Insidious (2010)
James Wan’s haunted house story where a comatose boy’s spirit is trapped in a dimensional space called the Further.
Movies
It Follows (2014)
David Robert Mitchell’s allegorical horror where a sexually transmitted curse manifests as a slow-moving figure visible only to the victim.
Scrooge (1951)
Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the definitive screen adaptation of Dickens, visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve.
The Others (2001)
Alejandro Amenábar directs Nicole Kidman as a mother protecting her photosensitive children in a Jersey mansion after WWII.
Candyman (1992)
Bernard Rose adapts Clive Barker’s story about a graduate student researching an urban legend that summons a hook-handed killer.
Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
Takashi Shimizu’s haunted house horror where a curse spreads from anyone who enters a Tokyo home where a murder occurred.
Audition (1999)
Takashi Miike directs the story of a widower staging fake auditions to find a new wife, with consequences he could not anticipate.
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Charlie Brown directs the Peanuts gang in a Nativity pageant after rejecting the commercialism of the season.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
A young reindeer with a glowing red nose runs away with an elf who wants to be a dentist, and they find acceptance through the Island of Misfit Toys.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Chuck Jones directs the animated Dr. Seuss special about a sour creature plotting to steal Christmas from the Whos in Whoville.