The Babadook
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
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Presence
2025★ 6.1
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.
Hereditary
2018★ 7.3
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
The Surrender
2025★ 5.8
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
Bring Her Back
2025★ 7.3
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
Mothers' Instinct
2024★ 6.8
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
The Eyes of My Mother
2016★ 6.2
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Poltergeist
1982★ 7.2
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.
Talk to Me
2023★ 7.1
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Castle Freak
1996★ 6.1
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
Daddy's Head
2024★ 5.9
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
Angel of Mine
2019★ 6.2
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
The Keeping Hours
2017★ 7.0
A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten years later.
The Sixth Sense
1999★ 8.0
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
It Feeds
2025★ 6.7
A clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.
Birth/Rebirth
2023★ 6.5
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Oculus
2014★ 6.5
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992★ 6.9
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.
Mama
2013★ 6.3
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Byzantium
2013★ 6.3
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
It Comes at Night
2017★ 5.9
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.