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Theme: Mediums

The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

10 February 201416 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Criminal Mastermind

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Gert Frobe, Peter van Eyck, Dawn Addams, Werner Peters, …
Category: Fantasy

6 Degrees of Hell (2012)

23 July 201313 July 2019

Rating: 0­

Haunted Halloween House of Horrors

Director: Joe Raffa
Actors: Corey Feldman, Nicole Cinaglia, Faust Checho, Brian Anthony Wilson, …
Category: Horror

The Black Cat (1981)

9 April 200026 November 2019

Rating: ★

Black Cat Murders/Italian Horror

Director: Lucio Fulci
Actors: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck
Category: Horror

Black Rainbow (1989)

4 July 199920 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Fake Medium’s Abilities Become Real

Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Mark Joy
Category: Fantasy

Blithe Spirit (1945)

16 September 200531 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Ghost Drawing Room Comedy

Director: David Lean
Actors: Rex Harrison, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
Category: Fantasy

Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1972)

3 September 20056 May 2020

Rating: ★

Occultism and Witchcraft

Director: Ted V. Mikels
Category: Horror

Books of Blood (2020)

17 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Clive Barker Anthology

Director: Brannon Braga
Actors: Britt Robertson, Anna Friel, Nicholas Campbell, Paige Turco, …
Category: Horror

Cassadaga (2011)

2 October 201914 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Medium Tracks Serial Killer

Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Actors: Kelen Coleman, Kevin Alejandro, Louise Fletcher, Rus Blackwell, …
Category: Horror

Charlie St. Cloud (2010)

31 July 201012 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Teenager Can See the Dead

Director: Burr Steers
Actors: Zac Efron, Amanda Crew, Charlie Tahan, Augustus Prew, …
Category: Fantasy

The Conjuring (2013)

19 July 201315 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Haunting/Possession/”True Story”

Director: James Wan
Actors: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, …
Category: Horror

Convergence (2015)

14 September 201710 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Hospital That Exists in an Afterlife Limbo

Director: Drew Hall
Actors: Clayne Crawford, Ethan Embry, Mykelti Williamson, Gary Grubbs, …
Category: Fantasy

Dark Signal (2016)

29 March 201824 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Haunted Radio Signal

Director: Edward Evers-Swindell
Actors: Joanna Ignaczewska, Siwan Morris, Gareth David-Lloyd, Duncan Pow, …
Category: Horror

The Dead Room (2015)

26 August 201629 June 2020

Rating: ★★

New Zealand Haunted House Film

Director: Jason Stutter
Actors: Jed Brophy, Jeffrey Thomas, Laura Petersen
Category: Horror

The Deeper You Dig (2019)

7 March 20217 March 2021

Rating: ★★★

Missing Girl’s Ghost/Divination

Director: John Adams, Toby Poser
Actors: Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams, Shawn Wilson, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror

The Devil Commands (1941)

10 May 201627 July 2020

Rating: ★★½

Mad Scientist

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Boris Karloff, Anne Revere
Category: Horror

Don’t Look Up (2009)

13 January 201225 August 2020

Rating: ★

Asian Horror Remake/Haunted Film Set

Director: Fruit Chan
Actors: Reshad Strik, Henry Thomas, Carmen Chaplin, Kevin Corrigan, …
Category: Horror

Down a Dark Hall (2018)

17 February 201915 February 2021

Rating: ★★

Sinister Happenings at a Girls’ Boarding School

Director: Rodrigo Cortes
Actors: AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Rosie Day, …
Category: Horror

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

13 August 20092 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Gypsy Curse

Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, …
Category: Horror

Einstein’s God Model (2016)

12 June 201912 June 2019

Rating: ★★★

Scientific Experiment in Contacting the Dead

Director: Philip T. Johnson
Actors: Aaron Graham, Kenneth Hughes, Brad Norman, Kirby O’Connell, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Erotic Misadventures of the Invisible Man (2003)

11 February 201413 October 2020

Rating: ★

Erotica with an Invisible Man

Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Actors: Gabriella Hall, Kim Dawson, Elina Madison, William Knight
Category: Science Fiction

The Eye 2 (2004)

26 March 200710 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Woman Sees the Dead

Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Actors: Shu Qi, Eugenia Yuan, Philip Kwok
Category: Horror

The Eye (2002)

2 April 200616 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Woman Sees the Dead

Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Actors: Lee Sin-Je, Lawrence Chou, Edmund Chen
Category: Horror

The Eye (2008)

29 March 200810 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Woman Sees the Dead

Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Actors: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Serbedzija, …
Category: Horror

The Fades (2011)

14 January 201510 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Teen Can See the Dead/Apocalytic Resurrection

Director: Farren Blackburn, Tom Shankland
Actors: Iain De Caestecker, Daniel Kaluuya, Sophie Wu, Johnny Harris, …
Category: Horror

The Frighteners (1996)

6 December 200018 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Medium vs Ghostly Serial Killer Comedy

Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, …
Category: Horror

Gacy House (2010)

9 September 20145 June 2019

Rating: ★

Found Footage/Haunted House

Director: Anthony Fankhauser
Actors: James Arthur Lewis, Michael Gaglio, Sylvia Panacione, Rachel Riley, …
Category: Horror

Ghost (1990)

19 October 200227 August 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Man Returns as a Ghost

Director: Jerry Zucker
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, …
Category: Fantasy

Ghost Ship (1952)

3 May 201018 June 2020

Rating: ★

Haunted Yacht

Director: Vernon Sewell
Actors: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden, Joss Ambler, …
Category: Horror

Ghost Town (2008)

22 November 200823 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Man That Can See Ghosts Comedy

Director: David Koepp
Actors: Ricky Gervais, Téa Leone, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, …
Category: Fantasy

Good Omens (2019)

14 June 201910 October 2020

Rating: ★★½

Biblical End Times/Antichrist Comedy

Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Actors: Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Sam Taylor Buck, Jack Whitehall, …
Category: Fantasy

The Halfway House (1944)

17 January 201118 February 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Haunted Inn

Director: Basil Dearden
Actors: Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Francoise Rosay, …
Category: Fantasy

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)

18 September 201918 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Haunting/”True Story”

Director: Tom Elkins
Actors: Abigail Spencer, Emily Alyn Lind, Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, …
Category: Horror

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

13 December 201016 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Haunted House/”True Story”

Director: Peter Cornwell
Actors: Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan, …
Category: Horror

Hellboy (2019)

19 July 20197 March 2021

Rating: ★

Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation

Director: Neil Marshall
Actors: David Harbour, Sasha Lane, Ian McShane, Milla Jovovich, …
Category: Fantasy

Hereafter (2010)

20 October 201025 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Perspectives on the Afterlife

Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Matt Damon, Cecile De France, Derek Jacobi, Bryce Dallas Howard, …
Category: Fantasy

The Illusionist (2006)

19 April 200719 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Enigmatic Stage Magician

Director: Neil Burger
Actors: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, …
Category: Fantasy

Insidious (2010)

16 April 201120 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Haunting/Astral Projection

Director: James Wan
Actors: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, …
Category: Horror

Insidious Chapter 2 (2013)

13 September 201323 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Haunting/Possession

Director: James Wan
Actors: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Steve Coulter, …
Category: Horror

Insidious Chapter 3 (2015)

6 June 201519 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Haunting/Possession

Director: Leigh Whannell
Actors: Lin Shaye, Stefanie Scott, Dermot Mulroney, Angus Sampson, …
Category: Horror

Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

31 March 201811 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Paranormal Investigation

Director: Adam Robitel
Actors: Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Caitlin Gerard, …
Category: Horror

Jack Be Nimble (1993)

30 August 201030 August 2018

Rating: ★

Psychically Linked Brother-Sister

Director: Garth Maxwell
Actors: Alexis Arquette, Bruno Lawrence, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Tony Barry, …
Category: Horror

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

8 August 200330 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Woman Blurs Reality and Fantasy

Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Sylva Koscina, …
Category: Fantasy

The Kingdom (1994)

16 December 200116 June 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Haunted Hospital/Black Comedy

Director: Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier
Actors: Ernst Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Søren Pilmark, Peter Mygind, …
Category: Horror

The Kingdom II (1997)

30 September 199916 June 2019

Rating: ★★★

Haunted Hospital/Black Comedy

Director: Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier
Actors: Ernst Hugo Järegård, Holger Juul Hansen, Kirsten Rolffes, Søren Pilmark, …
Category: Horror

Lake Mungo (2008)

3 July 201320 June 2019

Rating: ★★½

Australian Haunting Found Footage Film

Director: Joel Anderson
Actors: David Pledger, Rosie Traynor, Martin Sharpe, Steve Jodrell, …
Category: Horror

The Last Broadcast (1998)

18 February 201630 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Found Footage/Mysterious Backwoods Deaths

Director: Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler
Actors: David Beard, James Seward, Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler, …
Category: Horror

The Legend of Hell House (1973)

17 February 20037 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Haunted House

Director: John Hough
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt
Category: Horror

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

30 July 201424 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Possibly Fake/Real Medium Comedy

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Simon McBurney, Eileen Atkins, …
Category: Fantasy

The Manitou (1978)

17 February 200324 January 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Reincarnated Indian Medicine Man

Director: William Girdler
Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Jon Cedar, …
Category: Horror

My Winnipeg (2007)

31 December 200730 August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Surreal Documentary

Director: George Toles
Actors: Ann Savage, Guy Maddin, Darcy Fehr, Amy Stewart, …
Category: Fantasy

Night of the Ghouls (1960/1983)

6 February 200310 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Fake Medium

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr
Actors: Kenne Duncan, Tor Johnson, Duke Moore, Valda Hansen, …
Category: Horror

Nightmare Alley (1947)

5 February 20038 September 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Fake Clairvoyant/Predestination

Director: Edmund Goulding
Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, …
Category: Fantasy

Nightmare Cinema (2018)

13 September 20196 December 2019

Rating: ★★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Mick Garris, Alejandro Brugues, Joe Dante, Ryuhei Kitamura, …
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Richard Chamberlain, Elizabeth Reaser, Annabeth Gish
Category: Horror

Odd Thomas (2013)

10 November 201331 January 2019

Rating: ★★½

Eccentric Clairvoyant-Medium/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation

Director: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe, Nico Tortorella, …
Category: Fantasy

The Orphanage (2007)

15 September 200829 October 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Ghost Story

Director: J.A. Bayona
Actors: Belen Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Roger Princep, Fernando Cayo, …
Category: Horror

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

12 November 201630 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Ouija Board Unleashes Malevolent Spirits

Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: Annalise Basso, Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Henry Thomas, …
Category: Horror

Over Her Dead Body (2008)

31 December 20086 February 2020

Rating: ★

Ghostly Ex Comedy

Director: Jeff Lowell
Actors: Eva Longoria, Lake Bell, Paul Rudd, Stephen Root
Category: Fantasy

The Pact (2012)

29 June 201331 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Haunting and Serial Killer

Director: Nicholas McCarthy
Actors: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Haley Hudson, Agnes Bruckner, …
Category: Horror

Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead (2015)

3 September 20196 May 2020

Rating: ★

Girl Discovers Abilities as a Medium

Director: Ted V. Mikels
Actors: Colie Knoke, Josef Niznik, Volmar Franz, Drew Marvick, …
Category: Horror

ParaNorman (2012)

16 August 201222 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Stop-Motion Animated Children’s Film/Kid Sees Dead People

Director: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Actors: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, …
Category: Horror

Poltergeist (1982)

5 September 200226 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★½

Haunting

Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Zelda Rubinstein, Heather O'Rourke, …
Category: Horror

Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

19 October 200220 October 2020

Rating: ★

Haunting

Director: Brian Gibson
Actors: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Will Sampson, Heather O'Rourke, …
Category: Horror

Poltergeist III (1988)

1 November 200221 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Haunting

Director: Gary Sherman
Actors: Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nancy Allen, …
Category: Horror

Red Lights (2012)

9 July 201212 February 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Psychic Debunkers

Director: Rodrigo Cortes
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Elizabeth Olsen, …
Category: Fantasy

The Remains (2016)

2 January 20192 January 2019

Rating: ★★

Haunted House

Director: Thomas Della Bella
Actors: Todd Lowe, Brooke Butler, Hannah Nordberg, Dash Williams, …
Category: Horror

Rest in Peace (1982)

2 August 200430 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Haunted Mausoleum

Director: Tom McLoughlin
Actors: Meg Tilley, Adam West, Robin Young, David Mason Daniels, …
Category: Horror

Seance (2000)

9 August 200127 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Medium/Kidnap Thriller

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Category: Horror

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

23 March 201025 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Medium/Kidnap Thriller

Director: Bryan Forbes
Actors: Richard Attenborough, Kim Stanley, Judith Donner, Mark Eden, …
Category: Fantasy

The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012)

24 November 202024 November 2020

Rating: ★★½

Ghost Story

Director: Joe Ahearne
Actors: Suranne Jones, Olivia Cooke, David Warner, Iain De Caestecker, …
Category: Horror

The Sixth Sense (1999)

14 August 19998 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★½

Child Medium

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, …
Category: Horror

Something Weird (1967)

9 September 20113 October 2019

Rating: ½

Psychic Powers

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Actors: Tony McCabe, Elizabeth Lee, Bill Brooker, Mudite Armus, …
Category: Horror

Stir of Echoes (1999)

16 September 199923 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Man Develops Mediumistic Abilities

Director: David Koepp
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn, …
Category: Horror

Stir of Echoes: The Awakening (2007)

23 February 201110 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Gulf War Vet Receives Visions

Director: Ernie Barbarash
Actors: Rob Lowe, Marnie McPhail, Shawn Roberts, Tatiana Maslany, …
Category: Horror

Suburban Gothic (2014)

27 October 201427 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Middle-Class Satire/Haunting

Director: Richard Bates Jr.
Actors: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kat Dennings, Ray Wise, Barbara Niven, …
Category: Horror

Supernatural (1933)

1 March 201130 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Possession by a Murderer’s Spirit

Director: Victor Halperin
Actors: Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott, Allan Dinehart, H.B. Warner, …
Category: Horror

The Survivor (1981)

23 December 199924 November 2020

Rating: ★

Haunting/Deathdream

Director: David Hemmings
Actors: Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Ralph Cotterill, Joseph Cotten
Category: Horror

Talking to Heaven (2002)

18 June 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★

True-Life Medium Biopic

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Queen Latifah, Jack Palance, …
Category: Fantasy

Trauma (1993)

18 February 200115 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Giallo Psycho-Thriller

Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Brad Dourif, …
Category: Horror

The Unquiet (2008)

1 September 201630 August 2018

Rating: ★

Haunted Building/Rival Paranormal Investigators

Director: Bill Corcoran
Actors: Cara Buono, Chris William Martin, Julie Anderson, Mylene Dinh-Robic, …
Category: Horror

Vibes (1988)

27 July 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Psychic Powers Comedy-Adventure

Director: Ken Kwapis
Actors: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, Googy Gress, …
Category: Fantasy

We Are Still Here (2015)

18 September 20157 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

House of Lurking Evil

Director: Ted Geoghegan
Actors: Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Marie, Monte Markham
Category: Horror

White Noise (2005)

22 May 20055 August 2020

Rating: ★★★

Communications from the Dead

Director: Geoffrey Sax
Actors: Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West, …
Category: Horror

Winchester (2018)

28 April 201812 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Real-Life Haunted House

Director: The Spierig Brothers
Actors: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna-O'Prey, …
Category: Horror

Witchboard (1986)

7 April 199913 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

Malevolent Spirit

Director: Kevin S. Tenney
Actors: Todd Allen, Tawny Kitaen, Kathleen Wilhoite
Category: Horror

You’ll Find Out (1940)

6 July 20102 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House Comedy

Director: David Butler
Actors: Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Dennis O'Keefe, …
Category: Horror

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Theme Essays

  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Nazis
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Sexual Fetishism in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being Based on True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns

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