The 20 Best Supernatural Movies to Watch in 2025

Director Stanley Kubrick turns Stephen King’s story about the Torrance family caretaking the Overlook Hotel into a slow descent into madness. There are ghosts in this isolated resort, all bent on haunting, manipulating, and recruiting. The unraveling of patriarch Jack became a cultural shorthand for domestic danger. The movie endures because it fuses supernatural threats with recognizable fears, including addiction, isolation, and the horror of watching someone you love come apart.

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George Bailey (played by the incomparable Jimmy Stewart), overwhelmed by his life in Bedford Falls, gets a cosmic intervention from Clarence, an angel who shows him a world where he never existed. The supernatural element is simple—one alternate reality, one messenger—but the effect is lasting. The film, directed by Frank Capra at his most Capra-esque, has become a holiday classic because its fantasy works like a practical reset. It reminds viewers that sometimes the universe sends help in the form of a gentle wake-up call.

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William Friedkin’s landmark horror film tracks a Georgetown mother watching her daughter, Regan, succumb to a demonic presence. What starts as strange behavior escalates to the full supernatural arsenal: levitation, prophetic voices, impossible strength. With Catholic priests stepping in as the last line of defense, the movie reshaped American ideas of spiritual warfare. It set the template for possession stories and pushed the supernatural into mainstream conversation.

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Sam Wheat, a New York banker, is murdered and returns as a ghost determined to protect his girlfriend, Molly. His only way to reach her is through Oda Mae Brown, a medium with a gift she’d rather not have. The supernatural is playful and tactile—hands passing through objects, shadows tracking danger. The film became a ‘90s phenomenon because it blended romance, crime, and the paranormal into a single, oddly effective love story.

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Director Ari Aster builds a family drama that slowly mutates into a supernatural catastrophe. Strange visions, cryptic symbols, and unexplained deaths stalk the Graham family until the source reveals itself: a demonic plot generations in the making. Toni Collette’s performance anchors the chaos, making the horror feel painfully domestic. The film became a cultural lightning rod because it treated the supernatural with the seriousness of real trauma, particularly how grief can completely destabilize a family.

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A newly deceased couple finds their home overtaken by a living family, prompting them to hire Betelgeuse, an unhinged bio-exorcist, to scare the intruders away. Director Tim Burton builds an afterlife filled with desk-job bureaucrats, cursed dinner parties, sandworms, and every kind of paranormal mess imaginable. The film’s cultural impact is huge: it made the supernatural funny, stylish, and proudly weird, influencing everything from goth teen identity to the Halloween costumes we see every October.

When Los Angeles Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton dies prematurely due to a heavenly mix-up, celestial management scrambles to fix the error. Joe is sent back to Earth in another man’s body, forcing him to navigate romance, murder plots, and his own athletic ambitions while technically not being himself. The supernatural hook is reincarnation by clerical error, and the cultural appeal lies in its charm.

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Set in a fog-drenched mansion on the island of Jersey, the film tells the story of Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman), a mother convinced the house is haunted. Doors open on their own, voices carry through empty rooms, and her children, who are sensitive to light, sense figures no one else can see. The movie’s restrained supernatural approach and late twist made it a cultural standout, proving that ghosts don’t need jump scares when dread can do the heavy lifting.

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Director Robert Zemeckis uses supernatural absurdity to skewer Hollywood vanity, creating a comedy that still resonates in an era obsessed with anti-aging everything. In this satirical take on immortality, rivals Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp drink a potion promising eternal youth only to discover that forever comes with unexpected maintenance issues. Broken necks, shotgun wounds, and detaching limbs become running gags as their bodies refuse to die.

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Set in a Victorian apartment building in New York City, this story follows Rosemary Woodhouse as she navigates a pregnancy that becomes increasingly unsettling. Her neighbors hover, her husband grows secretive, and strange rituals unfold behind closed doors. The supernatural threat—a cult invested in her unborn child—lurks beneath polite conversation and cramped hallways. It shows that evil can be hiding in plain sight, disguised as friendly concern.

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M. Night Shyamalan tells the story of Cole Sear, a boy who sees dead people, and his psychologist, Malcolm Crowe. Ghosts appear unexpectedly, forcing a careful balance between psychological tension and supernatural terror. Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment anchor the story, with the famous twist reframing everything that came before. The film entered the cultural lexicon through its suspenseful storytelling and the line that refuses to leave your mind: “I see dead people.”

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New York City meets the paranormal in Ivan Reitman’s supernatural comedy, where eccentric scientists start a ghost-catching business. Spectral infestations run the gamut: slimes, floating librarians, and an interdimensional god threatening Manhattan. Bill Murray’s dry delivery and the team’s quirky camaraderie keep things witty, balancing the chaos. Beyond the laughs, it shaped pop culture with proton packs, marshmallow men, and the idea that supernatural threats can be confronted with sarcasm.

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Tim Burton reinvents Washington Irving’s classic with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, sent to investigate a series of headless murders in a fogbound village. The supernatural arrives in an unstoppable Headless Horseman. Burton’s signature gothic visuals turn a colonial-era story into a visual feast of horror and dark humor. The movie’s impact comes from how it merges suspense and spectacle, offering a stylized take on fear that’s as playful as it is chilling.

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This film continues to resonate because it tied supernatural power directly to human cruelty. Brian De Palma adapts Stephen King’s tale of a bullied high school girl who discovers telekinesis just in time for prom. Objects fly, walls crack, and a bucket of blood cements one of the most iconic horror moments ever filmed. Sissy Spacek’s haunting performance makes Carrie more than a revenge fantasy but a materialization of trauma.

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David Fincher tells the story of Benjamin Button, who is born old and ages backward. The supernatural premise of reversed life is treated with realism, tracing love, loss, and the logistics of growing younger while the world ages normally. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett navigate the emotional complexity of the story. The film is essentially a meditation on mortality, asking audiences to consider a life outside the usual timeline.

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A group of college friends discovers the Necronomicon in a remote cabin, unleashing a relentless demonic force. Ash Williams fights for survival as objects animate, limbs are possessed, and the woods themselves seem alive. Sam Raimi’s low-budget creativity turns gore into spectacle, balancing horror with absurdity. The film’s legacy is manic and chaotic. It’s as much slapstick as it is terrifying, cementing its place as a cult classic in supernatural cinema.

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In suburban California, the Freeling family’s new home comes with unexpected roommates: ghosts. Phones ring by themselves, furniture levitates, and the youngest daughter disappears into another dimension. Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg blend family drama with supernatural dread, creating a haunting domestic horror. The film succeeds at making the ordinary terrifying.

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Death row isn’t usually a place for miracles, but John Coffey changes that. Gifted with supernatural healing, he shifts the lives of guards and inmates alike, creating tension, awe, and moral dilemmas. Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King balances the mystical with the grim realities of prison life.

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Drew Goddard’s meta-horror film flips clichés: A group of friends in a remote cabin are manipulated by unseen engineers who control monsters and rituals. Zombies, mummies, and ancient gods appear like machines. The film critiques horror itself while delivering scares, blending supernatural spectacle with satirical commentary. It acknowledges the horror formula, then turns it inside out, keeping audiences both terrified and amused.

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A home surveillance experiment becomes a slow-burning nightmare. Shadows twitch, doors open on their own, and the unseen force escalates nightly. The film is shot in a found-footage style, where almost nothing is shown, yet fear arises. Paranormal Activity is a tiny-budget idea that turned into a cultural phenomenon, making audiences reconsider the terror that can hide in an ordinary suburban living room.

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