Horror movies about ghosts

List of the best horror films about ghosts according to the audience: The Conjuring, Sinister, Marrowbone, mother!, Locke & Key, Get Out, King Kong, The Skeleton Key, Dawn of the Dead, Lo.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, detective
CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
Duration01:52

    Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:45

      Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, USA
      Duration02:11

      A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Three children become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Japan
      Duration02:43

      Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, and as the military attempt to stop him, he falls to his death from the top of the World Trade Center.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:44

        A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, action
        CountryUSA, Canada, Japan, France
        Duration01:49

        A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:21

        Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April...

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:10

        Henry Frankenstein is a doctor who is trying to discover a way to make the dead walk. He succeeds and creates a monster that has to deal with living again.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, fantasy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy's decided to herald his return by invading the kids' dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:16

        A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrehorror, action, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:33

        When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives and now it's time for Matthews to join the game...

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her for his pranks.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:22

          In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:47

          Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

          Markimdb: 8.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:56

          During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:51

          Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from 1976.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, Netherlands, Italy
          Duration01:32

          After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration01:37

          Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
          Duration01:58

            Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA, Italy
            Duration02:19

            During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Mexico
            Duration01:44

            Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrehorror, drama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:02

              When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:38

              After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA, Germany
              Duration01:47

              A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

              A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:38

              Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.

              Markimdb: 8.2
              Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
              CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
              Duration01:49

              Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:20

              A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, detective
              CountryUSA, Mexico
              Duration01:44

              When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left – an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds and jocks – to save the world from alien domination.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:24

              The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration01:31

              A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:23

              In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrehorror
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:46

              A grotesquely disfigured composer known as "The Phantom" haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him. When The Phantom learns this, he abducts Christine.

              Markimdb: 5.3
              Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
              CountryUSA, Australia
              Duration01:41

              Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrehorror, thriller
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:50

              Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genrehorror, thriller
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration01:33

              Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genrehorror, thriller, detective
              CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
              Duration01:38

              After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA, Japan, United Kingdom
              Duration02:03

              Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
              CountryUSA, Canada
              Duration03:11

                Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

                Markimdb: 7.9
                Genrehorror, fantastic, adventure
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:40

                An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.




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