Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "possessed-human"

1. Ghostbusters (1984)

PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis

Votes: 450,410 | Gross: $238.63M

2. The Shining (1980)

R | 146 min | Drama, Horror

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers

Votes: 1,107,114 | Gross: $44.02M

3. Legion (2010)

R | 100 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope.

Director: Scott Stewart | Stars: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black

Votes: 111,996 | Gross: $40.17M

4. Drag Me to Hell (2009)

PG-13 | 99 min | Horror

A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver

Votes: 217,542 | Gross: $42.10M

5. Paranormal Activity (2007)

R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery

After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

Director: Oren Peli | Stars: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong

Votes: 256,258 | Gross: $107.92M

6. Alienoid (2022)

Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.

Director: Dong-hoon Choi | Stars: Yoon Byung-hee, Kim Chan-hyung, Kim Dae-myung, Shim Dal-gi

Votes: 5,290

7. Tin Man (2007)

TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic "The Wizard of Oz."

Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson

Votes: 14,539

8. The Innocents (1961)

Not Rated | 100 min | Horror

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave

Votes: 33,073 | Gross: $2.62M

9. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

R | 104 min | Horror

A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son.

Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner

Votes: 12,862 | Gross: $12.53M

10. Presence of Mind (1999)

TV-14 | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A governess hired to care for children at a wealthy estate encounters supernatural occurrences tied to former staff. Clashing with the housekeeper, she tries to safeguard the children while uncovering the property's dark history.

Director: Antoni Aloy | Stars: Sadie Frost, Lauren Bacall, Ella Jones, Nilo Zimmerman

Votes: 746

11. The Nightcomers (1971)

R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Prequel to Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", focusing on groundskeeper Peter Quint's slow corruption of the virtuous governess Miss Jessel and the children she looks after.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews

Votes: 2,895 | Gross: $0.44M

12. The Haunted Palace (1963)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror

Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell

Votes: 8,470 | Gross: $2.62M

13. Immortal (2004)

R | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In the distant future, Earth is occupied by ancient gods and genetically altered humans. When a god is sentenced to death he seeks a new human host and a woman to bear his child.

Director: Enki Bilal | Stars: Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling, Yann Collette

Votes: 21,782

14. Kaboom (2010)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A sexually "undeclared" college freshman's clairvoyant/prophetic dreams are the first sign that something very strange is going on involving his classmates -- with him at the center.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida

Votes: 13,803 | Gross: $0.12M

15. XX (2017)

R | 80 min | Horror

This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.

Directors: Roxanne Benjamin, Sofìa Carrillo, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, Jovanka Vuckovic | Stars: Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, Peter DaCunha, Peyton Kennedy

Votes: 12,398 | Gross: $0.03M

16. Resident Evil 4 (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

Six years after the events in Raccoon City, Leon Kennedy, now a federal agent, is sent to a rural part of Spain to rescue the U.S. President's kidnapped daughter, Ashley Graham from a sinister cult.

Directors: Shinji Mikami, Kuniomi Matsushita | Stars: Paul Mercier, Carolyn Lawrence, Rino Romano, Salli Saffioti

Votes: 15,265

17. The Uninvited (1944)

Passed | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner

Votes: 12,468

18. Audrey Rose (1977)

PG | 113 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck, Susan Swift

Votes: 6,690

19. Resident Evil 5 (2009 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sent in by the BSAA, Chris Redfield has a new mission. It takes him into South Africa where he encounters a new horror and relives an old past.

Directors: Yasuhiro Anpo, Kenichi Ueda | Stars: Roger Craig Smith, Eva La Dare, D.C. Douglas, Patricia Ja Lee

Votes: 9,457

20. The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, David Elliott, Lisa Kohane

Votes: 1,269 | Gross: $0.17M

21. The Haunted (1991 TV Movie)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Horror

When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.

Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham, George D. Wallace

Votes: 2,204

22. Dark Tower (1987)

R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.

Directors: Freddie Francis, Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley, Theodore Bikel

Votes: 1,257

23. Possessed (2000 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 110 min | Horror, Drama

Inspired by the true account of a 1949 Catholic Church exorcism performed in America. "Possessed", tells the story that was suppressed for nearly half a century.

Director: Steven E. de Souza | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Henry Czerny, Jonathan Malen, Michael Rhoades

Votes: 1,662

24. The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View (2007)

49 min | Animation, Action, Crime

September 1998: A recent spate of unusual suicide incidents where several high school girls fell to their death, but left no suicide note and had apparently no reason to commit suicide. In ... See full summary »

Director: Ei Aoki | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura

Votes: 2,755

25. In a Dark Place (2006)

R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

An art teacher is hired as nanny for 2 orphans, a boy and girl, at a huge, isolated country estate. The nanny starts seeing dead, former employees. Is she mad or is the estate haunted?

Director: Donato Rotunno | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Tara Fitzgerald, Christian Olson, Gabrielle Adam

Votes: 2,749

26. J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

Murdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup

Votes: 1,448

27. Sole Survivor (2000 TV Movie)

174 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Dean Koontz's best-selling novel is brought to TV in this 4 hour mini-series. After the death of his wife and daughter in a plane crash, a newspaper reporter discovers that the crash may ... See full summary »

Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Billy Zane, Gloria Reuben, Isabella Hofmann, Rachel Victoria

Votes: 1,143

28. The Cleansing Hour (2016)

19 min | Short, Horror

Two failed filmmakers have found success running a webcast that streams LIVE exorcisms. However, every episode is an elaborately staged hoax, created to dupe their global audience. But, ... See full summary »

Director: Damien LeVeck | Stars: Sam Jaeger, Heather Elizabeth Morris, Neil Grayston, Jonny Radtke

Votes: 341

29. Ga-Rei-Zero (2008– )

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Follows two friends, daughters of exorcists, who are now members of the government's secret Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division that fights demons when they appear in Japan.

Stars: Minori Chihara, Kaoru Mizuhara, Shin'ya Takahashi, Alexis Tipton

Votes: 777

30. Killer Pad (2008)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror

Three pals move into a haunted house in the Hollywood Hills.

Director: Robert Englund | Stars: Daniel Franzese, Eric Jungmann, Shane McRae, Emily Baldoni

Votes: 1,506

31. The Faith of Anna Waters (I) (2016)

TV-MA | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths ... See full summary »

Director: Kelvin Tong | Stars: Daeng Amer Omar, Darius Tan, Colin Borgonon, Elizabeth Rice

Votes: 2,100

32. The Turn of the Screw (1974 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 120 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Lynn Redgrave, Megs Jenkins, John Barron, Anthony Langdon

Votes: 350

33. The Turn of the Screw (1992)

R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

Soon after settling into her new role as governess at the faraway and well-appointed Bly House, Jenny begins to suspect that her young charges, Flora and Miles, have seen something unimaginably sinister.

Director: Rusty Lemorande | Stars: Patsy Kensit, Stéphane Audran, Julian Sands, Marianne Faithfull

Votes: 605

34. The Legend of Resurrection Mary (2021)

91 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

Jeff Pryce nearly runs down a beautiful, yet mysterious young girl walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery. Jeff offers to give her a ride and by the time he drops her off, a mutual ... See full summary »

Director: Sean Michael Beyer | Stars: Kevin G. Schmidt, Pamela Jean Noble, Sally Kirkland, Richard Riehle

35. 1920: Evil Returns (2012)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A famous poet, Jaidev, meets a woman who has lost her memories. He brings her to his house and tries to help her, but things take an ugly turn when she gets possessed by an evil spirit.

Director: Bhushan Patel | Stars: Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai, Sharad Kelkar, Vidya Malvade

Votes: 2,245

36. Resurrection Mary (2007)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A young man meets a girl who might be a ghost, but matters turn serious when his friends start dying under mysterious circumstances.

Director: Sean Michael Beyer | Stars: Kevin G. Schmidt, Pamela Jean Noble, Sally Kirkland, Kristin Herrera

Votes: 354

37. Evil Angel (2009)

123 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

When the young woman Emma Carillo is stabbed five times, paramedic Marcus Galan feels a great empathy for her and unsuccessfully tries to save her life in the Mercy Hospital. Meanwhile the ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Dutcher | Stars: Ving Rhames, Ava Gaudet, Kristopher Shepard, Richard Dutcher

Votes: 1,382

38. Curse of the God Dog (1977)

103 min | Horror

A man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him.

Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Shin'ya Ôwada, Emiko Yamauchi, Masami Hasegawa, Jun Izumi

Votes: 185

39. Raketeros (2013)

105 min | Comedy

Some middle-aged male friends get into a heap of trouble as they try to recover a priceless dress that they lost after a night of partying.

Director: Randy Santiago | Stars: Herbert Bautista, Dennis Padilla, Andrew E., Ogie Alcasid

Votes: 22

40. Cold Fear (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

Tom Hansen, a US coast guard, is sent to investigate a distress call from a Russian whaler in the Bering Sea. A watery gateway to hell opens as the horror lurking below the ship's bloodstained decks rises.

Director: Antoine Villette | Stars: Andy Chase, Dominic Gould, Doug Rand, Gay Marshall

Votes: 405

41. An Evening with My Comatose Mother (2011)

Unrated | 33 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

When Dorothy is invited over to the Poe's on Halloween night, no one ever told her about their decomposing, comatose mother living in the upstairs bedroom. She'll wish somebody had when the storm hits, and Mother wakes up.

Director: Jonathan Martin | Stars: Wendy Macy, Michele Turner Wilson, Missy Hill, Rick Macy

Votes: 265

42. Che dau che (1980)

96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A compulsive gambler with bad luck owes money to a violent gangster boss. A mysterious old man offers him a proposal to marry the ghost of his dead daughter in exchange for cash and an expensive apartment.

Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: James Yi Lui, Jenny Liang, Ju-Hua Pei, Lap Ban Chan

Votes: 119

43. The Turn of the Screw (1982 TV Movie)

118 min | Drama, Music, Thriller

A governess looking after two children begins suspecting that the ghost of her predecessor is haunting them.

Director: Petr Weigl | Stars: Helen Donath, Magda Vásáryová, Ava June, Dana Medrická

Votes: 60

44. Satan Returns (1996)

95 min | Action, Horror

Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she's the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him.

Director: Wai-Lun Lam | Stars: Chingmy Yau, Francis Ng, Donnie Yen, Dayo Wong

Votes: 296

45. Teras Terrace

Animation, Short, Comedy | Filming

Teras Terrace is set in a gated community populated entirely by bizarre monsters accidentally created or brought there by a high-tech company, Pretorius Technologies. When an ordinary human... See full summary »

Director: Read MacGuirtose | Stars: Elizabeth Triplett, Eric Larsen, Read MacGuirtose, Casey Robinson

46. Witch Graveyard (2013)

Unrated | 70 min | Fantasy, Horror

Four travelers innocently decide to rest in a wooded area off an old freeway. Unbeknown to them, they are at an old abandoned and haunted cemetery.

Director: Bruno Renat | Stars: Catherine Franklin, Reuben Rox, Rachel Wise, Lisa Armosino-Morris

Votes: 493 | Gross: $0.01M

47. Lille Lise (2005)

19 min | Drama, Short, Horror

A man carries his dead wife to the trunk of a car in front of their 4-year-old daughter. All together they drive to a lake far into the forest, where the father plans to dump the body and end the lives of himself and his daughter. However, everything is not what it seems...

Director: Benjamin Holmsteen | Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Joy Nadia Jensen, Sonja Richter

Votes: 130

48. The Enemy (1974)

67 min | Drama, Fantasy

Christians Betsy and Tim grapple with demons who have possessed a pair of young brothers.

Director: Donald W. Thompson | Stars: Ken Smith, Judith Ivey, Ron Relic, Ed Krieger

Votes: 11

49. Demon Summer (2003 Video)

Not Rated | 80 min | Horror

20 years ago the small town of Louisville, Ohio was stunned by the gruesome death of a local teenage girl. The case was shrouded in mystery and never resolved. The only man who knows the ... See full summary »

Directors: Andrew Campbell, Lucas Campbell | Stars: Nick Jackson, Andrew Campbell, Cory Maidens, Ashleigh Holeman

Votes: 178

50. No Thanks (2012)

Unrated | 9 min | Short, Horror

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Directors: Thomas Delcarpio, Paul McAroni | Stars: Lucas Fleming, Tony Kress, Chris Hurley, Shahjehan Khan

Votes: 9