Cinema of the Damned

TV-PG2021 · Family, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Preston Oliver, Kyliegh Curran, Elle Graham

12-year-old Griffin Campbell and his family move to the small town of Sulphur Springs and take ownership of an abandoned hotel rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a girl who disappeared decades ago. Griffin befriends Harper, a bright-eyed, mystery-obsessed classmate and together, they uncover a secret portal that allows them to travel back in time. In the past, they’ll attempt to uncover the key to solving this unsolved mystery, a mystery that affects everyone close to them.

IMDb 7.6TMDB 8.2☠ 7.5

2007 · Documentary, Horror · 87m · Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, Aaron Goodwin

In 2007, The Sci-Fi Channel premiered "Ghost Adventures," a raw documentary in which 3 men go to Virginia City, NV and Goldfield, NV on a ghost hunting expedition. Virginia City is rife with macabre lore and reputed to be one of the most haunted cities in America. Ghost Adventures has won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary that was given by the New York International Film & Video Festival.

IMDb 7.6TMDB 8.0☠ 7.4

TV-142008 · Reality · 26 seasons · Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin

Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, search for haunted locations both domestically and internationally. During their investigations, Zak and crew acquaint themselves with the general area; interview locals about the hauntings; and go face-to-face with the evil spirits who reportedly haunt these locations.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 7.7☠ 7.2

TV-142016 · Reality, Documentary · 4 seasons · Nick Groff, Katrina Weidman

Nick Groff, a paranormal investigator who's "on a mission to discover something new in the paranormal field", and his paranormal researcher Katrina Weidman spend 72 hours together locked down in the most haunted locations in their quest to learn more about the unknown. They stay with the dead at these reportedly haunted places, many of which have never been filmed for a production and some will be investigated for the first time on television. Groff and Weidman believe, that "the longer they stay, the more the spirits will communicate with them and the more information they can gather about the unknown".

IMDb 7.1TMDB 7.9☠ 7.0

2004 · Horror · 608m · Jamie Harrold, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison

Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.

TV-MA2023 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · John Carpenter, Diane Franklin, Christopher Lutz

The story behind the world's most infamous haunted house tale: the Amityville murders. This is the first elevated look at every aspect of this wildly layered story about the heinous murder of a family of six that became eclipsed by paranormal controversy. 

IMDb 6.6TMDB 7.5☠ 6.6

2022 · Documentary, Horror · 81m · Quinn Aune, Jenna Sue Berry, Shaun Boylan

Considered the most haunted doll in the world, Robert the Doll lives behind glass in a museum in Key West, Florida, where every year thousands of visitors who fail to follow his rules find themselves cursed. Victims have experienced illness, injury, accidents and even death. But what makes Robert curse his victims? What evil entity lives inside this doll? This latest Shock Docs installment explores the true origin of Robert the Doll, uncovers the story of Robert's first owners in 1905, and seeks to find out why this doll is so nefarious.

IMDb 5.7TMDB 6.6☠ 6.4

NR2017 · Horror · 59m · Turner Clay, Terri Czapleski, Sonny Burnette

A filmmaker tries to prove that ghosts are real but soon regrets his intentions after he finds himself being terrorized in a haunted house by a ghost with a dark past. An authentic documentary that shows actual ghost footage that was captured on camera.

IMDb 5.9TMDB 6.5☠ 6.1

1986 · TV Movie, Horror, Adventure · 44m · Richard Masur, Mimi Kennedy, Benji Gregory

A novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns that the house is haunted by people who lived in the house 300 years previously.

🍅 20%TMDB 6.3☠ 5.8

R1979 · Horror · 118m · James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

IMDb 6.2MC 28🍅 33%TMDB 6.3☠ 5.7

R2005 · Horror · 90m · Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

IMDb 5.9MC 33🍅 23%TMDB 6.1☠ 5.4

R1999 · Horror · 93m · Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Ali Larter

An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit former mental institution.

IMDb 5.6MC 28🍅 31%TMDB 5.6☠ 5.2

NR1990 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Gail Harris, Melissa Moore, Peter Spellos

Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They got it cheap because of the bloody incidents from five years before. They decide to stay in it for the night so they can meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor Orville Ketchum starts poking around. Shortly after the women take showers and consult a Ouija board they begin experiencing an attrition problem.

R2018 · Horror · 86m · Chad Michael Murray, Danielle Harris, Michael Eric Reid

Strange events plague crew members of a reality TV show when they visit an infamous backwoods camp that was the site of a mass murder 20 years earlier.

IMDb 4.4🍅 57%TMDB 4.7☠ 4.9

R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Jeffrey Combs, Meghan Ory, Diane Salinger

A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.

IMDb 4.8🍅 40%TMDB 5.4☠ 4.9

1987 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn

A mentally disturbed man who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business.

2012 · Horror · 90m · Stephanie Greco, Alex Arleo, Arielle Brachfeld

When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

IMDb 3.8TMDB 4.5☠ 4.3

2009 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Lira Kellerman, Michael Holmes, Tomas Boykin

A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.

IMDb 3.4TMDB 4.1☠ 4.3

NR2018 · Thriller, Horror · 86m · Mike Manning, Griffin Freeman, Ryan Pinkston

A group of young men dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, said to be haunted by the thirteen victims of a family massacre. In hopes of making a viral video they arm him with a video camera to prove he was there or to capture him fleeing in terror before even reaching the house, as others have. When he doesn't return, the guys must go in to get him. Inside they discover the truth about the house, the fate of their friend and their own fate as well.

IMDb 3.4MC 27TMDB 4.7☠ 4.1

2015 · Horror · 88m · Lee Bane, Suzie Frances Garton, Tom Bonington

Based on chilling real life events, this story charts one couple's terrifying real life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. In 1930, Reverend Lionel Foyster and his wife Marianne move into the Borley Rectory when Reverend Foyster is named rector of the parish. The couple's peaceful existence is soon shattered by a series of unexplained occurrences which quickly escalate into a heart stopping nightmare. Now Reverend Foyster and Marianne must discover the deadly secrets of the Rectory to avoid becoming another tragic footnote in the dark history of The Most Haunted House In England.

2020 · Horror · 81m · Caroline Munro, Jane Merrow, Derren Nesbitt

A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK's most haunted buildings.

IMDb 2.5TMDB 5.1☠ 3.8

2017 · Horror · 81m · Kelsey Deanne, Chase Austin, Sheril Rodgers

When a young couple – Anne and Harold – moves into a new home without knowing it was a site of horrific murders, Anne's loneliness and strange behavior makes their relationship complicated, especially after Anne meets 'Mary', a dark presence from which she can't escape.

R2012 · Horror · 90m · Val Kilmer, Ving Rhames, Luke Goss

A group of strangers is trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.

IMDb 3.1TMDB 3.6☠ 3.5

2005 · Horror · 97m · Steffany Huckaby, Melanie Lewis, Yolanda Pecoraro

For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used to secretly remove the dead from the grounds.

IMDb 2.6🍅 0%TMDB 3.7☠ 2.5