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15 Movies Like The Conjuring — Haunted Houses, True Stories, and Genuine Dread

If The Conjuring's supernatural atmosphere kept you awake that night, these films deliver the same paranormal horror, based-on-true-events weight, and slow-burn dread.

15 FILMS·April 2026·By MoviesPack
Section 1

What The Conjuring Gets Right

James Wan's 2013 film succeeds where most haunted house movies fail: it earns the scares through character. You care about the Perron family before the house starts its work on them. And the Warrens — Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga — bring a warmth and professionalism to their paranormal investigation that makes the supernatural feel plausible. The "hide and clap" game sequence is textbook horror craft. When you want something "like The Conjuring," you're after **a haunted location with physical presence, investigators or families who feel real, a sense that the evil has history and rules, and dread that builds slowly before it pays off spectacularly.** Here's the full list. [Use our tool to find more: Movies Like The Conjuring](/similar/the-conjuring)

Section 2

The Essential Supernatural Picks

Insidious
01

Insidious

2010
★7.2IMDb
A boy falls into a coma with no medical explanation. His family begins to hear things, see things, and sense a presence in the house. Then a specialist tells them the house isn't haunted — their son's spirit has traveled somewhere else, and something out there has followed it back. The first act is a masterclass in building domestic dread; the haunting feels wrong before you can explain why. The third act's ghost hunter sequence is both funny and terrifying.
Why it matters

Same director, same domestic setting, same sense of an evil that has been waiting patiently.

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Sinister
02

Sinister

2012
★6.8IMDb
A true-crime writer moves his family into a house where a family was murdered — without telling his wife that detail — and discovers a box of Super 8 home movies in the attic. He watches them. Each film documents a different family's murder, spanning decades, all connected by something in the footage he can't quite make out. The found footage within the film — grainy, intimate, horrifying — is some of the most effective horror imagery of the 2010s. Ethan Hawke carries it completely.
Why it matters

Based-on-evidence investigation structure, family in a haunted house, a malevolent presence with a mythology and rules.

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The Haunting of Hill House
03

The Haunting of Hill House

2018
★8.6IMDb
A family moves into a vast, decaying estate for one summer when the children are young. Something happens that summer that they never fully talk about. Twenty years later, the adult siblings are still fractured by it — and Hill House calls them back. Mike Flanagan's Netflix series follows both timelines simultaneously, and the genius is that every ghost in the house turns out to be someone the family lost. The "bent neck lady" reveal in Episode 5 is one of television's great moments. Watch the whole thing.
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Annabelle: Creation
04

Annabelle: Creation

2017
★6.5IMDb
Years after losing their young daughter, a doll-maker and his wife open their farmhouse to a group of orphaned girls from a closed convent. One of the girls starts exploring the locked rooms. She finds the doll. The best entry in the Conjuring expanded universe that isn't one of the two main films, and it earns its scares by building genuine spatial tension from the farmhouse's geography — you always know exactly where you are and exactly what's in each room.
Why it matters

Directly connected to The Conjuring universe, same slow-build dread, a malevolent entity with a specific history.

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The Amityville Horror
05

The Amityville Horror

1979
★6.2IMDb
The Lutz family buy a beautiful waterfront house in Amityville for well below market value — a house where a man murdered his entire family the previous year. They last 28 days. The granddaddy of the based-on-true-events haunted house film, and the case that made the Warrens famous. The 2005 Ryan Reynolds remake is louder but less effective. The original earns its dread from the performances and the weight of the "real events" framing.
Why it matters

The Warrens investigated this case too; it's the case that defined the "paranormal investigators called to a house" genre The Conjuring popularized.

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Section 3

The Atmospheric Slow Burns

The Others
06

The Others

2001
★7.6IMDb
A woman lives in an isolated Victorian mansion with her two children, whose severe light sensitivity means every room must be kept in darkness. She's waiting for her husband to return from WWII. Strange things start happening. New servants arrive with no references. Her daughter insists there's a boy living in the house. The twist ending remains one of the genre's best because it reframes every scene you've already watched. Nicole Kidman's most underrated film.
Why it matters

Isolated house, supernatural presences with specific rules, a revelation that changes everything.

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Hereditary
07

Hereditary

2018
★7.3IMDb
When a family's secretive grandmother dies, her daughter and grandchildren begin experiencing things they can't explain — and find evidence their grandmother was involved in something that may have been planned for generations. It's a film about grief that slowly becomes a film about something much worse. Toni Collette gives a performance that should have won every award, and the tree house sequence mid-film is one of the most shocking cuts in recent cinema.
Why it matters

Family haunting with generational roots, slow build to overwhelming horror, a malevolent force with a mythology.

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The Haunting
08

The Haunting

1963
★7.6IMDb
A paranormal researcher assembles a small group to investigate Hill House, a mansion with a history of death and madness. Among them is Eleanor, a shy, repressed woman for whom the invitation feels like the first real thing in her life. The house may be haunted — or Eleanor may be. The film never tells you which. Almost no visual effects — the horror is entirely in sound design, camerawork, and Julie Harris' psychological breakdown. Modern horror filmmakers cite this constantly. James Wan included.
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09

The Changeling

1980
★7.2IMDb
A composer moves into a grand Victorian mansion after losing his wife and daughter, and slowly realizes the house is haunted by a murdered child who wants something specific from him. One of the quietest, most intelligent haunted house films ever made — the ghost communicates through a wheelchair, a bouncing ball, and an automatic writing session, and the mystery of what it wants builds genuine dread without a single jump scare.
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Section 4

The Found Footage Variants

Paranormal Activity
10

Paranormal Activity

2007
★6.3IMDb
A couple installs cameras throughout their house after the girlfriend mentions she's been followed by a presence since she was a child. They review the footage each morning and watch the disturbances get worse. Made for $15,000 and earned $193 million. The genius is what you don't see: each static shot becomes a frame you scan desperately for movement. The escalation from small disturbances to full possession is executed with remarkable restraint.
Why it matters

Domestic investigation of a supernatural presence, the presence has been there longer than the characters know, and evidence accumulates slowly.

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Lake Mungo
11

Lake Mungo

2008
★6.8IMDb
A teenage girl drowns on a family trip. Her family starts to believe she's haunting their home — seeing her in videos, hearing things at night. What they actually discover is something about who she was in the weeks before her death that none of them knew. Presented entirely as a documentary with interviews and found footage, it's the most emotionally devastating film on this list. The horror is less about supernatural threat and more about what we don't know about the people closest to us.
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Section 5

The International Horror Gems

12

Tumbbad

2018
★8.2IMDb
A family's ancestral estate in colonial-era Maharashtra holds a secret: somewhere in the crumbling structure, a forgotten god is imprisoned with an infinite supply of gold coins. The men of the family keep going back for more, generation after generation. The creature design is extraordinary — genuinely unlike anything in Western horror — and the film's mythology is rich and internally consistent. It's the rare horror film where the monster feels ancient and the greed feels sadder than the fear.
Why it matters

Ancestral home with a malevolent history, a supernatural entity with specific rules and mythology, horror rooted in greed and family curse.

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A Tale of Two Sisters
13

A Tale of Two Sisters

2003
★7.4IMDb
Two sisters return home from a psychiatric facility to their father and new stepmother. The stepmother's behavior is increasingly threatening. The house is concealing something. What exactly is happening — and to whom — becomes harder to determine the further the film goes. Deeply layered South Korean psychological horror; you'll understand things differently on a second watch. The cold, beautifully composed shots of the house make it feel as sinister as any location in Western horror.
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The Eye
14

The Eye

2002
★6.9IMDb
A woman who has been blind since childhood receives a cornea transplant and starts seeing the world — and starts seeing the dead. The ghosts aren't malevolent; they're lost and sad, which is somehow more disturbing than a monster. One of the great ghost-story films of its era, and the elevator sequence predates most of the jump-scare techniques that are now standard in the genre.
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The Wailing
15

The Wailing

2016
★7.5IMDb
People in a small South Korean village start dying horribly — possessed, violent, unrecognizable — and the deaths begin soon after a mysterious Japanese stranger moved into the hills outside town. A bumbling local policeman investigates while his daughter starts showing signs of the same affliction. A mystery, a horror film, and a meditation on faith and doubt that refuses to give you simple answers. 156 minutes and earns every one of them.
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Section 6

Quick Comparison

| Movie | Vibe | Best For | |-------|------|----------| | Insidious | Domestic, gateway to The Further | James Wan's warm-up | | Sinister | True-crime investigator uncovers evil | The most frightening imagery | | Hereditary | Family grief becomes horror | The emotionally devastating pick | | The Others | Gothic, atmospheric | The best twist ending | | Tumbbad | Indian period horror | The most unique mythology | | Lake Mungo | Documentary grief horror | The most emotionally affecting | | The Haunting (1963) | Classical, no effects | The original blueprint | | The Wailing | Korean mystery-horror | The most ambitious |

Section 7

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