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Language
English
Description
Offers up cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati. As the (worldy and un- ) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over," joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The fun begins as the unsuspecting Otis family moves into the stately, rambling rooms of Canterville Hall where young Virginia meets up with the castle's resident specter: the 400-year old ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville. But while Sir Simon does his moaning, chain-rattling best to frighten the newcomers, Virginia soon befriends him, and learns his sorrowful secret: unless a purehearted mortal agrees to plead his cases before the dreaded Angel of...
3) Ghostbusters
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college profs Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler lose their University jobs, they decide to go freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Leopard Man (66 min.): a nightclub performer in New Mexico takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts. In the days that follow, people are mauled. Includes commentary by William Friedkin and theatrical trailer.
The Ghost Ship (69 min.): Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. At first things look good, Stone sees...
Publisher
Nostalgia Ventures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Cosmo Topper, a henpecked bank executive, moves with his wife Henrietta into a home previously owned by George and Marian Kerby. The Kerbys and their St. Bernard dog Neil died in an avalanche while skiing in Switzerland. Along with the house, the Toppers inherit the Kerbys and Neil, who have come back as ghosts and can only be seen by Cosmo. The Kerbys liven up Cosmo's dull life and keep him in a constant state of chaos with his wife and business....
6) The shining
Language
English
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Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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...
9) Beetle Juice
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Scrooged
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frank Cross has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president. He is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving, and has a sadistic sense of humor which are perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls, and finally, a ghoulish, seven-foot headless messenger from the future in this modern version...
11) Ghostbusters II
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The Ghostbusters team regroup when the infant son of single mother Dana Barrett becomes the target of a demonic force. They must put a stop to an enormous underground river of slime ready to rot the roots of the Big Apple.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the...
14) Casper
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
'Ghost therapist' Dr. James Harvey and his daughter Kat arrive at drafty, old Whipstaff Manor. Its greedy owner, Carrigan Crittendon, has hired Dr. Harvey to exorcise the house's apparitions: a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper, who's just looking for a friend, and his outrageous uncles Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso (The Ghostly Trio).
16) Kaidan: Kwaidan
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
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,...
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Connecticut Yankee Ichabod Crane arrives in the rural Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow and assumes his post as the new schoolteacher. Though the outsider is widely regarded with suspicion, the daughter of the area's wealthiest farmer, Katrina Van Tassel, is charmed by his manners and education. Ichabod's attentions to Katrina are not welcomed by blacksmith Brom Bones and when Brom tries to scare Ichabod by posing as the "Headless Horseman" of local...
19) Always
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A legendary pilot with a passion for daredevil fighting sacrifices himself to save his best friend and then help his lover move on with her life.
20) Ghostbusters 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler regroup to nuke the spooks in this high-spirited comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York CIty five years ago, the heroes of the hereafter once again answer the call when an underground river of ghoulish goo threatens to rot the Big Apple to the core.