Highest-Rated Movies about 'Ghost Stories', Sort by Popularity

The Exorcist (1973), Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire (2011), The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013), The Conjuring (2013), The Sea (2013), The Awakening (2011), The Ghost Train (1941), Ghost Stories (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ghost Stories movies.

#1. The Exorcist (1973)

Storyline: A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.

Plot Keywords: priest, actress, psychiatrist, doctor, detective, daughter, creepy ...

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#4. The Conjuring (2013)

Storyline: In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.

Plot Keywords: investigator, demon hunter, husband, wife, ghost, daughter, frightening ...

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#5. The Sea (2013)

Storyline: Tim Marshall is forced to return to Lunaport after 5 years away. He hope that he will be safe there now, but in the welcoming committee there are four people just dying to get rid of Mr. Marshall. Who will get to him first? Will he come out of this alive?—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: smurf, smurfette, friend, headless horseman, amusing, cheery, creative ...

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#6. The Awakening (2011)

Storyline: In 1921, in London, the arrogant and skeptical Florence Cathcart is famous for exposing hoaxes and helping the police to arrest con artists. The stranger Robert Mallory tells her that the headmaster of a boarding school in Rookford had invited her to travel to Cumbria to investigate a ghost that is frightening the pupils to death. He also tells that many years ago there was a murder in the estate and recently pupil Walter Portman had died. The reluctant Florence finally accepts to go to Cumbria. On arrival, she is welcomed by governess Maud and the boy Thomas Hill. Soon Florence discovers what had happened to Walter and then the students, teachers and staff are released on vacation, and Florence remains alone with Robert, Maud and Tom in the school. Florence is ready to leave the boarding school when strange things happen, leaving Florence scared.

Plot Keywords: ghost hunter, ghost, young boy, man, investigator, dark, brooding ...

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#7. The Ghost Train (1941)

Storyline: Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor, to the constant irritation of his fellow passengers.—Neil Bridger

Plot Keywords: train conductor, stationmaster, train passenger, doctor, arms dealer, performer, amusing ...

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#9. The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle (2009)

Storyline: Jupiter Jones refuses to attend the surprise party his friends throw against his expressed wished. However he loves investigating an intruder, who gets away but without the clue he came looking for. It leads to another Californian ghost town and its "castle's" secret, which links to orphan Jupiter's parents.—KGF Vissers

Plot Keywords: mysterious girl, parent, villain, amateur sleuth, schoolboy, spirited, garage ...

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#11. Suburban Gothic (2014)

Storyline: Raymond has a prestigious MBA, but he can't find work. He can channel the paranormal, but chatting with a cute girl mystifies him. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorizes the small town, the city-boy recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening everyone's lives.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: college graduate, bartender, ghost, amusing, frightening, small town, bar ...

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#12. The Isle (2018)

Storyline: Set in 1841 on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland, a heavy storm causes a merchant ship to sink. The film opens with its three survivors rowing through a thick early morning mist, lost and disorientated. The fog begins to clear and The Isle appears before them. Abandoned except for four sole residents, an old harbor man, a farmer, his niece and a young mad woman, the isle is anything but welcoming. These people clearly haven't seen anyone from the outside world for some time and their reluctance to help the sailors back to the mainland is evident. Once rested, the three men are desperate to return home but the promised boat never appears. One of the sailors starts to question what happened on the island and why the people abandoned it so quickly. Through his investigation he discovers that every year around the same date a tragedy at sea would occur and young men from the island would perish. When his two shipmates meet with fatal accidents, the myth of a ghostly siren haunting the island leads him to try and uncover the truth while he battles to save his own life and escape the clutches of the island.—Brainstorm Media

Plot Keywords: sailor, survivor, stranger, ghost, eerie, frightening, ship ...

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#13. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Storyline: "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It" reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

Plot Keywords: murder suspect, murder victim, paranormal investigator, demon, couple, police officer, chilling ...

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#14. Seance (2021)

Storyline: Camille Meadows is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened.

Plot Keywords: headmistress, teen girl, student, spirit, police officer, eerie, dark ...

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#15. Kill Katie Malone (2010)

Storyline: College students and best friends Ginger Matheson, Jim Duncan, and Kyle "Dixie" Canning, pool their cash to buy a "ghost" in an online auction. The three think it's all a goof, but once they open up the antique box to examine their "treasure," they unleash the vengeful spirit of an Irish servant girl who has been wreaking havoc on her owners throughout the generations.—Carlos Ramos

Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, ghost, immigrant, suspenseful, thrilling, shocking ...

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