ZooM ihosts in themachine Tltt/ tt -'6 r hen Harry Houdini tried to contact the deid, he ! $l i used seances, mediums and crystal balls.</p><p> Were hc "* 1q alive today, the magician and escape artist would t 1'." just whip out a VCR, shortwave radio or video rmera - in the movies, supernatural images and voices are )pping up on electronic devices of all kinds.</p><p> In "Shutter," opening F[idav, it's a camera that proves conduitto the afterlife A Japanese schoolgirl killed in a rr accident seems to haunt the fashion photographs of )shua Jackson. "Dawson's creek" wa-s never like this - or raybe Dawson just never looked closely enough at his home lovteS.</p><p> Here are five more movies where the medium isn't the ressage - it's the machine.</p><p> Michael Gilu I POLTERGEIST (1982) Technological crystal ball: The tesl pattern on the television et calls out to aCorable little Carole Anne, who announces: They're here!" - "they" being vengetul spirits who kidnap her. lT elution: Don't build your housing development on top of a ,acred Indian burial ground. lJ.trE.FL\9 !?o9?1 ..</p><p> Technological crystal ball: In this u.s remake of a Japanese iick, reporter Naomi Watts discovers that a menacing VHS tape s "haunted" - watch it and you'll be dead within a week. of rourse she watches. lT solution: vHS? Apparently, ghosts aren't up on the latbst technoloqy- switch to Blu-ray DVD- :.r.Fr"E-?!$1EryT.9t!_tB_9_JlS*I_"q.e_??)"..." T*hnological crystal ball: Three young people disappear after trekking into the woods with a video camera - and their shaky footage found a year later seems to document spooky gorngs-on. lT solution: Don't shoot movies on hand-held camcorders. lt you use an old-fashioned film camera" you'll need a bigger crew - meaninq a better chance of suryiving when the killing starts r FREoUENcY.(?"O-o"91 Tchnological crystal ball: A shortwave radio with really goo, reception lets lim caviezel speak to his late firefighter father (Dennis Quaid) 30 years in the past.</p><p> Warning his pop about the blaze that killed him seems like a good idea - until altering history unleashes a killer that threatens caviezel's mom. lT ek|lim: Take up video games.</p><p> Maybe if caviezel had another hobby this whole mess wouldn't have happened. r wHrTE NOTSE (2005) Technologiel crystal ball: Michael Keaton uses a radio tuned to static to communicate with his dead \vife via EVP - electronic voice phenomena - but it also puts him in touch with ghostly bad quys. lT $lution: Satellite radio You get loads of channels, Howafl Stern and no static. a
