Recent Examples on the WebBelow, during a recent conversation with THR, Lind also discusses acting at the age of five in Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, which also revolves around a ghost story and family tragedy.—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024 Four women's murders and the meticulous way their bodies were staged has the feel of a ghost story, not an actual criminal case.—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2024 The author seamlessly blends a body-hopping ghost story about revenge with a narrative about the importance of memory.—Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024 Now he’s made the very first first-person ghost story.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2024 The core narrative revolves around a group of guests at a country cottage telling ghost stories, each of which is helmed by a different director.—Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024 With her mesmerizing 2019 debut feature, the lyrical Senegalese ghost story Atlantics, as well as the nonfiction project that preceded it, A Thousand Suns, Mati Diop jumped to the forefront of diasporic Black European directors reclaiming their ancestral African roots.—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2024 As with any ghost story, urban legend and speculation do the most heavy lifting.—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024 Where to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas: Disney+ 15 of 15
A Christmas Carol
The OG ghost story that started it all scared the dickens out of people when Charles Dickens released it in 1843.—Huntley Woods, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2023
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