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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It (2017)
Andrés Muschietti adapts the first half of King's novel about children battling a shape-shifting evil in 1980s Derry, Maine. -
The Wolf Man (1941)
Lon Chaney Jr. plays a man bitten by a werewolf in a Welsh village who transforms during the full moon. -
Pet Sematary (1989)
A family discovers an ancient burial ground behind their Maine home that returns the dead to life, but wrong. -
The Evil Dead (1981)
Five college students vacationing at a Tennessee cabin awaken demonic spirits through a Sumerian text, in Sam Raimi's debut. -
The Amityville Horror (1979)
A family moves into a Long Island house where a mass murder occurred, and supernatural events drive them out. -
The Omen (1976)
An American diplomat learns his adopted son may be the Antichrist as people around the boy die in supernatural accidents. -
Suspiria (1977)
Dario Argento directs the giallo horror about an American dance student who discovers her German ballet academy is run by witches. -
Evil Dead II (1987)
Sam Raimi's part-remake, part-sequel where Ash returns to the cabin and battles increasingly absurd demonic forces. -
The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter directs the story of a California coastal town haunted by the vengeful ghosts of mariners killed a century earlier. -
The Others (2001)
Amenabar's 2001 haunted house with Nicole Kidman. WWII period, light-sensitive children, accumulated dread. Twist that works.