Genre: Supernatural
Supernatural stories admit the uncanny — ghosts, spirits, and forces beyond the natural law, intruding on the world we think we know.
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
A department store Santa claims to be the real Kris Kringle, and a lawyer must defend him in court. -
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
An Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. -
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's meta-horror about college students at a remote cabin who discover their ordeal is engineered. -
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Three student filmmakers documenting a Maryland witch legend get lost in the woods, in the found-footage horror pioneer. -
It Follows (2014)
David Robert Mitchell's allegorical horror where a sexually transmitted curse manifests as a slow-moving figure visible only to the victim. -
Insidious (2010)
James Wan's haunted house story where a comatose boy's spirit is trapped in a dimensional space called the Further. -
The Conjuring (2013)
James Wan directs the period haunting based on the Warrens' investigation of a Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971. -
Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
Takashi Shimizu's haunted house horror where a curse spreads from anyone who enters a Tokyo home where a murder occurred. -
Candyman (1992)
Bernard Rose adapts Clive Barker's story about a graduate student researching an urban legend that summons a hook-handed killer. -
Scrooge (1951)
Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the definitive screen adaptation of Dickens, visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve.