Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    EmmysSuperheroes GuideSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideBest Of 2025 So FarDisability Pride MonthSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Copy

Top Tier Ghost Movies

by Encyclopedia_of_Horror • Created 4 years ago • Modified 6 days ago
A list of the best movies involving ghosts, specters and other supernatural entities. All rated 8+ by Eric Myford, author of The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies book series...
List activity
93 views
• 2 this week
Create a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
  • 134 titles
  • Heather O'Rourke in Poltergeist (1982)

    1. Poltergeist

    19821h 54mPG79Metascore
    7.3 (189K)
    A family's home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a doorway to the "other side." With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
    DirectorTobe HooperStarsJoBeth WilliamsHeather O'RourkeCraig T. Nelson
  • Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Jones, Michael Keaton, and Catherine O'Hara in Beetlejuice (1988)

    2. Beetlejuice

    19881h 32mPG71Metascore
    7.5 (406K)
    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.
    DirectorTim BurtonStarsAlec BaldwinGeena DavisMichael Keaton
  • Stir of Echoes (1999)

    3. Stir of Echoes

    19991h 39mR67Metascore
    6.9 (91K)
    A man has visions of a missing neighborhood girl.
    DirectorDavid KoeppStarsKevin BaconZachary David CopeKathryn Erbe
  • Ghostbusters (1984)

    4. Ghostbusters

    19841h 45mPG71Metascore
    7.8 (473K)
    Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
    DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsBill MurrayDan AykroydSigourney Weaver
  • Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    5. The Blair Witch Project

    19991h 21mR80Metascore
    6.5 (305K)
    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.
    DirectorsDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua Leonard
  • Ring (1998)

    6. Ring

    19981h 36mNot Rated
    7.2 (83K)
    When her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko sets out to investigate. She finds the tape, watches it and receives a phone call informing her that she'll die in a week.
    DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko Takeuchi
  • The Ring (2002)

    7. The Ring

    20021h 55mPG-1357Metascore
    7.1 (392K)
    A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
    DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsNaomi WattsMartin HendersonBrian Cox
  • The Baby's Room (2006)

    8. The Baby's Room

    20061h 17mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.8 (5.9K)
    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 Juan's sister and her husband visit the couple, they give them an electronic nanny to monitor the baby's room. During the night, Juan and Sonia hear voices in the room but they do not find anybody. On the next day, Juan hires an alarm system for the house and a monitor to observe the baby's room. When Juan sees a man in the room, he gets a knife to protect his son. However, Sonia believes her husband is insane and moves to her mother's house. Juan investigates the happening with the former journalist Domingo, who explains him the paradoxical experiment Schrodinger's Cat and the existence of parallel worlds. Further, he advises the obsessed Juan to leave the house otherwise could be trapped in another world.
    DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsJavier GutiérrezLeonor WatlingSancho Gracia
  • Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)

    9. The Sixth Sense

    19991h 47mPG-1364Metascore
    8.2 (1.1M)
    After being shot by a resentful former patient whom he failed to help, a Philadelphia child psychologist seeks redemption by treating a young boy with a disturbing secret.
    DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni Collette
  • Dark Remains (2005)

    10. Dark Remains

    20051h 31mR
    4.8 (1.6K)
    When the daughter Emma of the technical writer Allen Pyke and the photographer Julie is found slashed in the throat and wrists in their locked apartment, the couple decides to move to an isolated cabin in the mountains in Kingspike. Julie is very depressed and blames Allen for the death of Emma. Once in the new home, Julie sees the spirit of Emma in a photo she took in a nearby abandoned prison and she becomes obsessed shooting pictures of poltergeists. Allen is advised to move from the place by the local Jim Payne, and on May 21st, Allen finds that the former dwellers of the cabin have committed suicide, and he investigates the death in the spot and finds that many people died around May 22nd. He decides to move with Julie to a hotel, but she does not want to give up on Emma.
    DirectorBrian Avenet-BradleyStarsMichelle KegleyAustin Brett FednanderRachael Rollings
  • Pulse (2001)

    11. Pulse

    20011h 59mR68Metascore
    6.5 (29K)
    Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
    DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyuki
  • Deadwood Park (2007)

    12. Deadwood Park

    20071h 57mNot Rated
    4.6 (515)
    The small community of Eidolon Crossing once boasted a flourishing economy and great prosperity, fueled by Dogwood Park, an amusement park at the edge of town. Then the child murders began. When the first child's corpse was discovered at Dogwood Park, the town knew they had been pulled into a horrible nightmare. As more murdered children were unearthed on the amusement park property, attendance began to decline. Finally, the macabre publicity shut the park down entirely. Dogwood Park was abandoned. The old amusement park became known as "Deadwood Park" by the locals. Eidolon Crossing quickly withered into poverty. Over the course of 35 years, 26 children disappeared at the hands of the elusive murderer. In 1979, Jake Richardson's little brother Francis was the last of the children to be abducted. Jake and his parents moved away from Eidolon Crossing shortly thereafter. Now an adult, Jake is drawn back to Eidolon Crossing, the town where his brother was taken from him. The spirits of the many murdered children begin to contact Jake. He glimpses them in the shadows of his house. He hears them whisper in the darkness of the surrounding farmland. Jake is led back to abandoned Deadwood Park. Here, somewhere in this decaying amusement park, is the path that leads to the killer's identity. It becomes Jake's mission to solve the mysteries of this sinister, blood-soaked town.
    DirectorEric StanzeStarsWilliam CliftonLindsey LuscriBryan Lane
  • Belén Rueda in The Orphanage (2007)

    13. The Orphanage

    20071h 45mR74Metascore
    7.4 (168K)
    A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
    DirectorJ.A. BayonaStarsBelén RuedaFernando CayoRoger Príncep
  • The Frighteners (1996)

    14. The Frighteners

    19961h 50mR52Metascore
    7.1 (100K)
    After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead, and he uses that gift to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.
    DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMichael J. FoxTrini AlvaradoPeter Dobson
  • Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

    15. Ju-on: The Grudge

    20021h 32mR48Metascore
    6.7 (51K)
    A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa Uehara
  • The Grudge (2004)

    16. The Grudge

    20041h 31mPG-1349Metascore
    5.9 (155K)
    An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsSarah Michelle GellarJason BehrClea DuVall
  • Fernando Tielve in The Devil's Backbone (2001)

    17. The Devil's Backbone

    20011h 46mR78Metascore
    7.4 (73K)
    After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
    DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsMarisa ParedesEduardo NoriegaFederico Luppi
  • Event Horizon (1997)

    18. Event Horizon

    19971h 36mR35Metascore
    6.6 (207K)
    A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.
    DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsLaurence FishburneSam NeillKathleen Quinlan
  • Torben Liebrecht, Jamie Bell, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Laurence Fox, Dean Lennox Kelly, Kris Marshall, Hans Matheson, Hugh O'Conor, Matthew Rhys, Andy Serkis, and Hugo Speer in Deathwatch (2002)

    19. Deathwatch

    20021h 34mR
    5.9 (14K)
    In the middle of World War I, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone - and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting them down.
    DirectorM.J. BassettStarsJamie BellRúaidhrí ConroyMike Downey
  • Vincent Price and Carolyn Craig in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

    20. House on Haunted Hill

    19591h 15mApproved
    6.7 (33K)
    A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
    DirectorWilliam CastleStarsVincent PriceCarol OhmartRichard Long
  • Robert J. Koster in Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)

    21. Dark Night of the Scarecrow

    19811h 36mTV-14TV Movie
    6.7 (9.3K)
    In a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.
    DirectorFrank De FelittaStarsCharles DurningRobert F. LyonsClaude Earl Jones
  • Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost (1990)

    22. Ghost

    19902h 6mPG-1352Metascore
    7.1 (249K)
    After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
    DirectorJerry ZuckerStarsPatrick SwayzeDemi MooreWhoopi Goldberg
  • The Evil (1978)

    23. The Evil

    19781h 29mR
    5.6 (3.4K)
    A doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion, and hires a few friends to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secret.
    DirectorGus TrikonisStarsRichard CrennaJoanna PettetAndrew Prine
  • The Entity (1982)

    24. The Entity

    19822h 5mR35Metascore
    6.7 (20K)
    A woman is tormented by an invisible being.
    DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsBarbara HersheyRon SilverDavid Labiosa
  • Rebecca Hall in The Awakening (2011)

    25. The Awakening

    20111h 42mR53Metascore
    6.5 (71K)
    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.
    DirectorNick MurphyStarsRebecca HallDominic WestImelda Staunton

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb App
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.