The 10 Best Supernatural Horror Movies, According To IMDb – Screen Rant

Among the many horror sub-genres, the supernatural side has been constantly favored by Hollywood. Supernatural horror films often include themes such as demonic possession, life after death, religion, special abilities and the existence of ghosts.

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Supernatural horror was popularized by German silent films in the 1920s and 1930s. Hollywood soon caught the wave and its been a thrilling and scary journey ever since. Here are the best supernatural horror films, according to IMDb.

Stephen King has been one of the few lucky authors who have seen most of their novels getting adapted to feature films and TV shows. His very first novel Carriewas made into a movie that went on to be a cult classic shortly after its release.

In Carrie, a 16-year-old teenage girl decides to unleash her secret telekinetic powers and cause terror after she becomes fed up with the constant bullying at her school.Carrie is often considered one of the best book-to-move adaptations of all time.

In The Omen,an American diplomat named struggles to get a child with his wife Katherine. After Katherine delivers a stillborn baby, the couple decides to adopt a boy named Damien. Shortly after, Damien's first nannycommits suicide and a priest warns the couple that Damien will bring sorrow to the family.

The priest soon dies and a pregnant Katherine ends up having a miscarriage after Damien makes her fall off a balcony. Damien begins causing plenty of misfortune and this forces Robert to dig into the boy's background. He eventually makes a shocking discovery: Damienmight just be the Antichrist.

The Haunting has appeared in many "Greatest Horror Movies" lists. Even director Martin Scorsese once named it the best horror movie of all time. A remake was made back starring Liam Neeson but it was heavily panned by both fans and critics.

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In this original film, a scientist named Dr. Markway decides to investigate a mansion named the Hill House to prove the existence of supernatural beings. He invites two women to go with him but soon, one of them begins exhibiting weird behavior.

Director James Wan rarely has misses and when he made The Conjuring, he didn't disappoint either. With events taking place in1971, the movie sees family man Roger Perron relocateto a farmhouse in Rhode Island with his wife and daughters.

They soon find a hidden basement and shortly after that, they are haunted by strange beings. They thus decide to bring intwo famous paranormal investigators to find out what's going on. The investigators conclude that an urgent exorcism is needed.

Set in 1945,The Othersrevolves around a woman named Grace Stewart. After waiting for her husband to come back from World War II, she gives up and concludes that he is dead. She thus decides to live quietly in the Channel Islands with her photosensitive children.

Sheteaches her son and daughterto follow strict religious principles while making sure to close all doors and windows at all times to protect them from light. After she hires helpers, her children tell her that a strange boy keeps visiting them. This lays out the path for a series of supernatural events.

Set in Victorian England,The Innocents sees a wealthy and busy man hire a new housekeeper for his orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles. The housekeeper Miss Giddens is instructed to raise the children in the best way possible. However, the job doesn't turn out to be as rosy as the thought.

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She soon begins suspecting thatthe children are possessed by the spirits of the former housekeeperMiss Jessel and valet Peter Quintwho are both deceased. She thus makes it her mission to deal with the ghosts and weird behavior in the estate.

Directed by the controversial Roman Polanski,Rosemary's Baby is about a couple that moves into a new neighborhood where they are surrounded by strangeneighbors. When thewife becomes pregnant, she begins suspecting that her baby isconnected to an evil cult.

The movie was nominated for two Oscars and four Golden Globes.When Bravo released its list of "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments," one of the scenes inRosemary's Baby was included. In the scene. the main character is sexually assaulted by Satan.

The Exorcist was the first-ever horror film to be nominated for Best Picture. It was also nominated for ten other Oscars. Interestingly, a couple of major Hollywood stars had turned down offers for roles in the film as they weren't sure it would be a success.

InThe Exorcist, a mother seeks help from two Catholic priests after her daughter becomes possessed with demons. The movie held the crown for the highest-grossing R-rated film for two decades before it was dethroned by Terminator: Judgement Day.

The Sixth Sense follows a young boy named Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who has the ability to see and talk to the dead, and a psychologist in Philadelphia named Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) who tries to assist him in dealing with his strange condition.

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The movie did so well at the box office that it became the second-highest-grossing film of 1999. It was also nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture. Willis missed out on an Oscar nod but got nominated for several other awards in different award organizations.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining remains a classic in the horror genre as a whole. The movie which was one of many to be adapted from Stephen King's books starred Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence, a writer and alcoholic who gets a job as an off-season caretaker for a hotel then strange things begin to happen.

Despite the film being adored by both fans and critics, it never impressed Stephen King. He has always insisted that The Shining was a poor adaptation of his work. The movie was also somewhat of a sleeper hit, as it took time before becoming widely popular.

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Philip Etemesi is an author, journalist, screenwriter and film critic based in Nairobi. Kenya. As a child, he preferred watching movies like The Goodfellas instead of Home Alone. His girlfriend constantly has to pull him from the front of the TV but he just keeps returning. Stubborn dude! An animal lover, Philip also has a pet giraffe called Refu.

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