Sub-genre
Ghosts & Haunting
👻 Every ghosts & haunting title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
805 titles
The Haunting of Hill HouseSeries
›TV-MA2018 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
SupernaturalSeries
›TV-142005 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 15 seasons · Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
GhostsSeries
›TV-142019 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Mathew Baynton
A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
The Shining
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 144m · Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Julie and the PhantomsSeries
›TV-G2020 · Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Madison Reyes, Charlie Gillespie, Sacha Carlson
Teenage Julie finds her passion for music and life while helping the Phantoms -- a trio of ghostly guys -- become the band they were never able to be.
Rescue MeSeries
›TV-MA2004 · Drama · 7 seasons · Denis Leary, Adam Ferrara, Andrea Roth
The aftermath of 9/11 has left the firefighters of the NYFD traumatized, and no one more so than Tommy Gavin. Recently separated from his wife and their three kids, Tommy drifts between sorrow and anger as he tries to shake the recurring nightmares of his fallen comrades, especially his late cousin, Jimmy Keefe. Working alongside veterans like Lt. “Lou” Shea, Franco Rivera and Sean Garrity, and rookie Mike Lombardi, Tommy battles alcohol and drugs as he struggles to remain first and foremost a New York City firefighter.
The Sixth Sense
›PG-131999 · Mystery, Thriller, Drama · 107m · Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
IT: Welcome to DerrySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Matilda Lawler
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.
The Fall of the House of UsherSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell
Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.
The Innocents
›NR1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 100m · Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
GhostsSeries
›TV-142021 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones
Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.
American GothicSeries
›TV-PG1995 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Crime · 1 season · Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Paige Turco
Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.
In Search of...Series
›1977 · Documentary, Mystery · 7 seasons · Leonard Nimoy
In Search of... is a TV series that was broadcast weekly from 1977 to 1982, devoted to mysterious phenomena. It was created after the success of three one-hour TV documentaries produced by creator Alan Landsburg: In Search of Ancient Astronauts in 1973, In Search of Ancient Mysteries and The Outer Space Connection, both in 1975. All three featured narration by Rod Serling, who was the initial choice to host the spin-off show. After Serling's death, Leonard Nimoy was selected to be the host.
Being HumanSeries
›TV-142009 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons · Damien Molony, Michael Socha, Kate Bracken
Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
ThrillerSeries
›TV-PG1960 · Crime · 2 seasons · Boris Karloff
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
School SpiritsSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Mystery, Drama · 4 seasons · Peyton List, Milo Manheim, Kristian Ventura
Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.
Ghostwatch
›1992 · Horror, Mystery, TV Movie · 91m · Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Craig Charles
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
A HauntingSeries
›TV-PG2005 · Documentary, Mystery, Drama · 12 seasons · Anthony D. Call
These are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Based on true events, A Haunting dramatises some of the scariest stories, revealing a world in which tragedy, suicide and murder have left psychic impressions so powerful that innocent people become forced to deal with them decades later. Through mesmerizing first-person accounts, the mystery and origin of each haunting is powerfully revealed and leaves a lingering sense that life—and death—are much stronger then anyone could have possibly imagined.
The Others
›PG-132001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 101m · Nicole Kidman, Alakina Mann, James Bentley
Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Paranormal WitnessSeries
›TV-142011 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Documentary · 5 seasons · Kelaiah Guiel
A tense, filmic and high-octane drama-documentary series that brings to life the stories of people who have lived through paranormal experiences that defy explanation. Using a mixture of intimate first-hand testimony and grittily realistic drama, the audience is transported into a world turned upside down by extraordinary and terrifying events.
Hold That Ghost
›NR1941 · Comedy, Horror · 86m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
AfterlifeSeries
›NR2005 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Lesley Sharp, Andrew Lincoln, Anna Wilson-Jones
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
The Conjuring
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 112m · Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor
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.
Poltergeist
›PG1982 · Horror · 114m · JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.