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Theme: Seances

Séances are a means of contacting the dead. The séance almost always takes place with a group of people seated in a circle holding hands as an adept (the Medium) attempts to channel the spirits of the departed. Another method of holding a séance is via an ouija board, where the spirits of the departed will guide a cursor (the planchette) over lettering to spell out the answer to a question.

The purpose of a séance is usually to contact and find some information from the dead. A good many horror films centre around séances that unleash evil spirits or where the unwary become possessed. Séances are often held in Haunted Houses.

There are also several films about fake séances and fake mediums. There have also been several comedy portrayals.


The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

10 February 201428 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Criminal Mastermind

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

13 Ghosts (1960)

8 July 200114 October 2022

Rating: ★★

Haunted House

Director: William Castle
Actors: Donald Woods, Margaret Hamilton, Martin Milner, Charles Herbert, …
Category: Horror

The Addams Family (2019)

10 January 202014 October 2021

Rating: ★★½

Kinky Perverse Family/Animation

Director: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
Actors: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, …
Category: Fantasy

Amityville 3-D (1983)

7 August 199922 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Haunted House

Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Candy Clark, Robert Joy
Category: Horror

Amsterdamned (1988)

15 October 20192 August 2023

Rating: ★★★

Serial Killer Prowls the Canals of Amsterdam

Director: Dick Maas
Actors: Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, Tatum Dagelet, Serge-Henri Valcke, …
Category: Horror

The Apparition (2012)

24 August 201222 June 2021

Rating: ★

Haunting

Director: Todd Lincoln
Actors: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Rick Gomez, …
Category: Horror

The Awakening (2011)

21 July 201225 December 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Victorian Ghost Story

Director: Nick Murphy
Actors: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hampstead-Wright, …
Category: Horror

Back from Hell (2011)

2 September 201323 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Found Footage Possession Film

Director: Leonardo Araneo
Actors: Marco Vannini Gandolfi, Jennifer Mischiati, Giovanni Guidelli, Roberto Zibetti, …
Category: Horror

Backmask (2015)

12 September 201524 October 2019

Rating: ★

Abandoned Asylum/Possession

Director: Marcus Nispel
Actors: Stephen Lang, Kelly Blatz, Brittany Curran, Brett Dier, …
Category: Horror

Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012)

25 July 201320 April 2022

Rating: ★★

High School Detention Horror Film

Director: Matthew Spradlin
Actors: Cameron Deane Stewart, Augie Duke, Amanda Alch, Roger Edwards, …
Category: Horror

Baghead (2023)

15 September 202415 September 2024

Rating: ★★

Mysterious Creature in the Cellar

Director: Alberto Corredor
Actors: Freya Allen, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Ruby Barker, …
Category: Horror

Blithe Spirit (1945)

16 September 200530 May 2022

Rating: ★★★

Ghost Drawing Room Comedy

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

Blood on Melies’ Moon (2016)

6 May 20256 May 2025

Rating: ★★

Cosmic Journey Through Film History

Director: Luigi Cozzi
Actors: Luigi Cozzi, Philippe Beun-Garbe, Alessia Patregnani, Sharon Alessandri, …
Category: Science Fiction

Brooklyn 45 (2023)

26 January 202413 April 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Séance

Director: Ted Geoghegan
Actors: Anne Ramsay, Jeremy Holm, Ezra Buzzington, Ron E. Rains, …
Category: Horror

Cassadaga (2011)

2 October 20198 July 2023

Rating: ★★

Medium Tracks Serial Killer

Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Actors: Kelen Coleman, Kevin Alejandro, Louise Fletcher, Sarah Sculco, …
Category: Horror

Dark and Stormy Night (2009)

13 June 201310 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Old Dark House Parody

Director: Larry Blamire
Actors: Daniel Roebuck, Jennifer Blaire, Dan Conroy, Brian Howe, …
Category: Horror

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

Dark Summer (2015)

15 January 20166 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Teen Confined on Home Detention in a Haunted Home

Director: Paul Solet
Actors: Keir Gilchrist, Peter Stormare, Stella Maeve, Maestro Harrell, …
Category: Horror

The Deeper You Dig (2019)

7 March 202112 September 2024

Rating: ★★★

Missing Girl’s Ghost/Divination

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

Demonic (2015)

20 November 20156 October 2024

Rating: ★

Haunted House/Paranormal Investigators

Director: Will Canon
Actors: Maria Bello, Frank Grillo, Dustin Milligan, Cody Horn, …
Category: Horror

The Devil Commands (1941)

10 May 201625 October 2022

Rating: ★★½

Mad Scientist

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

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

13 August 200917 May 2023

Rating: ★★

Gypsy Curse

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

Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2006)

17 May 201812 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

The Asylum Mockbuster/Possession Film

Director: Leigh Scott
Actors: Erica Roby, Griff Furst, Noel Thurman, Rebekah Kochan, …
Category: Horror

Gacy House (2010)

9 September 201413 August 2022

Rating: ★

Found Footage/Haunted House

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

Ghost (1990)

19 October 20022 April 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Man Returns as a Ghost

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

Ghost Chasers (1951)

29 December 202125 November 2024

Rating: ★★½

Idiots Try to Expose a Medium Comedy

Director: William Beaudine
Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Lloyd Corrigan, Bernard Gorcey, …
Category: Fantasy

Good Omens (2019)

14 June 20194 September 2022

Rating: ★★½

Biblical End Times/Antichrist Comedy

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

Gothic (1986)

19 October 200228 April 2021

Rating: ★★

Mary Shelley-Lord Byron Meeting

Director: Ken Russell
Actors: Natasha Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Myriam Cyr, …
Category: Horror

Haunted Mansion (2023)

28 October 202328 October 2023

Rating: ★★

Haunted House Comedy

Director: Justin Simien
Actors: LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, …
Category: Horror

Haunter (2013)

30 March 20141 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Ghost Story

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Abigail Breslin, Stephen McHattie, Peter Outerbridge, Michelle Nolden, …
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

Hereditary (2018)

24 November 20188 September 2023

Rating: ★★★

Hauntings/Sinister Cult

Director: Ari Aster
Actors: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro, …
Category: Horror

Host (2020)

3 April 202126 September 2023

Rating: ★★½

Internet Seance

Director: Rob Savage
Actors: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Caroline Ward, Radina Drandova, …
Category: Horror

The House That Would Not Die (1970)

19 January 20082 September 2021

Rating: ★★

Haunted House

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Kitty Winn, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr
Category: Horror

The Ice Demon (2021)

19 December 202219 December 2022

Rating: ★★★

Possessed Coma Patient

Director: Ivan Kapitonov
Actors: Alina Babak, Olga Lomonosova, Aleksey Rozin, Gleb Kalyuzhnyy, …
Category: Horror

Insidious (2010)

16 April 201114 September 2021

Rating: ★★★

Haunting/Astral Projection

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

Insidious Chapter 2 (2013)

13 September 201310 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Haunting/Possession

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

Insidious Chapter 3 (2015)

6 June 201517 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Haunting/Possession

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

Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

31 March 201810 August 2023

Rating: ★★

Paranormal Investigation

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

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

8 August 200323 June 2024

Rating: ★★★

Woman Blurs Reality and Fantasy

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

Lake Mungo (2008)

3 July 201315 April 2022

Rating: ★★½

Australian Haunting Found Footage Film

Director: Joel Anderson
Category: Horror

The Last House on Cemetery Lane (2015)

30 November 201711 May 2023

Rating: ★★

Haunted House

Director: Andrew Jones
Actors: Lee Bane, Georgina Blackledge, Tessa Wood, Vivien Bridson
Category: Horror

The Living and the Dead (2016)

9 May 20234 June 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Ghost Story

Director: Alice Troughton, Sam Donovan
Actors: Colin Morgan, Charlotte Spencer, Nicholas Woodeson, Malcolm Storrey, …
Category: Horror

Long Time Dead (2002)

5 September 20026 January 2024

Rating: ★★½

Malevolent Djinn

Director: Marcus Adams
Actors: Alec Newman, Marsha Thomason, Joe Absolom, Lukas Haas, …
Category: Horror

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

30 July 20145 April 2023

Rating: ★★

Possibly Fake/Real Medium Comedy

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

Malicious (2018)

15 July 201910 August 2024

Rating: ★★

Malevolent Pregnancy

Director: Michael Winnick
Actors: Josh Stewart, Bojana Novakovic, Delroy Lindo, Melissa Bolona, …
Category: Horror

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

Mariko Rose the Spook (2009)

3 July 20126 October 2020

Rating: ★★½

Japanese Gay Film/Ghost of a Drag Queen

Director: Devi Kobayashi
Category: Fantasy

May the Devil Take You: Chapter Two (2020)

26 December 202218 October 2023

Rating: ★★★

Possessed Dead in an Abandoned Orphanage

Director: Timo Tjahjanto
Actors: Chelsea Islan, Widika Sidmore, Hadijah Shahab, Baskara Mahendra, …
Category: Horror

Night of the Demon (1957)

4 January 200119 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Occult Curse

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Dana Andrews, Niall MacGinnis, Peggy Cummins, Liam Redmond, …
Category: Horror

The Ninth (2019)

18 April 20215 September 2022

Rating: ★★★

Occult Murders in 19th Century St Petersburg

Director: Nikolay Khomeriki
Actors: Evgeniy Tsyganov, Daisy Head, Dmitriy Lysenkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, …
Category: Horror

Nosferatu in Venice (1988)

4 August 199918 September 2023

Rating: ★★

Vampire Film

Director: Augusto Caminito
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, Barbara De Rossi, …
Category: Horror

The Orphanage (2007)

15 September 20088 July 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Ghost Story

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

Ouija (2014)

26 October 201427 December 2019

Rating: ★★

Ouija Board Unleashes a Malevolent Spirit

Director: Stiles White
Actors: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Douglas Smith, Lin Shaye, …
Category: Horror

The Ouija Exorcism (2015)

15 March 201828 January 2025

Rating: ★★

Malevolent Spirit Trapped in an Ouija Board

Director: Nick Slatkin
Actors: Ben Morrison, Michael Palladino, Laura Kirchner, Branden Smith
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

Ouija Shark (2020)

25 January 20212 July 2024

Rating: ★

Ghostly Killer Shark

Director: Scott Patrick, Brett Kelly
Actors: Steph Goodwin, Robin Hodge, Zoe Towne, Amy Osborne, …
Category: Horror

Ouija: Summoning (2015)

6 July 201728 January 2025

Rating: ½

Haunting

Director: Marwan Mokbel
Actors: Tara Shayne, Kristen Hagen, Marty Dew, Thomas Garner, …
Category: Horror

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

10 January 20143 November 2021

Rating: ★★

Found Footage Film/Possession

Director: Christopher Landon
Actors: Andrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz, Gabrielle Walsh, Renee Victor, …
Category: Horror

Paranormal Asylum (2013)

27 October 201510 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Ghostbusters Investigate a Haunted Asylum

Director: Nimrod Zalamanowitz
Actors: Aaron Mathias, Nathan Spiteri, Laura Gilreath, Grace Evans, …
Category: Horror

Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead (2015)

3 September 201921 January 2023

Rating: ★

Girl Discovers Abilities as a Medium

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

Phenomena (2023)

7 January 20247 January 2024

Rating: ★★½

True-Life Spanish Paranormal Investigators

Director: Carlos Theron
Actors: Belen Rueda, Toni Acosta, Gracia Olayo, Emilio Gutierrez Caba, …
Category: Horror

Red Lights (2012)

9 July 20121 April 2025

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

Seance (2000)

9 August 200127 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Medium/Kidnap Thriller

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Category: Horror

Seance (2021)

15 August 202126 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Girls’ Boarding School Ghost Story

Director: Simon Barrett
Actors: Suki Waterhouse, Ella-Rae Smith, Inanna Sarkis, Marina Stephenson Kerr, …
Category: Horror

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

9 August 200024 April 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Medium/Kidnap Thriller

Director: Bryan Forbes
Actors: Richard Attenborough, Kim Stanley, Mark Eden, Nanette Newman, …
Category: Fantasy

Séance: The Summoning (2011)

16 May 20177 October 2023

Rating: ★★

Possession and Exorcism

Director: Alex Wright
Actors: Nazneen Contractor, Devon Ogden, Bobby Campo, Chris Olivero
Category: Horror

Slit Mouth Woman in L.A. (2014)

18 July 201612 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Japanese Horror Anthology

Director: Akira Hirose, Hiro Kay, Kazuya Ogawa, Takeshi Sone
Actors: Lauren Taylor, John Klopping, Eiji Inoue, Stefanie Estes, …
Category: Horror

Something Weird (1967)

9 September 201118 November 2022

Rating: ½

Psychic Powers

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Actors: Tony McCabe, Elizabeth Lee
Category: Horror

The Stand (2020-2021)

5 March 202128 March 2022

Rating: ★

Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Josh Boone, Tucker Gates, Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy, …
Actors: James Marsden, Alexander Skarsgård, Amber Heard, Whoopi Goldberg, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

Starve Acre (2023)

20 September 202420 September 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Folk Horror

Director: Daniel Kokatajlo
Actors: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards, Arthur Shaw, …
Category: Horror

Tales from the Hood 2 (2018)

20 September 20216 December 2024

Rating: ★★

African-American Horror Anthology

Director: Rusty Cundieff, Darin Scott
Actors: Keith David, Kendrick Cross, Bryan Batt, Bill Martin Williams, …
Category: Horror

Talk to Me (2022)

22 September 2023

Rating: ★★★

Occult Artefact

Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Actors: Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, …
Category: Horror

Things Heard & Seen (2021)

10 April 202310 April 2023

Rating: ★★

Ghost Story

Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Actors: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, F. Murray Abraham, Rhea Seehorn, …
Category: Horror

Transylvania Twist (1989)

23 April 202012 September 2024

Rating: ★★

Horror Parody

Director: Jim Wynorski
Actors: Teri Copley, Steve Altman, Robert Vaughn, Ace Mask, …
Category: Horror

Trauma (1993)

18 February 20017 May 2025

Rating: ★★★

Giallo Psycho-Thriller

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

The Unquiet (2008)

1 September 201619 March 2025

Rating: ★

Haunted Building/Rival Paranormal Investigators

Director: Bill Corcoran
Actors: Cara Buono, Chris William Martin, Michael Teigen, Don S. Davis, …
Category: Horror

The VelociPastor (2018)

2 February 20204 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Priest Who Transforms Into a Dinosaur

Director: Brendan Steere
Actors: Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski
Category: Science Fiction

Veronica (2017)

29 January 20181 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Haunting/”True Story”

Director: Paco Plaza
Actors: Sandra Escacena, Bruna Gonzalez, Claudia Placer, Ivan Chavero, …
Category: Horror

We Are Still Here (2015)

18 September 201516 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

House of Lurking Evil

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

Witchboard (1986)

7 April 19991 January 2023

Rating: ★★½

Malevolent Spirit

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

Witchboard 2 (1993)

19 December 202419 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Malevolent Spirit Conjured by an Ouija Board

Director: Kevin S. Tenney
Actors: Ami Dolenz, Timothy Gibbs, John Gatins, Laraine Newman, …
Category: Horror

You’ll Find Out (1940)

29 March 200825 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House Comedy

Director: David Butler
Actors: Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, …
Category: Horror

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