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I Downloaded a Ghost (2002)
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I Downloaded a Ghost (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Halloween buff accidentally downloads recently deceased stand-up comic, who ends up helping her foil two bumbling crooks, as well as finishing her haunted house.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, funny, touching, teen
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ghost, halloween, afterlife, supernatural, supernatural ability, computers and web, computer, haunted house, con artists, spirit, escapades, youth, childhood, reluctant partners, taxi driver, middle school, disguise, burglar, teenager, statue, halloween costume, hit by a bus, witch costume, family, adventure
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, captivating and feel good films with plots about youth, supernatural, ghost, halloween, family relations, danger and haunted house mostly in Comedy, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like I Downloaded a Ghost: Susie Q (1996), Under Wraps (1997), The Scream Team (2002), When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001), Believe (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Susie Q (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Susie Q was going to a dance one night when she and her boyfriend got into a car crash and fell off a bridge. Years later, a teenager named Zach Sands moves into Susie's old house. Zach's father died in a car accident so his family is his ...
Style: teen, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: ghost, reincarnation, teenager, high school, supernatural, batman, adolescence, car crash, basketball, afterlife, friends, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 1950s, year 1995, 50s, year 1955
Place: washington d.c., washington state
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Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? (2014)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bella Thorne, Madison Pettis and Ryan Ochoa lead an ensemble cast in this spook-tacular adventure with new ghosts, new thrills, and the return of some old friends. Max (Ochoa) only has eyes for Cammy (Thorne), the smart, popular redhead at school. ...
Style: humorous, stylized, entertaining, atmospheric
Audience: horror for children
Plot: halloween, ghost, chosen one, werewolf, undead, high school, teenager, social misfits, unlikely friendships, uninhibited rivalry, justice, supernatural ...
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Under Wraps (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set the mummy free, but if they don't get him back to his resting place by midnight on Halloween, ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, captivating, horror spoof
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, horror for children
Plot: mummy, youth, supernatural, sarcophagus, young heroes, escapades, friendship, rescue, race against time, halloween, halloween party, supernatural horror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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37%
The Scream Team (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty ...
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, exciting, horror comedy ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, horror for children
Plot: ghost, halloween, supernatural, youth, afterlife, father son relationship, single parent, rescue, imaginary, disgraced, curses spells and rituals, young heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england
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37%
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In October of 1981, Curtis Danko, the creepy kid from the small town of Walker Falls, was killed in a mysterious accident. He left behind a warning to the town: "If you ever have another Halloween again, I will return and destroy you all!" ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, spooky ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot: halloween, ghost, afterlife, small town, mischievous children, supernatural, danger, disorder, curses spells and rituals, heroic mission, save the day, preteen ...
Place: minnesota, usa
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35%
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Believe (2000)
Genre: Family, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfather in a small town. Almost as soon as he arrives he begins to see the ghost of a woman around his grandfather's house. He also gets to know a ...
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, scary, dark
Audience: family outing, horror for children
Plot: haunted house, ghost, youth, prank, supernatural, teenage life, bully, supernatural ability, danger, love affair, cemetery, beauty ...
Time: 2000s
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34%
The Haunted Hathaways (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: "The Haunted Hathaways" follows the adventures of a not-so-typical blended family. When Michelle Hathaway relocates to New Orleans, LA., to open a bakery with her daughters Taylor and Frankie, they quickly learn that life in the “Big ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, feel good, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: ghost, supernatural, family life, eccentric family, youth, parents and children, haunted house, haunted, spirit, lifestyle, paranormal activity, kids and family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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30%
Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Hansen kids are in a jam. Adam and his best friend Duffy have gotten their hands on some tickets for the Headless Horseman concert, and his sister Chelsea has a date with her dreamy boyfriend Peter. The only problem is they're both ...
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, captivating, horror comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot: vampire, youth, couples, family relations, supernatural, halloween, parents and children, mischievous children, disorder, woman in danger, single parent, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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30%
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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, spooky, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: ghost, youth, supernatural, parents and children, disorder, teenage life, haunted house, starting over, family relations, pets, family life, afterlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Spooky House (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.
Style: touching, semi serious, feel good, spooky, independent film
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: halloween, youth, magician, orphan, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, heroes, pets, haunted house, haunting, magic ...
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26%
Mostly Ghostly (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance, they'll help him ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, light, scary, tripping ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, horror for children
Plot: ghost, youth, halloween, children, supernatural, haunted house, family relations, missing person, school, imaginary friend, childhood, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Dog Who Saved Halloween (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Zeus (voiced by Joey Lawrence) and the Bannister family have moved into a new home just in time for Halloween! When Zeus and George (Gary Valentine of "The King of Queens") decide to investigate a creepy neighbor (Lance Henriksen of ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: halloween, dog, pets, save the day, disorder, nothing goes right, friendship, animal, missing person, ghost, heroes, animal life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Late Fee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young couple’s quest to rent the scariest movie on DVD on Halloween eve results in a real life horror show they may live to regret!
Style: anthology, slasher, scary, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: halloween, supernatural, gory, murder, isolation, danger, youth, terrorism, stalking, store, teenage life, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Tooth Fairy 2 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Larry Guthrie, who loses his first love to the town hot shot, decides to win her back by volunteering with the children at her after-school program. When Larry accidentally tells the kids the Tooth Fairy is make-believe, he soon is transformed into ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: fish out of water, disorder, imaginary, satire, fairy, stupid kid, teenager, youth, tooth fairy, curses spells and rituals
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24%
The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town's decorations come to life.
Style: satirical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, spooky
Audience: family outing
Plot: halloween, teenager, black, young heroes, magical power, magical creature, magic, supernatural, save the day, supernatural ability, supernatural power, magical object ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Santa Hunters (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Four children trIn Santa Hunters, Alex and his cousins Zoey (Yde) and Richard (Coronel) create an elaborate setup of traps to catch Santa on tape, but their plan backfires when they realize that seeing Santa will cause him to lose his Christmas ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, youth, escapades, friendship, xmas, christmas present, young heroes, heroes, chases and races, legends and myths, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Lord, All Men Can't Be Dogs (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Lord, All Men Can't Be Dogs is a riveting story of the lives of two people, Lisa and Tim Johnson, whose struggles are closely tied with the four spirits that reside in their home. It's a story of temptation, greed and finally, deliverance, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good
Plot: haunted house, spirit, ghost, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, exorcism, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, rescue, supernatural, evil, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner, Sara get a call one night from mansion owner, Edward Gracey wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion a butler takes them to dine with Gracey. Gracey takes one look at ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, stylized, gothic, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, magic, secret passageway, family relations, supernatural, danger, haunted, curses spells and rituals, escapades, children, reincarnation ...
Time: year 2003, victorian era, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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24%
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The Canterville Ghost (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an ...
Style: creepy, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: ghost, castle, halloween, youth, old dark house, haunted house, supernatural, curse, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, curses spells and rituals, chaos and mayhem, heroes ...
Place: england
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23%
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Halloweentown (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: halloween, witch, teenage girl, magic, youth, witchcraft, good versus evil, disorder, supernatural ability, save the day, rescue, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
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23%
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Ghost Dad (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Elliot Hopper is a widower with three children, he is currently working on a deal. It seems like his wife illness was very costly and this deal could put them out of the red. However he gets into a cab that is driven by a maniac, and Elliot crashes ...
Style: light, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: afterlife, ghost, single father, death, supernatural, happy ending, justice, laboratory, scientist, parents and children, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship ...
Place: london
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22%
Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young man working at a cinema on a special premiere night, finds that the films being shown are full of strange and eerie occurrences.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, spooky, horror comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: ghost, youth, nothing goes right, young heroes, family relations, disorder, siblings relations, teenage life, danger, halloween, sabotage, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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22%
Dear Dumb Diary (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Based on the best selling series "Dear Dumb Diary" by Jim Benton. Follow Jamie Kelly as she navigates Mackeral Middle School with the help of her best friend Isabella, her nemesis Angeline and the boy of her dreams Hudson.
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: middle school, youth, diary, popular girl, child, high school, female protagonist, love and romance, school, teenage life, teenage girl, close up of eye ...
Time: 21st century
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21%
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A Halloween Puppy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A boy accidentally turns his mom's boyfriend into a dog.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: human becomes animal, halloween, dog, magic, best friend, youth, curses spells and rituals, family relations, friendship, stupid kid, danger, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Playhouse (2003)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After years hiding in the shadows, the ancient ghosts of an old Pittsburgh theater make their presence known once again.
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, detective
Plot: haunted house, theater, zombie, ghost, supernatural, investigation, disorder, gory, goofy hero, haunted, decapitation, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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21%
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Hocus Pocus (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it us up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Style: fairy tale, sweet, scary, mystical, gothic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, date night ...
Plot: witch, halloween, magic, supernatural, teenage life, childhood, witchcraft, spell, children, sisters, halloween party, cat ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 18th century, 17th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, new england, salem massachusetts
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20%
Halloweentown High (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, feel good, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: halloween, witch, magic, supernatural, witchcraft, holiday, friends, hereditary gift of witchcraft, monster, friendship, vengeance, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Bobby and the Ghost Hunters (2013)
Genre: Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sanne (Hanna Obbeek) loves stories about ghosts and other mysterious things. Her father Lucas, is a famous ghost hunter. During a holiday Lucas is asked to chase ghosts of the former cruise ship 'Rotterdam'. Sanne is very happy to hear she ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, exciting
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ghost, ship, heroes, young heroes, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, curses spells and rituals, danger ...
Place: holland
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20%
Show Me the Ghost (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Best friends ‘Hodu’ and ‘Yeji’ are job seekers whose dreams and hopes have been ruined. One day, ‘Hodu’ luckily gets a decent cheap fully loaded rent house. ‘Yeji’, who has been kicked out of her parents’ house, also stays there ...
Style: semi serious, psychotronic, humorous, scary, tense ...
Plot: ghost, exorcism, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, mission, paranormal, heroes, family relations, evil, friends, rescue, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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20%
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