10 Hidden Gem Supernatural Horror Movies
The best kept supernatural secrets of horror.
With ghosts, ghouls, spirits and spectres - plus plentiful things that go bump in the night - the supernatural horror movie is forever a popular corner of cinema. Slashers and monster features are all well and good, but sometimes there's nothing quite like a great supernatural effort for those looking to have the willies sent up them.
Of course, everybody has their favourites when it comes to this particular horror subgenre, with 13 Ghosts, Poltergeist, House on Haunted Hill, Dark Water, The Conjuring and The Babadook a few standouts that immediately come to mind.
Like so many other genres and subgenres, the realm of supernatural horror also has plenty of brilliant, terrifying pictures hidden away. For whatever reason, those films have flown under the radar of the masses and don't quite ever get the love they absolutely deserve - and it's on some of those movies that the attention is on here.
With that in mind, then, here are ten genuinely great supernatural films that any and all horror fans should make sure to check out sooner rather than later.
10. The Pact
With an extremely select cinema release in 2012, The Pact is one of supernatural horror's best kept modern-day secrets.
Of course, writer/director Nicholas McCarthy would clearly have preferred The Pact to be a hugely known, popular picture, but those who have seen this film can at least appreciate how darn great it is.
Very much a family affair on the spooky front, the focus of The Pact is on the Barlow clan. When their mother dies, strained sisters Annie (Caity Lotz) and Nicole (Agnes Bruckner) are left to prepare the funeral. After Nicole and a cousin go missing, Annie becomes embroiled in a supernatural mystery tied to their family home - all while Casper Van Dien's cop suspects Lotz's character of having her own nefarious intentions.
As much as The Pact is a supernatural movie, it ends up becoming just as much a 'whodunit?' picture once it gets into its final act. There are certain truths to be uncovered as the film goes on, and those truth reveals are accompanied by some great scares and moments of suspense.
It's also worth adding that a pre-Arrowverse Caity Lotz is on top, top form here, with so much of the film's heavy lifting put on her shoulders.