Every supernatural horror movie streaming on Max in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Max’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Max US
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMiyazaki's mastery of liminal space transforms mundane bathhouse into supernatural maze where identity itself becomes currency.
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMiyazaki transforms domestic mundanity into supernatural dread through the quiet horror of hidden identities and generational inheritance.
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
Directed by Wim Wenders
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAngels observing Berlin's fractured souls create metaphysical geography where the divine witnesses human fragmentation.
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFour tales weaponize folklore's logic—ghosts operate by ancient rules, not modern rationality, subverting viewer expectations.
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDemon mask's transfiguration scene crystallizes body-horror dread: flesh warping into non-human otherness on screen.
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Directed by Jean Cocteau
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnderworld traversal reimagines Orpheus myth through film's own mirror-logic, cinema as supernatural passage itself.
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStudio Ghibli masters atmospheric ambiguity, blurring psychological trauma with genuine spectral presence in a haunted-house narrative.
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Directed by James Wan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWan weaponizes possessed objects and ritualistic exorcism logistics, grounding supernatural terror in procedural, tactile detail.
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Directed by Ryan Coogler
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHometown evil subverts nostalgia; returning brothers confront supernatural forces tied to their own buried past and shared guilt.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Directed by Zach Cregger
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMass disappearance at identical moments creates synchronistic horror—suggesting orchestrated supernatural agency rather than random tragedy.
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Directed by Peter Weir
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHanging Rock's temporal vanishing generates cosmic dread—landscape itself becomes agent of inexplicable supernatural theft.
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVampire's subjective cinematography collapses viewer into protagonist's dawning horror; we see through cursed perception.
Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.
Directed by Andy Muschietti
✦ MovieMuse AI takePennywise exploits childhood trauma as fuel—this shapeshifter feeds on supernatural vulnerability, not just flesh.
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Directed by James Wan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWarren's psychic channeling sequences create visceral contact with malevolent entities, anchoring supernatural menace in documented paranormal investigation.
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMiyazaki crafts a nightmare realm where grief literally materializes, collapsing the barrier between trauma and tangible supernatural manifestation.
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
Directed by David Lynch
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBOB's possession-dwelling inhabits Twin Peaks' mythos as pure malevolence, trauma manifested through supernatural corruption.
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHouse's mutations transform domestic space into organism; walls breathe, geometry warps, sanctuary becomes predatory.
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
Directed by Ari Aster
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDaylit dread—Aster proves folk rituals become more horrifying when stripped of darkness, operating in summer sunlight.
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Directed by Michael Philippou
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAn alchemical device becomes the nexus of vampiric transformation, literalizing immortality's supernatural corruption through mechanical body horror.
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.
Directed by Francis Lawrence
✦ MovieMuse AI takeConstantine's underworld visuals and demonic bureaucracy treat Hell as a corporeal, navigable realm of supernatural systems.
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
Directed by Robert Eggers
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEggers weaponizes colonial folklore and animal familiars as psychological destabilization, collapsing the line between demonic possession and mass hysteria.
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Directed by Herk Harvey
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-accident dissociation visualized as spiritual limbo; Carnival blurs psychological horror with genuine spectral displacement brilliantly.
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.
Directed by David Lean
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMaterializing ghost anchors spectral presence through drawing-room comedy; wit becomes supernatural resurrection's tone.
A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.
Directed by Keiichi Hara
✦ MovieMuse AI takePortal fantasy meets psychological haunting: the mirror becomes a nexus where loneliness summons genuine supernatural intervention and salvation.
Shy outcast Kokoro has been avoiding school for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bedroom mirror. She reaches through and finds herself transported to an enchanting castle where she is joined by six other students. When a girl in a wolf mask explains that they have been invited to play a game, the teens must work together to uncover the mysterious connection that unites them. However, anyone who breaks the rules will be eaten by a wolf.
Directed by David Lynch
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLynch dissolves narrative coherence through supernatural curse logic, weaponizing reincarnation and film-within-film structures as metaphysical horror.
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
Directed by James Wong
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeath as unseen supernatural entity—the film's invisible antagonist proves more terrifying than any manifested ghost.
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Directed by Zach Lipovsky
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeath's prescience materializes through nightmares with supernatural agency, positioning fate itself as an unstoppable paranormal force.
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.
Directed by Park Chan-wook
✦ MovieMuse AI takePark's uncanny family dynamics crystallize into genuinely unsettling supernatural wrongness through mise-en-scène and inherited malevolence.
After India's father dies in an auto accident, her uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evelyn. Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
Directed by Tim Burton
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBetelgeuse returns weaponizing undeath and chaos; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice mines afterlife bureaucracy as genuine supernatural consequence.
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
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