10. "What Lies Beneath" 2000 It had been a year since Dr. Norman Spencer betrayed his beautiful wife Claire. But with Claire oblivious to the truth and the affair over, Norman's life and marriage seem perfect. So perfect that when Claire tells him of hearing mysterious voices and seeing a young woman's wraith-like image in their home, he dismisses her mounting terror as delusion. However, as Claire moves closer to the truth, it becomes clear that this apparition will not be dismissed, and has come back for Dr. Norman Spencer... and his beautiful wife.

9. "The Ring" 2002 A strange videotape begins making the rounds in a town in the Pacific Northwest it is full of bizarre and haunting images, and after watching it, many viewers receive a telephone call in which they are warned they will die in seven days. The Ring was adapted from a 1996 Japanese film by Hideo Nakata.

8. "May" 2003 May has always been a bit of an outsider. You might consider her a quirky girl. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn't notice that she is any different from scores of other young women trying to make their way in the big city. She lives alone, works as a veterinarian assistant, makes her own clothes, and dreams of finding the right person to fall in love with, soon. There is that hot guy who works as a mechanic down the street. A chance for romance looks promising, yet it's hard to be optimistic he's not exactly normal either. Maybe she'll find what she's looking for with the sexed-up lesbian receptionist at work? As the adage goes, love tends to grow where you least expect it. What May really needs is a friend. But true friends are hard to make, unless you have plenty of body parts in your freezer waiting to be stitched together.

7. "Gin Gwai" The Eye 2002 Mun is a 20-year-old woman who lost her sight at the age of two. A team of doctors has some good news for Mun: a new cornea transplant operation could restore her sight, and Mun eagerly submits to surgery. The operation is a success, but Mun begins suffering from some unexpected side effects. She begins seeing another face in her mirror, strange specters follow her, and people she's never met are addressing her as if they know her. Mun and her friend Dr. Wah think her problems may have something to do with the corneal donor, and they set out for Thailand to find out just whose eyes Mun has been seeing through.

6. "The Others" 2001 On the secluded Isle of Jersey in the final days of World War II, a young woman waits in vain for her beloved husband to return from the front. Grace has been raising her two young children alone in her beautiful, cavernous Victorian mansion, the one place she believes them to be safe. But they are not safe. Not anymore. When a new trio of servants arrives to replace the crew that inexplicably disappeared, startling events begin to unfold. Grace's daughter reveals she has been communicating with unexplained apparitions that come and go in every room of the house. At first, Grace refuses to believe in her children's scary sightings, but soon, she too begins to sense that intruders are at large. Who are these numinous trespassers? And what do they want from Grace's family? In order to discover the truth, Grace must abandon all of her fears and beliefs and enter the otherworldly heart of the supernatural.

5. "Session 9" 2001 The story revolves around Gordon Fleming, a new father struggling to keep his asbestos removal company afloat. Desperate to bring in some money, the normally deliberate and careful Gordon gets the contract by promising that his company can clear out the creepy deserted building in a week's time. Assisted by his right-hand man, Phil, Gordon hires a crew and, pressed by the nearly impossible deadline, gets the hazardous work underway. But each man on the crew harbors a dangerous secret, and it's only a short time before the haunted atmosphere of the asylum, where cruel and primitive means were used to control unstable patients, begins to work its dark spell on them.

4. "The Strangers" 2008 The horrifying events that took place in the Hoyt family's vacation home at 1801 Clark Road on Feb. 11, 2005, are still not entirely known. Champagne. Rose petals. Candlelight. It was supposed to be a night of celebration for Kristen McKay and James Hoyt. But, after leaving a friend's wedding reception and returning to the house, everything had collapsed for the happy couple. Then came a 4 a.m. knock on the door and a haunting voice. "Is Tamara here?" "The Strangers" is a terrifying suspense thriller about a couple whose remote getaway becomes a place of terror when masked strangers invade. The confrontation forces Kristen and James to go far beyond what they think themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

3. "The Innkeepers" 2012 Set in the venerable Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is about to shut its doors for good after over a century of service. Believed by many to be one of New England's most haunted hotels, the last remaining employees, Claire and Luke, are determined to uncover proof before it shuts down for good. As the Inn's final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage ghost hunters begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel's long unexplained history.

2. "A Tale of Two Sisters" 2003 Following the suicide of his wife, Mu-Hyun takes his two daughters out of hospitalization to stay in a remote country home with their stepmother, Eun-joo. Elder sister Su-mi is mean to her stepmother, while younger sister Su-yeon is mostly silent. After a series of creepy disturbances, Eun-joo locks Su-yeon in a wardrobe, which enrages Su-mi even more. When Mu-Hyun goes into town, Su-mi finally confronts her stepmother in a painfully revealing fight.

1. "House of the Devil" 2009 Sam is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan is Sam's best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house, and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloody fight for her life.

Honorable Mention: "The Babadook" 2014 I have not see it yet, however it looks very promising. Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her out of control 6 year-old, Samuel, a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel's dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called "The Babadook" turns up at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he's been dreaming about. His hallucinations spiral out of control, he becomes more unpredictable and violent. Amelia, genuinely frightened by her son's behaviour, is forced to medicate him. But when Amelia begins to see glimpses of a sinister presence all around her, it slowly dawns on her that the thing Samuel has been warning her about may be real.