{"id":1106709,"date":"2026-01-28T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=512672"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:32:02","slug":"5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story\/","title":{"rendered":"5 excellent horror movies that reimagined the ghost story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The phantasms sit on a bus in carnival of souls\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">Modern Hollywood\u2019s foremost experimenter, Steven Soderbergh, has a new movie out this week, and it\u2019s all about ghosts. <em>Presence<\/em>, his excellent new film and his first real foray into the horror genre, is shot entirely from the perspective of a ghost who inhabits a house where a new family has moved in. In the hands of nearly any other director, this kind of formal experiment could feel like a gimmick at best \u2014 or, at worst, a movie-ruining annoyance \u2014 but instead Soderbergh integrates it so effectively and smoothly that it feels like the most natural way to tell this story. Soderbergh carefully allows the camera-ghost to become a character at exactly the right times; otherwise, he lets the concept rest and relies on the movie\u2019s fantastic script and family drama.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">So, in honor of Soderbergh\u2019s achievement in ghostly innovation, it got us thinking about ghosts as a subgenre of horror, and all of the fascinating and inventive cinematic storytelling filmmakers have used to tell evocative ghost stories. You can probably think of a few movies that fit the bill off the top of your head: There\u2019s <em>The Sixth Sense<\/em> and <em>Paranormal Activity<\/em>, even <em>Field of Dreams<\/em> if you&#8217;re willing to stretch a little. But the well runs much deeper than those few movies. Here are some of our favorite unique ghost movies, each of which does something a little different with the genre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carnival of Souls<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Director:<\/strong> Herk Harvey&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger<br \/><strong>Where watch:<\/strong> Prime Video&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This film follows Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss), a young woman who survives a tragic car accident only to find herself pursued by a ghostly spirit with haunting eyes and a stark white face. Aside from just the spirit, Mary\u2019s also inexplicably drawn to an abandoned carnival, which she finds herself constantly drifting toward for seemingly no reason at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Carnival of Souls<\/em> is an utterly strange and inescapably haunting classic, but the reason it belongs on this list is how quietly and effectively it slips ghostliness into the film. The ghosts in <em>Carnival of Souls<\/em> aren\u2019t just haunting, they\u2019re watchful and almost unnoticed, slipping eerily through crowds before doing something tangible, like reaching out and touching Mary before she\u2019s even seen them. Watching it now, over 62 years after its release, <em>Carnival of Souls<\/em> feels both recognizable, in how deeply it influenced not just ghost movies but the horror genre as a whole, and also still somehow surprisingly unique. While its inspirations are felt throughout the genre, it\u2019s not quite like any movie that\u2019s come since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lake Mungo&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Director:<\/strong> Joel Anderson&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe<br \/><strong>Where to watch:<\/strong> Prime Video&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Lake Mungo<\/em> is a found-footage film that tells the story of the Palmer family, whose 16-year-old daughter Alice drowns in the Australian lake that gives the movie its title. A few days after Alice\u2019s funeral, the family begins hearing strange noises and waking up to bizarre occurrences in their house each morning. Alice\u2019s older brother Matthew sets up a video camera to see what\u2019s going on, and the family realizes Alice seems to have returned to their home as a ghost \u2014 they just can\u2019t figure out how or why.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There\u2019s no shortage of found-footage ghost movies, but few of them engage as meaningfully or interestingly with either concept as <em>Lake Mungo<\/em> does. What makes it unique is how actively it engages with both the faults of memory and the faults of film itself. It\u2019s constantly grappling with the ways that footage could be doctored or altered, and what it might mean for the supernatural to interact with digital manipulation. For the viewer, it also means a constant questioning of what we\u2019re seeing in this pseudo-documentary is real and what isn\u2019t. The result is a film, much like <em>Presence<\/em>, that uses its ghostly subgenre to tell a deeply moving story about families and the secrets that pull them together and apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-vox-media-highlight vox-media-highlight\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Classic ghost movies<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Of course, there\u2019s much more to the wider cinematic world of ghosts than just the strange and unique movies we\u2019ve listed above. While the goal of this main list is to shed light on a few films you may not have seen, or that may have been doing something out of the ordinary, we\u2019re certainly not immune to the classics either. With that in mind, here are five all-time ghost movie classics, in case the other five in this story weren\u2019t enough to cure your paranormal curiosity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>The Haunting&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>Where to watch: Rentable on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Poltergeist&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>Where to watch: Paramount Plus&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>The Changeling&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>Where to watch: Shudder, Peacock<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>The Shining&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>Where to watch: Rentable on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>House<\/strong><br \/>Where to watch: Max, Criterion Channel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kwaidan&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Director:<\/strong> Masaki Kobayashi<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentar\u014d Mikuni, Tetsur\u014d Tamba<br \/><strong>Where to watch:<\/strong> Max<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Kwaidan <\/em>is unique on this list in that it doesn\u2019t tell a single narrative story, but rather is made up of four different ghostly short stories. One short story tells the tale of an unfaithful swordsman, another of a man who makes a promise to a spirit, another of a musician who plays songs for the court of a long-dead emperor, and another of a man who sees someone else\u2019s face in a teacup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Kwaidan <\/em>is both the easiest and hardest movie on this list to recommend. This isn\u2019t due to the movie\u2019s quality \u2014 it\u2019s outstanding \u2014 but rather due to the amorphousness of its influence and uniqueness. It\u2019s not just hard to imagine what this subgenre of horror might look like without <em>Kwaidan<\/em>, it\u2019s downright impossible. The movie\u2019s haunting tone and camerawork and the distinctive style with which each of its tales is told have seeped down into the very foundation of horror films and become inextricable from the films we love today \u2014 which is reason enough to include it here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Devil\u2019s Backbone<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story-4.jpg\" alt=\"A boy with a pale face and crack in his head stands with a still face in The Devil\u2019s Backbone\" title=\"A boy with a pale face and crack in his head stands with a still face in The Devil\u2019s Backbone\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: 20th Century Pictures\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Director:<\/strong> Guillermo del Toro<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Fernando Tielve, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi<br \/><strong>Where to watch:<\/strong> Rentable on Apple TV or Amazon Prime Video&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The Devil\u2019s Backbone is about an orphanage in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. One day, an orphan named Carlos arrives and begins to meet the other residents of the orphanage and explore its secrets. While most people might think the orphanage\u2019s most interesting treasure is the cache of loyalist gold hidden somewhere on the grounds, Carlos finds himself more fascinated with (and terrified of) the ghostly boy who lurks the building\u2019s halls at night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Many movies include ghosts as something other than malevolent spirits, enough that it\u2019s a category that absolutely necessitates a place on this list, but what makes del Toro\u2019s version of this narrative so compelling in <em>The Devil\u2019s Backbone<\/em> is how elegantly he weaves them into the story and tone of the movie. The Spain of this movie feels constantly haunted by the recent past, and troubled by the wounds of its violence \u2014 a literal bomb sits in the orphanage\u2019s courtyard, unexploded but always threatening. Del Toro makes a ghostly presence in this place feel natural, like you couldn\u2019t imagine somewhere this terrifying not having a ghost in it. It\u2019s at once a more hopeful and haunting kind of ghost story than anything else on this list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pulse<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-excellent-horror-movies-that-reimagined-the-ghost-story-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Director:<\/strong> Kiyoshi Kurosawa<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Kumiko As\u014d, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki<br \/><strong>Where to watch: <\/strong>Max<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This 2001 masterpiece from Japanese horror legend Kiyoshi Kurosawa is perhaps the scariest movie on this list. <em>Pulse <\/em>follows several people in Japan whose dealings with computers, and time spent on the burgeoning internet, allow them to watch the slow tumble of ghosts into the real world. These ghosts take the place of the once-living humans and seem to be in constant, but passive, search for more victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Despite the fact that it\u2019s now nearly 25 years old, <em>Pulse<\/em> remains the definitive ghost story for the internet age. Its concept of ghosts who slip into our world through the internet feels as hauntingly plausible as it did when the technology was still mysterious \u2014 and perhaps even more metaphorically sound than anyone in 2001 could have imagined. What\u2019s more, the film\u2019s signature images \u2014 of lonely people on webcams, desperate for connection, fading into black spots on the wall only to return as haunting specters waiting to turn the rest of the world into something just as alone as they are \u2014 is the most affecting, insightful, and tragic addition to ghostly cinema since the subgenre\u2019s earliest films.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/horror\/512672\/best-ghost-movies-streaming-presence-weird-unique\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Hollywood\u2019s foremost experimenter, Steven Soderbergh, has a new movie out this week, and it\u2019s all about ghosts. Presence, his excellent new film and his first real foray into the horror genre, is shot entirely from the perspective of a ghost who inhabits a house where a new family has moved in. In the hands of nearly any other director, this kind of formal experiment could feel like a gimmick at best \u2014 or, at worst, a movie-ruining annoyance \u2014 but instead Soderbergh integrates it so effectively and smoothly that it feels like the most natural way to tell this story. 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