Mankiewicz (All About Eve) directed this appealing romantic film, pitting a young widow (the effervescent Gene Tierney) against a sardonic, unhappy spirit (Rex Harrison). Few have the inherent sweetness, humor, and chemistry of its leads that you get with The Ghost and Mrs. There are quite a few ghost movies in which a spirit falls in love with someone still among the living. Watch if: You want to see a true black and white classic in the haunted house subgenre Avoid if: You don’t like uninvited people or things. The human element is often vital in ghost stories. Both of those are excellent, yet Milland, Ruth Hussey, and Donald Crisp give us very human, very reasonable responses to the increasingly-strange events going on around them. The Uninvited is one of the greatest haunted house movies of all time, but the cast is as important to that as the pacing and atmosphere. The Uninvited is a good example of Milland taking the material seriously, no matter what.
A Welsh-American actor whose career spanned seven decades, Milland’s resume includes the Best Actor Oscar for 1945’s The Lost Weekend, sharing a body with Rosy Grier in The Thing with Two Heads, an appearance on the original Battlestar Galactica, and much more. Oscar-winner Ray Milland has one of my favorite filmographies of all time. That thought informs many of the entries on this chronological list of the best ghost movies. To put it another way, our minds can make a lot out of a sound we didn’t expect. We can even tell ghost stories that aren’t about ghosts at all, but it’s debatable that such movies belong on this list. At the same time, we can use the idea of ghosts, or of what ghosts represent, to tell a wide range of ghost stories. That certainly helps to explain the continued popularity of ghost stories in film. We had to go into the basement, as much as we didn’t want to.Įven now, most of us can tap into those memories, into those often-unreasonable fears. We were the kid who had to cross through the empty parking lot at night. Again, you don’t have to believe in ghosts to imagine these things, to be transfixed by a human being who has to walk down a dark hallway. Ghosts can inhabit love stories, horror films, slapstick comedies, immersive psychological studies, and many other locales. Ghost stories can come in a variety of different forms, particularly when we are talking about movies. At least, as far as our entertainment is concerned.
You may not believe in God, but our imaginations largely still think it’s reasonable to accept other worlds and dimensions. Because there will always be a part of most minds that wants desperately to believe in the unknown. All you have to do is connect the film to the part of your mind that likes to imagine such stories are plausible. Because whether or not you actually believe in ghosts is not a requirement to appreciate one of the oldest subgenres in film. It stands to reason that any list of the best ghost movies would appeal to you, as well. If you don’t believe in ghosts, there’s a chance ghost stories still appeal to you.
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