242 films

Consciousness hiding in the dead

Ghosts, revenants, and the persistence of a mind past its body.

Every film here has been read through the same lens: which rung of the E0–E14 reality ladder its story fights on, whether it moves consciousness off the human, and which rule of its world it alters. Ordered by how many people have rated them.

Coco (2017)★ 8.2memory, family, tradition, deathSpirited Away (2001)★ 8.5identity, labor, environment, memoryThe Sixth Sense (1999)★ 8.0death, grief, memory, communicationPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)★ 6.7piracy, curses, legacy, authorityCorpse Bride (2005)★ 7.6mortality, love, class, traditionGhostbusters (1984)★ 7.5technology, fear, authority, othernessThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)★ 6.5law, family, immortality, identityBeetlejuice (1988)★ 7.4death, bureaucracy, property, familySleepy Hollow (1999)★ 7.2prejudice, class, superstition, inheritanceInsidious (2011)★ 6.9possession, afterlife, fear, familyThe Others (2001)★ 7.6grief, faith, memory, identityGhostbusters (2016)★ 5.3ghost, belief, bureaucracy, scienceThe Ring (2002)★ 6.7media, mortality, fear, technologyInterview with the Vampire (1994)★ 7.4immortality, morality, loss, identityWarm Bodies (2013)★ 6.5prejudice, love, transformation, fearGhost (1990)★ 7.2love, grief, justice, afterlifeBram Stoker's Dracula (1992)★ 7.5love, mortality, religion, desireA Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)★ 7.3fear, dreams, trauma, deathBlade II (2002)★ 6.6infection, power, immortality, prejudiceGhostbusters: Afterlife (2021)★ 7.3fear, legacy, family, technologyScary Movie 2 (2001)★ 5.8ghost, parody, sexuality, mediaThe Lovely Bones (2009)★ 7.1grief, justice, mortalityCasper (1995)★ 6.3afterlife, grief, memory, familyGhostbusters II (1989)★ 6.6emotion, spirit, law, communityInsidious: Chapter 2 (2013)★ 6.7death, memory, family, possessionScary Movie 3 (2003)★ 6.0fear, media, technology, supernaturalMama (2013)★ 6.3grief, motherhood, family, lossR.I.P.D. (2013)★ 5.9authority, bureaucracy, death, justiceLights Out (2016)★ 6.4fear, family, griefSwiss Army Man (2016)★ 6.9consciousness, mortality, loveTalk to Me (2023)★ 7.1grief, death, family, possessionThe Woman in Black (2012)★ 6.1grief, revenge, supernatural, fearInsidious: Chapter 3 (2015)★ 6.3spirit, grief, possession, afterlifeUnfriended (2014)★ 5.5technology, privacy, guilt, bullyingYoung Frankenstein (1974)★ 7.9prejudice, science, identity, loveBig Trouble in Little China (1986)★ 7.2culture, magic, myth, prejudicePoltergeist (1982)★ 7.2fear, family, consumerism, deathThe Grudge (2004)★ 5.9curse, grief, fearBeetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)★ 6.9bureaucracy, marriage, contract, ghostA Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)★ 5.5fear, sleep, traumaOuija (2014)★ 5.1fear, possession, otherness, mortalityParaNorman (2012)★ 7.0prejudice, fear, tradition, deathGhost Ship (2002)★ 6.0greed, sin, afterlife, survivalThe Curse of La Llorona (2019)★ 5.7fear, grief, motherhood, mythParanormal Activity 2 (2010)★ 5.8possession, family, fearOuija: Origin of Evil (2016)★ 6.2fear, grief, religion, familyRings (2017)★ 5.0Just Like Heaven (2005)★ 7.0love, grief, death, memoryA Ghost Story (2017)★ 7.1grief, memory, time, mortalityGothika (2003)★ 6.1ghost, possession, justice, memoryThe Ring Two (2005)★ 5.8fear, death, family, curseGhosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)★ 6.0love, grief, memory, growthOnly Lovers Left Alive (2013)★ 7.2immortality, culture, music, lonelinessPoltergeist (2015)★ 5.2death, grief, fear, supernaturalThir13en Ghosts (2001)★ 6.3death, afterlife, family, sacrificeThe Amityville Horror (2005)★ 6.1possession, trauma, religion, hauntingEvery Day (2018)★ 7.2identity, love, consent, mortalitySinister 2 (2015)★ 5.9fear, grief, violence, religionThe Return of the Living Dead (1985)★ 7.2death, fear, survival, militarismThe Skeleton Key (2005)★ 6.6prejudice, belief, possession, slaveryThe Unholy (2021)★ 6.6faith, media, miracle, possessionTwin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)★ 7.4trauma, mystery, spirituality, secrecyCharlie St. Cloud (2010)★ 7.0death, grief, love, afterlifeGhostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)★ 6.5ghost, fear, authority, ritualThe Haunted Mansion (2003)★ 5.7mortality, family, controlA Haunted House (2013)★ 5.9fear, faith, familyWhat Lies Beneath (2000)★ 6.4guilt, betrayal, memory, possessionA Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)★ 6.7fear, trauma, dreamVelvet Buzzsaw (2019)★ 5.4art, greed, mortality, exploitationWhen Marnie Was There (2014)★ 7.9identity, memory, family, griefInsidious: The Red Door (2023)★ 6.5family, fear, mortalityVolver (2006)★ 7.5family, memory, death, guiltCriminal (2016)★ 6.2memory, identity, espionage, technologyVeronica (2017)★ 6.2fear, grief, possession, traumaThe Forest (2016)★ 5.2grief, guilt, folklore, deathWinchester (2018)★ 5.9grief, guilt, corporate, hauntingCandyman (1992)★ 6.7prejudice, legend, horror, urbanCandyman (2021)★ 6.0prejudice, gentrification, trauma, mythThe Fog (1980)★ 6.7revenge, guilt, mortality, fearJujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)★ 8.1caste, grief, power, authorityThe Frighteners (1996)★ 6.9afterlife, guilt, justiceThe Possession (2012)★ 6.0possession, faith, family, fearField of Dreams (1989)★ 7.1dreams, reconciliation, nostalgia, legacyRing (1998)★ 7.1fear, death, media, curseGhost World (2001)★ 7.1loneliness, death, apocalypse, technologyThe Haunting (1999)★ 5.5fear, memory, exploitation, familyStay (2005)★ 6.6death, grief, reality, psychologyThe Awakening (2011)★ 6.4grief, memory, trauma, beliefParanormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)★ 5.3fear, religion, deathThe Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)★ 6.5possession, ritual, memory, mortalityMortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020)★ 8.1war, power, justiceThe Unborn (2009)★ 5.2religion, family, grief, possessionDream House (2011)★ 6.2grief, memory, justiceThe Discovery (2017)★ 6.3death, grief, faith, technologyA Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)★ 5.4fear, mortality, dreamShutter (2004)★ 7.3guilt, memory, revenge, supernaturalThe Devil's Backbone (2001)★ 7.3war, ghost, memory, traumaVampires (1998)★ 6.3religion, immortality, powerStir of Echoes (1999)★ 6.7death, grief, secrets, abusePersonal Shopper (2016)★ 5.9grief, identity, afterlife, memoryThe Grudge (2019)★ 5.4fear, curse, trauma, possessionHost (2020)★ 6.6technology, spirit, fear, isolationHaunted Mansion (2023)★ 6.4grief, afterlife, haunting, ritualThe Haunting in Connecticut (2009)★ 6.2fear, death, possession, griefAlong with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017)★ 8.0afterlife, judgment, filial, redemptionPolaroid (2019)★ 6.0abuse, revenge, guilt, traumaThe Grudge 2 (2006)★ 5.6curse, grief, fear, revengeDark Water (2005)★ 5.7grief, family, fear, neglectJason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)★ 4.6possession, family, revengeThe Deep House (2021)★ 6.0fear, possession, sacrifice, memoryNosferatu the Vampyre (1979)★ 7.3fear, death, religion, plagueThe Prodigy (2019)★ 6.2possession, parental, violence, identityThe Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)★ 5.2grief, guilt, war, hauntingGhost Town (2008)★ 6.5death, grief, love, unfinishedThe Amityville Horror (1979)★ 6.3fear, faith, family, evilThe Turning (2020)★ 5.7fear, class, authorityGrave Encounters 2 (2012)★ 5.6fear, institution, occult, survivalAll of Us Strangers (2023)★ 7.4grief, memory, identity, loveByzantium (2013)★ 6.3prejudice, immortality, power, traditionHouse on Haunted Hill (1999)★ 5.6fear, greed, supernatural

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