Do you want to tickle your nerves with something really impressive? Then catch 15 of the scariest, highly rated mystical movies! We have selected the best options from viewers and critics so you don't have to waste your own time searching.
1. The Shining (1980)
Let's start with King's classics, because this collection would definitely not be complete without her. By the way, the writer himself is ambivalent about the film adaptation of Stanley Kubrick. But the film definitely keeps in suspense until the last minute.
2. Doctor Sleep (2019)
The relatively new film is a sequel to The Shining, but it is quite possible to watch it as an independent film. Ewan McGregor stars in the title role, and this is another good reason to pay attention to this mystical horror!
3. Rite of passage (2011)
A real-life drama with Anthony Hopkins just can't be bad. A skeptical seminary graduate travels to the Vatican to study the difficult art of exorcism. There he learns about the dark side of the spirit world ...
4. The Curse of Annabelle: The Birth of Evil (2017)
This film was much more successful than the previous one and brought the entire Conjuring franchise to the top 3 highest grossing horrors. The creator of the dolls, Samuel Mullins (Anthony Lapaglia), grieves for his deceased daughter and makes a deal with a mystical entity that longs to acquire at least some kind of physical body.
5. Six Demons Emily Rose (2005)
The film became a cult favorite among connoisseurs of mysticism, and made the story of Emily Rose incredibly popular. Father More (Tom Wilkinson) performs an exorcism during which his Emily dies. This is how a protracted trial begins, during which many impartial details emerge.
6. Quiet place (2018)
Humanity is almost destroyed by unknown monsters - the angels of death. Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee Abbott (John Krasinski) with their children are trying to survive in a world where no sound can be made at all so that you will not be found.
7. Haze (2007)
After the storm, artist David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his wife spot a suspicious white fog over the lake. But everyone has absolutely no time for this weather anomaly, until a bloody Dan Miller (Jeffrey DeMann) is hiding in the same fog, warning of the danger.
8. Curse (2004)
An American remake of a Japanese classic starring Sarah Michelle Gellar is definitely worthy of being on this list. The curse of the dead is spreading like a virus, taking more and more lives with it.
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9. Astral (2010)
The joint creation of the creators of "Saw" with Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne was doomed to success. The classic plot: a married couple with children move to a new house, and strange things begin to happen there. But is it that simple this time?
10. The Exorcist (1973)
The classic horror film by William Friedkin was nominated for ten Oscars at once, and even won two of them. An elderly priest finds the head of a demon during excavations in Iraq. At the same time, Chris McNeill is filming while young father Karras is trying to recover from his mother's death. What is the connection?
11. The Oculus (2013)
Tim Russell (Brenton Thwaites) is discharged from a mental hospital after compulsory therapy. At the age of 10, he killed his own father, but insisted that it was not in him, but in the mirror. And so, together with her sister Kayleigh (Karen Gillan), they are trying to figure out their past.
12. Depth (2002)
The mystical horror film by David Tui and Darren Aronofsky is set on a submarine during the war. The crew manages to save the survivors of the hospital shipwreck, but something is amiss in their history. An interesting fact: before filming began, the actors were trained at a submariner's school.
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13. Mysterious forest (2004)
In the forest around the Protestant village of Pennsylvania, there are mysterious creatures that cannot be named. Residents are forbidden to cross the line of the village, because the world around is mired in greed and debauchery.Cast - Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver, Bryce Dallas Howard and many others.
14. Suspiria (2018)
First of all, this film from the competition program of the Venice Film Festival attracts attention with an impressive cast: Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moritz and Dakota Johnson. A young ballerina arrives in Berlin for a dance school, surrounded by rumors of witches and mysterious disappearances.
15. Carrie (1976)
We started this collection with a classic, and we want to end it on the same note. This is the first film adaptation of Stephen King's prose and the very story of the young Carrie White, who suffered from ridicule at school and the strictness of her mother. Despite the availability of remakes and adaptations, the 1976 film can be safely called the best.