It is the season of ghost stories. Go to any major multiplex this week and you can find at least three films concerned with ghosts, haunted spaces and haunted heads. Each features people from all walks of life, forced to confront loss made evident by malicious spirits. And in each case, these people engage with ghosts, battling them on both a physical and emotional level despite the increasing toll they take.

In the hope of what? Survival? A better understanding of life and death? Or perhaps because they are called to it?

It is the season of ghost stories. Go to any major multiplex this week and you can find at least three films concerned with ghosts, haunted spaces and haunted heads. Each features people from all walks of life, forced to confront loss made evident by malicious spirits.

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