The Best Ghost Movies On Netflix Right Now

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Are you in the mood to get spooked out by some great ghost and paranormal movies on Netflix? Then all you need to do is fire up your Internet machine and throw on one of these scary movies about ghosts on Netflix right now. All of these pretty good films make their own variations on the idea of what a ghost story is, or how a haunted house movie should play out, and they’re all okay - seriously, not one of them is above or below average. 

Movies about ghosts and haunted houses are always fun to put on when you’re having a movie night with your friends. Not only do you get to see which one of your compadres is the most skittish when it comes to long shots of a darkly lit hallway, but movies about ghosts generally lead to personal ghost stories coming out, and that’s always a special time in a friendship. So whether you’re watching alone or with friends, these pretty okay movies about ghosts that are streaming on Netflix will take your night from boring to boo-oring (sorry). And once you’ve made your way through these tales of spooky splendor you should check out the best pretty okay horror movies on Netflix, unless you’re scared. 

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  • Visions
    1

    Visions

    Henry Garrett, Jakob Von Eichel, Steven Blake
    573 votes
    • Released: 2009
    • Directed by: Luigi Cecinelli
    A psychiatrist and profiler searches for a serial killer named "The Spider."
  • The Ritual
    2
    Rafe Spall, Rob James-Collier, Arsher Ali
    158 votes
    • Released: 2017
    • Directed by: David Bruckner
    Reuniting after the tragic death of their friend, four college pals set out to hike through the Scandinavian wilderness. A wrong turn leads them into the mysterious forests of Norse legend, where an ...more

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  • Malevolent
    3

    Malevolent

    109 votes

    A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.

  • The Boy
    4
    Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, Jim Norton
    71 votes
    • Released: 2016
    • Directed by: William Brent Bell
    A young American named Greta (Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny for an 8-year-old boy in a remote English village. To her surprise, Greta learns that the child of her new employers is a life-size ...more

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  • Polaroid
    5
    Kathryn Prescott, Mitch Pileggi, Grace Zabriskie
    74 votes
    • Released: 2019
    • Directed by: Lars Klevberg
    High school loner Bird Fitcher finds a vintage Polaroid camera that holds dark and mysterious secrets. She soon realizes that those who get their picture taken by it meet a tragic and untimely death.

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  • Bird Box
    6
    Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver
    179 votes
    • Released: 2018
    • Directed by: Susanne Bier
    When a mysterious force decimates the population, only one thing is certain -- if you see it, you die. The survivors must now avoid coming face to face with an entity that takes the form of their ...more

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