Summary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In which we serve (1942): A sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda telling the tale of a group of Royal Navy sailors as they battle the Germans in the Mediterranean and of the lives they left back home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DAVSummary: Coraline Jones finds a magical world that is similar to her own, but when her "other parents" try to get her to stay, Coraline must summon her courage and resourcefulness to find her way home; a boy who can speak with the dead fights ghosts and zombies tosave his town from an ancient curse; an orphan boy who has been raised by a group of trash collectors known as the Boxtrolls, must help his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A hauntingly atmospheric and star-studded adaptation of Henry James' classic gothic horror story. A young, inexperienced governess is hired to look after two small children abandoned by their uncle, following the death of their parents, at his grand country house. Unsettled by glimpses of ghostly figures that only she can see, she quickly believes that something malevolent is stalking the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOSummary: Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLASummary: "Francesca is a young pediatrician, traumatized by the loss of a child through crib death. When the family moves to a new home in the country, supposedly to help her recover from the experience, she begins seeing completely inexplicable things. The house in which they now live seems to hide terrible secrets. Both the cellar and the attic are locked and barred to the family--and it is from both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAUSummary: Jack Burton is a big-talking, wisecracking trucker who goes beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to battle an army of spirits when his friend's fiancee is kidnapped.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BIGSummary: Two detectives are engaged to investigate the deaths of Lord and Lady Morley, but their authorization comes from the ghost of the late Lordship, and the manor house where they lived is peopled by very odd characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A boy must use his special powers to save his town from a centuries-old curse. In addition to spooky zombies, he'll also have to take on unpredictable ghosts, wily witches, and, worst of all, clueless grown-ups. But this young ghoul whisperer will soon find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PARSummary: Get ready for kooky, spooky Scooby-Doo fun and mystery with this collection of all-time fan-favorite episodes! You'll be up to your eyeballs in laughs, frights and fun with these timeless canine capers. See the pilot episode that launched Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc gang to stardom in What a Night for a Knight. It's a monster mash-up when the gang crosses Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: Ichigo and his friends return from the Soul Society to the World of the Living and try to resume their normal lives. But when strange abductions start happening, it's up to them to solve the riddle. More Soul Reapers arrive to help uncover the truth behind a mysterious clan known as Bounts. Will these allies be strong enough to stop the Bount leader from stealing human souls and feeding his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLESummary: Jonathan and Maddy continue their crime-solving missions when they investigate a man who sells his soul to the devil; an old woman who has the power to predict death through her dreams; an alien life form that miraculously disappears; a former colleague of Maddy's who turns up with a mystery in an old house; a 1970s sex kitten who is seen heading for a local church; and a murdered corpse that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JONSummary: A tabloid reporter who wants to write legitimately again investigates an old woman's story about the disappearance of five, including a child actress, that occurred at the Hollywood Hotel in the 1930s. Everyone says the Hollywood Hotel is haunted now, and when Buzzy Crocker (Guttenberg) explores it, he finds out why.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003