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Candyman (2021): Dir. Nia DaCosta
Feat. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett…; Sequel to the legendary 1992 Clive Barker horror of the same name, and the second film from talented director Nia DaCosta (LITTLE WOODS),…
Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021): Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace…; The fourth Ghostbusters movie with much of the original cast reappearing alongside fresh young faces, directed and co–written by Jason Reitman…
Last Night in Soho (2021): Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith…; Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor–Joy star in this latest dizzying concoction from precocious British director Edgar Wright, a…
Empty Man, The (2020): Dir. David Prior
Feat. James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root…; Supernatural horror set in a small Missouri town, where an ex–cop is investigating the disappearance of a missing girl and comes across a…
Lovecraft Country (TV Series) (2020): Feat. Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jonathan Majors; Examining racism in America's past through an unexpected genre, this HBO horror series follows a young black man across a segregated 1950s United…
Night House, The (2020): Dir. David Bruckner
Feat. Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin…; Powerful psychological horror from adventurous director David Bruckner (2007's THE SIGNAL), with Rebecca Hall playing the widow of a recently…
Outsider, The (TV Mini-series) (2020): Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, Jeremy Bobb…; Slow burning crime TV series based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, with Ben Mendelsohn playing a troubled detective in the Cherokee City…
Extra Ordinary (2019): Dir. Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
Feat. Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte…; A pleasingly off–kilter Irish supernatural comedy about a sweet–natured but lonely driving instructor who uses her paranormal talents to…
Hole in the Ground, The (2019): Dir. Lee Cronin
Feat. Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Simone Kirby…; Decidedly creepy horror about a single mother who moves to the Irish countryside after a separation, but begins to suspect that her son may be an…
Lodge, The (2019): Dir. Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Feat. Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh…; Psychological horror of unprecedented creepiness with Riley Keough playing a step–mother and suicide cult survivor who is snowed in with her…
Sator (2019): Dir. Jordan Graham
Feat. Michael Daniel, Rachel Johnson, Aurora Lowe; A critically–lauded, brooding horror film that doubles as a disturbing meditation on family bonds and mental illness, based on the…
Haunting of Hill House, The (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Anthony Ruivivar, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser…; Loosely based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson, this modern serialized version flashes between past and present as a fractured…
Truth or Dare (2018): Dir. Jeff Wadlow
Feat. Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane; Teen horror fodder from the mega–successful Blumhouse productions in which a harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when…
Wellington Paranormal (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Jemaine Clement, Jackie Van Beek
Feat. Karen O’Leary, Mike Minogue, Maaka Pohatu; An inspired spin–off TV series from WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS that expands the role of lovably clueless police officers O'Leary and Minogue…
Terrified (Aterrados) (2017): Dir. Demián Rugna
Feat. Maxi Ghione, Elvira Onetto, Norberto Gonzalo…; Supremely creepy yet thoughtful Argentine horror–drama set in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood plagued by paranormal occurrences. Stacked with…
9th Life of Louis Drax, The (2016): Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aaron Paul…; A nine–year–old boy's accidental fall from a steep cliff places him in a coma, prompting an unconventional neurologist to tap into his…
Autopsy of Jane Doe, The (2016): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond…; Intense and acclaimed supernatural horror from the director of TROLL HUNTER, about a coroner and his son who conduct a late–night autopsy on…
Conjuring 2, The (2016): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor…; Scary sequel to the 2013 chiller has Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reprise their roles as paranormal investigators, this time traveling to London…
Ghostbusters (2016): Dir. Paul Feig
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon…; Proving they're not always a "bridesmaid", Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig headline this riotous girl–powered reboot of the eighties comedy…
Midnight Special (2016): Dir. Jeff Nichols
Feat. Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst…; Soulful sci–fi thriller from director Jeff Nichols (TAKE SHELTER, MUD) follows a father and son as they go on the run, pursued by the…
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, Lulu Wilson…; Superior "prequel" to the 2014 supernatural turkey OUIJA sets itself in 1960's LA whereupon a widow and her family add a Ouija board to their phony…
Planetarium (2016): Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
Feat. Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger; Natalie Portman and Lily–Rose Depp play two American sisters in pre–war France with apparent psychic abilities that engage the interest…
Preacher (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joe Gilgun…; Much acclaimed adaptation of the DC Comics series with Dominic Cooper as a small town preacher possessed by a supernatural force.
Backtrack (2015): Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, George Shevtsov…; Australian paranormal thriller about a psychotherapist (Adrian Brody) who is plagued by sinister visions after the death of his daughter. Returning…
Cemetery of Splendour (2015): Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Feat. Jenjira Pongpas Widner; Mesmerising film in the director's indefinable style, set in and around a rural Thai hospital which may be haunted. A group of soldiers…
Dead Room, The (2015): Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Jed Brophy, Jeffrey Thomas, Laura Petersen; A game straight horror effort from DIY Kiwi film–maker Jason Stutter who leaves his comedic impulses at the door for the first time to explore…
Enfield Haunting, The (2015): Dir. Kristoffer Nyholm
Feat. Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew MacFadyen…; Chilly British horror mini–series from the director of the Danish series THE KILLING, based on Guy Lyon Playfair’s book 'This House Is…
House on Pine Street, The (2015): Dir. Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling
Feat. Emily Goss, Taylor Bottles; A Polanski–inspired, low–key indie horror in which a reluctantly pregnant woman returns to her hometown of Kansas after a breakdown where…
Midwinter of the Spirit (TV Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Nicholas Pinnock, Anna Maxwell Martin, Kate Dickie; TV miniseries following a female vicar who works as an exorcist. Cheerfully creepy Middle–England gothic from the pen of supernatural mystery…
We Are Still Here (2015): Dir. Ted Geoghegan
Feat. Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Lisa Marie…; Scream queen Barbara Crampton (RE–ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND) returns to the horror genre as one half of a grieving couple who make the mistake of…
Housebound (2014): Dir. Gerard Johnstone
Feat. Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru…; A home detainee is forced to move back into her old family house where she grapples with her neurotic mother and supernatural disturbances. A…
Ouija (2014): Dir. Stiles White
Feat. Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Ana Coto…; Much–maligned supernatural horror film about a group of non–too–bright teenagers who unleash unfriendly spirits from a Ouija…
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014): Dir. Christopher Landon
Feat. Andrew Jacobs; The Paranormal Activity mythology is expanded in this new story about a young man marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity. Over…
Quiet Ones, The (2014): Dir. John Pogue
Feat. Sam Claflin, Jared Harris, Olivia Cooke; Hammer Films inject some grunt into this overfamiliar tale of an exorcism gone wrong, here conducted by a group of naive university research…
Woman in Black 2, The: Angel of Death (2014): Dir. Tom Harper
Feat. Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox; Sequel to the Daniel Radcliffe chiller is set forty years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, and this time the focus shifts to a group of…
Ghost Bride (2013): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Yoson An, Rebekah Palmer, Fiona Feng…; A Chinese ghost story set in Auckland from Kiwi horror auteur David Blyth centred on a tabooed romance between a Chinese immigrant and a caucasian…
Haunter (2013): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Abigail Breslin, Peter Outerbridge; Abigail Breslin grapples with a poltergeist while stuck in a GROUNDHOG DAY–esque time loop in this novel horror mystery from dir. Vincenzo…
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins…; James Wan helms this direct sequel to his paranormal hit, which continues to follow the misfortunes of a family terrorized by demons from the spirit…
Oculus (2013): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Karen Gillan , Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff…; Two siblings contrive an experiment around a mysterious antique mirror they believe was responsible for the murder–suicide of their parents in…
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012): Dir. Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Feat. Kathryn Newton, Katie Featherston, Matt Shively; Creaky fourth addition to the franchise picks up five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events…
Secret of Crickley Hall, The (TV Mini-series) (2012): Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall…; Atmospheric 3–part BBC adaptation of the novel by prolific British horror writer James Herbert that connects a supernatural mystery between two…
Sinister (2012): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Vincent D'Onofrio…; Ethan Hawke plays a crime writer who moves into the house of a grisly crime scene and stumbles upon a cache of 8mm snuff footage in the attic,…
Woman in Black, The (2012): Dir. James Watkins
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Roger Allam…; A restrained yet genuinely chilling Gothic horror from the director of EDEN LAKE, with Daniel Radcliffe as a widowed young lawyer whose visit to a…
Awakening, The (2011): Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton; A classical British ghost story set in 1920s England, with Rebecca Hall as a noted skeptic who's assigned to debunk a haunting at a prestigious…
Fades, The (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Iain de Caestecker, Joe Dempsie, Natalie Dormer…; Adventurous BBC supernatural thriller concerns the apocalyptic visions of an English teenager, who comes to learn that the dead spirits only he can…
Grave Encounters (2011): Dir. Vicious Brothers
Feat. Ben Wilkinson, Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko; A television crew producing a sham ghost hunting reality series in an abandoned psychiatric hospital have their skepticism tested in this derivative,…
Innkeepers, The (2011): Dir. Ti West
Feat. Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis; Horror savant Ti West (HOUSE OF THE DEVIL) turns his attention to the paranormal activity in a run–down hotel in this expertly crafted ghost…
Lovely Molly (2011): Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. Gretchen Lodge; The co–director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT treads familiar ground with this spooky tale of possession, filmed in part as a handy–cam…
Marchlands (TV Series) (2011): Dir. James Kent
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Denis Lawson, Alex Kingston…; Time–switching supernatural drama where three separate families who have lived in the same Yorkshire house in 1968, 1987 and the present day,…
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011): Dir. Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost
Feat. Christopher Nicholas Smith, Lauren Bittner, Chloe Csenergy…; Third installment in the lo–tech horror series is still surprisingly effective. Set twenty years previous, two young girls befriend an…
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010): Dir. Troy Nixey
Feat. Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison; Guillermo del Toro penned this creepily old fashioned remake of a 1974 TV movie that scared the bejesus out of the Mexican filmmaker as a young boy.…
Haven (TV Series) (2010): Feat. Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour; An FBI agent finds herself inextricably linked to the paranormal activity in the fictional north eastern town of Haven, Maine, in this eccentric…
Hereafter (2010): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Matt Damon, Cecile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard…; Clint Eastwood delves into the afterlife in this subdued supernatural drama that centers on three strangers whose lives are touched by death.
Insidious (2010): Dir. James Wan
Feat. Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins…; The creators of the original SAW reunite for this genuinely creepy haunted house movie, about a stressed couple whose comatose son is preyed upon by…
Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet (TV Series) (2010): Comedian Leigh "That Guy" Hart fronts this irreverent, ham–fisted send–up of Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, visiting various corners…
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010): Dir. Tod Williams
Feat. Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Brian Boland; Scary, straight–ahead sequel to the low–tech horror hit is careful not to meddle with the formula that freaked out audiences, this time…
Phasma Ex Machina (2010): Dir. Matt Osterman
Feat. Sasha Andreev; A grieving college drop–out left to care for his younger brother contrives to build a machine that will bring back his deceased parents –…
Shelter (2010): Dir. Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Feat. Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Frances Conroy…; Julianne Moore's conviction as a forensic psychiatrist is tested when confronted by a patient whose multiple personality disorder manifests as series…
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010): Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Feat. Thanapat Saisaymar; Weerasethakul's most acclaimed and accessible film to date centres on a man dying of kidney failure, whose twilight hours are spent joyously with…
Unexplained (2010): A fairly skeptical, though still open–minded exploration of paranormal activity throughout the ages. Tackling the historical spook stories are…
After.Life (Afterlife) (2009): Dir. Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Feat. Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long…; Macabre curio has Christina Ricci lounging on a mortuary slab as she struggles to accept her death, but luckily morgue attendant Liam Neeson can talk…
Being Human (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow, Aidan Turner; Supernatural sitcom has three British twenty–somethings struggling with their respective alter–egos as a vampire, ghost and werewolf.
Ghost Town (2008): Dir. David Koepp
Feat. Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni, Greg Kinnear…; Brit comedy darling Ricky Gervais ventures Stateside for his first leading role in a feature film, playing a misanthropic dentist whose…
Lake Mungo (2008): Dir. John Anderson
Feat. Talia Zucker; Unnerving paranormal mockumentary from Australia following the ghostly events that proceed a 16–year–old's tragic drowning, who haunts…
Roxy Hunter (2008): Dir. Eleanor Lindo
Feat. Aria Wallace; Nancy Drew–ish family drama revealing another precocious kid sleuth and her best buddy as they use their investigative know–how to solve…
Sauna (2008): Dir. Antti-Jussi Annila
Feat. Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor Klimenko; Something of a hybrid of the historical epic and ghost story, this unique genre entry from Finland concerns two brothers haunted by a young girl whom…
Trick 'r Treat (Trick or Treat) (2008): Dir. Michael Dougherty
Feat. Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin…; Well–crafted horror that interweaves five spooky stories on the same Halloween night, subverting familiar urban legends into unexpected new…
1408 (2007): Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson; This good, old–fashioned horror adapts a latter–day Steven King story of the same name. True to genre, it's about a sceptical,…
Dark Mirror (2007): Dir. Pablo Proenza
Feat. Lisa Vidal, David Chisum; Gripping indie–horror reads like an update of AMITYVILLE with nice family moving into nice house with some odd features: mirrors that reflect…
End of the Line (2007): Dir. Maurice Devereaux
Feat. Ilona Elkin, Nicolas Wright, Neil Napier…; Chilling horror set in a Subway where a young nurse boards the last train of the night, only to have it stop halfway and its passengers brutally…
Ferryman, The (2007): Dir. Chris Graham
Feat. Kerry Fox, Tamer Hassan, John Rhys-Davies…; Homegrown high–seas supernatural horror following a group of charter cruise passengers en route from New Zealand to Fiji who pick up a weirdo…
Ghost Hound (TV Series) (2007): Dir. Ryutaro Nakamura; Conceived by Masamune Shirow (GHOST IN THE SHELL), this genre–bending anime series concerns the experiences of three boys who can see into an…
Next (2007): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel, Julianne Moore; Nick Cage plays a schlocky Vegas magician with a secret power – he can see a wee way into the future – which makes him a useful (if…
Paranormal Activity (2007): Dir. Oren Peli
Feat. Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat; Benefitting from the low–tech immediacy that made THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT chillingly effective (and hugely profitable), this assembles its own…
Rabbit Fall (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Andrea Menard, Kevin Jubinville, Peter Kelly Gaudreault; Unusual curio traces life in the small Canadian town of Rabbit Fall with new cop Menard having more than just petty crime to contend with as she…
Reaping, The (2007): Feat. Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba…; Apocalyptic horror hokum set in bible belt America, with Hilary Swank managing to rise above the schlock as a former missionary turned scientific…
Tattooist, The (2007): Dir. Peter Burger
Feat. Jason Behr, Mia Blake, David Fane…; A supernatural thriller that forges the disparate worlds of urban tattoo counter–culture with Samoan cultural taboo, Jason Behr plays an…
Wind Chill (2007): Dir. Gregory Jacobs
Feat. Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan; A prickly college student (Blunt) catches a ride home for Christmas with a random classmate, but when their car ploughs off the icy road, stranding…
Abandoned, The (Los Abandonados) (2006): Dir. Nacho Cerda
Feat. Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden; Spanish dir. Nacho Cerda serves up a surreal English–language Euro–horror that, like the works of Bava, Argento, and their progeny, works…
An American Haunting (2006): Dir. Courtney Solomon
Feat. James D'Arcy, Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland; A stylishly cinematic ghost train, supposedly based on a real–life Tennessee family haunted by strange forces in the early 1800s. Donald…
Bleach (TV Series) (2006): Immensely popular anime series follows the supernatural adventures of a gifted teenager whose ability to channel the powers of a ‘Soul Reaper’…
Death Note (TV Series) (Deathnote) (2006): Anime serial of the cultish good vs. evil parable follows on from the manga and live–action versions in retelling the battle between a cocky…
Death Note / Death Note - The Last Name (2006): Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Erika Toda…; High–concept and precocious in attitude, this absurdly drawn battle–of–wits, based on a cult Manga, concerns the discovery of an…
Gathering, The (2006): Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Christina Ricci, Stephen Dillane, Ioan Gruffudd; Goth–lite supernatural horror stars Ricci as an American backpacker who loses her memory after a car accident in a small town in rural England,…
Grudge 2, The (2006): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Edison Chen…; Dir. Shimizu revisits his effective J–Horror franchise and re–adapts a sequel for Hollywood. While fans of the original JU–ON (and…
Last Winter, The (2006): Dir. Larry Fessenden
Feat. Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Connie Britton…; Chilly, intelligent survival horror from director Larry Fessenden that plays like a more naturalistic version of the John Carpenter's THE…
Poltergay (2006): Dir. Eric Lavaine
Feat. Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu; Farcical French comedy sees a couple haunted by the ghosts of five gay guys, who died in their house when it used to be a gay disco. This fluff…
Re-Cycle (Gwai Wik) (2006): Dir. Danny Pang, Oxide Pang; Chinese gore connoisseurs Danny and Oxide Pang embark on another otherworldly excursion in this horror about an author who realises the supernatural…
Scoop (2006): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Woody Allen…; Following his success with MATCH POINT, Woody Allen returns to London with young muse Scarlett Johansson for this feather–lite…
Alone in the Dark (2005): Dir. Uwe Boll
Feat. Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff; A sadly fumbled attempt to adapt the Atari videogame of the same name, set around a pair of investigators – a detective (Slater) and musuem…
Amityville Horror, The (2005): Dir. Andrew Douglas
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George; Competent, though hardly inspiring remake of the 1979 horror, in which a couple of happy newlyweds shift into a baleful–looking house, without…
Constantine (2005): Dir. Francis Lawrence
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Tilda Swinton…; A stylish, but rather misfiring adaptation of the DC comicbook 'Hellblazer', with Keanu Reeves playing a wry, hard–boiled detective with…
Fragile (Fragiles) (2005): Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh; Moody horror with a Spanish sensibility, this features a slight Calista Flockhart fending off a series of mysterious and increasingly supernatural…
Ghost Whisperer (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim; Further primetime paranormal activity, with a prissy Jennifer Love Hewitt as a small town newlywed overcoming her initial skepticism at being able to…
Medium (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber; Moderately–spooky paranormal soap–opera with Patricia Arquette playing a psychic attached to the DA's office in Phoenix, Arizona, who…
Ring 2, The (2005): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Naomi Watts, Sissy Spacek, Gary Cole…; The RING remake cycle moves onto the next installment in dir. Nakata's fable of the lethal videotape, with Watts again returning to this time destroy…
Skeleton Key (2005): Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Kate Hudson, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands…; A young woman (Hudson) gets a job caring for a troubled elderly stroke victim (Hurt) in a swampside manor in rural Louisiana, coming to realise there…
Spooked: The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium (2005): Dir. Christopher Saint Booth, Shane Dax Taylor; A 'haunting' documentary, made during a horror film shoot, about a Kentucky hospital built in the 1910s to combat the growing numbers of deaths due…
Supernatural (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles; Two brothers scour the countryside for urban myths and legends, stumbling upon various paranorma, horror movie moments and other unexplained events…
White Noise (2005): Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice; An architect (Keaton) becomes entranced by the possibilities of speaking with his deceased wife (Unger) by tapping into the audiovisual chaos of a TV…
Boo (2004): Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. M. Steven Felty; A group of college students venture into an abandoned hospital on Halloween night for a cheap laugh, and end up trapped there while a gaggle of…
Dead Birds (2004): Dir. Alex Turner
Feat. Henry Thomas, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Isaiah Washington…; After a botched bank robbery during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate outlaws hole up in an abandoned plantation, finding themselves the…
Eye 2, The (Jian Gui 2) (2004): Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Shu Qi, Jesdaporn Pholdee; Another venture into Asian horror for the Brothers Pang, here thematically sequelling their 2002 hit with the tale of an unhappy woman who gains the…
Grudge, The (2004): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Bill Pullman…; Unnerving imagery and soundscapes abound in the Japanese director's remake of his own horror film for a western audience, that while recast with…
Hex (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender; Bewitching, BUFFY–comparable series in which a feisty English schoolgirl is bestowed with supernatural powers amidst a looming demonic threat.…
Hide and Seek (2004): Dir. John Polson
Feat. Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen…; Bogeyman horror which has psychologist De Niro withdrawing to a lakeside mansion for some quiet time with his daughter, recently traumatized by her…
Kingdom Hospital (TV Mini-series) (2004): Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd…; Horror–writer Stephen King expands his King–dom with a solid adaptation of dir. Lars von Trier's celebrated Danish TV series "The…
Marebito (2004): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara…; A delve into more conventional 'horror' for dir. Shimizo (THE GRUDGE), still retaining considerable austerity and dread with his fable of urban fears…
Saint Ange (Sanatorium) (2004): Dir. Pascal Laugier
Feat. Virginie Ledoyen, Katriona MacColl, Lou Doillon; A young woman (Ledoyen) journeys into the remotes of the French Alps to help clean up an abandoned orphanage, but soon begins to notice strange…
Village, The (2004): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody…; A further investigation in atmospherics from the maker of SIGNS and THE SIXTH SENSE, this time sent in the foreboding microcosm of an 18th century…
Grudge 2, The (Ju-On 2) (2003): Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Chiharu Nîyama, Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie…; Followup to the original Japanese version of dir. Takashi's own JU–ON, this proffers an almost identical vision, with a TV crew visiting the…
Grudge, The (Ju-On) (2003): Dir. Takashi Shimizu; A horror film that understands that fear is best painted blacker than molasses, this cult Japanese hit follows in the ghostly steps of the RING…
Haunted Mansion, The (2003): Dir. Rob Minkoff
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp…; Inspired by Disneyland's famous funride, this ghostly comedy has real estate agent Eddie Murphy and kin inadvertantly spending the night in a spooky…
One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) (2003): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi…; Another 'J–horror' riding on the wave of the RING phenomena, updating the supernatural formula with cell–phone technology and…
Story of Marie and Julien, The (Histoire de Marie et Julien) (2003): Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz; Meandering and hypnotic tale of the supernatural from French master Jacques Rivette, which begins in the apparently nondescript world of a Parisian…
Tale of Two Sisters, A (Janghwa Hongryeon) (2003): Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim…; A further revelation of the K–horror genre, this enters the forboding world of two devoted sisters who endure the lakeside household of their…
Tru Calling (TV Series) (2003-2005): Feat. Eliza Dushku; Paranormal TV drama with Dushku playing a morgue intern who discovers she can hear the voices of the recently deceased and reverse their fates.…
Visitors (2003): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Ray Barrett, Susannah York; Circumnavigating the globe in her yacht, Radha Mitchell gets becalmed in the tropics and is 'visited' by persons who may be ghosts, hallucinations or…
Dark Water (2002): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno; Running rings around the RING films in unsettling atmosphere, rich subtext and jump–in–your–seat moments, this creepy fable of…
Darkness (2002): Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen…; The dir. of THE NAMELESS proffers a largely familiar tale of a family relocating to a remote Spanish farm, and becoming entrapped in a supernatural…
Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006): Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer; Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
DreamCatcher (2002): Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee, Tom Sizemore…; Four childhood friends, who share psychic powers and an annual appointment to go male–bonding in the Maine backwoods, are inadvertantly drawn…
Eye, The (2002): Dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Feat. Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou; Almost guaranteed to give you goosebumps, this unnerving Asian horror show follows in the footsteps and spirit of the watershed RING films, though…
Hypnotic (Doctor Sleep) (2002): Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson…; The smouldering Visnjic (THE DEEP END) plays a hypnotherapist who has the gift of receiving startling visualisations from the minds of his…
Inner Senses (Yee do hung gaan) (2002): Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam, Maggie Poon; A loner psychologist (Cheung) falls for a suicidal woman he is treating for her constant, gloomy visions of the dead, in this stylish Asian riff on…
Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005): Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison; A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
Mothman Prophecies, The (2002): Dir. Mark Pellington
Feat. Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton…; Drawing on an actual event and mythical explanation, this eerie tale concerns widower reporter Richard Gere, who becomes embroiled in the hunt for a…
Phone (2002): Dir. Byeong-ki Ahn
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Yu-mi Kim; Down the more cluttered and preposterous end of the Korean–horror genre, this finds a new cellphone being the centre of all the terror for an…
Ring, The (2002): Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox; Fitfully creepy American remake of the influential Japanese horror film that surprisingly manages to replicate the foreboding (and uniquely Japanese)…
They (2002): Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Laura Regan; Wes Craven 'presents' this supernatural suspenser, which though unambitious, presents its scenario with enough artful suggestion to interest…
Devil's Backbone, The (2001): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Frederico Luppi, Marisa Paredes; This elegant amalgam of melodrama and horror movie set in a boys orphanage during the Spanish Civil War is rich in baroque atmospherics, and features…
Hearts in Atlantis (2001): Dir. Scott Hicks
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis; Muted elegy for lost smalltown adolescence from the pen of Stephen King, that like STAND BY ME casts shadows of unease over its…
Others, The (2001): Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Eric Sykes, Christopher Eccleston; Ghostly tale in the classic tradition of Henry James, conjuring a spectral fog of unease from a gaunt mansion on the island of Jersey in 1945,…
Ring 2 (2001): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato; Esteemable sequel to the 1998 original, this finds the supernaturally fatal videotape – the one that causes death, a week after watching it –…
Shadow of the Wraith (Ikisudama) (2001): Dir. Toshiharu Ikeda; Fitfully scary J–horror is set around a series of disconnected horrors in two halves: first, at a high school plagued by a creepy…
Shaft, The (Down) (2001): Dir. Dick Maas
Feat. Naomi Watts, James Marshall, Ron Perlman…; Wildly tongue–in–cheek remake of the dir.'s own THE LIFT, here with a New York City elevator going on a murderous rampage in its…
Thirteen Ghosts (2001): Dir. Steve Beck
Feat. F. Murray Abraham, Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz…; An orgy of gore, noise and mindless mayhem, this hi–tech remake of William Castle’s 1960 original subtracts the camp and adds a battery of…
Wendigo (2001): Dir. Larry Fessenden
Feat. Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan; Elaborating on a renowned ‘urban legend’ with a refined script and a no–nonsense commitment to storytelling, this is a project fostered in…
Boogiepop Phantom (TV Series) (Boogiepop Never Laughs: Boogiepop Phantom) (2000): Dir. Kouhei Kadano; Anime series set in an unnamed Japanese city, intertwining the stories of multiple characters to uncover the mystery behind a string of serial…
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000): Dir. Joe Berlinger
Feat. Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen; Another troupe of young ghoul–hunters head for the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, which, in a post–modern twist, has become a…
Gift, The (2000): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi…; Rivalling THE SIXTH SENSE among latterday supernatural thrillers and with a pedigree to boast of, this eerie tale of smalltown ghosts and secrets is…
House On Haunted Hill (2000): Dir. William Malone
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Peter Gallagher; An adaptation of the 1958 William Castle film, this is a modern day B–Movie that's none too ambitious, yet fun in its trashy way. Various…
Isola (Tajuu jinkaku shôjo) (2000): Dir. Toshiyuki Mizutani
Feat. Yoshino Kimura; Curious but finally rather tepid riff on the J–Horror genre has a psychic woman (Kimura) travelling to the city of Kobe to offer help in the…
Rose Red (2000): Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Nancy Travis, Matt Keesler, Julian Sands…; Based on a real–life haunted house (San Jose’s Winchester House) this Stephen King mini–series has Nancy Travis leading a team of…
Seance (2000): Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho; A hybrid of crime thriller and ghost story, this remake of the British classic "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" reinstates the supernatural emphasis of…
Sight, The (2000): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Honor Blackman, Kevin Tighe; Reasonably crafted TV suspenser, has McCarthy playing an American architect on the trail of vicious serial–killer in London, with only his…
Tomie: Replay (2000): Dir. Tomijiro Mitsuishi
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kenichi Endo, Tomorowo Taguchi; Second (and best) installment in the manga–inspired series continues the vengeful streak of 'Tomie', the undying…
What Lies Beneath (2000): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford; Affluent couple Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford have their watertight marriage spring a leak when the neighbours start acting suspiciously and…
Blair Witch Project, The (1999): Dir. Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. Heather Donahue, Michael C Williams, Joshua Leonard; The most profitable film in history on a cost–to–gross basis, this handycam horror struck paydirt thanks to a swag of resourcefulness and…
Haunting, The (1999): Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson…; Lumpen remake of the classy 60s chiller, with Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta–Jones, Owen Wilson and psychologist Liam Neeson as the cardboard…
Inugami (1999): Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Yuki Amami, Atsuro Watabe, Eugene Harada; Quietly impressive suspenser set in a remote mountain village in Japan, where a young local woman and a visiting school teacher become aware of the…
Sixth Sense, The (1999): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Colette; A rarity here – an intelligent Hollywood horror movie with no teenagers and no comic relief (intended or otherwise). Story of a troubled…
Sleepy Hollow (1999): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken…; The oft–filmed short story 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is fashioned by illustrious iconoclast Tim Burton as the goriest, most…
Stir of Echoes (1999): Dir. David Koepp
Feat. Kevin Bacon; A decisively scary supernatural thriller unravels following sceptical family man Kevin Bacon's disturbing experience under hypnosis. A palpable…
Storm of the Century (1999): Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Tim Daly, Colm Feore; Umbrellas out! Written for the small–screen by Stephen King, this horror mini–series has a small island community in Maine facing a…
Tomie (1999): Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Tomorowo Taguchi, Miho Kanno; A severed head in a paper bag mutates into the film's titular school girl from hell in this malevolent Japanese horror offering genuine creeps under…
Beloved (1998): Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Oprah Winfrey, Thandiwe Newton, Danny Glover; Risk–taking adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel of rural Southern Gothic, former–slave Ophrey Winfrey (her first role since THE COLOUR…
Charmed (TV Series) (1998-2005): Feat. Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs; A career–reviving hit for Doherty and Milano, as two of a trio of sisters who discover they have the supernatural powers of witches. This…
Phantoms (1998): Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Joanna Going, Rose McGowan, Ben Affleck…; Dropping in on a remote town with no apparent inhabitants, babe sisters Joanna Going and Rose McGowan find themselves on the sinister skids. Ben…
Ring (Ringu) (1998): Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada; A cult phenomenon in Japan and everywhere else it’s played, it’s since spawned a sequel, a prequel, both a Korean and American remake, and its…
Ring: The Spiral (Rasen) (1998): Dir. Jôji Iida
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani; The 'lost' first sequel to RINGU, follows on from the tale of the lethal videotape and the demonic Sadako with the rather prosaic solution to the…
Jonathan Creek (TV Series) (1997): Feat. Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin; Odd coupling Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin play nerdy magician and blunt–edged journalist respectively in this British series of…
Sleepwalker Project, The (TV Series) (Sleepwalkers) (1997): Feat. Bruce Greenwood, Naomi Watts; With a premise that's a cut above the usual sci–fi series imagination, this has a team of researchers at the Morpheus Institute use special…
Forbidden City Cop (1996): Dir. Vincent Tak-Chiu
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao); Hysterical and kinda crazy semi–sequel to the smash hit comedy FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE, splices James Bond with A CHINESE GHOST STORY, following…
Frighteners, The (1996): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson…; A big–budget Hollywood hootenanny made in Miramar and starring Lyttleton harbour, this is a must–see for any self–respecting…
Sex and Zen Pt. 2 (1996): Dir. Chin Man-Kei
Feat. Loletta Lee, Tat-Wah Lok; A creepy polygamist meets his match in the 'mirage woman' in this twice–as–smutty, half–as–funny sequel to the outlandish…
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (Candyman 2) (1995): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary…; Sequel to the 1992 horror hit CANDYMAN, again based on a story by Clive Barker about the titular immortal villain's evil–doings in New…
Casper (1995): Dir. Brad Silberling
Feat. Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriaty…; Technology breathes fresh air into that rather soppy '60s cartoon creation, the friendly ghost without a real friend. Enter spook–psychologist…
Haunted (1995): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, John Gielgud; Sceptical investigator Aidan Quinn becomes steadily embroiled in the paranormal and the ambiguous inhabitants of a British country mansion.…
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe (TV Series) (1994): Follow–up to the popular MYSTERIOUS WORLD series with Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigating more strange phenomena around the…
Kingdom, The (Riget) (1994): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Norby…; A Danish medical soap opera from the director of BREAKING THE WAVES that's a bizarre yet compulsive combination of ghost story, TV drama and…
Stand, The (1994): Dir. Mick Garris
Feat. Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Laura San Giancomo…; Stephen King's most popular novel was also his lengthiest, which is why it takes cinematic form as a mini–series. Despite dramatic padding and…
Sometimes They Come Back (1992): Dir. Tom McLoughlin
Feat. Tim Matheson; Tim Matheson cannot forget the brutal murder of his brother twenty years earlier, especially when the 'deceased' killers return to play havoc. From…
Returning, The (1991): Dir. John Day
Feat. Phillip Gordon, Alison Routledge, Max Cullen; An enigmatic thriller following the fortunes of a high–strung attorney who inherits a rural homestead and finds himself drawn into an obsessive…
Chinese Ghost Story 2 (1990): Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung; The original cast return for another surreal, big–budget fantasy that delivers as much as the first one, with more of a comedic slant. This…
Ghostbusters 2 (1989): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver…; A cash–in for sure, but as much fun as the original, with the paranormal pests here thriving on all the "bad vibes" of grumpy Manhattanites.…
Puppet Master, The (1989): Dir. David Schmoeller
Feat. Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle; Puppetsploitation movie from Charles Band's Full Moon production house about a group of psychics who find themselves plotted against by a former…
Beetlejuice (1988): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin…; A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
Lady in White (1988): Dir. Frank LaLoggia
Feat. Lukas Haas; If you prefer your spook story with subtlety and atmos–fear, then don't overlook this gem. A young boy discovers the truth concerning a young…
Paperhouse (1988): Dir. Bernard Rose
Feat. Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill; Beautifully photographed English spook story about a schoolgirl who can enter a netherworld by simply drawing it on paper. A thinking person's…
Rouge (1988): Dir. Stanley Kwan
Feat. Leslie Cheung; Beautiful, haunting ghost story about a 1930s courtesan whose restless spirit roams modern Hong Kong. Asian stars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung…
Chinese Ghost Story, A (1987): Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Leslie Cheung; The first of a marvellous trilogy of outrageous fantasies set in Ming Dynasty–era China, in which student Leslie Cheung falls in love with an…
Gothic (1986): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson; Ken Russell's account of a night when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and friends unravel their deepest fears. An enjoyable frolic, stamped with many of the…
Haunted Honeymoon (1986): Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner…; Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
House (1986): Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. William Katt; Expedient, tongue–in–cheek frightfest about a horror novelist who inherits a haunted mansion.
Wraith, The (1986): Dir. Mike Marvin
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn…; Cartoonish supernatural actioner starring Charlie Sheen as a murdered Arizona teen who mysteriously returns from the dead as an all–powerful…
Mr. Wrong (1985): Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Heather Bolton; A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton…
Christine (1983): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul; A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
Hitchhiker, The (TV Series) (1983): Feat. Page Fletcher, Gary Busey, Peter Coyote…; An early HBO series of mystery–thriller stories, related only by the character of The Hitchhiker (Page Fletcher), who introduces and closes…
Poltergeist (1982): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight…; A rowdy spirit disrupts suburban tranquility for an average family when it kidnaps their 5–year–old daughter. The horror film receives an…
Alison's Birthday (1981): Dir. Ian Coughlan
Feat. Joanne Samuel, Bunney Brooke, Lou Brown; Low–budget Ocker entry into the occult genre with Samuel's birthday celebrations with her Aunt and Uncle going horribly awry.
Beyond, The (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà) (1981): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck; This eerie celluloid nightmare from Italian gore–meister Fulci can be fully appreciated in this uncut version, restoring its succession…
Entity, The (1981): Dir. Sidney J Furie
Feat. Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver; Controversial sleazy horror, which has Barbara Hershey sexually molested by an invisible demon. Psychiatrist Ron Silver thinks it’s all in her…
Ghost Story (1981): Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Fred Astaire, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Melvyn Douglas…; Eerie chiller based on the Peter Straub potboiler has four elderly gentlemen who are bound by a dark secret gather each week to tell each other…
Survivor, The (1981): Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten; Aussie horror following a pilot who is the only survivor of a crashed Boeing 747–200, and subsequently begins to experience strange…
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) (1980): Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigates strange phenomena around the planet in this intriguing television series. Travelling the world from…
Black Cat, The (1980): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Patrick Magee; Village crank Patrick Magee is suspected in a gruesome series of killings, linked by the presence of the black puss. Dodgy (dubbed) acting aside,…
Boogeyman, The (1980): Dir. Ulli Lommel
Feat. Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James…; Supernatural slasher directed by Fassbinder regular Ulli Lommel, who was part of the New German Cinema movement. An American production starring…
Fog, The (1980): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh…; A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…
Shining, The (1980): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall; Man, wife and child are assigned to caretaking a remote hotel for the winter. Formidable unease is created before Jack Nicholson completely loses his…
Watcher in the Woods, The (1980): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, David McCallum, Carroll Baker…; One of Disney's spookier efforts, this concerns a family who move into a country house in Britain and are beset with supernatural occurances.…
Amityville Horror, The (1979): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger; James Brolin and Margot Kidder are convincingly spooked as happily marrieds who inherit a haunted house. Competently directed, but with the ghosts of…
Changeling, The (1979): Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas; An impeccably crafted ghost story that demands to be taken seriously, not least because of the dignified casting of George C. Scott as a recently…
Salem's Lot (1979): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin; Creepy Stephen King story made for TV, but no less scary for it. The town of Salem don't take kindly to nosy strangers!
Sapphire and Steel (TV Series) (1979- 1982): Dir. Shaun O'Riordan
Feat. Joanna Lumley, David McCallum; A pre–AB FAB Joanna Lumley and a post–INVISIBLE MAN David McCallum cavort around in eerie abodes repairing 'tears in time'. High concept,…
Empire of the Passions (ai no borei) (1978): Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki; Searing, underrated crime of passion from the dir. of IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES focuses less on explicit sex, unfolding as a ghost…
Medusa Touch, The (1978): Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Derek Jacobi…; Garbled but entertaining thriller stars Burton as a paranormally–gifted writer who psychiatrist (Remick) tries to wean him from his murderous…
Return From Witch Mountain (1978): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, Christopher Lee; Above–average sequel to ESCAPE FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN reprises the story of two runaway orphans with supernatural powers, adding the star presence…
Audrey Rose (1977): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck…; Soberly told thriller which has a seemingly happy couple disturbed by a stranger's (Hopkins) claim that their child is his daughter, in reincarnated…
Children of the Stones (TV Mini-Series) (1977): Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson; A spooky classic of British television, in which a scientist and his son move to the village of Milbury, only to be sucked into a quasi–pagan…
House (Hausu) (1977): Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami; Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
Last Wave, The (1977): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, David Gulpilil; A provocative and eerie tale of prophecy and doom sees attorney Richard Chamberlain plagued by horrific visions when assigned to defend a group of…
Suspiria (1977): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Jessica Harper, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett; This is the quintessential Dario Argento feature – a hysterical gothic nightmare about a girl trapped in a sinister ballet academy. Visually…
Signalman, The (1976): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Denholm Elliott; Smallscale but nicely crafted adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story 'The Signalman'. Concerning the spectral experiences of a signalman…
Ash Tree, The (1975): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood; Short film adaptation of the ghost story by M R James. A man of leisure inherits the family estate after his uncle dies, and finds himself…
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence; One of Disney's best live–action telemovies, where two orphans with mysterious telekinetic powers flee the attentions of a shifty entrepeneur.…
Ghoul, The (1975): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, John Hurt; In the foggy moors of the 1920's, one of Peter Cushing's 'gate crashers' disappears and turns up dismembered, initiating a disturbing pattern. …
Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill…; Slow burn psychological horror directed by J. Lee Thompson (GUNS OF NAVARONE) about a university professor who is tortured by recurring nightmares…
...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…; Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…
Asphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973): Dir. Peter Newbrook
Feat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell; Promising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…
Don't Look Now (1973): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie; After their child drowns, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie travel to Venice in a doomed attempt to shakes off demons of the past. An iconic…
Legend of Hell House, The (1973): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill…; Hoary British haunted house yarn based on Richard Matheson’s novel has four ‘experts’ (a skeptical physicist and his wife, a medium…
Lost Hearts (1973): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Simon Gipps-Kent; A powerful drama based on the ghost story by M. R. James about an elderly and excitable black magician who preys sinisterly upon children.
Spirit of the Beehive (1973): Dir. Victor Erice
Feat. Ana Torrent; Set after the Spanish Civil War, this gorgeous, moving still–life accounts a young girl's obsession with finding a 'spirit' after seeing…
A Warning to the Curious (1972): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Peter Vaughan; A wonderful ghost story in miniature from the heyday of adventurous BBC productions, that adapts a superior M R James story with perfect economy and…
Baron Blood (1972): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti; A resurrected 16th century warlock moves back into his old haunt to continue his macabre fantasies. A petrified Elke Sommer runs around in a…
Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973): Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…; Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
Solaris (1972): Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Juri Jarvet; Brilliant imagery permeates this provocative insight into life on an isolated space station, where madness threatens all who work there. Paced to…
Stone Tape, The (1972): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Jane Asher, Michael Bryant; Interesting TV ‘one–off’ sees a boisterous electronic research–team set up in a run–down country estate, then become…
Dunwich Horror, The (1970): Dir. Daniel Haller
Feat. Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley…; Supernatural horror loosely adapting the novella of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft, which builds on the Cthulhu Mythos. Set in the fictional…
House That Dripped Blood, The (1970): Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott…; Juicy if variable four–part portmanteau film written by PSYCHO scribe, Robert Bloch, and adorned by the Cushing/Lee double–act as well as…
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (TV Series) (1968): Feat. Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare; Fondly remembered sitcom based on the R. A. Dick novel (itself made into a 1947 film) about a young widow and family who befriend a ghost haunting…
Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968): Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern; Possibly the finest of the BBC's M R James adaptations, this spooky tale concerns a closeted, sceptical professor (Hordern) whose seaside holiday…
Gorgon, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…; A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
Kwaidan (1964): Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe; A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
Haunting, The (1963): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…; Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie. Played…
Terror, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff; A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
Carnival of Souls (1962): Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey; A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
Thirteen Ghosts (1960): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow; A nuclear family inherit a house haunted by a dozen ghosts of various colourful guises and some hidden stash. Trademark William Castle…
Bell, Book and Candle (1958): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon; Enchanting romantic comedy adapted from the Broadway play stars Kim Novak as a witch who casts a spell on her neighbour, played by James Stewart.
House On Haunted Hill (1958): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart; Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
Mysterians, The (1957): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Susumu Fujita; Pastel coloured invader movie from the creative team behind GODZILLA. Aliens refugees from a planet destroyed by atomic bombs flee to Earth in the…
Ghost Ship (1952): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden…; Small–budget supernatural yarn with a uniquely British flavour about a couple that purchase a haunted yacht.
Scared Stiff (1952): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin; Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin make a ‘spooktacle’ of themselves in this version of Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s Broadway hit.
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison; A whimsical tone pervades this mildly spooky tale of widow Gene Tierney being haunted by phantom sea–captain Rex Harrison. Music by Bernard…
Spiral Staircase, The (1946): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent; This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959): Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon; A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors. SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…
Blithe Spirit (1945): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Rex Harrison; Novelist Rex Harrison jestingly arranges a seance, and inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, who then wittily haunts his new…
Dead of Night (1945): Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden; This model of the horror portmanteau film remains unsurpassed by modern all–comers, with five strong, scary short stories that converge quite…
Place of One's Own, A (1945): Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price…; Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
Cat and the Canary, The (1927): Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall; Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…

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