Deception vs The Ghost

The Ghost has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6/10 for Deception). The Ghost is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 47m. Deception is the older of the two (2008 against 2025). Both are mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Deception posterDeception2008 VS The Ghost posterThe Ghost2025
DeceptionThe Ghost
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 8.0/10
Year20082025
Length1h 47m1h 32m
GenresMystery, ThrillerHorror, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorMarcel LangeneggerJohn Farrelly
Main castEwan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Natasha Henstridge, Karolina MullerAnthony Murphy, Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Tom Stafford

Synopsis

Deception

As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.

The Ghost

Amid the barren landscape of post-famine Ireland, a father and daughter struggle to survive the brutal winter as caretakers of a remote mansion, only to be driven to the edge of sanity by the horrors lurking within.

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