What films have 'corporeal' ghosts?

[Randall_Oelerich]

Writing a story, could use some help: what films/stories (looking for examples) have a ghost character that is 'corporeal' in the sense that the character is ghost but appears corporeal (not ethereal, not translucent) and is also able to interact physical with physical objects (turn a door knob, open a door, interact with objects in the natural non-ghost world)?

I watched American Werewolf in London last night and saw one example of that. Jack (Griffin Dunn) play a friend of David, is killed by the werewolf that bites David, and then Jack appears to David as a ghost. And Jack picks up a toy in the apartment, appears corporeal (albeit ripped to shreds by the werewolf that attacked him), even though he is undead, a walking ghost of a sort.

Trying to justify my story where the protagonist is dead, but still appears alive to someone close to her, the other person even thinks she is still alive, and she (protagonist) can interact with physical world objects. Can I justify this? What other stories if any do this?
randall

 

[craigbowman]

... Can I justify this? What other stories if any do this? ...

"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and "Blackbeard's Ghost" to name a couple. However, why would you need to justify anything. Its not the law courts where you need to find a precident. Its movies and you get to make up the rules for the world your characters inhabit. In "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" toons exist and interact with the "real" world. As long as you make things consistent to the world you create, the audience will buy in.

 

[Batutta]

Truly, Madly, Deeply by Anthony Minghella--

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[KMR]

THE SIXTH SENSE, to name one out of many.

 

[vcassel]

The Grudge. She even showed up on tape.

 

[odetotud]

Ghost with Swayze and Moore.

 

[clang]

The interaction with physical world objects is the only hard thing to justify - a ghost's solid appearance is really no more illogical than a translucent appearance, it's just a filmic convention.

Physical interaction with the person who can see/hear the ghost isn't so hard, as that interaction may be merely a hallucination, delusion or wishful thinking by that person, especially if written to emphasise that ambiguity.