Hive vs The Ghost
The Ghost has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.3/10 for Hive). Hive is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 32m. The Ghost is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are horror, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hive
The Ghost| Hive | The Ghost | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.3/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 31m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Felipe Vargas | John Farrelly |
| Main cast | Xochitl Gomez, Tanya van Graan, Aaron Dominguez, Zenobia Kloppers, Jenny le Roux | Anthony Murphy, Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Tom Stafford |
Synopsis
Hive
A strict, anxious teenager loses the child she’s babysitting and must brave a sinister force hiding in plain sight among the children in the playground. As her world unravels and her grip on reality starts to slip, she must outwit a world where nothing is as it seems to make it out alive.
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.