# The best haunted house movies

Creaking floors, cold spots and houses that don't want you there: the haunted house films that top critics' and fans' rankings (AV Club, MovieWeb, JoBlo).

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- Jul 31, 2023 · justmixtape
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## Top 15

1. **The Shining (1980)** (15 · ▲15 ▼0) — Jack Nicholson, the Overlook Hotel and a long winter.
2. **The Conjuring (2013)** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Ed and Lorraine Warren take on a Rhode Island farmhouse.
3. **The Others (2001)** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — Nicole Kidman, two children who can't see daylight, and that twist.
4. **Poltergeist (1982)** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — "They're here": a suburban house and a TV set.
5. **The Haunting (1963)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Robert Wise's Hill House: terror without showing a thing.
6. **The Legend of Hell House (1973)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Investigators spend a week in the 'Mount Everest of haunted houses'.
7. **The Amityville Horror (1979)** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — The Long Island house that started a franchise.
8. **The Changeling (1980)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — George C. Scott in a mansion with a secret in the attic.
9. **Insidious (2010)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — It's not the house that's haunted, it's the son.
10. **The Innocents (1961)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Deborah Kerr as a governess, from Henry James.
11. **House (1977)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Japanese schoolgirls and a house that devours them, totally unhinged.
12. **Beetlejuice (1988)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — The ghosts are the victims here.
13. **The Devil's Backbone (2001)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Guillermo del Toro's ghost in a Spanish Civil War orphanage.
14. **Hereditary (2018)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A family grief that turns into something far worse.
15. **The Uninvited (1944)** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Ray Milland and a seaside house on the Cornish coast.
16. **The Orphanage (2007)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Belén Rueda and a children's home on the Asturian coast.

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