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Best Supernatural Horror Movies on MGM+

Every supernatural horror movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US

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Rosemary's Baby (1968)

IMDb 8.0 🍅 97% Letterboxd 4.2 2h 18m

Directed by Roman Polanski

✦ MovieMuse AI takePolanski's apartment becomes a character itself—isolation and paranoia weaponized through architectural menace and the slow corruption of domestic safety.

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 47m

Directed by Rupert Julian

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Phantom embodies Gothic supernatural vengeance incarnate, channeling operatic dread through shadow, organ music, and the monster as tragic specter.

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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Carrie (1976)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 94% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 38m

Directed by Brian De Palma

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCarrie's telekinesis emerges as pure adolescent rage made supernatural—the prom massacre sequence transforms internal anguish into cataclysmic, unstoppable force.

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 71% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 31m

Directed by Dan O'Bannon

✦ MovieMuse AI takePunks vs. reanimated corpses becomes philosophical: these zombies remember, speak, suffer—making death itself a conscious, vengeful supernatural state.

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

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Chocolat (2000)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 63% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 1m

Directed by Lasse Hallström

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot supernatural horror; religious community drama without supernatural elements.

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

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Don't Look Now (1973)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 50m

Directed by Nicolas Roeg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDaphne's blind sight pierces the veil between worlds; that Venice sequence crystallizes how the supernatural operates through sight and prescient dread.

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

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Carnival of Souls (1962)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 18m

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.

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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 20m

Directed by Roger Corman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCastle interiors transform into psychological labyrinths where supernatural revenge materializes through inquisitorial torture and the specter of jealousy made flesh.

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 30m

Directed by Roger Corman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCorman's masque visualizes Death as inevitable, cosmic force—the Red Death's silent procession embodies supernatural inevitability with painterly, balletic precision.

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

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Topper Returns (1941)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 28m

Directed by Roy Del Ruth

✦ MovieMuse AI takeA ghost as comic relief undermines genre expectations while maintaining supernatural presence; Topper films prove spectral mischief can haunt with charm.

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

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House on Haunted Hill (1959)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 15m

Directed by William Castle

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWilliam Castle's gimmickry masks genuine architectural dread; the house's secret passages and skeleton trick weaponize audience distrust of the visible.

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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The Haunted Palace (1963)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 75% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 27m

Directed by Roger Corman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLovecraft adaptation that distills cosmic dread into intimate body-horror possession, making ancestral curse viscerally personal.

A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.

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Lady in White (1988)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 67% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 53m

Directed by Frank LaLoggia

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFrank's childhood encounter with murder-witnessed-by-ghost transforms playground horror into something genuinely liminal—where innocence collides with spectral trauma.

Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.

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Twice-Told Tales (1963)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 63% Letterboxd 3.2 2h 0m

Directed by Sidney Salkow

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHawthorne's literary ghosts resist easy visualization; the film honors supernatural ambiguity, letting moral corruption blur with actual supernatural manifestation.

3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.

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Pet Sematary (1989)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 58% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 43m

Directed by Mary Lambert

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe pet cemetery's Native American curse inverts resurrection—death becomes worse than death, turning parental love into portal for supernatural transgression.

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

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Hansel and Gretel (1988)

IMDb 6.5 Letterboxd 3.2 1h 24m

Directed by Len Talan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe witch's cottage functions as dimensional trap; the gingerbread house becomes a supernatural cage where reality itself warps into nightmare.

Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?

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The Woman in Black (2012)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 66% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 35m

Directed by James Watkins

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Woman in Black's vengeful specificity—a child ghost with historical grievance—transforms haunting from abstract to historically rooted supernatural malice.

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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Burnt Offerings (1976)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 50% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 56m

Directed by Dan Curtis

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe house feeds on injury; Burnt Offerings makes the structure itself a parasitic entity that drinks pain like blood, inverting domestic sanctuary.

A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t quite what they seem. Every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself…

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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 86% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 21m

Directed by Roger Corman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLigeia's spectral obsession possesses beyond death—Corman visualizes jealous supernatural love as literal resurrection, blurring wife and specter.

Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

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Scared Stiff (1953)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 71% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 48m

Directed by George Marshall

✦ MovieMuse AI takeA Caribbean castle materializes Gothic dread in tropical isolation; the haunted space becomes inescapable despite sunshine, weaponizing environmental desolation.

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

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Dolls (1986)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 60% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 17m

Directed by Stuart Gordon

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDolls transform from toy to malevolent supernatural agents—Creed's film proves inanimate objects can host active, vengeful spectral consciousness.

A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion.

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Messiah of Evil (1975)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 30m

Directed by Willard Huyck

✦ MovieMuse AI takePoint Dune's cosmic alien presence corrupts reality itself; Messiah of Evil suggests supernatural evil that predates and supersedes human mythology.

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

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Diary of a Madman (1963)

IMDb 6.3 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 36m

Directed by Reginald Le Borg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInvisible-yet-corporeal horla embodies psychological horror made manifest—possession without a visible specter, making supernatural violation wholly internal and inescapable.

Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.

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Tower of London (1962)

IMDb 6.3 Letterboxd 3.2 1h 20m

Directed by Roger Corman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRichard's murder victims materialize as ghostly accusers; Tower weaponizes historical guilt, making the supernatural a manifestation of kingly conscience.

The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

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The Amityville Horror (1979)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 33% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 58m

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAmityville's documentation obsession—the film's faux-realism framework amplifies dread; evil doesn't need jump-scares when the house methodically drives families mad.

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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White Zombie (1932)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 7m

Directed by Victor Halperin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWhite Zombie's Haitian sorcery grounds supernatural horror in cultural specificity; zombie servitude becomes the ultimate supernatural violation of autonomy.

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…As a zombie.

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Lord of Illusions (1995)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 54% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 49m

Directed by Clive Barker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLovecraftian cosmic entity resurrection; D'Amour battles supernatural forces beyond human comprehension, making knowledge itself dangerous and reality fundamentally compromised.

During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.

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The Believers (1987)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 35% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 54m

Directed by John Schlesinger

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSantería rituals materialize supernatural child sacrifice as urban theological threat; The Believers weaponizes religious syncretism as genuine metaphysical danger.

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 60% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 31m

Directed by Curtis Harrington

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWidow's fairy-tale mansion enacts supernatural re-enactment; children become sacrificial figures in a haunted woman's delusional supernatural theater.

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

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The Dark Half (1993)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 58% Letterboxd 3.0 2h 2m

Directed by George A. Romero

✦ MovieMuse AI takeStark's physical resurrection from literary death—The Dark Half literalizes authorial anxiety, proving the written supernatural can violently manifest.

Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.

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