As is evident from the title, the main character of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Phony Psychic Myra Savage, holds regular seances in an upstairs room in her house in which she pretends to communicate with dead or otherwise absent people.The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill: Two seances are held on two different nights in the movie, both of which utilize a Ouija Board.It ends with her becoming a vessel for the ghost of Mary. Paranormal Asylum: Michelle hosts a seance by herself one night.The implication that the demon was spelling out 'Hunter' is clear. When asked what the spirit wants, the planchette first spells out 'PUSSY' (the result of the boyfriend being mischievous), and then spells out 'HUNT' before Ali calls it off. Played for laughs, then chills in Paranormal Activity 2, in which Ali and her boyfriend use a Ouija board to try to contact the spirit haunting Ali's family and her little brother Hunter.The protagonists are being contacted by the very much alive new residents of their house. Night of the Demon features a séance where the medium channels the spirit of a researcher killed in the beginning of the movie, who provides some crucial information to his niece and his co-worker (who dismisses the séance as prearranged bunk).

Andrews and his female friends holding a séance in the mortuary, trying to contact the spirit of Christine's father.

Mortuary (1983): Christine and Greg find Mr.

Just as the medium is uttering some things that make Stephen really uncomfortable, a shot rings out, and Stephen is framed for murder. He finds a completely different woman by that same name, who works as a medium, and promptly joins her spooky séance.

After having accidentally received a MacGuffin from a Nazi spy posing as a Fortune Teller in Fritz Lang 's Ministry of Fear, Stephen (Ray Milland) traces the fortune teller to London.

The documentary No One Dies in Lily Dale is worth watching to see what today's Spiritualist camp villages, seances and mediums are like.

Harry Houdini really did expose fake mediums for many years.

A very typical phony séance is shown toward the end of Tony Curtis' 1953 Houdini.

The Haunting in Connecticut features one character's psychic flashbacks to a séance that took place in the Haunted House long ago, in which an adolescent boy channels ectoplasm from his mouth.

Ghost (1990): Whoopi Goldberg plays a Phony Psychic conducting fake séances for money, who, to her surprise, actually does manage to communicate with the dead.

The Changeling: (1980) has a particularly spooky séance scene where the medium attempts to contact the ghost in the house, is put in a trance and draws the ghost's answers to her questions on paper.

Wilkins: This is not a reincarnation séance! It's just a routine police patrol. After that there's usually a lot of dramatic screaming and fainting. Once for Yes, Twice for No is another common element (and it's Truth in Television).

Objects might start being thrown about the room to show that the ghost is present and active. The lights may flicker or the room suddenly grow colder, and the medium would either become possessed by the spirit that was summoned or merely speak with it. The darkened room came into vogue when people started trying to produce materialized 'phenomena' most of which you could buy from theatrical supply companies. Real séances did not require a dark room, just a pleasantly peaceful atmosphere. Usually the medium would attempt to contact the spirits while asking everyone else in the room to concentrate on summoning and welcoming them. Séances were popular forms of entertainment around the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century, during which time many people became interested in spiritualism and the occult. A séance is an attempt to communicate with the spirits of the dead, usually involving a gathering of individuals who sit down around a table and led by a medium.

Holding a seance