ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that in most of the films explored contact or communication between worlds, that is, between the dead and the living, is limited and normally subject to the discretion of the former (though there are those among the living who can initiate such contact as mediums). Such contact may be sometimes, but rarely so, physical and visible, occasionally auditory, and sometimes by other-sensory means. The contact represented in these films is, while sometimes challenging and initially at least somewhat unsettling for the living, rarely hostile. Where this contact does happen it does so usually in the intermediate space and its purpose is typically the employment of such contact to facilitate the resolving of unresolved business on the part of the deceased.
