No film here is good or bad. It is only like something.

2025 · Horror

Four years on, Gwen is dreaming about murders at a winter camp she has never been to, so she takes her brother and a friend there. A blizzard shuts them in, and the dead phone starts ringing again.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2025 · Horror

A well-off young architect in Kerala hears that a woman he briefly dated has killed herself, and takes a red hair clip from her room when he visits the family. Things start moving in his house soon after, and he is mostly alone in it.

• IntimateClearly intimate

2025 · Horror

A police officer transferred to Kashmir takes the case of a boy who vanished during a magic show, and moves his family into an old villa where things are not right. A ghost story and a police case at once.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2025 · Drama

Shakespeare's play moved to present-day London, where a rich young man, visited by his father's ghost, drifts out of his family's world into temples and homeless camps. Revenge, grief and a family in trouble.

• HeavyClearly heavy
• Character-drivenClearly character-driven

2025 · Fantasy

A man buys a vacuum cleaner, finds it haunted, and the repairman he calls tells him about the factory where it was made and the worker who died there. A Thai ghost story played as a black comedy.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

2025 · Horror

The Warrens have retired and Ed's heart is bad when a Pennsylvania family with an antique mirror in the house starts losing sleep. Their daughter, who sees things too, gets pulled in.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2025 · Horror

A man takes his girlfriend to a cabin in the woods for their first anniversary, and by the next morning she is seeing things she cannot explain and he has been called away. It is nearly all one house.

• IntimateStrongly intimate

2025 · Horror

A widowed mother still recovering from the crash that killed her husband finds a woman dressed in black sitting in her yard, saying today is the day. The woman gets closer, and the film never leaves the house.

• IntimateStrongly intimate

2025 · Horror

A woman caring for her comatose mother co-hosts a paranormal podcast as the sceptic, until an anonymous email arrives carrying ten recordings of a couple's nights. She is the only person on screen; everyone else is a voice.

• IntimateStrongly intimate

2025 · Horror

Two men rent a country house so their parents can meet for the first time, and the weekend is going badly before the house itself starts acting up. A comic haunting with both sets of parents stuck in it.

• IntimateClearly intimate

2026 · Horror

A blocked American novelist brings his parents' ashes to the Irish hotel where they honeymooned, and hears about the suite the staff keep locked. Nearly all of it is that hotel and its staff.

• IntimateClearly intimate

2026 · Horror

A man restores his family's abandoned palace for his sister's wedding, ignoring every warning about the vengeful spirit said to feed on newly married women. A long, loud haunted-house comedy.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2026 · Horror

A young man searching for his missing grandfather, an exorcist, follows the trail to a notorious haunted mansion, with two women helping him and a tangled love life of his own. It is a horror comedy, big and loud, in Telugu.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

2026 · Horror

A transfer student finds a skull-shaped whistle in a dead classmate's locker, and everyone who blows it is hunted by a version of themselves. It is a teen horror film built on one rule, and it moves fast.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2026 · Horror

A woman who leaves her body in her sleep starts bringing things back from the other side, and what lives there follows her home to her daughter. It moves between the house and the world she projects into.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

2026 · Horror

The ghosts living in a hotel ask a lawyer to sue its owner for building on their graveyard, and in return they will help him find his missing grandmother. A courtroom haunting played for laughs.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

2017 · Animation

A boy from a Mexican family that has banned music wants to play, and on the Day of the Dead he ends up in the land where his ancestors live. Bright, quick, and built around songs.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2026 · Horror

Risa has spent years shutting out the spirits she can see, until her younger sister starts behaving strangely after a night at an old theatre. To help her she has to open that door again.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

2026 · Horror

Young content creators livestream a break-in at an abandoned New Jersey hotel with a mob past and a rumoured three hundred million hidden in it. They are not the only ones inside.

• IntimateClearly intimate
• Plot-drivenClearly plot-driven

2026 · Horror

A divorced woman moves into an old house with her daughter to start again, and the place has a past. The girl picks up a blue dress that connects her to a ghost, and her behaviour changes.

• SimpleClearly simple
• IntimateClearly intimate

2019 · Horror

The boy from the Overlook Hotel is now a drinker in his forties working at a hospice, when a girl with the same gift starts writing to him about the people who hunt children like her. Long, and slow to get going.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

2020 · Horror

A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• IntimateClearly intimate

2023 · Horror

A struggling late-night host books a Halloween special in 1977 with a parapsychologist and the girl she says came out of a satanic cult. Presented as the tape of that broadcast, near enough in real time.

• IntimateStrongly intimate

2012 · Animation

A boy who can see and talk to dead people turns out to be the only one who can stop a three-hundred-year-old curse waking up his New England town. Stop-motion, funny, and scarier than most films aimed at kids.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2022 · Horror

A therapist watches a patient do something terrible in front of her, and afterwards starts seeing strangers smile at her the same way. Loud, full of jump scares, and it does not let up.

• HeavyClearly heavy
• FantasticClearly fantastic

2022 · Horror

Teenagers in Adelaide pass around an embalmed hand that lets a spirit into whoever holds it, ninety seconds at a time, and film each other doing it. Loud and fast, and it gets nasty.

• HeavyStrongly heavy

2016 · Horror

A father and son who run a small-town morgue take in an unidentified body late at night and start the autopsy, and the basement gets stranger with every step. Two men, one building, most of one night.

• IntimateStrongly intimate
• HeavyClearly heavy

2013 · Horror

A family move into an old Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971, things start happening at night, and they call in a married pair of investigators. A straight haunted-house film of quiet shots and loud noises.

• SimpleClearly simple

2020 · Horror

A schoolteacher is left alone in the lake house her husband built for her after his sudden death, and starts finding things in it she cannot explain. A quiet film about grief with a lot of standing in the dark, listening.

• IntimateStrongly intimate
• HeavyStrongly heavy
• Character-drivenClearly character-driven

2007 · Horror

A woman moves back into the seaside orphanage she grew up in to reopen it as a home for children, and her young son starts talking about friends nobody else can see. An old-fashioned ghost story built on quiet, not jump scares.

• HeavyClearly heavy
• IntimateClearly intimate

2001 · Horror

A mother waits in a dark house on Jersey for her husband to come back from the war, keeping her two children out of daylight because it makes them ill. Old-fashioned, quiet, built on creaking doors.

• IntimateStrongly intimate

2006 · Comedy

A working-class woman in Madrid juggles her daughter, her sister and the village she grew up in, where the women talk about the dead as if they had never left. Bright colours, warm, and led entirely by women.

• Character-drivenClearly character-driven
• IntimateClearly intimate

2025 · Horror

At 2:17 one morning, seventeen children from the same class get out of bed and run off into the dark, and the town starts looking for someone to blame. Told in chapters, each following a different person.

• HeavyClearly heavy

2017 · Drama

A man dies and comes back to his own house under a white sheet, and stays there while time moves on without him. Very slow, almost no dialogue, and one long unbroken shot of a woman eating a pie.

• SlowStrongly slow
• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2023 · Drama

A lonely screenwriter in a near-empty London tower starts seeing his parents, who died when he was twelve, and starts something with the only other tenant. Quiet, tender and very sad.

• IntimateStrongly intimate
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• HeavyStrongly heavy
• SlowClearly slow

2019 · Drama

In a Dakar suburb a girl promised to a rich man loves a builder who leaves by sea for Spain, and then strange things start happening at night. Half romance and half something else.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

2005 · Animation

A nervous groom practises his vows in a wood and accidentally marries a dead woman, who takes him below. Stop-motion, short, and the land of the dead is the cheerful part.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2015 · Horror

An American heiress marries an English baronet and moves into his sinking family house, where red clay comes up through the floorboards. More costume romance than fright.

• FantasticClearly fantastic

1997 · Horror

A rescue crew boards a ship that vanished seven years ago and has come back from somewhere else. A haunted house, in orbit around Neptune.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2018 · Horror

After her difficult mother dies, a miniature artist and her family begin coming apart, and something in the house does not feel finished. Long, quiet and building; the frights are mostly not the jumping kind.

• HeavyStrongly heavy

2020 · Horror

Six friends in lockdown hold a seance over a video call and something comes through. Fifty-seven minutes, entirely inside the call window.

• IntimateStrongly intimate

2010 · Horror

A boy will not wake up after a fall in the attic, and moving house does not help his parents at all. Quiet for half of it, then very loud.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2007 · Horror

A couple set up a camera in their bedroom to record what has been happening at night. Mostly a static shot of two people asleep.

• IntimateStrongly intimate
• SimpleStrongly simple

1998 · Horror

A reporter looking into a rumour about a videotape that kills whoever watches it a week later finds the tape. Grey, damp and very quiet.

• HeavyClearly heavy

2012 · Horror

A true-crime writer moves his family into the house where the murders happened, and finds a box of home movies in the attic. Dark rooms and a projector.

• HeavyClearly heavy
• IntimateClearly intimate

2023 · Mystery

A retired Poirot living quietly in post-war Venice is talked into sitting in on a seance at a crumbling palazzo, and the night ends with a body. Mostly one dark house, with the storm outside doing a lot of work.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2001 · Horror

A boy is left at an orphanage in the last year of the Spanish Civil War, with an unexploded bomb in the yard and something in the cellar. More sad than frightening.

• HeavyClearly heavy

2009 · Drama

A fourteen-year-old is killed in 1973 and watches from somewhere in between as her family come apart looking for her. The afterlife is enormous and colourful.

• HeavyStrongly heavy

2002 · Horror

A journalist watches the videotape her niece saw a week before she died, and then the phone rings. Green, wet and very cold-looking.

• HeavyClearly heavy

1980 · Horror

A writer takes a job as winter caretaker of an empty Colorado hotel and moves his wife and son in. Slow, enormous corridors, and something is wrong from early on.

• HeavyStrongly heavy