Highest-Rated Movies about 'Strange Happenings', Sort by Popularity

My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Clive Barker's Book of Blood (2008), Honeymoon (2014), Island of Lost Souls (1933), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Das finstere Tal (2014), Super 8 (2011), City of Women (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Strange Happenings movies.

#2. Clive Barker's Book of Blood (2008)

Storyline: Mary Florescu (Sophie Ward) and Reg Fuller (Paul Blair), experts in the supernatural, are enlisted to probe strange happenings at a family's home. Joining them is Simon McNeal (Jonas Armstrong), a young student who has a gift for interacting with the spirit world. After staying the night in the eerie dwelling, they discover indecipherable writing on the walls, and Simon finds strange scars all over his body. As their investigation continues, the nightmare deepens.

Plot Keywords: professor, expert, student, young man, partner, writer, suspenseful ...

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#4. Island of Lost Souls (1933)

Storyline: After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a whip-cracking task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. He does have one prize result, Lota the beautiful panther woman. Parker's fortunes for escape look up after his fiancée Ruth finds him with the help of fearless Captain Donohue. However, when Moreau's tribe of near-humans rises up to rebel, no one is safe...—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>

Plot Keywords: shipwreck survivor, creature, mutant, fiancé, eerie, creepy, campy ...

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#5. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

Storyline: Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.

Plot Keywords: teen girl, sister, father, stepmother, creepy, dark, south korea ...

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#7. Super 8 (2011)

Storyline: SPOILER: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

Plot Keywords: teen boy, teen girl, friend, father, deputy, military officer, thrilling ...

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#8. City of Women (1980)

Storyline: Marcello is in the compartment of an Italian train, facing forward when the mineral water of the woman seated across from him starts to fall toward him. He catches the bottle and makes eye contact and follows her when she leaves the compartment. For a few moments she finds him attractive too. Then suddenly she gets off the train and starts walking through a field. Marcello follows her, loses her, finds himself in a large hotel surrounded by women. A feminist conference is taking place and he tries to escape.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>

Plot Keywords: man, beautiful woman, doctor, police officer, ex-wife, sultry, outlandish ...

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#9. The 'Burbs (1989)

Storyline: This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood, when some new neighbors come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson. These new people are really strange; nobody has ever seen them, their house is a real mess, and during the night you can hear weird noises from their basement. The only thing they know is their name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) suddenly disappears and everyone starts to suspect the Klopeks...

Plot Keywords: suburbanite, wife, neighbor, vietnam vet, doctor, teen boy, hilarious ...

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#10. Rampo (1994)

Storyline: Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>

Plot Keywords: writer, government official, femme fatale, murderer, alter ego, marquis, eerie ...

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#11. Lemming (2005)

Storyline: The automation engineer Alain Getty and his beloved wife Bénédicte have just moved to the suburb of Bel-Air. Alain has developed the prototype of a flying web-cam for Pollock S.A., a high-tech company. After a successful presentation of his project to their clients, Alain invites his boss Richard Pollock and his wife Alice for dinner at his home. The couple arrives late, and Alice is extremely rude, insulting her husband and the young couple, and forcing Richard to leave the house earlier. During the night, Alain finds a rare Scandinavian lemming stuck in the siphon of the sink in the kitchen. On the next night, Alice unsuccessfully tries to seduce Alain after-hours in the laboratory of the company. On the next afternoon, she visits Bénédicte to apologize her behavior and cynically tells her sexual harassment to her husband. Then she locks herself in a room and commits suicide. On the next days, Bénédicte changes her behavior and relationship with Alain, seeming to be possessed by Alice.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, boss, spirit, animal, chilling, intricate ...

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#12. The Shout (1978)

Storyline: Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital, Crossley tells Graves (a visitor) the tale of a mysterious stranger (also named Crossley) who invades the lives and house of a local musician and his wife. The stranger claims knowledge of real magic, which he uses to displace his host and dominate his wife. The musician must find a way to combat Crossley and his seemingly implacable powers. Graves doubts Crossley's claim that the story is true, and begins to believe that Crossley is actually one of the patients.

Plot Keywords: stranger, husband, wife, composer, tense, uneasy, england ...

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#14. Dark Water (2002)

Storyline: In the final stages of a messy divorce, Yoshimi struggles to build a new life for herself and her daughter. Unfortunately, the challenges of single parenting and an ongoing custody battle are further complicated when they move into an apartment plagued by mysterious water leaks and haunted by the apparition of a little girl.

Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, ghost, superintendent, ex-husband, creepy, uneasy ...

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#15. The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Storyline: John Klein (Richard Gere) is involved in a car accident with his wife, but while he is unharmed, his wife mentions a moth-shaped creature appearing. After her death, John begins to investigate the secrets behind this mentioned Mothman. It takes him to the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where he discovers a connection with the same problem. Here he meets Connie Mills (Laura Linney), while he continues to unravel the mystery of what the Mothman really is.

Plot Keywords: reporter, wife, sheriff, expert, townsperson, husband, suspenseful ...

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