggestions in that thread : https://www.gog.com/forum/general/i_need_a_terrifying_movie/page1

Edit :

Also Amenabar's "The Others" (2001). Loved that film. I'd mention also Balaguero's "Darkness" (2002), but I am not certain it was about ghosts specifically. But very worth watching anyway, especially for the way it toys with "The Shining"...

 ▪   1408
 ▪   Insidious
 ▪   Paranormal Activity
 ▪   Sometimes They Come Back
 ▪   The Amityville Horror
 ▪   The Conjuring
 ▪   The Haunting in Connecticut
 ▪   The Shining

She had multiple personalities, not possession. I think the point was that every character in the movie was a different personality of the same person, or at least, he had a few personalities, including his daughter, because he burned her with the boiling water, or something weird like that. It's not a very solid movie, so, it's not "all there" anyway to determine what is going on anyway, which is why it isn't so good, imo.
ummm, because it's one of the worst movies ever!


Haunted is another very good one (with Aidan Quinn)!

Into the Mirror

A Tale of Two Sisters

And if you like it a little cheesy 13 Ghosts and Ghost Ship

I also liked the new Woman in Black.

It Follows

You'll be watching over your shoulder for weeks after seeing this movie.