101 horror movies with one thing in common — real estate

This article was updated Oct. 25, 2024.

There’s kind of an (un)natural connection between real estate and horror. After all, ghosts haunt houses; when you’re possessed by demons and in need of an exorcism, you’re basically homebound; and vampires need the stability of a home to avoid the sun for eternity.

Below, you’ll find all the eerie-sistable watches with, you guessed it, real estate at the center. By no means is this a comprehensive list, and we didn’t list every movie in any franchise, but have a scary good time catching up on these horror flicks.

House-based horror

Ghosts, vampires and apparently serial killers all rely on four walls and a roof just as much as the rest of us.

1. Speak No Evil (2024)
2. MaXXXine
3. The Watchers
4. Brooklyn 45
5. Cobweb 
6. The Tank 
7. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
8. Insidious: The Red Door 
9. Haunted Mansion
10. Barbarian 
11. Abandoned 
12. Last Night in SoHo
13. The Deep House
14. There’s Someone Inside Your House 
15. The Manor
16. The Rental 
17. The Strange House 
18. His House 
19. The Night House
20. The Owners
21. Winchester 
22. The Amityville Horror
23. House on Haunted Hill
24. Insidious
25. The Conjuring
26. Thir13en Ghosts
27. A Haunting in Connecticut
28. House of 1,000 corpses
29. The Haunting
30. An American Ghost Story
31. Crimson Peak
32. Suburban Gothic 
33. The Open House (Read Inman’s review here.)
34. Aftermath
35. House

A cabin in the woods

From strangers to campfires to zombies, aliens and ghosts, beware of the cabin in the woods (unless you’re selling it).

1. Friday the 13th
2. The Strangers
3. Never Let Go
4. Evil Dead
5. Knock At The Cabin
6. The Cabin in the Woods
7. The Ritual
8. Misery
9. Cabin Fever
10. It Comes at Night
11. Dog Soldiers
12. Creep
13. Outside

There goes the neighborhood …

These films demon-strate how quickly one bad apple can ruin the bunch.

1. Salem’s Lot
2. It
3. It Chapter Two
4. A Haunting in Venice
5. A Quiet Place
6. Scream
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street
8. Halloween
9. Terrifier 3
10. Fear Street Part 1, 1994 
11. Fear Street Part 2: 1978 
12. Fear Street Part 3: 1666 
13. Slotherhouse 
14. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
15. Vivarium (Read Inman’s review here.)
16. Sleepy Hollow
17. The Faculty

Family-friendly

There’s no reason that kids can’t get in on the scary-movie fun. Usually, the house is the start of the show in these films.

1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2. We Have A Ghost 
3. Nightbooks
4. Hocus Pocus
5. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
6. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
7. Goosebumps
8. The Curse of Bridge Hollow 
9. Beetlejuice
10. Casper
11. Disney’s Haunted Mansion
12. Monster House
13. The Haunted Mansion
14. The Private Eyes

Classics

Some of the top horror movies of all time take place in creepy mansions, abandoned shacks and that house on Haunted Hill.

1. The Shining
2. Nosferatu
3. Children of the Corn 
4. Poltergeist
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. The Amityville Horror
7. Psycho
8. The Exorcist
9. House on Haunted Hill

Movies where agents are killing it

Real estate agents take center stage in these films, some of which are based on nightmare transactions.

1. Fright Night 
2. Sweet Home
   
3. Bay of Blood
4. Evil Laugh 
5. The Vagrant
6. At the Devil’s Door
7. The Selling

Suspense

Property, neighborhoods and pocket listings are the scary subjects of these spine-tinglers.

1. Don’t Worry Darling
2. Private Property
3. The Ruthless Realtor
4. What Lies Beneath
5. Pocket Listing
6. Ruthless Realtor

What did we miss? Share your favorite scary, suspenseful or horror-filled movie or show in the comments section below.