Top 37 Best Paranormal Movies [March 2025] (2025)

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109 Paranormal films sorted alphabetically from A-Z 1). 100 Feet (2008) (full poster/trailer) 2). 5 Souls (2013) (full poster/trailer) 3). A Night in the Woods (2011) (full poster/trailer) 4). Aaron's House (2012) (full poster/trailer) 5). Abbey Grace (2016) (full poster/trailer) 6). Alice D (2014) (full poster/trailer) 7). Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011) (full poster/trailer) 8). Arise from Darkness (2016) (full poster/trailer) 9). As Above, So Below (2014) (full poster/trailer) What is As Above, So Below Streaming On? 10). Ascent to Hell (2014) (full poster/trailer) 11). Audrey Rose (1977) (full poster/trailer) 12). Bayou Ghost Story (2017) (full poster/trailer) 13). Beetlejuice (1988) (full poster/trailer) What is Beetlejuice Streaming On? 14). Black Mountain Side (2014) (full poster/trailer) 15). Blood Money (2017) (full poster/trailer)

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Top 37 must-see best paranormal movies from 109 paranormal movies, including Poltergeist, The Shining, The Sixth Sense, The Conjuring, The Orphanage, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Resolution, Ghost, and Ouija 2 ranked and rated by score.

Click any of the movies in this paranormal list below to see that films' synopsis, plot, cast/actors, directors, full poster, movie trailer, and review.

1). Poltergeist (1982)

Score: 8.7/10 IMDB: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 186,052
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 77177301
Plot / Synopsis: A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of…

Director: Tobe Hooper
Stars: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins

2). The Shining (1980)

Score: 8.24/10 IMDB: 8.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,145,580
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 45634352
Plot / Synopsis: Haunted by a persistent writer's block, the aspiring author and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance, drags his wife, Wendy, and his gifted son, Danny, up snow-capped…

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson

3). The Sixth Sense (1999)

Score: 8.18/10 IMDB: 8.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,088,287
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 293506292
Plot / Synopsis: Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient.…

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Trevor Morgan

4). The Conjuring (2013)

Score: 8.11/10 IMDB: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 577,786
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 137446368
Plot / Synopsis: In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with…

Director: James Wan
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Shanley Caswell

5). The Orphanage (2007)

Score: 7.83/10 IMDB: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 166,662
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 7161284
Plot / Synopsis: Laura, a former orphan, raises her adopted son Simón together with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised.…

Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla

6). Ghostbusters (1984)

Score: 7.74/10 IMDB: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 467,347
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 243640120
Plot / Synopsis: Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler work at Columbia University. where they delve into the paranormal and fiddle with many unethical experiments on their…

Director: Ivan Reitman
Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

7). Beetlejuice (1988)

Score: 7.41/10 IMDB: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 395,066
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 74664632
Plot / Synopsis: Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate their house and make it their…

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger

8). Resolution (2012)

Score: 7.3/10 IMDB: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 20,438
MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Soon-to-be-a-dad Michael makes a last ditch effort to save his longtime but addicted friend Chris from a foreseeable drug related death. Visiting Chris and handcuffing…

Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Stars: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Emily Montague, Kurt David Anderson, Skyler Meacham

9). Ghost (1990)

Score: 7.09/10 IMDB: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 245,313
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 217631306
Plot / Synopsis: Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by friend and…

Director: Jerry Zucker
Stars: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn, Stanley Lawrence, Christopher J. Keene

10). Ouija 2 (2016)

Score: 7/10 IMDB: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 78,216
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 35144505
Plot / Synopsis: In 1967 Los Angeles, a young widow named Alice Zander works out of her suburban home as a spiritual medium, accompanied by her daughters, 15-year-old…

Director: Mike Flanagan
Stars: Annalise Basso, Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Henry Thomas, Parker Mack

11). Stir of Echoes (1999)

Score: 6.87/10 IMDB: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 89,735
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 21142914
Plot / Synopsis: A man is hypnotized at a party by his sister-in law. He soon has visions and dreams of a ghost of a girl. Trying to…

Director: David Koepp
Stars: Zachary David Cope, Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn

12). The Eye (2002)

Score: 6.53/10 IMDB: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 30,428
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 512049
Plot / Synopsis: A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for…

Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang
Stars: Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Jinda Duangtoy, Yut Lai So, Candy Lo

13). Ghostbusters II (1989)

Score: 6.29/10 IMDB: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 232,150
MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: 112494738
Plot / Synopsis: Having lost their status and credibility five years after covering New York City with marshmallow in Ghostbusters (1984), the once-famous band of spirit-hunters find themselves…

Director: Ivan Reitman
Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

14). The Gift (2000)

Score: 6.23/10 IMDB: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 76,722
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 12008642
Plot / Synopsis: When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk…

Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear

15). The Entity (1982)

Score: 6/10 IMDB: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 19,152
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 13277558
Plot / Synopsis: As if struggling to make ends meet and trying to get her life back on track wasn't enough, the hard-working single mother of three, Carla…

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye

16). Marrowbone (2017)

Score: 5.97/10 IMDB: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 44,038
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 1377
Plot / Synopsis: Three brothers and a sister have just lost their mother. After her death they fear to be separated, so to protect themselves and prevent this…

Director: Sergio G. Sánchez
Stars: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg

17). The Amityville Horror (1979)

Score: 5.42/10 IMDB: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 46,566
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 86432000
Plot / Synopsis: Based on a true story that was claimed by writer Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror is about a large house on the coast of Long…

Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Stars: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton

18). The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Score: 5.33/10 IMDB: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 143,323
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 75072454
Plot / Synopsis: When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her…

Director: Scott Derrickson
Stars: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore

19). Wind Chill (2007)

Score: 5.09/10 IMDB: 5.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 25,631
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 36804
Plot / Synopsis: A couple of college students known only as the Girl and the Guy are traveling home to Delaware the day before Christmas Eve. They're on…

Director: Gregory Jacobs
Stars: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan, Ned Bellamy, Ian A. Wallace

20). Whisper (2007)

Score: 5.07/10 IMDB: 5.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 10,247
MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: When the eight-year-old son, David, of a wealthy New England socialite is abducted, his kidnapper Max Harper and his seedy associates assume it will be…

Director: Stewart Hendler
Stars: Jennifer Shirley, Blake Woodruff, Michael Rooker, Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies

21). 100 Feet (2008)

Score: 4.93/10 IMDB: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 13,377
MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A young woman, Marnie Watson, is granted early release from her prison sentence for manslaughter (killing her husband - a violent NYC cop - in…

Director: Eric Red
Stars: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré, Patricia Charbonneau

22). Creep (2004)

Score: 4.8/10 IMDB: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 32,666
MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Heading home late one night after a party, Kate falls asleep while waiting for her train. She awakens to find herself trapped in the London…

Director: Christopher Smith
Stars: Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell, Kathryn Gilfeather, Franka Potente, Grant Ibbs

23). The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

Score: 4.79/10 IMDB: 5.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 66,345
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 55389516
Plot / Synopsis: Charts one family's encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming…

Director: Peter Cornwell
Stars: Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew, Martin Donovan

24). The Possession (2012)

Score: 4.77/10 IMDB: 5.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 64,279
MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: 49130154
Plot / Synopsis: The basketball coach Clyde and his wife Stephanie divorced a couple of months ago and their teenage daughter Hannah and the girl Emily 'Em' live…

Director: Ole Bornedal
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Madison Davenport, Matisyahu

25). As Above, So Below (2014)

Score: 4.59/10 IMDB: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 119,481
MPAA Rating: R | Gross: 21321100
Plot / Synopsis: Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted…

Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert

109 Paranormal films sorted alphabetically from A-Z

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1). 100 Feet (2008) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 4.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 13,377 | MPAA Rating: R
Haunted House, Killer, Haunted House - Cursed, Revenge, Sci-Fi, Torture
Plot / Synopsis: A young woman, Marnie Watson, is granted early release from her prison sentence for manslaughter (killing her husband - a violent NYC cop - in self defense) on condition she wear an electronic ankle bracelet and remain within her home, effectively under house arrest, for the remainder of her sentence. Her late husband's partner keeps tabs on her from...

Director: Eric Red
Stars: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré, Patricia Charbonneau

2). 5 Souls (2013) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 4.09/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 342 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: How far would you go to save your soul? Noah is haunted by this very question when a shadowy stranger offers him a disturbing choice: kill or be killed...

Director: Brett Donowho
Stars: Kristina Anapau, Samaire Armstrong, Steve Bacic, Lynn Blackburn, Ian Bohen

3). A Night in the Woods (2011) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 3.8/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,035 | Rotten Tomatoes: 4.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Brody, his girlfriend Kerry and their friend Leo go hiking in Dartmoor's Wistman's Woods, so named because of its legendary haunted past. That night jealousies, s**ual tensions and strained relationships come to a head turning what should have been a peaceful camping adventure into a trip to terror. As collective paranoia reaches fever pitch it becomes clear that there...

Director: Richard Parry
Stars: Scoot McNairy, Scoot McNairy, Anna Skellern, Anna Skellern, Andrew Hawley

4). Aaron's House (2012) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 4.43/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 140 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A paranormal researcher sets out to debunk the legends surrounding the infamous Aaron's House.Tagline: A legacy of terror for more than 150 years...

Director: B. Luciano Barsuglia
Stars: Bobby Field, Christine Cowden, Daron McFarland, Javier Morga, Natalie Avital

5). Abbey Grace (2016) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 4.08/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,186 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: When Stacy's mom dies, Stacey puts her life and career on hold and returns to her childhood home to take care of her OCD agorophobic brother Ben who hasn't been out of the house for 23 years only to find out the house they grew up in harbors a disturbing secret...

Director: Stephen Durham
Stars: Debbie Sheridan, Jacob Hobbs, Amber Gallaway, Semi Anthony, Maggie McNabb

6). Alice D (2014) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 3.8/10 | IMDB Rating: 2.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 506 | MPAA Rating: R
Haunted House, Confined, Haunted House - Hotel, Party
Plot / Synopsis: Jessica Sonneborn's Alice D (2014) is a horror thriller movie that is a low budget film that managed to cast Kane Hodder and Al Snow. From the teaser trailer, the film seems to have suspense, build up, and decent pacing. Alice D plays out like a ghost haunting movie. Alice D also stars Eliza Swenson, Juan Riedinger, Josh Hammond, Heather...

Director: Jessica Sonneborn
Stars: Kane Hodder, Juan Riedinger, Al Snow, Megan Hensley, Aaron Massey

7). Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 2.87/10 | IMDB Rating: 2.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 938 | MPAA Rating: R
Demons, Found Footage, Exorcisms, Madness, Religion
Plot / Synopsis: Documentary covering the famous 'demonic possession' case of Anneliese Michel. The film features authentic...Tagline: The terrifying true story that inspired The Exorcism of Emily Rose...

Director: Jude Gerard Prest
Stars: Yaz Canli, Kai Cofer, Christopher Karl Johnson, Nikki Muller, Annette Remter

8). Arise from Darkness (2016) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 5.97/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 833 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $6,112
Plot / Synopsis: Based on the early events of psychic Lazaro Ruben Torres, clinically declared dead five times. In the process of trying to reconnect with his daughter Lazaro discovers the man who killed her...

Directors: La Raza, Zachary Laoutides, Mónica Esmeralda León
Stars: Zachary Laoutides, Mónica Esmeralda León, Samuel Younan, Amparo Sanchez, Alex Villarreal

9). As Above, So Below (2014) (full poster/trailer)

What is As Above, So Below Streaming On?

As Above, So Below is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: John Erick Dowdle's As Above, So Below (2014) looks great! Paris sits atop the largest grave site with miles of twisting catacombs with untold millions of human remains. To make matters worse, this new horror film looks to inject the already haunting chilling site with a plot that the catacombs themselves are the gate way to hell, awesome. There is...

Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert

10). Ascent to Hell (2014) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 4.26/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,506 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Kate, an ambitious commercial real estate agent, has her sights set on a big contract, with a wealthy investment manager. The deal is lucrative, but it is suddenly on the rocks as Kate and Mr. Browning, and the rest of the people involved in the deal must survive a mysterious supernatural trap. In order to escape with their lives,...

Director: Dena Hysell-Cornejo
Stars: Azura Skye, Cayleb Long, Bill Sage, Taylor Black, John Hennigan

11). Audrey Rose (1977) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 5.75/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,887 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.7/10 | MPAA Rating: PG
Possession, Drama, Psychic
Plot / Synopsis: A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.Tagline: A haunting vision of reincarnation...

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd

12). Bayou Ghost Story (2017) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 5.77/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 89 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A paranormal investigator travels to the South to research a series of deaths connected to a supernatural curse haunting an old Louisiana family.Tagline: A Louisiana Haunting...

Director: Armand Petri
Stars: Santo Panzarella, Jared Fleming, Armand Petri, Cheryl Gautier, Chris Fontenot Jr.

13). Beetlejuice (1988) (full poster/trailer)

What is Beetlejuice Streaming On?

Beetlejuice is Streaming on HBO Max
Plot / Synopsis: A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.Tagline: Say it once... Say it twice... But we dare you to say it THREE TIMES...

Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, Hugo Stanger

14). Black Mountain Side (2014) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 6.55/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,647 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Mystery, Psychological, Dangerous Exploration, Isolation
Plot / Synopsis: Black Mountain Side follows a group of archaeologists after they uncover a strange structure in Northern Canada, dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and it is not long before they begin to feel the effects of the solitude.Tagline: There is something under the ice...

Director: Nick Szostakiwskyj
Stars: Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt, Marc Anthony Williams, Andrew Moxham

15). Blood Money (2017) (full poster/trailer)

Score: 4.74/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 578 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Director Luke White brings us his new film in Blood Money (2017). This drama horror mystery movie features five friends who fall victim to paranoia and fear after they stay in a deserted holiday cabin after a failed robbery. Klariza Clayton, Ollie Barbieri, and Scott Chambers star in Blood Money...

Director: Luke White
Stars: Klariza Clayton, Ollie Barbieri, Scott Chambers, Sabrina Hansen, Nicholas Bourne

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