Dark Water, Walter Salles, 2005

A mother and daughter embroiled in a messy custody battle move into a new apartment building where there are unusual goings on in an empty upstairs apartment, and serious problems with the plumbing.
This film should have been better. It has all the right ingredients to be a gripping, psychological ghost story – a woman scarred [...]

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Ghost Ship, Steve Beck, 2002

A salvage crew discover a ship that went missing in mysterious circumstances in the 1960s and go on board in hope of making a fortune, getting more than they bargained for.
There are some tense moments in Ghost Ship, before everything kicks off. The film has the promise of all you could want from a ship [...]

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Crooked House, BBC 4, December 2008

The BBC had a ghost story on over Christmas, a mostly forgotten festive tradition that I applaud and want to see more of.
Crooked House was a television series of three interwoven ghost stories all based around the fictional house of Geap Manor. Shown on BBC 4 in December 2008, the series was written by [...]

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