Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 

Will and Elizabeth (Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley) are about to marry when they suddenly find themselves facing the death penalty as well as getting mixed up again with Captain Jack…

Pirates of the Caribbean: Damned For All Time

Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. Photo: Buena Vista Pictures One of the most groan-inducing ideas of the 1990s was turning video games into movies. This was decades before the genre…

What Lies Beneath 

Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) discovers that she and hubby Norman (Harrison Ford) live in a haunted house; learning the identity of the spirit puts both her marriage and life at…

The Visitors

Frank (Kjell Bergqvist) and his family move into an old countryside house, but problems are mounting… especially the fact that something creepy is hiding in the attic. Admittedly, this low-budget…

Scary Movie 2 

This sequel is mainly a send-up of The Haunting (1963), as the leading characters spend a weekend at a haunted house. But many other films are also desecrated, including The…

The Ring 

This surprisingly effective remake of Ringu (1998), a Japanese chiller, became a box office smash and helped elevate Naomi Watts to stardom. She is engaging as the reporter who watches…

Poltergeist III 

In this third film in the series, Carol Anne’s (Heather O’Rourke) family is out of the picture and the setting has changed from a California house to a Chicago highrise…

A Christmas Carol 

Charles Dickens’s ghost story would probably survive even the most slapdash filmization, but this TV movie is not one of those. It is a distinguished version where the filmmakers succeed…

Poltergeist II: The Other Side 

The Freelings are recuperating after the first film’s horrific events, but the vicious specters, led by a dead preacher, once again try to get the family under their spell. This…