Parapsychology, psi and horror movies

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I was on a horror film watch recently, catching up on several (very) old classics I'd never seen. A number of them involved interesting representations of parapsychology. (There may have been a thread like this before but I can't remember).

There's the 1973 British film Legend of Hell House, about a group of researchers who spend in a week in a haunted mansion (a bit of pre-Poltergeist).



This 1957 classic, Night of the Demon, also British, references all sorts of paranormal topics (mediumship, memories of past lives, flying saucers), and the main hero is an investigating skeptic.



Then there's 1980's The Changeling, a Canadian film about a haunting, based on an allegedly true case in Colorado in the 1960s.


I also rewatched 1978's The Fury, about PK. (The "Paragon Institute" is surely modeled on the Rhine Center.)

When I was young I used to find 'Night of the Demon' quite eerie. Don't know who made it, but whoever it was, they knew how to scare people.

The film Red Lights is a half-decent thriller that has plenty of in-jokes for students of parapsychology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lights_(2012_film)