Sentences with phrase «best ghost story»

@Muneef: ooh I love a good ghost story!

He set out to tell a good ghost story — but ended up making what is perhaps the most important Persian - language movie since 1979.

A good ghost story should both intrigue and scare you.

I am also a sucker for a good ghost story, of which there aren't that many.

«The Conjuring,» starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real - life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, reminded audiences of the power of a good ghost story and proved director James Wan to be a legitimate master of horror.

The Conjuring is a damn good ghost story.

Besides enjoying the story (who does nt love a good ghost story?)

Besides enjoying the story (who doesn't love a good ghost story?)

The best ghost stories make great use of dramatic tension, and Carroll is no slouch here, either: she amplifies the scariness of the stories — full of ghosts, murder, and monsters — with startling page turns revealing grotesque, squeal - inducing images.

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This one has all the elements of a good ghost story: family secrets, mysterious disappearances and Tennessee River zombies attacking the town.

Here was I, eighty - some years later, and Tarzan (and other Burroughs books and similar) are still beloved and popular, while I had never even * heard * of this author and only grabbed the book in the library because I was hoping for a good ghost story.

I really love a good ghost story when it's written well and H.P. Lovecraft is one of my all time heroes.

Not exact matches

They have pretty well told ghost stories with the added voy - eu - rism of looking into a celebrity's life.

• Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Anyone who loves Chinese ghost stories and tales of Taoist magic and supernatural fables — anyone, that is, with a soul — should know this, the classic collection of a great many of the best of them.

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless or biased and sometimes very clueless or very biased, or both at once) of religion and religious people.

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless....

Dear good to know, this how - to column is really fun — like how to tell a ghost story, how to survive falling through ice and how to fake a British accent.

I enjoy reading a good book perfer ghost stories romance.

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Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak Special Gigs is a superb Visual Novel with a good OST and original novel mechanics... But the tactical phases are boring and ugly, and the story isn't that good.

I guess it's up to me to write a REAL ghost story... anyone know of any good books?

Overall, it is a good horror game with a great story, but the many ghosts that appear, do lose a lot of the climate of terror., and that sucks.

It is better, perhaps, to think of «The Uninvited» as a precursor of the many supernatural love stories — like «The Ghost and Mrs. Muir» (1947) and «Portrait of Jennie» (1948)-- that appeared in the grim aftermath of World War II, when American had again become, in Drew Gilpin Faust's phrase, a republic of suffering.

Also fresh off its theatrical release is Olivier Assayas» Personal Shopper, which stars Kristen Stewart and happens to be a ghost story that is among the best films of the year.

The narrative deftly mixes the day to day stories of the characters as well as themes around death and what it means to come back as a ghost.

A Ghost Story will definitely be in my top 10 as well (when I get round to it!)

The best part of «A Ghost Story» is it debunks the haunted house mythology.

Best Original Song: «Evermore» («Beauty and the Beast») «I Get Overwhelmed» («A Ghost Story») «Never Forget» («Murder on the Orient Express») «Remember Me» («Coco») «Visions of Gideon» («Call Me By Your Name»)

Best films about mortality, memory, human connection: «Personal Shopper» (Olivier Assayas), «Marjorie Prime,» elevated by the magnificent Lois Smith (Michael Almereyda), and most especially, «A Ghost Story» (David Lowery) 3.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

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Whereas Phantom Thread and Personal Shopper suggest that ghosts are the psychic projections of the grieving, it is the unmoored souls of the dead who are left behind to do the mourning in A Ghost Story; it parallels Alejandro Amenábar's likeminded The Others (2001) as one of the century's best supernatural films so far.

24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017) Arábia (Araby, João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa, 2017) First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017) Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017) Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry, 2017) Good Time (Joshua & Ben Safdie, 2017) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) Toivon tuolla puolen (The Other Side of Hope, Aki Kaurismäki, 2017) Untitled (Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi, 2017) Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017) 3.

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Australian Theatrical Releases: A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017) Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, 2016) The Disaster Artist (James Franco, 2017) The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017) Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) Good Time (Joshua & Ben Safdie, 2017) Grave (Raw, Julia Ducournau, 2016) I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016) Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd, 2016) The Lost City of Z (James Gray, 2016) Lucky (John Carroll Lynch, 2017) Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016) Mother!

Overall, Alice is an engrossing combination of ghost story, workplace drama, and young woman's amorous journey, with a pleasingly self - contained performance at its heart, for which Labed deservedly won the Best Actress prize.

A nifty twist on the standard ghost story, this British period drama starts extremely well and then slips into overwrought melodrama.

A heartrending love story tops our list of the year's best films, which also features a kids» - eye view of Florida, political horror, erotic thrills, sci - fi noir, ghosts, grief and communism

He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).

Winner of the award for Best Director at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Assayas» latest film is part personal drama, part ghost story, and part mystery.

You'll find guides to every Gold Chest and Dead Ghost in the game below, as well as complete walkthroughs to all the story missions and Strikes (we've yet to add the Mars Strike, but that'll be placed soon).

«The main difference is ghost stories work better in the Victorian setting,» Moffat explained.

Re-teaming with Nick Cave, who was also behind the script for Hillcoat's debut «Ghosts... of the Civil Dead,» the story takes on the mythic qualities of some of Cave's best work, helped in no small part by his score with fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis — probably our favorite of the musician's film work.

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As of now, the 15 - year - old Williams has only one more role lined up, in a 3 - part TV ghost story airing in the UK in October «The Secret of Crickley Hall,» but frankly, if she doesn't have a whole lot more on her dance card by this time next year, well, we may have to shut up shop for a while here and write her a goddamn lead ourselves.

So we've assembled our take on the 50 best horror films of the 21st century — the zombie - apocalypse tales, things - that - go - bump - in - the - psyche ghost stories, retro - slasher flicks, neo-giallo nuggets, J - horror, K - horror, French extreme and Hollywood franchise films that have spooked us, shook us and scared us shitless since 2000.

«U.N.I (You And I)» from And the Winner Isn't «Love and Lies» from Band Aid «If I Dare» from Battle of the Sexes «Evermore» from Beauty and the Beast «How Does a Moment Last Forever» from Beauty and the Beast «Now or Never» from Bloodline: Now or Never «She» from Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story «Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go» from The Book of Henry «Buddy's Business» from Brawl in Cell Block 99 «The Crown Sleeps» from The Breadwinner «World Gone Mad» from Bright «Mystery of Love» from Call Me by Your Name «Visions of Gideon» from Call Me by Your Name «Captain Underpants Theme Song» from Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie «Ride» from Cars 3 «Run That Race» from Cars 3 «Tell Me How Long» from Chasing Coral «Broken Wings» from City of Ghosts «Remember Me» from Coco «Prayers for This World» from Cries From Syria «There's Something Special» from Despicable Me 3 «It Ain't Fair» from Detroit «A Little Change in the Weather» from Downsizing «Stars in My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)» from Drawing Home «All In My Head» from Elizabeth Blue «Dying for Ya» from Elizabeth Blue «Green» from Elizabeth Blue «Can't Hold Out on Love» from Father Figures «Home» from Ferdinand «I Don't Wan na Live Forever» from Fifty Shades Darker «You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way» from Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool «This Is How You Walk On» from Gifted «Summer Storm» from The Glass Castle «The Pure and the Damned» from Good Time «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman «The Hero» from The Hero «How Shall a Sparrow Fly» from Hostiles «Just Getting Started» from If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast «Truth to Power» from An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power «Next Stop, The Stars» from Kepler's Dream «The Devil & The Huntsman» from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword «Have You Ever Wondered» from Lake of Fire «I'll Be Gone» from Lake of Fire «We'll Party All Night» from Lake of Fire «Friends Are Family» from The Lego Batman Movie «Found My Place» from The Lego Ninjago Movie «Stand Up for Something» from Marshall «Rain» from Mary and the Witch's Flower «Myron / Byron» from The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) «Longing for Summer» from Moomins and the Winter Wonderland «Mighty River» from Mudbound «Never Forget» from Murder on the Orient Express «Hold the Light» from Only the Brave «PBNJ» from Patti Cake $ «Tuff Love (Finale)» from Patti Cake $ «Lost Souls» from The Pirates of Somalia «How a Heart Unbreaks» from Pitch Perfect 3 «The Promise» from The Promise «Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe» from Pulimurugan «Maanathe Maarikurumbe» from Pulimurugan «Stubborn Angel» from Same Kind of Different as Me «Dancing Through the Wreckage» from Served Like a Girl «Keep Your Eyes on Me» from The Shack «On the Music Goes» from Slipaway «The Star» from The Star «Jump» from Step «Tickling Giants» from Tickling Giants «Fly Away» from Trafficked «Speak to Me» from Voice From the Stone «Walk on Faith» from Year by the Sea

Empire of Passion was Oshima's only true kaidan (Japanese ghost story), and the film, a savage, unrelenting experience, earned him the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Luca Guadagnino's lavish queer drama «Call Me By Your Name» topped the best films list, with David Lowery's playfully supernatural «A Ghost Story» and Dee Rees» postwar tale of racial prejudice in the south, «Mudbound,» nipping at its heels.