Everyone has that *onemovie that burrows into their brain and sticks with them forever. For some people, it’s an emotionally scarring flick, like Bambi or The Lion King. Maybe it was an intellectually stimulating or provocative film that changed the way you understand the world around you, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or The Shawshank Redemption. No matter where you fall on this “lasting impression” spectrum, one thing’s for sure: No one ever forgets the first movie that scared the living daylights outta them.
For us bona fide horror fans, it’s ghost movies or bust. Sure, chainsaws and maniacal sharks deserve their time in the sun, but come on, GHOSTS!!! It’s never clear if they come in peace and just want to hang out or if they’re seeking revenge because you happen to occupy the lovely carriage house where they grew up. Ghost movies tend to be the perfect scary-movie cocktail of otherworldly creepiness, jump scares, and psychological trickery.
So if you’re in the mood to feel something—anything!—right now and being scared sh*tless will do, then cue up one of the 61 scariest ghost movies of all time. I’m not saying you won’t be able to sleep tonight, but I’m also not not saying that. Sending you thoughts and prayers.
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The Grudge (2004)
The Grudge movie from 2004 spawned a thousand nightmares. This version is a remake of a Japanese horror film called Ju-On: The Grudge from 2002 and spotlights a curse that is passed from victim to victim, creating a whole bunch of ghosts who haunt the hell out of the unlucky people in their orbit.
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Session 9 (2001)
A crew of asbestos cleaners take on a new project: an abandoned mental hospital. Local residents in the surrounding area, however, know to steer very clear of the deteriorating buildings and grounds. So when the crew discovers old recordings of one patient’s sessions, things start to get more than a little spooky.
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A Ghost Story (2017)
If you look at this trailer and still think, Aww, what a cute lil ghost, you are MISTAKEN, my friend. Proving once and for all that cute does not equal lighthearted, this A24 movie focuses on a musician who dies in a car accident and ends up haunting his old house (and wife) while coming to terms with WTF happened.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
True story: I watched this movie with my BFF and because it’s filmed documentary style (like, as a viewer, you literally feel like you’re experiencing everything firsthand), it’s nearly impossible to tell whether the footage is real or scripted, and I couldn’t even finish it because I was shaking so badly. Watching this movie is basically an exercise for your imagination to conjure up the worst possible thing. I ended up leaving my friend all by herself halfway through the movie and had to sleep in the same bed as my parents. I was 16…and now I’m 23 and still not over it.
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Don’t Listen (2020)
It’s appropriate that an excellent horror movie came out during the Year of Horrors that was 2020, isn’t it? Netflix dropped this gem in November. Don’t Listen is about a Spanish couple that ends up battling a supernatural being in a haunted house. What’s not to love?
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The Baby’s Room (2006)
The Baby’s Room is translated from the Spanish horror film La Habitación del Niño. A hopeful young couple moves into a house with their baby and soon discovers an unwelcome presence in the baby’s room. You think you’ve heard this haunted house story before, but the combination of excellent acting and menacing music takes a familiar plot to the next level.
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Candyman (1992)
Based on Clive Barker’s short story, Candyman captures the legend of the ghost of an artist and son of an enslaved person who was murdered…and has some things to say about that.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry should have died in a fatal car accident, but instead, she was the sole survivor. Despite her efforts to move on from the mysterious incident, she begins to be haunted by a spooky man who leads her to an empty carnival on the outskirts of town. This 1962 black-and-white film is horror in its purest, most original form.
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The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
This Guillermo del Toro film travels back to 1939 Spain, near the end of the country’s three-year civil war. A young boy is sent to a remote orphanage after his father’s death, where a violent caretaker roams the grounds—and the ghost of another boy shows up.
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The Woman in Black (2012)
A young widower trying to save his legal career agrees to look into an isolated mansion in a remote village despite very harsh warnings from the locals to leave it alone. As he investigates the decrepit house, supernatural powers and the ghost of a woman in black threaten not only his life but also his already broken family. Harry Potter, er, Daniel Radcliffe stars.
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford star in this haunting thriller about the trials of marriage…and how the ghosts of your past will always come back to haunt you. Not even Harrison’s devastatingly handsome good looks can save you from this kind of creepiness.
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Insidious (2010)
The directors behind the legendary horror f*ckery Saw dialed down the gore and turned up the slow-burn scares in Insidious. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne play parents whose child falls into a coma, only to be possessed by a deeply evil spirit.
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The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
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Haunted (1995)
Lewis Gilbert directed Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale in this adaptation of James Herbert’s novel. The story follows a professor who tries hard to disprove the existence of ghosts and gets into all kinds of paranormal trouble, and it’s the perfect ’90s ghost movie.
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Oculus (2014)
When siblings Tim and Kaylie look into their family’s dark and twisted past in an attempt to figure out who—or what—murdered their parents, they discover an antique mirror inhabited by a supernatural force. Quickie heads-up: You won’t be able to look in a mirror for a looong time, or maybe ever again, after you watch this movie.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Ouija: Origin of Evil is a reminder that you should never even dip a pinkie finger into devilish darkness, not even as a joke. What starts as an innocent-ish séance scam to earn some money turns into a life-threatening encounter with evil spirits for the poor Zander family. Best enjoyed with a nightcap of getting your Ouija board down from the attic only to decide that, um, maybe you’ll try it tomorrow.
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1408 (2007)
Another example of why you should never tempt the supernatural. A novelist known for debunking supernatural phenomena pushes his luck when he decides to stay in the famous haunted room #1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. Will he become the latest victim to the evil walls or will he make it through the night?
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The Uninvited (2009)
Soon after Anna and Alex lose their mom, their dad falls for Rachel—their mother’s former caretaker. But something doesn’t feel quite right about Rachel, and as the sisters become terrorized by ghostly visions, they start digging up Rachel’s sketchy past. Major evil stepmother vibes.
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
A spine-chilling classic, M. Night Shyamalan’s debut follows a little boy (Haley Joel Osment) who sees dead people and a psychologist (Bruce Willis) who tries to help him, all while coping with ghosts of his own. If you’ve managed to remain unspoiled for one of the most iconic twists in cinematic history, congrats! Enjoy. (Also, who are you?) If not, it’s still worth a watch.
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The Haunting (1963)
If you, like me, speed-watched your way through Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House, you’re gonna want to go back to the original British adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic novel. A cult favorite, this movie focuses on a group of people who are invited to a haunted house by a paranormal investigator.
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The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick’s notorious adaptation of the Stephen King novel is arguably one of the scariest movies of all time. A frustrated writer by the name of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) moves his family to the remote Overlook Hotel for the winter, where he’s accepted a job as off-season caretaker. As Jack begins to slide into violent insanity, his son starts having psychic visions of the hotel’s horrific past. Then sh*t gets really real. REDRUM.
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Coco (2017)
Is Coco a horror movie? No, not really. But is it a worthwhile ghost movie nonetheless? Why, yes, it is!
Disney’s Coco follows a young boy who accidentally transitions from the living to the dead and has to find a way back…while figuring out secrets long buried by his family to the tune of some excellent music. If you’re looking for a more lighthearted take on a ghost flick, here’s your pick.
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The Others (2001)
Simultaneously very scary and incredibly sad, this Nicole Kidman hit follows a woman who moves to a remote country house with her two children just after World War II and begins to encounter strange and inexplicable events. Prepare your body for an unbelievably devastating twist.
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
This micro-budget horror movie (legit, production cost only $15K!) spawned a huge franchise and a seemingly endless series of subpar spin-offs. Filmed entirely on a home video camera, we watch a young couple as they begin to suspect their house is haunted. They set up recording equipment to get to the bottom of what’s going on, and things get very scary very fast.
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The Ring (2002)
The Ring is one of the few American remakes of a Japanese horror film that not only justifies its existence but also arguably outshines the original. (Don’t @ me.) Naomi Watts stars as a journalist investigating a supposedly cursed videotape: Whoever watches the tape, which features an extremely creepy series of nonsensical images, will die seven days later. Good luck!
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The Orphanage (2007)
This beautiful and heartbreaking ghost story follows a woman named Laura (Belén Rueda), who returns as an adult to the orphanage where she grew up. She has plans to turn the now-abandoned building into a home for disabled children, but things take a dark turn when her adopted son suddenly goes missing and the orphanage’s tortured past is revealed.
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The Innocents (1961)
Depending on your interpretation, this icy British psychological chiller centers on either a governess who witnesses the two children under her care being gradually possessed by ghosts or a governess who loses her mind while working on a large and creepy country estate. Either way, I’m in.
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Poltergeist (1982)
They’re heeeeere. There aren’t many American horror movies more iconic than this story of a normal California family whose daughter suddenly starts conversing with angry ghosts via television static and is subsequently abducted by the spirits as they terrorize the entire family.
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The Conjuring (2013)
A modern horror movie so good, it inspired an entire universe of future films including two more Conjurings, the Annabelle series, and The Nun (we’ll get to that in a moment). The original is still the best though. The Conjuring is inspired by a real-life pair of paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who come to help a family whose farmhouse may be haunted.
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ParaNorman (2012)
Kids movies can be full of ghosts too, and this stop-motion animation masterpiece from Laika Studios is the perfect answer to a young person’s ghost-movie night.
ParaNorman follows a kid named—you guessed it—Norman, who can see ghosts and eventually has to stop a witch’s curse and reveal something terrible that happened centuries ago in his small town.
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The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter’s follow-up to Halloween remains one of his best. A mysterious, glowing fog descends on a small town in California and brings with it a series of deeply scary events, which turn out to be the work of malevolent maritime ghosts. The worst kind!
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Skip the Ryan Reynolds remake. The original Amityville, which stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder as a couple who moves into a house with a violent history, is the first movie based on the real-life Amityville horror. That chilling true story? In 1975, the Lutz family moved into a house in Amityville, Long Island, where a man had murdered six members of his family just a year prior. The Lutzes moved out one month later, claiming they’d been plagued by paranormal activity.
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The Changeling (1980)
No, not the Angelina Jolie one. Another horror movie that’s really about grief, The Changeling tells the story of a composer (George C. Scott) who picks up and relocates across the country to Seattle after the death of his wife and daughter. He moves into a sprawling, creepy mansion, which he’s assured has been vacant for years. Spoiler: not so much!
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Casper (1980)
Casper is one of the best movies ever, don’t drag me. About a friendly ghost who just wants a BFF (*runs away crying*), this gem of the ’90s will…wait for it…haunt you. AHAHAHA. I may or may not have had a childhood crush on Casper, and yes, I’m aware that he was a poorly animated ghost.
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Personal Shopper (2017)
Kristen Stewart + ghostly shenanigans? Count me in.
In this movie, Kristen plays a medium who starts to talk to her dead brother and…things get even weirder from there.
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Ghost (1990)
If you’ve ever fantasized about having an erotic experience with a ghost, this one is for you! Famous for its sensual pottery-wheel scene, Ghost is about a woman whose boyfriend dies and then comes back to haunt her. But not in a scary way. In a sexy, oh-god-I think-I’m-attracted-to-supernatural-spirits-now kind of way.
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The Nun (2018)
We were first introduced to The Nun during The Conjuring 2, and she was so damn scary that she got her own movie. To be clear, The Nun herself is not a ghost—she’s a demon, so don’t get it twisted. However, there are ghosts in this movie and they are not f*cking around with their haunting skills. Just saying, you might want to watch this one during daylight hours.
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Crimson Peak (2015)
Crimson Peak is both a ghost story and a gothic romance, and here’s the good news: While, yes, it’s about a haunted house, it also stars Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Tom Hiddleston. And every time he’s onscreen, you can’t help but imagine him in an “I Heart T.S.” tank top frolicking in the waves with a bunch of supermodels, which makes the whole movie-watching experience far less traumatizing!
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Beetlejuice (1988)
One of the most beloved movies of the ’80s, this classic Tim Burton comedy is ghostly gold. Micheal Keaton is absolutely iconic as Beetlejuice himself, and Winona Ryder kills it as a surly goth teenager. Fun fact: Beetlejuice’s real name is actually Betelgeuse. THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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Thirteen Ghosts (2001)
The basic premise of this movie is that a ghost hunter named Cyrus is determined to capture a spirit that goes by the name Juggernaut, and along the way, he discovers that 12 more angry ghosts are involved and unhappy with how things are going.
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Honestly, not sure what I need to spell out here. It’s about a ship full of ghosts. And also, the ship itself is a ghost? Either way, a bunch of humans make the mistake of boarding, and some horrifying sh*t goes down because apparently these undead dudes do not like random visitors interrupting their ghostly seamen activities.
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Ghostbusters (1984)
I believe it was Shakespeare who once mused, “If there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?” Ghostbusters. And those wise words still hold true, because Ghostbusters remains the best movie about ghosts of all time—and frankly, it’s pretty scary! Unless you don’t find Sigourney Weaver writhing around in bed after being possessed by a demon scary, in which case we should never watch a movie together.
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Winchester (2018)
A horror movie starring Helen Mirren about the most haunted house in history? Sign me up. Unfortunately, Sam and Dean Winchester have nothing to do with this particular possession.
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Susperia (2018)
A remake of the 1977 classic about a ballet dancer who gets involved in a supernatural conspiracy, the 2018 version stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, and honestly, it’s a LOT to process. But seeing as it traumatized its own stars—Dakota says it “f*cked me up so much that I had to go to therapy”—you’re going to want to give it a chance.
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The Gift (2000)
If you’ve ever wanted to see baby Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, and Hilary Swank act together, today is your lucky day.
The Gift centers on Cate’s character, Annie, who is clairvoyant and has ghostly visions of her grandma…which come in handy once she gets tangled in a local town murder.
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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Want a scary movie where you get to see Jake Gyllenhaal’s butt? This campy Netflix original follows an art critic who becomes obsessed with the work of an unhinged dead man. When the art is taken from the dead man’s home without permission, people start dying bloodily.
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The Invisible (2006)
When a young teen is brutally beaten to near-death, he starts haunting a disturbed girl who was one of his attackers. She’s the only one who can sense him, so she’s his only hope at leading the cops to his body before he dies. If that sounds like a very weird, dark rom-com, you’re not entirely wrong!
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Mama (2013)
After two young girls are abandoned in a forest cabin, they’re taken in by their uncle and his wife (played by GoT’s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastain). Before that, though, they’ve been completely alone for five years, protected only by the mysterious “Mama.”
Well, it turns out, Mama decided to follow them to their new home. This was honestly one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen, but it also has one of the most satisfying twists of all time. Sorry, M. Night Shyamalan.
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Pet Sematary (2019)
When a movie is based on a Stephen King novel, you know it’s going to scare the bejeezus out of you. In the most recent 2019 adaptation of Pet Sematary, a family finds a weird graveyard behind their new home and end up being warned by ghosts that something strange is amiss. (It should go without saying that if you’re being warned by ghosts about things, that’s a red flag.)
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Lights Out (2016)
In this scary movie, a lady tries to protect her brother from a ~supernatural ghostly entity~, and things get very complicated and, well, terrifying.
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
This South Korean horror follows a teenage girl who returns home after a stay in a mental hospital to complex family dynamics and a house haunted by ghosts. If it sounds familiar, its the original source material for the previously mentioned 2009 adaptation, The Uninvited.
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Candyman (2021)
This slasher film from Nia DaCosta is a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 Candyman, and stars Yahya Adbul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, and Colman Domingo.
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Looking for a ghost movie without the horror? Look no further. Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who constructs a baseball field on his land, which quickly becomes inhabited by the ghosts of sports legends past.
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Another non-spooky ghost tale, Charlie St. Cloud stars Zac Efron and Amanda Crew. We’d drop a spoiler alert, but the movie is 12 years old, so if you don’t know now you know, this is a ghost movie.
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Doctor Sleep (2019)
If you lost track of this one somewhere between Doctor Who and Doctor Strange, Doctor Sleep is an adaptation of a Stephen King novel and a sequel to The Shining.
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Spirited Away (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who moves to a new neighborhood and enters the world of Japanese folklore. When her parents are turned into pigs at the hand of a powerful witch, the young girl must find a way to return herself and her family to the human world. Spirited Away is considered to be one of the greatest films of the century and is the first and only hand-drawn, non-English-language animated film to win an Oscar.
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Just Like Heaven (2005)
This 2005 rom com stars Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo and follows a lonely architect who falls in love with the ghost who haunts his new apartment. They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
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His House (2020)
This 2020 Netflix thriller follows a refugee couple fleeing South Sudan and living in a haunted house. The horrors in this movie are social as much as they are supernatural.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Another ghostly rom com for you. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is based on A Christmas Carol, following a womanizer haunted by the memories of his exes until he sees the error of his ways and how he treats the women around him, and decides to go to therapy – JK, you wish. He just decides to be a better dude.
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Insidious (2010)
This supernatural thriller follows a couple whose son falls into a coma and becomes a host to some spooky demons in another universe.
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Soul (2020)
Disney adults need ghost stories too. The 2020 Pixar film Soul follows a pianist who nearly dies moments before his big break and goes on a journey to merge his separated soul with his earthly, hospitalized body. It voices Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey and is damn touching.
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Everyone has that *onemovie that burrows into their brain and sticks with them forever. For some people, it’s an emotionally scarring flick, like Bambi or The Lion King. Maybe it was an intellectually stimulating or provocative film that changed the way you understand the world around you, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or The Shawshank Redemption. No matter where you fall on this “lasting impression” spectrum, one thing’s for sure: No one ever forgets the first movie that scared the living daylights outta them.
For us bona fide horror fans, it’s ghost movies or bust. Sure, chainsaws and maniacal sharks deserve their time in the sun, but come on, GHOSTS!!! It’s never clear if they come in peace and just want to hang out or if they’re seeking revenge because you happen to occupy the lovely carriage house where they grew up. Ghost movies tend to be the perfect scary-movie cocktail of otherworldly creepiness, jump scares, and psychological trickery.
So if you’re in the mood to feel something—anything!—right now and being scared sh*tless will do, then cue up one of the 61 scariest ghost movies of all time. I’m not saying you won’t be able to sleep tonight, but I’m also not not saying that. Sending you thoughts and prayers.
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The Grudge (2004)
The Grudge movie from 2004 spawned a thousand nightmares. This version is a remake of a Japanese horror film called Ju-On: The Grudge from 2002 and spotlights a curse that is passed from victim to victim, creating a whole bunch of ghosts who haunt the hell out of the unlucky people in their orbit.
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Session 9 (2001)
A crew of asbestos cleaners take on a new project: an abandoned mental hospital. Local residents in the surrounding area, however, know to steer very clear of the deteriorating buildings and grounds. So when the crew discovers old recordings of one patient’s sessions, things start to get more than a little spooky.
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A Ghost Story (2017)
If you look at this trailer and still think, Aww, what a cute lil ghost, you are MISTAKEN, my friend. Proving once and for all that cute does not equal lighthearted, this A24 movie focuses on a musician who dies in a car accident and ends up haunting his old house (and wife) while coming to terms with WTF happened.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
True story: I watched this movie with my BFF and because it’s filmed documentary style (like, as a viewer, you literally feel like you’re experiencing everything firsthand), it’s nearly impossible to tell whether the footage is real or scripted, and I couldn’t even finish it because I was shaking so badly. Watching this movie is basically an exercise for your imagination to conjure up the worst possible thing. I ended up leaving my friend all by herself halfway through the movie and had to sleep in the same bed as my parents. I was 16…and now I’m 23 and still not over it.
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Don’t Listen (2020)
It’s appropriate that an excellent horror movie came out during the Year of Horrors that was 2020, isn’t it? Netflix dropped this gem in November. Don’t Listen is about a Spanish couple that ends up battling a supernatural being in a haunted house. What’s not to love?
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The Baby’s Room (2006)
The Baby’s Room is translated from the Spanish horror film La Habitación del Niño. A hopeful young couple moves into a house with their baby and soon discovers an unwelcome presence in the baby’s room. You think you’ve heard this haunted house story before, but the combination of excellent acting and menacing music takes a familiar plot to the next level.
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Candyman (1992)
Based on Clive Barker’s short story, Candyman captures the legend of the ghost of an artist and son of an enslaved person who was murdered…and has some things to say about that.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry should have died in a fatal car accident, but instead, she was the sole survivor. Despite her efforts to move on from the mysterious incident, she begins to be haunted by a spooky man who leads her to an empty carnival on the outskirts of town. This 1962 black-and-white film is horror in its purest, most original form.
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The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
This Guillermo del Toro film travels back to 1939 Spain, near the end of the country’s three-year civil war. A young boy is sent to a remote orphanage after his father’s death, where a violent caretaker roams the grounds—and the ghost of another boy shows up.
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The Woman in Black (2012)
A young widower trying to save his legal career agrees to look into an isolated mansion in a remote village despite very harsh warnings from the locals to leave it alone. As he investigates the decrepit house, supernatural powers and the ghost of a woman in black threaten not only his life but also his already broken family. Harry Potter, er, Daniel Radcliffe stars.
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford star in this haunting thriller about the trials of marriage…and how the ghosts of your past will always come back to haunt you. Not even Harrison’s devastatingly handsome good looks can save you from this kind of creepiness.
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Insidious (2010)
The directors behind the legendary horror f*ckery Saw dialed down the gore and turned up the slow-burn scares in Insidious. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne play parents whose child falls into a coma, only to be possessed by a deeply evil spirit.
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The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
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Haunted (1995)
Lewis Gilbert directed Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale in this adaptation of James Herbert’s novel. The story follows a professor who tries hard to disprove the existence of ghosts and gets into all kinds of paranormal trouble, and it’s the perfect ’90s ghost movie.
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Oculus (2014)
When siblings Tim and Kaylie look into their family’s dark and twisted past in an attempt to figure out who—or what—murdered their parents, they discover an antique mirror inhabited by a supernatural force. Quickie heads-up: You won’t be able to look in a mirror for a looong time, or maybe ever again, after you watch this movie.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Ouija: Origin of Evil is a reminder that you should never even dip a pinkie finger into devilish darkness, not even as a joke. What starts as an innocent-ish séance scam to earn some money turns into a life-threatening encounter with evil spirits for the poor Zander family. Best enjoyed with a nightcap of getting your Ouija board down from the attic only to decide that, um, maybe you’ll try it tomorrow.
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1408 (2007)
Another example of why you should never tempt the supernatural. A novelist known for debunking supernatural phenomena pushes his luck when he decides to stay in the famous haunted room #1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. Will he become the latest victim to the evil walls or will he make it through the night?
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The Uninvited (2009)
Soon after Anna and Alex lose their mom, their dad falls for Rachel—their mother’s former caretaker. But something doesn’t feel quite right about Rachel, and as the sisters become terrorized by ghostly visions, they start digging up Rachel’s sketchy past. Major evil stepmother vibes.
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
A spine-chilling classic, M. Night Shyamalan’s debut follows a little boy (Haley Joel Osment) who sees dead people and a psychologist (Bruce Willis) who tries to help him, all while coping with ghosts of his own. If you’ve managed to remain unspoiled for one of the most iconic twists in cinematic history, congrats! Enjoy. (Also, who are you?) If not, it’s still worth a watch.
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The Haunting (1963)
If you, like me, speed-watched your way through Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House, you’re gonna want to go back to the original British adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic novel. A cult favorite, this movie focuses on a group of people who are invited to a haunted house by a paranormal investigator.
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The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick’s notorious adaptation of the Stephen King novel is arguably one of the scariest movies of all time. A frustrated writer by the name of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) moves his family to the remote Overlook Hotel for the winter, where he’s accepted a job as off-season caretaker. As Jack begins to slide into violent insanity, his son starts having psychic visions of the hotel’s horrific past. Then sh*t gets really real. REDRUM.
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Coco (2017)
Is Coco a horror movie? No, not really. But is it a worthwhile ghost movie nonetheless? Why, yes, it is!
Disney’s Coco follows a young boy who accidentally transitions from the living to the dead and has to find a way back…while figuring out secrets long buried by his family to the tune of some excellent music. If you’re looking for a more lighthearted take on a ghost flick, here’s your pick.
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The Others (2001)
Simultaneously very scary and incredibly sad, this Nicole Kidman hit follows a woman who moves to a remote country house with her two children just after World War II and begins to encounter strange and inexplicable events. Prepare your body for an unbelievably devastating twist.
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
This micro-budget horror movie (legit, production cost only $15K!) spawned a huge franchise and a seemingly endless series of subpar spin-offs. Filmed entirely on a home video camera, we watch a young couple as they begin to suspect their house is haunted. They set up recording equipment to get to the bottom of what’s going on, and things get very scary very fast.
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The Ring (2002)
The Ring is one of the few American remakes of a Japanese horror film that not only justifies its existence but also arguably outshines the original. (Don’t @ me.) Naomi Watts stars as a journalist investigating a supposedly cursed videotape: Whoever watches the tape, which features an extremely creepy series of nonsensical images, will die seven days later. Good luck!
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The Orphanage (2007)
This beautiful and heartbreaking ghost story follows a woman named Laura (Belén Rueda), who returns as an adult to the orphanage where she grew up. She has plans to turn the now-abandoned building into a home for disabled children, but things take a dark turn when her adopted son suddenly goes missing and the orphanage’s tortured past is revealed.
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The Innocents (1961)
Depending on your interpretation, this icy British psychological chiller centers on either a governess who witnesses the two children under her care being gradually possessed by ghosts or a governess who loses her mind while working on a large and creepy country estate. Either way, I’m in.
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Poltergeist (1982)
They’re heeeeere. There aren’t many American horror movies more iconic than this story of a normal California family whose daughter suddenly starts conversing with angry ghosts via television static and is subsequently abducted by the spirits as they terrorize the entire family.
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The Conjuring (2013)
A modern horror movie so good, it inspired an entire universe of future films including two more Conjurings, the Annabelle series, and The Nun (we’ll get to that in a moment). The original is still the best though. The Conjuring is inspired by a real-life pair of paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who come to help a family whose farmhouse may be haunted.
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ParaNorman (2012)
Kids movies can be full of ghosts too, and this stop-motion animation masterpiece from Laika Studios is the perfect answer to a young person’s ghost-movie night.
ParaNorman follows a kid named—you guessed it—Norman, who can see ghosts and eventually has to stop a witch’s curse and reveal something terrible that happened centuries ago in his small town.
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The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter’s follow-up to Halloween remains one of his best. A mysterious, glowing fog descends on a small town in California and brings with it a series of deeply scary events, which turn out to be the work of malevolent maritime ghosts. The worst kind!
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Skip the Ryan Reynolds remake. The original Amityville, which stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder as a couple who moves into a house with a violent history, is the first movie based on the real-life Amityville horror. That chilling true story? In 1975, the Lutz family moved into a house in Amityville, Long Island, where a man had murdered six members of his family just a year prior. The Lutzes moved out one month later, claiming they’d been plagued by paranormal activity.
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The Changeling (1980)
No, not the Angelina Jolie one. Another horror movie that’s really about grief, The Changeling tells the story of a composer (George C. Scott) who picks up and relocates across the country to Seattle after the death of his wife and daughter. He moves into a sprawling, creepy mansion, which he’s assured has been vacant for years. Spoiler: not so much!
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Casper (1980)
Casper is one of the best movies ever, don’t drag me. About a friendly ghost who just wants a BFF (*runs away crying*), this gem of the ’90s will…wait for it…haunt you. AHAHAHA. I may or may not have had a childhood crush on Casper, and yes, I’m aware that he was a poorly animated ghost.
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Personal Shopper (2017)
Kristen Stewart + ghostly shenanigans? Count me in.
In this movie, Kristen plays a medium who starts to talk to her dead brother and…things get even weirder from there.
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Ghost (1990)
If you’ve ever fantasized about having an erotic experience with a ghost, this one is for you! Famous for its sensual pottery-wheel scene, Ghost is about a woman whose boyfriend dies and then comes back to haunt her. But not in a scary way. In a sexy, oh-god-I think-I’m-attracted-to-supernatural-spirits-now kind of way.
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The Nun (2018)
We were first introduced to The Nun during The Conjuring 2, and she was so damn scary that she got her own movie. To be clear, The Nun herself is not a ghost—she’s a demon, so don’t get it twisted. However, there are ghosts in this movie and they are not f*cking around with their haunting skills. Just saying, you might want to watch this one during daylight hours.
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Crimson Peak (2015)
Crimson Peak is both a ghost story and a gothic romance, and here’s the good news: While, yes, it’s about a haunted house, it also stars Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Tom Hiddleston. And every time he’s onscreen, you can’t help but imagine him in an “I Heart T.S.” tank top frolicking in the waves with a bunch of supermodels, which makes the whole movie-watching experience far less traumatizing!
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Beetlejuice (1988)
One of the most beloved movies of the ’80s, this classic Tim Burton comedy is ghostly gold. Micheal Keaton is absolutely iconic as Beetlejuice himself, and Winona Ryder kills it as a surly goth teenager. Fun fact: Beetlejuice’s real name is actually Betelgeuse. THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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Thirteen Ghosts (2001)
The basic premise of this movie is that a ghost hunter named Cyrus is determined to capture a spirit that goes by the name Juggernaut, and along the way, he discovers that 12 more angry ghosts are involved and unhappy with how things are going.
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Honestly, not sure what I need to spell out here. It’s about a ship full of ghosts. And also, the ship itself is a ghost? Either way, a bunch of humans make the mistake of boarding, and some horrifying sh*t goes down because apparently these undead dudes do not like random visitors interrupting their ghostly seamen activities.
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Ghostbusters (1984)
I believe it was Shakespeare who once mused, “If there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?” Ghostbusters. And those wise words still hold true, because Ghostbusters remains the best movie about ghosts of all time—and frankly, it’s pretty scary! Unless you don’t find Sigourney Weaver writhing around in bed after being possessed by a demon scary, in which case we should never watch a movie together.
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Winchester (2018)
A horror movie starring Helen Mirren about the most haunted house in history? Sign me up. Unfortunately, Sam and Dean Winchester have nothing to do with this particular possession.
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Susperia (2018)
A remake of the 1977 classic about a ballet dancer who gets involved in a supernatural conspiracy, the 2018 version stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, and honestly, it’s a LOT to process. But seeing as it traumatized its own stars—Dakota says it “f*cked me up so much that I had to go to therapy”—you’re going to want to give it a chance.
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The Gift (2000)
If you’ve ever wanted to see baby Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, and Hilary Swank act together, today is your lucky day.
The Gift centers on Cate’s character, Annie, who is clairvoyant and has ghostly visions of her grandma…which come in handy once she gets tangled in a local town murder.
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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Want a scary movie where you get to see Jake Gyllenhaal’s butt? This campy Netflix original follows an art critic who becomes obsessed with the work of an unhinged dead man. When the art is taken from the dead man’s home without permission, people start dying bloodily.
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The Invisible (2006)
When a young teen is brutally beaten to near-death, he starts haunting a disturbed girl who was one of his attackers. She’s the only one who can sense him, so she’s his only hope at leading the cops to his body before he dies. If that sounds like a very weird, dark rom-com, you’re not entirely wrong!
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Mama (2013)
After two young girls are abandoned in a forest cabin, they’re taken in by their uncle and his wife (played by GoT’s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastain). Before that, though, they’ve been completely alone for five years, protected only by the mysterious “Mama.”
Well, it turns out, Mama decided to follow them to their new home. This was honestly one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen, but it also has one of the most satisfying twists of all time. Sorry, M. Night Shyamalan.
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Pet Sematary (2019)
When a movie is based on a Stephen King novel, you know it’s going to scare the bejeezus out of you. In the most recent 2019 adaptation of Pet Sematary, a family finds a weird graveyard behind their new home and end up being warned by ghosts that something strange is amiss. (It should go without saying that if you’re being warned by ghosts about things, that’s a red flag.)
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Lights Out (2016)
In this scary movie, a lady tries to protect her brother from a ~supernatural ghostly entity~, and things get very complicated and, well, terrifying.
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
This South Korean horror follows a teenage girl who returns home after a stay in a mental hospital to complex family dynamics and a house haunted by ghosts. If it sounds familiar, its the original source material for the previously mentioned 2009 adaptation, The Uninvited.
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Candyman (2021)
This slasher film from Nia DaCosta is a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 Candyman, and stars Yahya Adbul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, and Colman Domingo.
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Looking for a ghost movie without the horror? Look no further. Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who constructs a baseball field on his land, which quickly becomes inhabited by the ghosts of sports legends past.
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Another non-spooky ghost tale, Charlie St. Cloud stars Zac Efron and Amanda Crew. We’d drop a spoiler alert, but the movie is 12 years old, so if you don’t know now you know, this is a ghost movie.
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Doctor Sleep (2019)
If you lost track of this one somewhere between Doctor Who and Doctor Strange, Doctor Sleep is an adaptation of a Stephen King novel and a sequel to The Shining.
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Spirited Away (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who moves to a new neighborhood and enters the world of Japanese folklore. When her parents are turned into pigs at the hand of a powerful witch, the young girl must find a way to return herself and her family to the human world. Spirited Away is considered to be one of the greatest films of the century and is the first and only hand-drawn, non-English-language animated film to win an Oscar.
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Just Like Heaven (2005)
This 2005 rom com stars Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo and follows a lonely architect who falls in love with the ghost who haunts his new apartment. They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
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His House (2020)
This 2020 Netflix thriller follows a refugee couple fleeing South Sudan and living in a haunted house. The horrors in this movie are social as much as they are supernatural.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Another ghostly rom com for you. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is based on A Christmas Carol, following a womanizer haunted by the memories of his exes until he sees the error of his ways and how he treats the women around him, and decides to go to therapy – JK, you wish. He just decides to be a better dude.
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Insidious (2010)
This supernatural thriller follows a couple whose son falls into a coma and becomes a host to some spooky demons in another universe.
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Soul (2020)
Disney adults need ghost stories too. The 2020 Pixar film Soul follows a pianist who nearly dies moments before his big break and goes on a journey to merge his separated soul with his earthly, hospitalized body. It voices Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey and is damn touching.
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Everyone has that *onemovie that burrows into their brain and sticks with them forever. For some people, it’s an emotionally scarring flick, like Bambi or The Lion King. Maybe it was an intellectually stimulating or provocative film that changed the way you understand the world around you, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or The Shawshank Redemption. No matter where you fall on this “lasting impression” spectrum, one thing’s for sure: No one ever forgets the first movie that scared the living daylights outta them.
For us bona fide horror fans, it’s ghost movies or bust. Sure, chainsaws and maniacal sharks deserve their time in the sun, but come on, GHOSTS!!! It’s never clear if they come in peace and just want to hang out or if they’re seeking revenge because you happen to occupy the lovely carriage house where they grew up. Ghost movies tend to be the perfect scary-movie cocktail of otherworldly creepiness, jump scares, and psychological trickery.
So if you’re in the mood to feel something—anything!—right now and being scared sh*tless will do, then cue up one of the 61 scariest ghost movies of all time. I’m not saying you won’t be able to sleep tonight, but I’m also not not saying that. Sending you thoughts and prayers.
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The Grudge (2004)
The Grudge movie from 2004 spawned a thousand nightmares. This version is a remake of a Japanese horror film called Ju-On: The Grudge from 2002 and spotlights a curse that is passed from victim to victim, creating a whole bunch of ghosts who haunt the hell out of the unlucky people in their orbit.
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Session 9 (2001)
A crew of asbestos cleaners take on a new project: an abandoned mental hospital. Local residents in the surrounding area, however, know to steer very clear of the deteriorating buildings and grounds. So when the crew discovers old recordings of one patient’s sessions, things start to get more than a little spooky.
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A Ghost Story (2017)
If you look at this trailer and still think, Aww, what a cute lil ghost, you are MISTAKEN, my friend. Proving once and for all that cute does not equal lighthearted, this A24 movie focuses on a musician who dies in a car accident and ends up haunting his old house (and wife) while coming to terms with WTF happened.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
True story: I watched this movie with my BFF and because it’s filmed documentary style (like, as a viewer, you literally feel like you’re experiencing everything firsthand), it’s nearly impossible to tell whether the footage is real or scripted, and I couldn’t even finish it because I was shaking so badly. Watching this movie is basically an exercise for your imagination to conjure up the worst possible thing. I ended up leaving my friend all by herself halfway through the movie and had to sleep in the same bed as my parents. I was 16…and now I’m 23 and still not over it.
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Don’t Listen (2020)
It’s appropriate that an excellent horror movie came out during the Year of Horrors that was 2020, isn’t it? Netflix dropped this gem in November. Don’t Listen is about a Spanish couple that ends up battling a supernatural being in a haunted house. What’s not to love?
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The Baby’s Room (2006)
The Baby’s Room is translated from the Spanish horror film La Habitación del Niño. A hopeful young couple moves into a house with their baby and soon discovers an unwelcome presence in the baby’s room. You think you’ve heard this haunted house story before, but the combination of excellent acting and menacing music takes a familiar plot to the next level.
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Candyman (1992)
Based on Clive Barker’s short story, Candyman captures the legend of the ghost of an artist and son of an enslaved person who was murdered…and has some things to say about that.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry should have died in a fatal car accident, but instead, she was the sole survivor. Despite her efforts to move on from the mysterious incident, she begins to be haunted by a spooky man who leads her to an empty carnival on the outskirts of town. This 1962 black-and-white film is horror in its purest, most original form.
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The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
This Guillermo del Toro film travels back to 1939 Spain, near the end of the country’s three-year civil war. A young boy is sent to a remote orphanage after his father’s death, where a violent caretaker roams the grounds—and the ghost of another boy shows up.
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The Woman in Black (2012)
A young widower trying to save his legal career agrees to look into an isolated mansion in a remote village despite very harsh warnings from the locals to leave it alone. As he investigates the decrepit house, supernatural powers and the ghost of a woman in black threaten not only his life but also his already broken family. Harry Potter, er, Daniel Radcliffe stars.
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford star in this haunting thriller about the trials of marriage…and how the ghosts of your past will always come back to haunt you. Not even Harrison’s devastatingly handsome good looks can save you from this kind of creepiness.
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Insidious (2010)
The directors behind the legendary horror f*ckery Saw dialed down the gore and turned up the slow-burn scares in Insidious. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne play parents whose child falls into a coma, only to be possessed by a deeply evil spirit.
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The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
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Haunted (1995)
Lewis Gilbert directed Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale in this adaptation of James Herbert’s novel. The story follows a professor who tries hard to disprove the existence of ghosts and gets into all kinds of paranormal trouble, and it’s the perfect ’90s ghost movie.
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Oculus (2014)
When siblings Tim and Kaylie look into their family’s dark and twisted past in an attempt to figure out who—or what—murdered their parents, they discover an antique mirror inhabited by a supernatural force. Quickie heads-up: You won’t be able to look in a mirror for a looong time, or maybe ever again, after you watch this movie.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Ouija: Origin of Evil is a reminder that you should never even dip a pinkie finger into devilish darkness, not even as a joke. What starts as an innocent-ish séance scam to earn some money turns into a life-threatening encounter with evil spirits for the poor Zander family. Best enjoyed with a nightcap of getting your Ouija board down from the attic only to decide that, um, maybe you’ll try it tomorrow.
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1408 (2007)
Another example of why you should never tempt the supernatural. A novelist known for debunking supernatural phenomena pushes his luck when he decides to stay in the famous haunted room #1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. Will he become the latest victim to the evil walls or will he make it through the night?
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The Uninvited (2009)
Soon after Anna and Alex lose their mom, their dad falls for Rachel—their mother’s former caretaker. But something doesn’t feel quite right about Rachel, and as the sisters become terrorized by ghostly visions, they start digging up Rachel’s sketchy past. Major evil stepmother vibes.
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
A spine-chilling classic, M. Night Shyamalan’s debut follows a little boy (Haley Joel Osment) who sees dead people and a psychologist (Bruce Willis) who tries to help him, all while coping with ghosts of his own. If you’ve managed to remain unspoiled for one of the most iconic twists in cinematic history, congrats! Enjoy. (Also, who are you?) If not, it’s still worth a watch.
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The Haunting (1963)
If you, like me, speed-watched your way through Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House, you’re gonna want to go back to the original British adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic novel. A cult favorite, this movie focuses on a group of people who are invited to a haunted house by a paranormal investigator.
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The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick’s notorious adaptation of the Stephen King novel is arguably one of the scariest movies of all time. A frustrated writer by the name of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) moves his family to the remote Overlook Hotel for the winter, where he’s accepted a job as off-season caretaker. As Jack begins to slide into violent insanity, his son starts having psychic visions of the hotel’s horrific past. Then sh*t gets really real. REDRUM.
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Coco (2017)
Is Coco a horror movie? No, not really. But is it a worthwhile ghost movie nonetheless? Why, yes, it is!
Disney’s Coco follows a young boy who accidentally transitions from the living to the dead and has to find a way back…while figuring out secrets long buried by his family to the tune of some excellent music. If you’re looking for a more lighthearted take on a ghost flick, here’s your pick.
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The Others (2001)
Simultaneously very scary and incredibly sad, this Nicole Kidman hit follows a woman who moves to a remote country house with her two children just after World War II and begins to encounter strange and inexplicable events. Prepare your body for an unbelievably devastating twist.
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
This micro-budget horror movie (legit, production cost only $15K!) spawned a huge franchise and a seemingly endless series of subpar spin-offs. Filmed entirely on a home video camera, we watch a young couple as they begin to suspect their house is haunted. They set up recording equipment to get to the bottom of what’s going on, and things get very scary very fast.
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The Ring (2002)
The Ring is one of the few American remakes of a Japanese horror film that not only justifies its existence but also arguably outshines the original. (Don’t @ me.) Naomi Watts stars as a journalist investigating a supposedly cursed videotape: Whoever watches the tape, which features an extremely creepy series of nonsensical images, will die seven days later. Good luck!
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The Orphanage (2007)
This beautiful and heartbreaking ghost story follows a woman named Laura (Belén Rueda), who returns as an adult to the orphanage where she grew up. She has plans to turn the now-abandoned building into a home for disabled children, but things take a dark turn when her adopted son suddenly goes missing and the orphanage’s tortured past is revealed.
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The Innocents (1961)
Depending on your interpretation, this icy British psychological chiller centers on either a governess who witnesses the two children under her care being gradually possessed by ghosts or a governess who loses her mind while working on a large and creepy country estate. Either way, I’m in.
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Poltergeist (1982)
They’re heeeeere. There aren’t many American horror movies more iconic than this story of a normal California family whose daughter suddenly starts conversing with angry ghosts via television static and is subsequently abducted by the spirits as they terrorize the entire family.
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The Conjuring (2013)
A modern horror movie so good, it inspired an entire universe of future films including two more Conjurings, the Annabelle series, and The Nun (we’ll get to that in a moment). The original is still the best though. The Conjuring is inspired by a real-life pair of paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who come to help a family whose farmhouse may be haunted.
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ParaNorman (2012)
Kids movies can be full of ghosts too, and this stop-motion animation masterpiece from Laika Studios is the perfect answer to a young person’s ghost-movie night.
ParaNorman follows a kid named—you guessed it—Norman, who can see ghosts and eventually has to stop a witch’s curse and reveal something terrible that happened centuries ago in his small town.
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The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter’s follow-up to Halloween remains one of his best. A mysterious, glowing fog descends on a small town in California and brings with it a series of deeply scary events, which turn out to be the work of malevolent maritime ghosts. The worst kind!
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Skip the Ryan Reynolds remake. The original Amityville, which stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder as a couple who moves into a house with a violent history, is the first movie based on the real-life Amityville horror. That chilling true story? In 1975, the Lutz family moved into a house in Amityville, Long Island, where a man had murdered six members of his family just a year prior. The Lutzes moved out one month later, claiming they’d been plagued by paranormal activity.
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The Changeling (1980)
No, not the Angelina Jolie one. Another horror movie that’s really about grief, The Changeling tells the story of a composer (George C. Scott) who picks up and relocates across the country to Seattle after the death of his wife and daughter. He moves into a sprawling, creepy mansion, which he’s assured has been vacant for years. Spoiler: not so much!
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Casper (1980)
Casper is one of the best movies ever, don’t drag me. About a friendly ghost who just wants a BFF (*runs away crying*), this gem of the ’90s will…wait for it…haunt you. AHAHAHA. I may or may not have had a childhood crush on Casper, and yes, I’m aware that he was a poorly animated ghost.
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Personal Shopper (2017)
Kristen Stewart + ghostly shenanigans? Count me in.
In this movie, Kristen plays a medium who starts to talk to her dead brother and…things get even weirder from there.
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Ghost (1990)
If you’ve ever fantasized about having an erotic experience with a ghost, this one is for you! Famous for its sensual pottery-wheel scene, Ghost is about a woman whose boyfriend dies and then comes back to haunt her. But not in a scary way. In a sexy, oh-god-I think-I’m-attracted-to-supernatural-spirits-now kind of way.
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The Nun (2018)
We were first introduced to The Nun during The Conjuring 2, and she was so damn scary that she got her own movie. To be clear, The Nun herself is not a ghost—she’s a demon, so don’t get it twisted. However, there are ghosts in this movie and they are not f*cking around with their haunting skills. Just saying, you might want to watch this one during daylight hours.
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Crimson Peak (2015)
Crimson Peak is both a ghost story and a gothic romance, and here’s the good news: While, yes, it’s about a haunted house, it also stars Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Tom Hiddleston. And every time he’s onscreen, you can’t help but imagine him in an “I Heart T.S.” tank top frolicking in the waves with a bunch of supermodels, which makes the whole movie-watching experience far less traumatizing!
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Beetlejuice (1988)
One of the most beloved movies of the ’80s, this classic Tim Burton comedy is ghostly gold. Micheal Keaton is absolutely iconic as Beetlejuice himself, and Winona Ryder kills it as a surly goth teenager. Fun fact: Beetlejuice’s real name is actually Betelgeuse. THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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Thirteen Ghosts (2001)
The basic premise of this movie is that a ghost hunter named Cyrus is determined to capture a spirit that goes by the name Juggernaut, and along the way, he discovers that 12 more angry ghosts are involved and unhappy with how things are going.
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Honestly, not sure what I need to spell out here. It’s about a ship full of ghosts. And also, the ship itself is a ghost? Either way, a bunch of humans make the mistake of boarding, and some horrifying sh*t goes down because apparently these undead dudes do not like random visitors interrupting their ghostly seamen activities.
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Ghostbusters (1984)
I believe it was Shakespeare who once mused, “If there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?” Ghostbusters. And those wise words still hold true, because Ghostbusters remains the best movie about ghosts of all time—and frankly, it’s pretty scary! Unless you don’t find Sigourney Weaver writhing around in bed after being possessed by a demon scary, in which case we should never watch a movie together.
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Winchester (2018)
A horror movie starring Helen Mirren about the most haunted house in history? Sign me up. Unfortunately, Sam and Dean Winchester have nothing to do with this particular possession.
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Susperia (2018)
A remake of the 1977 classic about a ballet dancer who gets involved in a supernatural conspiracy, the 2018 version stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, and honestly, it’s a LOT to process. But seeing as it traumatized its own stars—Dakota says it “f*cked me up so much that I had to go to therapy”—you’re going to want to give it a chance.
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The Gift (2000)
If you’ve ever wanted to see baby Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, and Hilary Swank act together, today is your lucky day.
The Gift centers on Cate’s character, Annie, who is clairvoyant and has ghostly visions of her grandma…which come in handy once she gets tangled in a local town murder.
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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Want a scary movie where you get to see Jake Gyllenhaal’s butt? This campy Netflix original follows an art critic who becomes obsessed with the work of an unhinged dead man. When the art is taken from the dead man’s home without permission, people start dying bloodily.
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The Invisible (2006)
When a young teen is brutally beaten to near-death, he starts haunting a disturbed girl who was one of his attackers. She’s the only one who can sense him, so she’s his only hope at leading the cops to his body before he dies. If that sounds like a very weird, dark rom-com, you’re not entirely wrong!
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Mama (2013)
After two young girls are abandoned in a forest cabin, they’re taken in by their uncle and his wife (played by GoT’s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastain). Before that, though, they’ve been completely alone for five years, protected only by the mysterious “Mama.”
Well, it turns out, Mama decided to follow them to their new home. This was honestly one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen, but it also has one of the most satisfying twists of all time. Sorry, M. Night Shyamalan.
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Pet Sematary (2019)
When a movie is based on a Stephen King novel, you know it’s going to scare the bejeezus out of you. In the most recent 2019 adaptation of Pet Sematary, a family finds a weird graveyard behind their new home and end up being warned by ghosts that something strange is amiss. (It should go without saying that if you’re being warned by ghosts about things, that’s a red flag.)
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Lights Out (2016)
In this scary movie, a lady tries to protect her brother from a ~supernatural ghostly entity~, and things get very complicated and, well, terrifying.
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
This South Korean horror follows a teenage girl who returns home after a stay in a mental hospital to complex family dynamics and a house haunted by ghosts. If it sounds familiar, its the original source material for the previously mentioned 2009 adaptation, The Uninvited.
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Candyman (2021)
This slasher film from Nia DaCosta is a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 Candyman, and stars Yahya Adbul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, and Colman Domingo.
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Looking for a ghost movie without the horror? Look no further. Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who constructs a baseball field on his land, which quickly becomes inhabited by the ghosts of sports legends past.
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Another non-spooky ghost tale, Charlie St. Cloud stars Zac Efron and Amanda Crew. We’d drop a spoiler alert, but the movie is 12 years old, so if you don’t know now you know, this is a ghost movie.
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Doctor Sleep (2019)
If you lost track of this one somewhere between Doctor Who and Doctor Strange, Doctor Sleep is an adaptation of a Stephen King novel and a sequel to The Shining.
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Spirited Away (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who moves to a new neighborhood and enters the world of Japanese folklore. When her parents are turned into pigs at the hand of a powerful witch, the young girl must find a way to return herself and her family to the human world. Spirited Away is considered to be one of the greatest films of the century and is the first and only hand-drawn, non-English-language animated film to win an Oscar.
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Just Like Heaven (2005)
This 2005 rom com stars Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo and follows a lonely architect who falls in love with the ghost who haunts his new apartment. They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
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His House (2020)
This 2020 Netflix thriller follows a refugee couple fleeing South Sudan and living in a haunted house. The horrors in this movie are social as much as they are supernatural.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Another ghostly rom com for you. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is based on A Christmas Carol, following a womanizer haunted by the memories of his exes until he sees the error of his ways and how he treats the women around him, and decides to go to therapy – JK, you wish. He just decides to be a better dude.
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Insidious (2010)
This supernatural thriller follows a couple whose son falls into a coma and becomes a host to some spooky demons in another universe.
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Soul (2020)
Disney adults need ghost stories too. The 2020 Pixar film Soul follows a pianist who nearly dies moments before his big break and goes on a journey to merge his separated soul with his earthly, hospitalized body. It voices Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey and is damn touching.
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Everyone has that *onemovie that burrows into their brain and sticks with them forever. For some people, it’s an emotionally scarring flick, like Bambi or The Lion King. Maybe it was an intellectually stimulating or provocative film that changed the way you understand the world around you, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or The Shawshank Redemption. No matter where you fall on this “lasting impression” spectrum, one thing’s for sure: No one ever forgets the first movie that scared the living daylights outta them.
For us bona fide horror fans, it’s ghost movies or bust. Sure, chainsaws and maniacal sharks deserve their time in the sun, but come on, GHOSTS!!! It’s never clear if they come in peace and just want to hang out or if they’re seeking revenge because you happen to occupy the lovely carriage house where they grew up. Ghost movies tend to be the perfect scary-movie cocktail of otherworldly creepiness, jump scares, and psychological trickery.
So if you’re in the mood to feel something—anything!—right now and being scared sh*tless will do, then cue up one of the 61 scariest ghost movies of all time. I’m not saying you won’t be able to sleep tonight, but I’m also not not saying that. Sending you thoughts and prayers.
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The Grudge (2004)
The Grudge movie from 2004 spawned a thousand nightmares. This version is a remake of a Japanese horror film called Ju-On: The Grudge from 2002 and spotlights a curse that is passed from victim to victim, creating a whole bunch of ghosts who haunt the hell out of the unlucky people in their orbit.
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Session 9 (2001)
A crew of asbestos cleaners take on a new project: an abandoned mental hospital. Local residents in the surrounding area, however, know to steer very clear of the deteriorating buildings and grounds. So when the crew discovers old recordings of one patient’s sessions, things start to get more than a little spooky.
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A Ghost Story (2017)
If you look at this trailer and still think, Aww, what a cute lil ghost, you are MISTAKEN, my friend. Proving once and for all that cute does not equal lighthearted, this A24 movie focuses on a musician who dies in a car accident and ends up haunting his old house (and wife) while coming to terms with WTF happened.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
True story: I watched this movie with my BFF and because it’s filmed documentary style (like, as a viewer, you literally feel like you’re experiencing everything firsthand), it’s nearly impossible to tell whether the footage is real or scripted, and I couldn’t even finish it because I was shaking so badly. Watching this movie is basically an exercise for your imagination to conjure up the worst possible thing. I ended up leaving my friend all by herself halfway through the movie and had to sleep in the same bed as my parents. I was 16…and now I’m 23 and still not over it.
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Don’t Listen (2020)
It’s appropriate that an excellent horror movie came out during the Year of Horrors that was 2020, isn’t it? Netflix dropped this gem in November. Don’t Listen is about a Spanish couple that ends up battling a supernatural being in a haunted house. What’s not to love?
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The Baby’s Room (2006)
The Baby’s Room is translated from the Spanish horror film La Habitación del Niño. A hopeful young couple moves into a house with their baby and soon discovers an unwelcome presence in the baby’s room. You think you’ve heard this haunted house story before, but the combination of excellent acting and menacing music takes a familiar plot to the next level.
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Candyman (1992)
Based on Clive Barker’s short story, Candyman captures the legend of the ghost of an artist and son of an enslaved person who was murdered…and has some things to say about that.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry should have died in a fatal car accident, but instead, she was the sole survivor. Despite her efforts to move on from the mysterious incident, she begins to be haunted by a spooky man who leads her to an empty carnival on the outskirts of town. This 1962 black-and-white film is horror in its purest, most original form.
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The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
This Guillermo del Toro film travels back to 1939 Spain, near the end of the country’s three-year civil war. A young boy is sent to a remote orphanage after his father’s death, where a violent caretaker roams the grounds—and the ghost of another boy shows up.
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The Woman in Black (2012)
A young widower trying to save his legal career agrees to look into an isolated mansion in a remote village despite very harsh warnings from the locals to leave it alone. As he investigates the decrepit house, supernatural powers and the ghost of a woman in black threaten not only his life but also his already broken family. Harry Potter, er, Daniel Radcliffe stars.
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford star in this haunting thriller about the trials of marriage…and how the ghosts of your past will always come back to haunt you. Not even Harrison’s devastatingly handsome good looks can save you from this kind of creepiness.
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Insidious (2010)
The directors behind the legendary horror f*ckery Saw dialed down the gore and turned up the slow-burn scares in Insidious. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne play parents whose child falls into a coma, only to be possessed by a deeply evil spirit.
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The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
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Haunted (1995)
Lewis Gilbert directed Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale in this adaptation of James Herbert’s novel. The story follows a professor who tries hard to disprove the existence of ghosts and gets into all kinds of paranormal trouble, and it’s the perfect ’90s ghost movie.
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Oculus (2014)
When siblings Tim and Kaylie look into their family’s dark and twisted past in an attempt to figure out who—or what—murdered their parents, they discover an antique mirror inhabited by a supernatural force. Quickie heads-up: You won’t be able to look in a mirror for a looong time, or maybe ever again, after you watch this movie.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Ouija: Origin of Evil is a reminder that you should never even dip a pinkie finger into devilish darkness, not even as a joke. What starts as an innocent-ish séance scam to earn some money turns into a life-threatening encounter with evil spirits for the poor Zander family. Best enjoyed with a nightcap of getting your Ouija board down from the attic only to decide that, um, maybe you’ll try it tomorrow.
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1408 (2007)
Another example of why you should never tempt the supernatural. A novelist known for debunking supernatural phenomena pushes his luck when he decides to stay in the famous haunted room #1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. Will he become the latest victim to the evil walls or will he make it through the night?
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The Uninvited (2009)
Soon after Anna and Alex lose their mom, their dad falls for Rachel—their mother’s former caretaker. But something doesn’t feel quite right about Rachel, and as the sisters become terrorized by ghostly visions, they start digging up Rachel’s sketchy past. Major evil stepmother vibes.
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
A spine-chilling classic, M. Night Shyamalan’s debut follows a little boy (Haley Joel Osment) who sees dead people and a psychologist (Bruce Willis) who tries to help him, all while coping with ghosts of his own. If you’ve managed to remain unspoiled for one of the most iconic twists in cinematic history, congrats! Enjoy. (Also, who are you?) If not, it’s still worth a watch.
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The Haunting (1963)
If you, like me, speed-watched your way through Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House, you’re gonna want to go back to the original British adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic novel. A cult favorite, this movie focuses on a group of people who are invited to a haunted house by a paranormal investigator.
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The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick’s notorious adaptation of the Stephen King novel is arguably one of the scariest movies of all time. A frustrated writer by the name of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) moves his family to the remote Overlook Hotel for the winter, where he’s accepted a job as off-season caretaker. As Jack begins to slide into violent insanity, his son starts having psychic visions of the hotel’s horrific past. Then sh*t gets really real. REDRUM.
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Coco (2017)
Is Coco a horror movie? No, not really. But is it a worthwhile ghost movie nonetheless? Why, yes, it is!
Disney’s Coco follows a young boy who accidentally transitions from the living to the dead and has to find a way back…while figuring out secrets long buried by his family to the tune of some excellent music. If you’re looking for a more lighthearted take on a ghost flick, here’s your pick.
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The Others (2001)
Simultaneously very scary and incredibly sad, this Nicole Kidman hit follows a woman who moves to a remote country house with her two children just after World War II and begins to encounter strange and inexplicable events. Prepare your body for an unbelievably devastating twist.
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
This micro-budget horror movie (legit, production cost only $15K!) spawned a huge franchise and a seemingly endless series of subpar spin-offs. Filmed entirely on a home video camera, we watch a young couple as they begin to suspect their house is haunted. They set up recording equipment to get to the bottom of what’s going on, and things get very scary very fast.
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The Ring (2002)
The Ring is one of the few American remakes of a Japanese horror film that not only justifies its existence but also arguably outshines the original. (Don’t @ me.) Naomi Watts stars as a journalist investigating a supposedly cursed videotape: Whoever watches the tape, which features an extremely creepy series of nonsensical images, will die seven days later. Good luck!
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The Orphanage (2007)
This beautiful and heartbreaking ghost story follows a woman named Laura (Belén Rueda), who returns as an adult to the orphanage where she grew up. She has plans to turn the now-abandoned building into a home for disabled children, but things take a dark turn when her adopted son suddenly goes missing and the orphanage’s tortured past is revealed.
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The Innocents (1961)
Depending on your interpretation, this icy British psychological chiller centers on either a governess who witnesses the two children under her care being gradually possessed by ghosts or a governess who loses her mind while working on a large and creepy country estate. Either way, I’m in.
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Poltergeist (1982)
They’re heeeeere. There aren’t many American horror movies more iconic than this story of a normal California family whose daughter suddenly starts conversing with angry ghosts via television static and is subsequently abducted by the spirits as they terrorize the entire family.
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The Conjuring (2013)
A modern horror movie so good, it inspired an entire universe of future films including two more Conjurings, the Annabelle series, and The Nun (we’ll get to that in a moment). The original is still the best though. The Conjuring is inspired by a real-life pair of paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who come to help a family whose farmhouse may be haunted.
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ParaNorman (2012)
Kids movies can be full of ghosts too, and this stop-motion animation masterpiece from Laika Studios is the perfect answer to a young person’s ghost-movie night.
ParaNorman follows a kid named—you guessed it—Norman, who can see ghosts and eventually has to stop a witch’s curse and reveal something terrible that happened centuries ago in his small town.
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The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter’s follow-up to Halloween remains one of his best. A mysterious, glowing fog descends on a small town in California and brings with it a series of deeply scary events, which turn out to be the work of malevolent maritime ghosts. The worst kind!
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Skip the Ryan Reynolds remake. The original Amityville, which stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder as a couple who moves into a house with a violent history, is the first movie based on the real-life Amityville horror. That chilling true story? In 1975, the Lutz family moved into a house in Amityville, Long Island, where a man had murdered six members of his family just a year prior. The Lutzes moved out one month later, claiming they’d been plagued by paranormal activity.
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The Changeling (1980)
No, not the Angelina Jolie one. Another horror movie that’s really about grief, The Changeling tells the story of a composer (George C. Scott) who picks up and relocates across the country to Seattle after the death of his wife and daughter. He moves into a sprawling, creepy mansion, which he’s assured has been vacant for years. Spoiler: not so much!
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Casper (1980)
Casper is one of the best movies ever, don’t drag me. About a friendly ghost who just wants a BFF (*runs away crying*), this gem of the ’90s will…wait for it…haunt you. AHAHAHA. I may or may not have had a childhood crush on Casper, and yes, I’m aware that he was a poorly animated ghost.
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Personal Shopper (2017)
Kristen Stewart + ghostly shenanigans? Count me in.
In this movie, Kristen plays a medium who starts to talk to her dead brother and…things get even weirder from there.
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Ghost (1990)
If you’ve ever fantasized about having an erotic experience with a ghost, this one is for you! Famous for its sensual pottery-wheel scene, Ghost is about a woman whose boyfriend dies and then comes back to haunt her. But not in a scary way. In a sexy, oh-god-I think-I’m-attracted-to-supernatural-spirits-now kind of way.
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The Nun (2018)
We were first introduced to The Nun during The Conjuring 2, and she was so damn scary that she got her own movie. To be clear, The Nun herself is not a ghost—she’s a demon, so don’t get it twisted. However, there are ghosts in this movie and they are not f*cking around with their haunting skills. Just saying, you might want to watch this one during daylight hours.
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Crimson Peak (2015)
Crimson Peak is both a ghost story and a gothic romance, and here’s the good news: While, yes, it’s about a haunted house, it also stars Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Tom Hiddleston. And every time he’s onscreen, you can’t help but imagine him in an “I Heart T.S.” tank top frolicking in the waves with a bunch of supermodels, which makes the whole movie-watching experience far less traumatizing!
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Beetlejuice (1988)
One of the most beloved movies of the ’80s, this classic Tim Burton comedy is ghostly gold. Micheal Keaton is absolutely iconic as Beetlejuice himself, and Winona Ryder kills it as a surly goth teenager. Fun fact: Beetlejuice’s real name is actually Betelgeuse. THE MORE YOU KNOW.
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Thirteen Ghosts (2001)
The basic premise of this movie is that a ghost hunter named Cyrus is determined to capture a spirit that goes by the name Juggernaut, and along the way, he discovers that 12 more angry ghosts are involved and unhappy with how things are going.
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Honestly, not sure what I need to spell out here. It’s about a ship full of ghosts. And also, the ship itself is a ghost? Either way, a bunch of humans make the mistake of boarding, and some horrifying sh*t goes down because apparently these undead dudes do not like random visitors interrupting their ghostly seamen activities.
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Ghostbusters (1984)
I believe it was Shakespeare who once mused, “If there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?” Ghostbusters. And those wise words still hold true, because Ghostbusters remains the best movie about ghosts of all time—and frankly, it’s pretty scary! Unless you don’t find Sigourney Weaver writhing around in bed after being possessed by a demon scary, in which case we should never watch a movie together.
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Winchester (2018)
A horror movie starring Helen Mirren about the most haunted house in history? Sign me up. Unfortunately, Sam and Dean Winchester have nothing to do with this particular possession.
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Susperia (2018)
A remake of the 1977 classic about a ballet dancer who gets involved in a supernatural conspiracy, the 2018 version stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, and honestly, it’s a LOT to process. But seeing as it traumatized its own stars—Dakota says it “f*cked me up so much that I had to go to therapy”—you’re going to want to give it a chance.
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The Gift (2000)
If you’ve ever wanted to see baby Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, and Hilary Swank act together, today is your lucky day.
The Gift centers on Cate’s character, Annie, who is clairvoyant and has ghostly visions of her grandma…which come in handy once she gets tangled in a local town murder.
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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Want a scary movie where you get to see Jake Gyllenhaal’s butt? This campy Netflix original follows an art critic who becomes obsessed with the work of an unhinged dead man. When the art is taken from the dead man’s home without permission, people start dying bloodily.
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The Invisible (2006)
When a young teen is brutally beaten to near-death, he starts haunting a disturbed girl who was one of his attackers. She’s the only one who can sense him, so she’s his only hope at leading the cops to his body before he dies. If that sounds like a very weird, dark rom-com, you’re not entirely wrong!
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Mama (2013)
After two young girls are abandoned in a forest cabin, they’re taken in by their uncle and his wife (played by GoT’s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastain). Before that, though, they’ve been completely alone for five years, protected only by the mysterious “Mama.”
Well, it turns out, Mama decided to follow them to their new home. This was honestly one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen, but it also has one of the most satisfying twists of all time. Sorry, M. Night Shyamalan.
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Pet Sematary (2019)
When a movie is based on a Stephen King novel, you know it’s going to scare the bejeezus out of you. In the most recent 2019 adaptation of Pet Sematary, a family finds a weird graveyard behind their new home and end up being warned by ghosts that something strange is amiss. (It should go without saying that if you’re being warned by ghosts about things, that’s a red flag.)
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Lights Out (2016)
In this scary movie, a lady tries to protect her brother from a ~supernatural ghostly entity~, and things get very complicated and, well, terrifying.
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
This South Korean horror follows a teenage girl who returns home after a stay in a mental hospital to complex family dynamics and a house haunted by ghosts. If it sounds familiar, its the original source material for the previously mentioned 2009 adaptation, The Uninvited.
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Candyman (2021)
This slasher film from Nia DaCosta is a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 Candyman, and stars Yahya Adbul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, and Colman Domingo.
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Looking for a ghost movie without the horror? Look no further. Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who constructs a baseball field on his land, which quickly becomes inhabited by the ghosts of sports legends past.
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Another non-spooky ghost tale, Charlie St. Cloud stars Zac Efron and Amanda Crew. We’d drop a spoiler alert, but the movie is 12 years old, so if you don’t know now you know, this is a ghost movie.
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Doctor Sleep (2019)
If you lost track of this one somewhere between Doctor Who and Doctor Strange, Doctor Sleep is an adaptation of a Stephen King novel and a sequel to The Shining.
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Spirited Away (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who moves to a new neighborhood and enters the world of Japanese folklore. When her parents are turned into pigs at the hand of a powerful witch, the young girl must find a way to return herself and her family to the human world. Spirited Away is considered to be one of the greatest films of the century and is the first and only hand-drawn, non-English-language animated film to win an Oscar.
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Just Like Heaven (2005)
This 2005 rom com stars Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo and follows a lonely architect who falls in love with the ghost who haunts his new apartment. They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
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His House (2020)
This 2020 Netflix thriller follows a refugee couple fleeing South Sudan and living in a haunted house. The horrors in this movie are social as much as they are supernatural.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Another ghostly rom com for you. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is based on A Christmas Carol, following a womanizer haunted by the memories of his exes until he sees the error of his ways and how he treats the women around him, and decides to go to therapy – JK, you wish. He just decides to be a better dude.
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Insidious (2010)
This supernatural thriller follows a couple whose son falls into a coma and becomes a host to some spooky demons in another universe.
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Soul (2020)
Disney adults need ghost stories too. The 2020 Pixar film Soul follows a pianist who nearly dies moments before his big break and goes on a journey to merge his separated soul with his earthly, hospitalized body. It voices Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey and is damn touching.
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