5 Truly Terrifying Horror Movie Ghosts
Ghosts have always been a part of horror movie history, from actors wearing floaty white dresses and dark circles under their eyes to modern-day sculpted and CGI creations. Ghosts can be vengeful, unresolved, or trying to help the living avoid their fate. However, the proliferation of ghosts in media has taken the sting out of the scare in many cases.
Given how often ghosts appear in horror there are still many on-screen spirits that can scare. Whether it's a wronged spirit looking for revenge, a creepy kid, or an otherworldly harbinger, these are truly terrifying horror movie ghosts that always get the scare.
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Technically the third film in the franchise, Ju-On: The Grudge was the first to be released theatrically and the film that brought the series to attention in the West. In the film, six separate stories play out centered around a cursed house and its spectral inhabitants. Throughout the film the inhabitants of the house, all experience hauntings as the curse take hold and the ghosts living in the home make their presence known.
The hauntings are punctuated with horrible death rattles and cat screeching and the victims of the haunting are often found dead. There is more than one ghost in the cursed house, but Toshio wins the scariest specter by being a creepy kid. The ghosts of children are always scary but Toshio's stark white appearance and accompanying cacophony of cats screeching up his fright factor to maximum.
The Man Who Can't Breathe, also known as the Wheezing Demon, is arguably the Insidious franchise's scariest supernatural entity. The third entry to the series is a prequel to the original two films and sees Lin Shaye's Elise trying to help a single-parent family
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