Haunt Films I've Watched
by RyanLWeaver | created - 24 Nov 2015 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicA list of every haunt film I've seen. By haunt film I mean films about houses, asylums, orphanages, persons, etc. that are haunted by ghosts or demons or in some way very much involve ghosts or the hereafter, including possessions and exorcisms, evil dolls, witchcraft in a haunt setting, and films in which there appears to be a haunting but a non-supernatural explanation is later revealed.
Keep in mind that while many haunt films are also horror films, the haunt genre and the horror genre are not the same thing. This list is not limited to horror and includes all sub-genres of the haunt genre - comedy, drama, family, etc. - so long as the previously mentioned conditions are met. Films such as the Harry Potter series do not meet the conditions even though they include ghosts and witchcraft because the ghosts are not the focus and the witchcraft is not intended to be scary.
As of the 266th film added to this list I'm writing a review for each one I add. I may go back and review some of the films I've seen previously but those reviews will be slow in coming if I ever even get around to them.
Not listed due to not being on imdb:
The 3:07 AM Project (2013) (Short Film comprised of 4 Micro-Shorts)
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1. 13 Ghosts (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 7,280 | Gross: $3.27M
2. 100 Feet (2008)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
Director: Eric Red | Stars: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré
Votes: 13,198
3. 1408 (2007)
PG-13 | 104 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub
Votes: 294,281 | Gross: $71.99M
4. 2AM: The Smiling Man (2013)
4 min | Short, Horror
While walking home late one night, a man notices another man walking as well. Only this man has an eerie smile. What are his intentions?
Director: Michael Evans | Stars: Sean C. Simon, Paul Foltz
Votes: 1,163
Whether this is a haunt film or not is ambiguous, but it does manage to be very creepy. Considering the antagonists seeming ability to teleport I would say that yes it is. It's predictable but that doesn't take away from the effect and I found it to be an enjoyable four minute film.
5. The Abandoned (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The Confined is an intense and claustrophobic thriller that follows troubled Streak who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building.
Director: Eytan Rockaway | Stars: Jason Patric, Louisa Krause, Mark Margolis, Ezra Knight
Votes: 5,581
6. Abattoir (2016)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An investigative reporter teams up with a police officer to solve the mystery of why a seemingly good man murdered her sister's family.
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman | Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Lin Shaye, Dayton Callie
Votes: 4,511
The unique story concept sold me on this one instantly - a house built out of rooms people were killed in with the specific intent of building a haunted house.
It starts off with fantastic cinematography and within the first 7 minutes there is an extremely disturbing scene that gave me a good thrill. After that it becomes a detective mystery film for the next hour or so, and finally at long last it becomes a haunt film for the last twenty minutes with what is the most awesome haunted house I've ever seen on film. If there was a haunt thrill park with something like that house I would pay thousands to visit it.
Aside from taking so long to get to the haunt, the only downfall to the film is it is not scary, aside from the disturbing scene at the beginning and a few jump scares toward the end. Regardless of that though, the house was so well done I have to rank this one of the best haunted house films ever made. The house rivals and even surpasses the environments I've traversed in nightmares and horror video games.
If you want to see perhaps the best haunted house ever filmed, this is the movie to watch. Not the best haunted house film, but the best haunted house contained in a film. Just don't expect much in the way of fright or thrills and remember that it takes around an hour to finally get to the haunt - sort of like waiting in line at a thrill park to walk through an awesome looking but not-so-scary environment.
7. Alexia (2013)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Horror
Although Alexia, Franco's ex-girlfriend, has been deceased for some time, Franco still has her as a contact on his social network. When he decides to delete her and move on, something strange starts to manifest through his computer.
Director: Andrés Borghi | Stars: Sergio Berón, Paula Carruega, Pilar Boyle
Votes: 656
While I've seen similar plots, this one did a good job of being original. It managed to come across as creepy before the creepiness even began. It was a decent short haunt film with makeup and effects that were better than what I've seen in a lot of feature length haunt films.
8. Along Came the Devil (2018)
TV-14 | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After a troubled childhood, Ashley searches for a connection, and unknowingly invites in a demonic force, which leaves her loved ones fighting for her soul.
Director: Jason DeVan | Stars: Jessica Barth, Sydney Sweeney, Matt Dallas, Bruce Davison
Votes: 2,041
Not a great movie overall, but the haunt scenes are fantastically terrifying. They are the very thing that I've watched hundreds of haunt films in search of but rarely find. A scene near the beginning when two kids are in a bathroom in the middle of the night was literally jaw dropping and made the hairs on my arms stand on end. I had to go back and watch that part several times because I was so in awe of what I'd just seen and wanted more clarity on it. A good many other scenes were similar, putting a huge grin on my face (the scarier something is the bigger I grin.) This one is definitely worth a watch despite its overall sub-par quality.
9. Altar (2014)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
A young family moves to an isolated house which the wife has been hired to restore, only to discover that the previous owner is reputed to have murdered his wife.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Olivia Williams, Matthew Modine, Antonia Clarke, Adam Thomas Wright
Votes: 4,250
10. Always (1989)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman
Votes: 32,804 | Gross: $43.86M
11. An American Haunting (2005)
PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface.
Director: Courtney Solomon | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'Arcy
Votes: 26,872 | Gross: $16.30M
12. American Horror Story (2011– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, showcasing different aspects of horror.
Stars: Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson
Votes: 343,984
13. America's Most Haunted (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
The crew of a popular ghost hunting show gets more than they bargained for when they come across a location that's actually haunted.
Director: Chris Randall | Stars: Brad Norman, James Karen, Brittany Risner, David Gries
Votes: 412
14. The Amityville Horror (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror
Newlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud
Votes: 44,611 | Gross: $86.43M
15. The Amityville Horror (2005)
R | 90 min | Horror
Newlyweds are terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a large house that was the site of a grisly mass murder a year before.
Director: Andrew Douglas | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jimmy Bennett, Jesse James
Votes: 117,371 | Gross: $65.23M
16. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
R | 104 min | Horror
A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner
Votes: 12,863 | Gross: $12.53M
17. Amityville 3-D (1983)
PG | 105 min | Horror
A reporter moves into the Amityville house in defiance of the supernatural events connected to it, and finds everyone around him besieged by the evil manifestations which are connected to a demonic presence in the basement.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark
Votes: 7,524 | Gross: $6.33M
18. Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Horror
The demonic forces in the Amityville house transfer to an ancient lamp, which finds its way to a remote California mansion where the evil manipulates a little girl by manifesting itself in the form of her dead father.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Fredric Lehne, Lou Hancock
Votes: 3,502
19. The Amityville Curse (1990 Video)
R | 91 min | Horror
Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, an Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
Director: Tom Berry | Stars: Kim Coates, Dawna Wightman, Helen Hughes, David Stein
Votes: 2,471
20. Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992 Video)
R | 95 min | Horror
An architect brings home a mysterious old clock, not knowing that it's haunted by the demonic presence of the Amityville house. Soon, the clock begins to alter time and space and starts to possess members of the household.
Director: Tony Randel | Stars: Stephen Macht, Shawn Weatherly, Megan Ward, Damon Martin
Votes: 3,453
21. Amityville: A New Generation (1993 Video)
R | 91 min | Horror
An old mirror from the Amityville house finds its way into a young photographer's home, where the demonic presence soon manifests itself to cause more death and mayhem.
Director: John Murlowski | Stars: Ross Partridge, Julia Nickson, Lala Sloatman, David Naughton
Votes: 2,483
22. Amityville Dollhouse (1996 Video)
R | 97 min | Horror
A children's doll house, which is a miniature of the infamous haunted Long Island house, is given to a young girl where the demonic evil soon comes out to cause more terror.
Director: Steve White | Stars: Robin Thomas, Starr Andreeff, Allen Cutler, Rachel Duncan
Votes: 2,980
23. The Amityville Haunting (2011 Video)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
In disregard of the shocking DeFeo murders, an unsuspecting family moves into the infamous house on 112 Ocean Avenue. Now, ghostly apparitions start to appear in their video surveillance system. Can they survive the Amityville haunting?
Director: Geoff Meed | Stars: Jason Williams, Amy Van Horne, Devin Clark, Nadine Crocker
Votes: 2,499
24. The Amityville Asylum (2013)
88 min | Horror
Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realises that all is not as it seems.
Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Sophia Del Pizzo, Lee Bane, Jared Morgan, Eileen Daly
Votes: 1,486
25. Amy's Torch (2008)
2 min | Short, Horror
Amy keeps the monster under her bed away at night with her magic torch but one night the batteries run out.
Director: Ben Wilkinson | Stars: Ian Champion, Evie Charlesworth, India Charlesworth
Votes: 88
Though it looked home-made and not very professional, the way this film was presented was delightful. It was like a fairy-tale with a terrifying ending, or a short campfire story brought to life on-screen.
26. And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
R | 91 min | Horror
England, 1795: the young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of an old curse that lays on the family. On her wedding night she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham
Votes: 3,077
27. Annabelle (I) (2014)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
Director: John R. Leonetti | Stars: Ward Horton, Annabelle Wallis, Alfre Woodard, Tony Amendola
Votes: 175,338 | Gross: $84.27M
28. Annabelle: Creation (2017)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 150,928 | Gross: $102.09M
There were quite a few decent creepy moments in this one, as well as some unique things I haven't seen done before. It had not just one but two completely different scenes of a haunted barn, and a wide variety of fantastic haunt environments in and around a wonderfully creepy old house. The story was decent with a nice pace and likeable characters and had two endings, one that ended the primary story and one that tied up the entire Annabelle story in a satisfyingly surprising way. Overall this is a very good haunt film, one of the better ones I've seen.
29. Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
While babysitting the daughter of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a teenager and her friend unknowingly awaken an evil spirit trapped in a doll.
Director: Gary Dauberman | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman
Votes: 87,153 | Gross: $74.15M
30. Anything for Jackson (2020)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child but end up summoning more than they bargained for.
Director: Justin G. Dyck | Stars: Sheila McCarthy, Julian Richings, Konstantina Mantelos, Josh Cruddas
Votes: 10,562
This was one of the better ritual films I've seen. It wasn't scary at all but there were some wonderfully creepy scenes. The story was unique, fantastic, and suspenseful, sucking me into the plot from the first scene. The film was well cast with excellent acting. The effects were okay but there was an obvious lack of budget at times. The one major element that was lacking was a properly creepy soundtrack. The film had many opportunities to use sound to amplify the creepiness through the roof and give me cold chills down my spine, but it missed them all. Despite that and a few small plot holes, it was a great film all around. I highly recommend this one and will likely watch it again in the future.
31. The Apparition (2012)
PG-13 | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
A couple is haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment.
Director: Todd Lincoln | Stars: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Julianna Guill
Votes: 20,634 | Gross: $4.93M
The acting in this film was terrible, especially from the lead actress, and the story wasn't very well written. The way the apparition was brought into the world didn't make any sense, nor did the way they attempted to reverse the process. The location was well chosen and a lot of the set design was excellent, especially the way they made furniture and items going through walls and other parts of the house. The primary problem I had with the film was that it just wasn't scary or creepy in the slightest. It seemed like the filmmakers were definitely trying to make it scary and creepy but failed to pull it off, and I think a lot of that had to do with a poorly chosen score and poor sound effects, as well as poor directing and cinematography choices. The lighting, coloring and angles of the shots felt amateur in many cases, though they worked in others. The ending didn't make a lot of sense and despite the fact that how it ended should have been creepy it failed to be so, and again I think that had a lot to do with the sub-par musical score. It wasn't a bad film but I did find it to be boring and kept hoping it would end soon. There was one scene that induced an adrenaline rush from suspense as the female protagonist tried to escape from a room while the apparition was after her, and another very brief scene of the apparition behind a shower curtain, but that was about it for any kind of scare despite there being many more scenes that should have been scary or creepy had they been pulled off decently. Overall this film did not feel worth the watch to me so I can't recommend it.
32. Army of Darkness (1992)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror
When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie
Votes: 194,420 | Gross: $11.50M
33. The Atoning (2017)
TV-MA | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
While they are haunted by ghostly apparitions, two parents try to protect their young son from a dark secret that could destroy their family.
Director: Michael Williams | Stars: Virginia Newcomb, Cannon Bosarge, Michael LaCour, Dorothy Weems
Votes: 988
This film would have been a lot better if the first hour of it had been condensed into five or ten minutes and the rest had been drawn out to fill out the majority of the film. While the first hour was an interesting concept for a haunt film, it failed to be scary or creepy in the slightest. Right around the hour mark however there were several very creepy scenes. Beyond that though the thing that made it creepy was revealed in its entirety far too early and that destroyed any creepiness in subsequent shots of it.
The lighting in the film was terrible. Almost every shot in the film was too bright for a haunt film and for some reason they went with blue light for night scenes and some of the shots had lighting that didn't feel natural in the slightest, so much so at times that it caused me to laugh at the ridiculousness of it. Had they gone with natural subdued lighting with lots of pitch black spots to induce fear of the unknown, and had there actually been a creepy musical score, this film could have been very creepy.
The location was excellent for a haunt film, and many of the things that were happening could have been nice and creepy had the music, sound effects and lighting been appropriate for a haunt film. I also found the story to be far too confusing for far too long, and due to the length it took for explanations for the confusion I had guessed what had happened long before they revealed it, meaning they waited too long to do the initial reveal of what was going on in the house.
Some of the acting was okay but a lot of it wasn't very good. The woman playing the psychic was a terrible actress and overacted to the point that it was ludicrous. I can't say much for the lead actors acting ability either, though the lead actress and the child did a fair job despite some of the inane situations they were forced to act in; the child making pancakes comes to mind as the top contender for inane situation.
Overall I found the film to be boring and sleep inducing despite having a decent unique concept for a haunt film. While there were some good creepy shots around the one hour mark the rest of the film failed to live up to those few shots, and the ending did not make a lot of sense. If you're looking for a scary or creepy haunt film this is not it and I would not recommend watching this film.
34. At the Devil's Door (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror
A real-estate agent finds herself caught up in something sinister when she has to sell a house with a dark past and meets the troubled teen who used to live there.
Director: Nicholas McCarthy | Stars: Ashley Rickards, Nick Eversman, Michael Massee, Mark Steger
Votes: 7,459
35. The Awakening (I) (2011)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1921, England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.
Director: Nick Murphy | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu
Votes: 68,910
36. The Babadook (2014)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney
Votes: 247,381 | Gross: $0.92M
37. The Baby's Room (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When ... See full summary »
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino
Votes: 5,745
38. Bad Building (2015)
Not Rated | 75 min | Horror
The Desmond has stood empty for years. With a history of fires, murders and madness not even squatters will go there. But now Johnny Craig, host of 'America's Most Haunted', is going to host a prime-time special there.
Director: Philip Granger | Stars: Jimmy Breau, Edna Rojas, Taylor Hastings, Kayla Lynn Lewis
Votes: 294
39. Bedfellows (2008)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Drama, Horror
It is only a few minutes before one in the morning and the rude and repetitive noise of an incoming call ruptures the stillness of the night. Who could that be at this hour? And why is the husband as stiff as a corpse?
Director: Drew Daywalt | Stars: Kerry Finlayson, Peter Giliberti, Edin Gali
Votes: 1,154
In under two minutes this film manages to be scarier than most feature length haunt films. In most cases I do not like when a haunt antagonist is fully revealed, even near the end, preferring them to stay as unknown or partially unknown entities - they're scarier that way. But this one is a major exception to that as it flat out shows it almost right away but the protagonist only suspects it's something sinister and doesn't actually see it and that makes it a nightmare come to life.
40. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 340,275 | Gross: $73.71M
41. Behind the Wall (II) (2007)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
Maine coastal town Harrison Bay is broke, so deputy mayor Drew Cabot arranges a deal with a contractor to develop the abandoned lighthouse for tourism. Father Hendry fails to convince the ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: Lindy Booth, Lawrence Dane, James Thomas, Andy Jones
Votes: 654
42. Believe (I) (2000)
PG | 96 min | Family, Horror
After being kicked out of boarding school after boarding school, Ben is sent to live with his stern grandfather in a small town where nobody is interested in him except a girl named ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Tinnell | Stars: Ricky Mabe, Mario Boni, Justin Bradley, Vlasta Vrana
Votes: 894
43. Below (2002)
R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
Strange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, David Crow, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany
Votes: 24,140 | Gross: $0.61M
44. The Beyond (1981)
R | 87 min | Horror
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John
Votes: 25,326 | Gross: $0.12M
45. Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An unassuming track coach accidentally invokes the spirit of a notorious pirate long believed dead, and who must now team up to lay the pirate to rest, and save a local hotel from a mobster.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 6,757 | Gross: $10.90M
46. The Blackcoat's Daughter (I) (2015)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break.
Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar
Votes: 26,021 | Gross: $0.02M
The cinematography of this film was excellent; rarely do haunt films do it this well. The lighting, use of shadows, dispersion of background elements (more than just depth of field - this was carefully crafted dispersion), and the coloring were all very well done. The musical score was also impressive, as well as the acting and the directing in general, and the shots of what I'm pretty sure was supposed to be Satan were genuinely creepy. What lacked however was the story which felt as though it was meandering and incomplete. Without really spoiling anything because there isn't much to spoil I can say that the story is basically "A girl is either possessed or schizophrenic, stabs people to death, then chops off their heads and offers them to Satan." It didn't really go anywhere and there didn't seem to be any sort of progression; the disturbed girl was disturbed. I was left in the end wanting more but there wasn't more. Was the girl possessed? Was she schizophrenic? Who knows. What was the point of watching this film? I'm still puzzling over those questions, especially that last one. I suppose if you just really want to see innocent people stabbed to death and their severed heads stuffed into a suitcase or placed on a boiler room floor this is the film to watch. But outside of the positive aspects of the film already mentioned, especially the cinematography and excellent use of shadow and background dispersion, this film is not worth watching.
47. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin
Votes: 285,697 | Gross: $140.54M
48. Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
92 min | Horror, Comedy
Six scientists investigate a strange phenomenon at the creepy Headstone Manor, the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier that took the lives of 18 guests in one night.
Director: Ray Cameron | Stars: Kenny Everett, Vincent Price, Pamela Stephenson, Gareth Hunt
Votes: 2,764
49. Boo (2005)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
There are rumors that a long shut down and neglected hospital is haunted by the inhabitants that died there in a fire. Four college students are about to discover that the myths might just be true.
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Trish Coren, Rachel Harland, Jilon VanOver, Happy Mahaney
Votes: 5,378
50. Boogeyman (2005)
PG-13 | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young man tries to deal with the childhood terror that has never stopped haunting him.
Director: Stephen Kay | Stars: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless, Skye McCole Bartusiak
Votes: 32,599 | Gross: $46.75M
51. Boogeyman 2 (2007)
Unrated | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too little too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear.
Director: Jeff Betancourt | Stars: Danielle Savre, Matt Cohen, Chrissy Calhoun, Michael Graziadei
Votes: 9,031
52. Boogeyman 3 (2008)
Unrated | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity. As she tries to ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Erin Cahill, Charles Hittinger, Mimi Michaels, Matt Rippy
Votes: 5,321
53. Book of Blood (2009)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A paranormal expert discovers a house that is at the intersection of so-called "highways" transporting souls in the afterlife.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, Clive Russell, Paul Blair
Votes: 8,296
54. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A group of tourists arrives in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project (1999) to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face with their own neuroses and possibly the witch herself.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Jeffrey Donovan, Stephen Barker Turner, Erica Leerhsen, Kurt Loder
Votes: 40,017 | Gross: $26.44M
55. The Boy (2016)
PG-13 | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American nanny is shocked that her new English family's boy is actually a life-sized doll. After she violates a list of strict rules, disturbing events make her believe that the doll is really alive.
Director: William Brent Bell | Stars: Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell, Jim Norton
Votes: 101,875 | Gross: $35.82M
56. Bride of Chucky (1998)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile
Votes: 64,269 | Gross: $32.40M
In contrast to the previous three Chucky films, this one is not horror at all, just straight dark comedy. In most instances the murders performed by Chucky and his bride are so absurd they end up funny instead of scary. The film was more entertaining to me than its predecessors, perhaps because of the humor, but I doubt that I would watch it again.
57. The 'Burbs (1989)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block is part of a murderous Satanic cult.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman
Votes: 83,554 | Gross: $36.60M
58. Burnt Offerings (1976)
PG | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 13,614
59. The Canterville Ghost (1996 TV Movie)
PG | 92 min | Family, Drama, Fantasy
When an American family moves into a haunted mansion in England, the family's teenage daughter could be the key in fulfilling a prophecy and finally set the house's ghost free.
Director: Syd Macartney | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Neve Campbell, Joan Sims, Donald Sinden
Votes: 2,840
60. The Captured Bird (2012)
10 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping... See full summary »
Director: Jovanka Vuckovic | Stars: Skyler Wexler, Darren Beaton, Ruby Beaton, Graydon Beaton
Votes: 351
The color and locations stand out the most in this short film. Wherever the location they filmed this in was I very much want to visit it. The story didn't make a lot of sense, nor did the antagonists, and the ending was bizarre and confusing. It felt more artistic than scary, but it was a beautiful piece of "haunted house art", which is a phrase I've never uttered before.
61. Carnival of Souls (1962)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Mystery
After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
Director: Herk Harvey | Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison
Votes: 27,830
62. Case 39 (2009)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper
Votes: 93,357 | Gross: $13.25M
Overall a great movie. It was well cast with a great story and great characters. It started off as a drama and slowly turned into a supernatural horror that was a unique take on the demon-child sub-genre. It had several typical jump scares, a bit of creep, noteworthy environments and a good sense of dread. I found it lacking on the scare side of things as not once did it put a chill down my spine, but it was very enjoyable regardless. Near the end I remember saying out loud "Wow that's wild" with a big grin on my face. This one is definitely worth a watch.
63. Casper (1995)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An afterlife therapist and his daughter meet a friendly young ghost when they move into a crumbling mansion in order to rid the premises of wicked spirits.
Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle
Votes: 146,866 | Gross: $100.33M
64. Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997 Video)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Casper accidentally finds himself in the world of the living after failing to show up for ghost training and befriends a young boy who teaches him the ways of a ghost, while a ruler from the other world attempts to bring him back.
Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael McKean
Votes: 4,496
Getting through this film was a lesson in patience. The digital effects were terrible. Disregarding the fact that they were late 90's effects, they were far below the quality of those in the original Casper film. The story felt forced and awkward, and despite having some well known actors the acting was at times laughable. I now understand why I did not hear of this films existence until 2016.
65. Castle of Blood (1964)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror
A journalist takes a bet that he can spend the night in a haunted castle on All Hallow's Eve. During his stay, he bears witness to the castle's gruesome past coming to life before him, and falls in love with a beautiful female ghost.
Directors: Antonio Margheriti, Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici
Votes: 2,789
66. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 3,769
67. The Cellar (2022)
94 min | Horror, Mystery
Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house. She soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Elisha Cuthbert, Eoin Macken, Abby Fitz, Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady
Votes: 7,736
This film was not scary in the slightest but it was fairly humorous and I got a good number of laughs out of it. The set was visually pleasing and the plot wasn't all that bad. What I took away from this film - and this is just my own humorous take on it - is that the devil wanted a flashlight and he did a lot of work and kidnapping to finally get one. And who can blame him? He was living in the dark in Hell. He spent years tinkering away as a mason to build elaborate hallways and staircases in Hell and his torch must have burned out so he wanted one of those new-fangled electric LED flashlights the people of the 21st century had. In all seriousness though, this film wasn't that great. They had about two opportunities to have really good creepy scares in it and they blew them both; the first by not providing the proper creepy music, and the second by over-revealing the antagonist. The cast consisted of an X-Men Wolverine wannabe, the smartest mathematician in the world, a couple of kids that weren't that great at acting, and a woman who was far braver than any navy seal or marine would have been in the same situation. The plot centered around a house filled with supposed Hebrew runes and glyphs that seemed to be completely misunderstood and misused by the writer for the sake of the story, and a mathematical equation that made no sense. I will give the story credit, however, for the unique idea of using mathematics as a magical language. The people counting endlessly, though, were a bit annoying. Overall I can't recommend this film unless you just want some good laughs - but in order to get those laughs you have to make up your own story for why the characters are doing things.
68. The Changeling (1980)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh
Votes: 40,036
69. Chasing the Devil (2014)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror
Patrick McCord doesn't accept the explanation of his sister's mysterious death as suicide, and instead teams up with a team of paranormal investigators to delve deeper into the inexplicable... See full summary »
Director: Mark Haber | Stars: Tim Phillipps, Vivan Dugré, Chris Yule, Cory Knauf
Votes: 793
70. Children of the Corn (1984)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin
Votes: 57,353 | Gross: $14.57M
71. Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A journalist and his son travel to Nebraska to investigate the mysterious town of Gatlin where, unbeknownst to them, a murderous cult of children are still waiting in the corn fields.
Director: David Price | Stars: Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Ryan Bollman, Christie Clark
Votes: 9,526 | Gross: $6.98M
72. Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Two brothers connected to the murderous children's cult of Gatlin, Nebraska are taken to Chicago by an adoptive couple.
Director: James D.R. Hickox | Stars: Daniel Cerny, Ron Melendez, Jim Metzler, Nancy Lee Grahn
Votes: 8,372
73. Children of the Corn: The Gathering (1996 Video)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A nurse returns to her hometown in Nebraska, only to find that the town's children have fallen under a mysterious mass illness connected to its sinister past.
Director: Greg Spence | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jamie Renée Smith, Karen Black, Mark Salling
Votes: 5,373
74. Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998 Video)
R | 83 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Six college students on a road trip take a wrong turn and end up trapped in a strangely deserted rural town inhabited by a murdeous cult of children.
Director: Ethan Wiley | Stars: Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Eva Mendes, Greg Vaughan
Votes: 5,233
75. Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999 Video)
R | 82 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
As a teenage girl comes to Gatlin to find her biological mother, the town's infamous cult plots a comeback as their leader, Isaac, awakens from a coma.
Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Natalie Ramsey, Gary Bullock, Alix Koromzay, Stacy Keach
Votes: 4,903
76. Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001 Video)
R | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska....only to find that it's been condemned and ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Magar | Stars: Claudette Mink, Kyle Cassie, Michael Ironside, Troy Yorke
Votes: 3,219
77. Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
A young couple try to free an imprisoned child with catastrophic results.
Director: Joel Soisson | Stars: J.J. Banicki, Diane Peterson, Kai Caster, Kelen Coleman
Votes: 3,774
78. Children of the Corn: Runaway (2018 Video)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an ... See full summary »
Director: John Gulager | Stars: Marci Miller, Jake Ryan Scott, Sara Moore, Mary Kathryn Bryant
Votes: 1,385
79. Children of the Corn (2009 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
While traveling, an unhappy married couple encounter a cult of murderous children who worship an entity called He Who Walks Behind the Rows.
Director: Donald P. Borchers | Stars: Robert Gerdisch, Jordan Schmidt, David Anders, Kandyse McClure
Votes: 6,444
80. Children of the Corn (2020)
R | 93 min | Horror
The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults' irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children's future.
Director: Kurt Wimmer | Stars: Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence
Votes: 4,016
81. Child's Play (1988)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif
Votes: 116,799 | Gross: $33.24M
For a movie that terrified me as a child and has kept me distancing myself from My Buddy dolls my whole life, this one doesn't hold up so well as horror when watched as an adult. I found myself laughing more often than feeling fear, though it did have several good jump scares and there was a nice creepy tone to much of the film. Despite it not being as scary as my childhood memories say it was, it is still the quintessential evil doll movie.
82. Child's Play (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mother gives her 13-year-old son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Director: Lars Klevberg | Stars: Tim Matheson, Ben Daon, Zahra Anderson, Serge Jaswal
Votes: 56,327 | Gross: $29.21M
83. Child's Play 2 (1990)
R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.
Director: John Lafia | Stars: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise
Votes: 57,687 | Gross: $28.50M
I enjoyed this film far more than its predecessor. There are a good number of times in the film when the tension is nice and there are quite a few minor scares. The cinematography was notably nice at times. Chucky comes across as far more scary than he did in the first film. This film also departs from the first films mystery-horror genre with a multitude of creative on-screen kills that bump this film into the slasher genre. However, regardless of the scares and scary imagery, this film came across as a comedy more than a horror - but not in a bad way.
84. Child's Play 3 (1991)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Chucky returns for revenge against Andy, the young boy who defeated him, and now a teenager living in a military academy.
Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers, Travis Fine
Votes: 46,202 | Gross: $14.96M
This film is mediocre in comparison to the previous two. I never felt scared, not even a little. I laughed a little bit but not much. The plot lacked substance and was basically Chucky killing people in various ways interspersed with scenes of boot camp disciplinary situations at a military school. Overall it just wasn't that entertaining of a film.
85. The Chosen (2015)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
Director: Ben Jehoshua | Stars: Kian Lawley, Elizabeth Keener, Angelica Cassidy, Chris Gann
Votes: 2,192
This is one of the worst films I have ever watched. The writing was atrocious and the acting was awful. The woman that played the nun deserves a Golden Raspberry for some of the worst acting I have ever witnessed. Most of the characters were annoying, and the story was held together by broken threads. There was nothing scary about it, though the first time that someone was sacrificed to the demon was interesting to watch. However, seeing the same sacrifice and CGI effect repeatedly throughout the movie made it lose what little interest it originally had. At the end of the film they apparently tried to ramp up that process but succeeded only in showcasing really badly done CGI and bad writing. I can not stress enough how bad the writing was. The things the characters were saying at times reminded me of some of the least intelligent people I have met throughout the course of my life. If anything this film should be labeled a comedy, not a horror, but even as a comedy it fails. I do not recommend this film at all. Watching it is a waste of time.
86. The City of the Dead (1960)
PG-13 | 76 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Tom Naylor
Votes: 8,524
87. Conjurer (2008)
PG-13 | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
After moving to the country to start life anew after their child's death, photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife, Helen, begin to suspect that a ramshackle cabin on their property is ... See full summary »
Director: Clint Hutchison | Stars: Andrew Bowen, Maxine Bahns, John Schneider, Tom Nowicki
Votes: 1,616
88. The Conjuring (2013)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor
Votes: 555,102 | Gross: $137.40M
89. The Conjuring 2 (2016)
R | 134 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe, Frances O'Connor
Votes: 300,599 | Gross: $102.47M
This is one of the best haunt films ever made, second only to its predecessor. The tension and fear were fantastic. James Wan is the Alfred Hitchcock of haunt horror, it's just not done this well without him behind the helm.
The story was wonderful and the acting was great. The cinematography, set design, lighting, editing and sound however were phenomenal, working together like a perfectly crafted clockwork to create the scariest vibe possible, punctuated by moments of calm happy times or skepticism of the haunt to create a roller coaster effect of emotions.
As of the time I watched this film I have seen 275 haunt films, and rarely do they have much of a scare effect on me. Of the ones that have actually done a good job of making me scared, few have come anywhere near the effect that this one had (and, incidentally, almost all of those few are James Wan films.)
I got chills all over my body and it felt like something was in the room with me behind my seat so I was afraid to even turn my head to look into the dark corners behind me, though a couple of times I did have such a strong feeling that something was in the room with me that I actually did have to turn and look to confirm that nothing was there (it was a lamp shade.) I found myself subconsciously tucking my elbows in toward my body so something wouldn't grab them. At one point I even thought I felt something touch the back of my head.
That is the level of fear and paranoia I always hope to get from films in the haunt horror genre, and this film gave it to me in the extreme. Having just watched it I already want to watch it again. It was one hell of a fun scary ride.
90. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabs and murders his landlord, claiming to be under demonic possession while Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the case and try to prove his innocence.
Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook
Votes: 139,091 | Gross: $65.63M
Nowhere near as good as the previous two installments. This film lacks any spine tingling scenes. I never felt creeped-out. It is missing the signature terror-from-nothing scenes that James Wan so wonderfully delivers in his haunt films, likely because James Wan did not direct this installment. What the film does have going for it is excellent locations and set design. The creepy house and its exterior are fantastically good examples of haunt scenery. The interior scenes were also extremely well done, with brown/orange and sea-foam-green tones and claustrophobic wallpaper patterns that gave the film a beautifully nightmarish look. Overall the film didn't add anything of real substance to the series. It could be looked at as just another episode in the life of the Warrens, which resulted in yet another artifact finding a home in that special room of Ed's. Worth a watch if you want another Ed and Lorraine adventure with this wonderful pair of actors. However, if you're looking for a good, scary haunt film, look elsewhere.
91. Constantine (2005)
R | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou, Shia LaBeouf
Votes: 374,363 | Gross: $75.98M
92. The Cop Cam (2016)
2 min | Short, Horror
A police officer enters in a abandoned house. His body cam records everything.
Director: Isaac Rodriguez | Stars: Emanuel Bermudez, Billy Necessary
Votes: 148
This was fairly decent for a found footage film. I have a lot of disdain for the found footage genre, but when it's done right it can be very creepy and this one managed to do that in a very short time. I would like to have seen more.
93. Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 805
94. Crimson Peak (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam
Votes: 158,329 | Gross: $31.09M
95. The Crucifixion (2017)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When Nicole comes in contact with Father Anton (Corneliu Ulici) more and more inexplicable events occur. The pair begin to believe that the priest lost the battle with a demon.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Sophie Cookson, Corneliu Ulici, Ada Lupu, Brittany Ashworth
Votes: 9,438
This film had decent cinematography and it was well acted, but for the most part I found it to be slow and somewhat boring. The film follows a journalist investigating a murder by way of exorcism and functioned more like a detective film than a haunt film, but it had haunt elements and a lot of possession and exorcism scenes. The ending was a surprise and a lot more entertaining than most of the rest of the film, but unfortunately the film failed to be scary or creepy in any way. There were a few jump scares that failed to be very scary, and a few slamming doors and windows on multiple occasions that also failed to generate any kind of scare or creepy vibe. The most effect this film had on me in the way of scares was via the two or three cuts to shots of a car going down the road with a loud engine simply due to the loudness after a quiet moment. One one occasion there was a demon haunting the protagonist in her car and in a corn field and those had scary imagery but again failed to actually deliver on the scares or creepy vibe. By the time the film was about halfway over I began looking at the clock frequently and hoping the film would end soon so I could put my time to a more efficient use than watching a sub-par film. It wasn't a bad watch and it was a halfway decent possession / exorcism film, but I definitely would not recommend it if you're looking for something scary or creepy.
96. Cult of Chucky (2017)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former wife.
Director: Don Mancini | Stars: Allison Dawn Doiron, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif
Votes: 29,781
Unlike its predecessor which was pure horror, this one went back to being primarily comedy. It was a fun typical installment in the series with a few surprises that were more funny than thrilling. A quick sequence with a giant Chucky was the most thrilling thing about the film. Overall it was a lot of laughs and not a bad addition to the series, but I wish the horror overtones of the previous film had been maintained in this one.
97. Curse of Chucky (2013)
R | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos.
Director: Don Mancini | Stars: Chantal Quesnelle, Fiona Dourif, Jordan Gavaris, Danielle Bisutti
Votes: 43,607 | Gross: $3.80M
This installment in the series abandoned the comedy and went back to being straight horror, though aside from a few jump scares and a few tense moments it wasn't that scary. What I found most entertaining was not the film itself but the fact that the female protagonist Chucky stalks is the real-life daughter of the actor who voices Chucky, and I watched it with that in mind. That aside, I did enjoy the film and felt it was a nice kickback to the first film.
98. The Curse of Robert the Doll (2016)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror
A cash strapped student who starts working the night shift at a Museum suspects that one of the exhibits, a creepy vintage doll named Robert, is alive and wreaking havoc after hours.
Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Nigel Barber, Suzie Frances Garton, Lee Bane, Chris Bell
Votes: 1,431
99. The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After fifteen years of being away, a woman returns with her husband to her aunt's hacienda in the Mexican countryside, without realizing that her relative is a sorceress who wants to use her to bring an evil witch back to life.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, Rita Macedo, Carlos López Moctezuma
Votes: 784
100. Curse of the Witching Tree (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Horror
An innocent woman, hanged as a witch for allegedly murdering her son, curses the tree from which she is hung and all the children who play around it.
Director: James Crow | Stars: Sarah Rose Denton, Lucy Clarvis, Lawrence Weller, Charlie Bond
Votes: 1,581
This film might just take the prize for the worst film I've ever seen. Terrible directing, shot angles that made no sense, cutaways that made no sense, terrible cinematography for the most part, terrible acting, unnecessary nudity, terrible effects makeup - at one point a woman has blood streaming from her eyes in 6 nonsensical unnaturally perfect lines, then in the next shot the blood is gone, then it comes back again. A few shots and cuts were well put together but on the whole the cinematography, directing and editing were great examples of what not to do as a filmmaker.
The sound was terrible with lots of echoing, wind noise and overall poor quality. It had perhaps the most awful music score I've ever heard in a film, to the point that it was distracting from what was happening on the screen. The music was all over the place and so bad that about half way through the film I pulled out my ukulele to provide my own music for it and I think my improv music did it justice far more than what was in the films score.
When they arrive at their new house near the beginning the kids are complaining that it's like a poor house from a Dickens novel, yet as they're saying this there is a shot of a nice chandelier and beautiful wooden staircase; the house was extremely nice and had to be fairly expensive with what appeared to be lots of land, multiple out-buildings and a barn with multiple thousands of dollars worth of full-grown hogs in it. The daughter dressed like a hooker throughout most of the film and the mother was okay with it, then at one point the daughter puts on what I would say was a fairly modest outfit, a long skirt and shirt, and her brother says "Mum isn't actually letting you go out dressed like that is she?" I don't know what kind of backwards family they were supposed to be but...Wow. Furthermore, the father was in a coma yet functioned like a Ouija board, dishing out information to them as they needed to know it.
The writing was awful and at times nonsensical. The climax of the movie made absolutely no sense, with shots strung together to make things happen that should have been shown happening on screen; I'm still puzzled over what happened and why. There seemed to be 3 or 4 endings and the first one would have done nicely just to end the misery of having to continue watching anymore of the film. So many times I wanted to just stop watching but I was committed to finishing it.
I laughed pretty hard all the way through the climax at just how terrible it was; I can't imagine what the combo writer/director/producer was thinking when he made this. I've watched a lot of low budget films and generally they at least make some sort of sense. This wasn't even made to be laughed at like Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, it seems as though the filmmakers were trying to take it seriously and failed miserably. Do not watch this film unless you just really want to study how not to make a film.
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