Top Ten 'Haunting' Films

[maybrick]

Originally Posted by Demoni

LOL... no "The Exorcist"???

You know, "The Exorcist" is also considered haunting.

Demonic possession, actually. Demons aren't ghosts and ghosts aren't demons. Demons like Lucifer are fallen angels and ghosts are dead people. The two sub genres have little in common. Ghosts will sometimes possess the living but they rarely do for any extended length of time. It expends too much energy.

[Anthropophagus]

Originally Posted by Demoni

LOL... no "The Exorcist"???

You know, "The Exorcist" is also considered haunting.

I thought that would be more possession, since solely the girl was affected by the demon taking over her soul. Whereas in Amityville II: The Possession, there was blood from the taps, paintbrushes painting by themselves and those evil things in the basement making it more haunting.

[Demoni]

Originally Posted by maybrick

Demonic possession, actually. Demons aren't ghosts and ghosts aren't demons. Demons like Lucifer are fallen angels and ghosts are dead people. The two sub genres have little in common. Ghosts will sometimes possess the living but they rarely do for any extended length of time. It expends too much energy.

Originally Posted by Anthropophagus

I thought that would be more possession, since solely the girl was affected by the demon taking over her soul. Whereas in Amityville II: The Possession, there was blood from the taps, paintbrushes painting by themselves and those evil things in the basement making it more haunting.

Yes, but "Haunting" refers to "ghosts" or other "supernatural beings". I always considered the spirit of a "demon" as a "supernatural being". I guess it´s different forms of interpretations.

[Anthropophagus]

Holy shit, Maybrick and I actually agreed on something perhaps 2012 will actually be the end of the world.

[Anaestheus]

1. Shining
2. Session 9
3. Legend of Hell House (although I never really liked the ending)
4. The Others
5. Ringu
6. The Innocents
7. The Whip and the Body
8. The Kingdom (does it count if it's a TV show?)
9. The Lady in White
10. Kwaidan

Others that may not count: The Tenant, Solaris, High Plains Drifter, Tomb of Ligeia, Macbeth (Polanski)

[maybrick]

Originally Posted by Anthropophagus

Holy shit, Maybrick and I actually agreed on something perhaps 2012 will actually be the end of the world.

Hey, we can argue over opinion until the cows come home but you can't argue over hard facts. Well... you could, but that would instantly mark you as ridiculous.

Amityville II was a combination of the two sub-genres. You had the demonic possession, but you also had the ghost of the sister in the mix.

[satans-sadists]

1) The Shining (1980)
2) The Haunting (1963)
3) The Legend of Hell House (1973)
4) Burnt Offerings (1976)
5) Poltergeist (1982)
6) The Changeling (1980)
7) The Innocents (1961)
8) House on Haunted Hill (1959)
9) The Sentinel (1977)
10) Insidious (2011)

[spawningblue]

1) The Changeling (1980)
2) The Shining (1980)
3) Poltergeist
4) Session 9
5) The Entity
6) House on Haunted Hill (1999)
7) Burnt Offerings
8) Amityville Horror 2: The Possession
9) The Legend of Hell House
10) The Haunting (1963)

Honorable Mentions:

The Fog - If this counts it's at the top of my list.
The Haunted (1991) - Haven't seen it since I was a child so not sure how well it still holds up.
The Sixth Sense
Insidious
The Others
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The Sentinel

And not a film but I have to throw in Television Terror from Tales from the Crypt Season 2.

[The Chaostar]

Originally Posted by satans-sadists

1) The Shining (1980)
2) The Haunting (1963)
3) The Legend of Hell House (1973)
4) Burnt Offerings (1976)
5) Poltergeist (1982)
6) The Changeling (1980)
7) The Innocents (1961)
8) House on Haunted Hill (1959)
9) The Sentinel (1977)
10) Insidious (2011)

That would be my list. In this order. Oh my.