10 Great Ghost Movies (No One Ever Talks About)

Released in 1996 to critical raves and audience crickets, The Frighteners was the last foray of one famous New Zealand film maker into his old stomping ground of comedy horror before he made a break for Middle Earth.

This early Peter Jackson effort is a charming Kiwi horror comedy from long before the likes of Housebound and What We Do In the Shadows made the country’s contributions to the sub genre famous. The film sees a nervy, perfectly cast Michael J Fox play a sketchy architect who can speak to the dead.

Being an amoral antihero, the loveable sleaze bag soon uses this skill to get ghosts to haunt homeowners so Fox's character can arrive and excorcise their spirits for a pretty penny. As you might imagine, this racket is soon complicated by the arrival of a bony-faced mass murderer's ghost, a spirit whose hauntings are a lot more deadly than Fox's scam artistry.

Of course, our antiheroes are soon forced to clean up their act and hunt down this monster, resulting in a deadpan horror comedy which is genuinely funny, scary, and inventive.