Monday, December 3, 2018

AMC's Visionaries : Eli Roth's History of Horror - Ghosts (2018)


Made for AMC, airing November 18th in the US.
Season 1. Episode 7.
The story: The one monster that is in every culture is ghosts.
Ghosts mean different things in different religions and cultures.
Ghosts can be benevolent as well as malicious and ghost stories are about casting its past on the present.
They make us question 'is there something else?'
Vampires , werewolves , zombies , people don't really believe that stuff is real.
But ghosts? People can believe in ghosts...
Movies mentioned and/or seen here ; 
Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982)
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980)
M Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999)
James Wan's Insidious (2010)
Gore Verbinski's The Ring (2002)
Lewis Allen's The Uninvited (1944)
William Castle & Rosemary Horvath's The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961)
William Castle's 13 Ghosts (1960)
James Wan's Insidious 2 (2013)
John Hough's The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963)
Peter Medak's The Changling (1980)
Andy Muschietti's Mama (2013)
Leigh Whannell's Insidious 3 (2015)
Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak (2015)
Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998)
Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964)
Takashi Shimizu's Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse (2001)
Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge (2004)
Walter Salle's Dark Water (2005)
Andrew Douglas's The Amityville Horror (2005)
Stars Jack Black, Elijah Wood, Jordan Ladd, Andy Muschietti, Martin Casella, Craig T Nelson, Edgar Wright, Ernest Dickerson, Joe Hill, David Skal, Mick Garris, Leigh Whannell, Jason Blum, Lin Shaye, Joseph Bishaval, Alex Winter, Christopher Young, Bryan Fuller, Steven King, Eli Roth, Greg Nicotero, Rob Zombie,  Peter Deming, Haley Joel Osment, Ana Lily Amirpour, Michael Dougherty, Tony Timpone, Doug Jones, Candice King, Andrew Douglas, Marcus Hendersen, John Landis
Directed by ( & story written) Kurt Sayenga
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES/HALLOWEEN

"We don't hear each other let alone another world."

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