5 Horror Movies About Cursed Places for Those Who Miss 'Silent Hill', Ranked by IMDb

The plot of a typical horror movie often follows a similar pattern: an unsuspecting family moves into a new home, unaware of the centuries-old curse lurking within its walls.

However, in cinema, evil spells have long extended beyond private mansions: they can haunt abandoned hotels, old cemeteries, eerie forests, and entire towns where every corner oozes ancient evil.

5. 'Crimson Peak', 2015

IMDb Score: 6.5/10

At the beginning of the 20th century in New York, the young and beautiful Edith meets Thomas Sharpe, an English businessman trying to find funding in America for his red clay mining project.

Although he failed to secure the money, he captured Edith's heart and soon proposed. Despite her father's protests, Edith accepts the proposal and moves with her new husband to his family estate in Britain, Crimson Peak.

There, Thomas lives with his treacherous sister, Lucille, – and ghosts.

4. 'Sinister', 2012

IMDb Score: 6.8/10

Renowned true crime novelist Ellison is drawn to unsolved cases, which he dives into headfirst. Hoping to publish another bestseller, he moves his family to a small town and into a house where a mass murder occurred the previous year.

In the attic, all that remains of the previous tenants are reels of film. These are recordings of ritual sacrifices dating back to the 1960s. The films contain a first-person account of the massacre of entire families and a demon lurking in the pixels of the crackling footage.

3. '1408', 2007

IMDb Score: 6.8/10

Mike Enslin, a horror novelist, specializes in debunking paranormal myths – he has no patience for deception and can smell it a mile away.

However, when he checks into the infamous Room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel in downtown New York City, his worldview begins to crumble.

The confined space of the room creates a claustrophobic atmosphere and becomes a playground for the man's subconscious. Mike's deepest fears materialize in the form of ghosts, eerie phone calls, and strange visions from the past.

2. 'The Lighthouse', 2019

IMDb Score: 7.3/10

Off the coast of New England stands a lighthouse on an island. In the 1890s, a young lighthouse keeper named Ephraim Winslow arrived to assist the limping, bearded Thomas Wake.

The old man began treating the boy like a slave and strictly forbade him from climbing to the top of the lighthouse. Due to the physical exertion and complete isolation from the outside world, Winslow begins to lose his mind.

Robert Eggers' eerie movie focuses on themes of forbidden knowledge, divine punishment, and descent into madness. It's undoubtedly one of the most aesthetically pleasing and artistically compelling horror films in recent years.

1. 'The Orphanage', 2007

IMDb Score: 7.4/10

Laura, a former resident of an orphanage on the coast, returns home 30 years later. She just bought the entire orphanage and its dilapidated buildings, planning to restore them and turn them into a home for orphans.

For now, however, she only has her seven-year-old adopted son, Simón, in her care. One day, Simón begins hearing voices and some time later, he disappears without a trace.

Laura must determine if Simón was kidnapped, if he was the victim of an accident, or if the ghosts of the orphanage are to blame.