American haunted house films

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. The film presents the descent into insanity of a recovering alcoholic and aspiring novelist who takes a job as winter caretaker for a mountain resort hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.

It is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by Stephen King, as well as the second adaptation following Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 miniseries. Starring Jaeden Lieberher and Bill Skarsgård, the film was produced by New Line Cinema, KatzSmith Productions, Lin Pictures, and Vertigo Entertainment. Set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, the film tells the story of The Losers' Club, a group of seven outcast children who are terrorized by the eponymous being which emerges from the sewer in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Skarsgård), and face their own personal demons as the monster torments them.

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. It is the inaugural film in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their purportedly real-life reports inspired The Amityville Horror story and the associated film franchise. The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family, who experienced increasingly disturbing events in their newly occupied farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American gothic horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, along with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder.

1981 film by Sam Raimi

It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman. It is the sequel to It (2017) and the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Set 27 years after the events of the first film, the story centers on the Losers Club and their relationships as they reunite to destroy It once and for all.

The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. The screenplay is by Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Wan, and David Leslie Johnson. It is the sequel to 2013's The Conjuring, the second installment in The Conjuring series, and the third installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren from the first film. The film follows the Warrens as they travel to England to assist the Hodgson family, who are experiencing poltergeist activity at their Enfield council house in 1977, which later became referred to as the Enfield poltergeist.

2006 Animated film directed by Gil Kenan

2010 film by James Wan

2007 film by Oren Peli

1995 American fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling

2021 film directed by Jason Reitman

1982 film directed by Tobe Hooper

2001 film by Keenen Ivory Wayans

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill. It is the first installment in the Black Phone franchise. It stars Mason Thames as Finney, a teenage boy abducted by a serial child killer known colloquially as the Grabber. When Finney encounters a mystical black rotary phone in captivity, he uses it to plot his escape by communicating with the ghosts of the Grabber's slain victims. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also feature in the principal cast. Derrickson and Cargill produced The Black Phone in association with Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum. Universal Pictures oversaw the film's commercial distribution, and funding was sourced through a pact with Blumhouse and tax subsidies from the North Carolina state government.

1987 film by Sam Raimi

2005 film directed by Andrew Douglas

2024 film directed by Tim Burton

2004 film directed by Takashi Shimizu

2013 film directed by James Wan

2015 film by Guillermo del Toro

2003 film by Rob Minkoff

2000 film by Robert Zemeckis

2021 film directed by Johannes Roberts

2018 film by Adam Robitel

2015 film directed by Leigh Whannell

2023 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2006 film by Takashi Shimizu

2001 film directed by Steve Beck

1999 film by Jan de Bont

1927 film directed by Paul Leni

1986 film by Brian Gibson

2014 film directed by Christopher B. Landon

2007 film directed by Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun

2015 film directed by Gil Kenan

2009 film by Peter Cornwell

short film by Michael Jackson

1961 film directed by Jack Clayton

1999 film by William Malone

1927 lost film directed by Tod Browning

1959 film by William Castle

2005 film by Stephen Kay

2017 film by David Lowery

V/H/S is a 2012 American found footage horror anthology film and the first installment in the V/H/S franchise created by Brad Miska and Bloody Disgusting, and produced by Miska and Roxanne Benjamin. It features a series of six found footage shorts written and directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and the filmmaking collective Radio Silence.

1979 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg

2023 film directed by Justin Simien

2025 film directed by David F. Sandberg

1932 film directed by James Whale

1988 film by Gary Sherman

1998 film by Hiroshi Aoyama

2009 film by Toby Wilkins

1983 music video for the song of the same name by Michael Jackson directed by John Landis

2005 film by Walter Salles

1999 film by David Koepp

2024 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

2018 film directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig

1960 film directed by William Castle

1982 film directed by Damiano Damiani

1985 comedy horror film directed by Steve Miner

2017 film directed by Franck Khalfoun