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  Ghost Story (1981) is the perfect "comfort horror." Almost no one is ever in any danger, other than four guys who probably aren't going to live another four years anyway. Alice Krige is krige-creeping ALL over the screen. It's got one of the most powerful ensemble of venerable male actors you could imagine: Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (and was the final theatrical feature film for those last three). These are not your usual group of Stupid Youngsters who can be lured into a deathtrap by a fake Dick Dastardly sign. It doesn't make TOO much sense, but ... it's a ghost story, exactly like it says on the tin. It's a story of a vengeful ghost and if her methods and priorities and powers don't make sense to you, well, you're ALIVE, so they wouldn't. Despite special effects of what I will kindly call "varying quality", it's a perfect horror movie to cozy on the couch for.  For good or for ill,...

 The Witch in the Window (2018) is an intimate little horror film. There are no severed heads, no plunging daggers.  It's mostly a sad story of a man who feels he's failed as a person, a husband, a father, and his attempt to fix that. By fixing an old house for resale with his son. He picks the wrong time and place, however. Not all haunted houses are large Victorian mansions, you know. There is one scene that is ... VERY chilling, indeed.  Despite all the many terrifying scenes I have seen in horror movies, this is one that truly haunts me; "omg, what would I do if I were he at that moment?"  I think you'll know it when you see it. But the overall effect of the film isn't so much terror, as it is the sad feeling of inevitability you get from a Greek play.  Horror films can make you feel lots of things, not just scared, and so I recommend this one.