Halloween Horror Movies: 20 Great Supernatural Movies for Halloween

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Top 20 Great Supernatural Horror Movies for Halloween (or Any Time)

Do you love the annual Halloween movie marathons? Do you favor supernatural horror movies over slasher films or other horror genres? Whether you prefer vampires, ghosts, werewolves, zombies, monsters or other paranormal phenomena, there is a great horror movie to fit. From sorta scary to truly frightening, this is a good list to get your Halloween movie fix.

Turn out the lights, turn up the volume on the TV and hope that the sound outside the window is just the wind or a tree branch...

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Ghost Movies

The Sixth Sense

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Starring Bruce Willis

"I see dead people".....Is Cole disturbed or having true visions? This chillling ghost movie is a modern classic.

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What Lies Beneath

Starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer

A woman begins to experience ghostly activity in her home and learns she has more than supernatural problems.

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The Others

Starring Nicole Kidman

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Poltergeist

Starring JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson

"They're heeeere..." A family begins to have strange disturbances in their new home and must determine the cause in this frightening 80s classic.

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Vampire Movies

Near Dark

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Starring Adrian Pasdar

This modern vampire story follows a band of blood drinkers and the new recruit they pick up...and the word "vampire" is never mentioned.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Starring Keanu Reeves, Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder

"Love never dies." A London man travels to Transylvania to work for Count Dracula and finds more than he expected in this classic Victorian period piece based on the Bram Stoker novel.

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The Lost Boys

Directed by Joel Schumacher, Starring Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland

"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire." A family moves to a small town in California, only to learn that the reason it's the murder capital of the world is because of the local vampire population.

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30 Days of Night

Starring Josh Hartnett and Danny Huston

An Alaska town shuts down during a month long period every winter, during which time there is no daylight. This sounds like a great time for a vampire colony to move into town...

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Zombie Movies

28 Days Later

Directed by Danny Boyle, Starring Cillian Murphy

A man wakes up to find the local population has been decimated. When he finds other survivors, he learns they must band together to survive against the zombie-like humans who are turning everyone.

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Dawn of the Dead

Starring Ving Rhames and Sarah Polley

Another survivor tale in an apocalyptic zombie movie - this one takes place in a mall.

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Night of the Living Dead

Executive Produced by George Romero, Starring Tony Todd

It's another zombie apocalypse, and the last survivors must try to fight off attacks from the hordes of flesh-eating monsters in this remake of the original by the same name.

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The Serpent and the Rainbow

Directed by Wes Craven, Starring Bill Pullman

This is a non-traditional zombie story about voodoo practice in Haiti and the drug that puts its user in a zombie-state.

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Werewolf Movies

An American Werewolf in London

Starring David Naughten and Griffin Dunne

A cult classic about a man who gets attacked by a wolf and finds that he is becoming a werewolf himself.

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The Wolfman

Starring Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro

A man learns of his heritage and curse to turn into a werewolf during a full moon in this period drama.

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Cursed

Starring Christina Ricci and Joshua Jackson

In this role-reversal campy horror film, a woman finds herself marked with a curse that means she may have to live out her life as a werewolf if she cannot find a way to break the curse.

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The Covenant

Starring Steven Strait and Sebastian Stan

A new student at a private school learns his classmates share a supernatural family legacy.

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Other Paranormal and Monster Movies

Sleepy Hollow

Directed by Tim Burton, Starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci

Ichabod Crane is sent to investigate the beheadings in a small town and learns the legend of the headless horseman.

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Starring Robert De Niro and Kenneth Branagh

A scientist creates a creature out of pieced together corpses and brings it to life, and things don't turn out as well as he'd hoped.

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The Skeleton Key

Starring Kate Hudson and Peter Sarsgaard

A woman moves to a Louisiana plantation home to care for an elderly man and discovers mysterious secrets about the house and its past.

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1408

Based on a Steven King story, this movie is a creepy tale of a man who stays at a hotel that has a room that is supposedly plagued by paranormal activity.

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  • christopherwell Oct 14, 2011 @ 10:18 am | delete
    Out of your list, SIXTH SENSE would be my favorite. But I guess my perennial choice is ABBOT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. (Or any of the original Universal monster movies.)
  • Michelle-DS-Fan Nov 10, 2010 @ 12:03 am | delete
    I'm surprised The Covenant made the list. I thought I was the only person who liked that movie. None of my friends liked it at all!
  • kt_glasses Oct 22, 2010 @ 4:32 am | delete
    Great list. I like The Others, a very interesting story.
  • cbessa Oct 13, 2010 @ 11:36 am | delete
    Have you ever heard about this dark character, Coffin Joe, and his movies?

    I just did a lens on that http://www.squidoo.com/coffin-joe-movies

    and i would like to have your opinions, guys and gals.
  • emmalarkins Oct 11, 2010 @ 8:28 pm | delete
    Great list! Somehow completely different from other Halloween movie lenses, you got a bunch that I missed. Added to Halloween on Squidoo!
  • TapIn2U Oct 10, 2010 @ 12:49 pm | delete
    The Sixth Sense for me is a classic but after reading some of the others here, I think I have a couple new ones in my list. Great Lens! I have also finished my Lens of comparing Energy Medicine techniques. Please stop by and visit. Sundae ;-)
  • missbat Oct 10, 2010 @ 12:59 am | delete
    Gotta say, you've included a lot of my year-round favorites on this lens! Great collection of films!

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