10 Best REVERSE Horror Movies

Surely Poltergeist is a pretty straightforward story of a family plagued by restless spirits? Think again, it's actually reverse horror.

Quick recap time: the Freeling family have a 2.4 children and a white picket fence - the all-American perfect existence - right up until the cutesy rug-rat Carol Anne announces "They're here... " whilst fixated on the TV set's static .

Some standard psychokinetic activity soon ensues, furniture moves, lights flash, spoons bend. Eventually sh*t gets real when brother Robbie is attacked by a tree and Carol Anne goes missing. The ghostbusters are called in and a lengthy battle commences between the living and the dead for the safe return of the kid.

In the film's climax, it's revealed that the house, along with the entire estate, has been built on a cemetery. The head stones were moved, the bodies were not.

The 'villains' of the piece, the ghosts, who start out fairly innocuously until 'The Beast' gets involved, are the real victims here. If they had been afforded an undisturbed burial, then none of the resulting phenomena would've happened. The Beast, while ultimately the main villain, might never have showed up if it hadn't been for human interference, resulting in Carol Anne's disappearance.

The appalling sequels definitely wouldn't have happened either, so let's put the blame where it belongs. ALWAYS MOVE THE BODIES, OK??!!