Best Paranormal Horrors

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Many viewers like to tickle their nerves by watching horror films with paranormal phenomena, ghosts, witches and other evil spirits. For many decades, filmmakers have been delighting fans of the genre with quality horror films, and this collection contains the most notable hits of recent years.

"Mara. Dream Eater" (2018)

One of the scariest paranormal horror movies of 2018. Kate Fuller is an experienced forensic psychologist investigating the mysterious death of a man. The police assume that he died at the hands of his wife, but after talking with the couple's eight-year-old daughter, it becomes clear that this case is not so simple.

Deepening into the study of materials, Kate makes unexpected discoveries. It turns out that there is some otherworldly entity. Fuller soon finds herself at risk herself, experiencing the same symptoms as previous victims of the demon.

"Sinister" (2012)

This paranormal horror film introduces the viewer toan ordinary family who moved to a secluded province. Allison is a detective novel writer who hopes that life in a new place will have a positive impact on his work. The choice of the writer falls on the house in which a nightmarish event happened a year ago: a family living here was killed. Shortly after moving in, Allison accidentally discovers video footage that could help solve a mysterious and frightening crime. In parallel, he notices that alarming events have begun to occur in the mansion.

"Ghostland" (2018)

The plot of Ghostland (2018) focuses on a young Beth who is forced to return to her hometown. In the old mansion, her mother Pauline and sister Vera are waiting for her. Once they lived here all together, but within these walls they had to face an unpleasant incident - an attack by a maniac. Several years have passed, Beth has started a family and become a successful writer, but a call from her anxious sister forces her to return to the past.

Once at home, the girl realizes that something is wrong here, connected with the dark forces.

Oculus (2013)

2002. Software engineer Alan Russell moves into a new home with his wife Marie and their two children. Soon he acquires an antique mirror and leaves it in his office. The man does not suspect that his new piece of furniture has a difficult history associated with demonic entities. The mirror takes possession of the minds of the spouses, and they begin to see terriblehallucinations. This story turns into a drama - Alan and Marie die. Ten years pass, and now their grown-up children, Kaylee and Tim, want to unravel the mystery of the ancient mirror. The next twist in this paranormal horror film is truly terrifying.

"Don't Knock Twice" (2016)

The protagonist of this paranormal horror is young Chloe, who had to grow up in an orphanage. Her mother Jess once suffered from drug problems and lost her daughter, but now she has become a successful sculptor and wants the girl to forgive her and move from the boarding school to her new family. Chloe does not want to make contact with her mother, but everything changes when she, walking with her lover, decided to knock on the house where, according to rumors, a witch once lived. After this incident, Chloe's boyfriend disappeared, and she has no doubt that the matter is in a terrible legend that warns anyone who decides to approach the cursed monastery. Trying to escape the demonic wrath, the heroine seeks refuge in her mother's mansion.

"Doubt" (2016)

A young couple who survived the death of a child do not despair and decide to give a chance for a happy life to a boy from an orphanage. Their choice falls on eight-year-old Cody. After some time, the spouses begin to notice oddities in the behavior of their adopted son, and they are especially frightened by the fact that he is afraid to fall asleep. It turns out that the dreams of a child are able to break into reality. And now his parents have to immerse themselves in Cody's scenes every night.

Things are going relatively well as long as they are the heroes of beautiful visions. However, more and more often the boy dreams of chilling nightmares that carry mortal danger.

"Demon Within" (2016)

The final representative of the list is a haunted movie set in a small town. The police find the body of a young woman in the basement of one of the houses. Strikingly, there is nothing around to indicate an intrusion, and there are no signs that the victim tried to get out. The detective brings the corpse to the pathologist Tilden with a request to find out by morning what exactly the unknown person died of.

Austin, the son of a doctor, helps his father with an autopsy. Gradually, the heroes realize that in front of them is not quite an ordinary corpse, and this night they will face the worst nightmare of their lives.