Best Supernatural power Movies
Ranked by how strongly each film carries the visual signature of supernatural power cinema — measured across 2,042 indexed frames from 26 films, against a 408,752-frame catalogue baseline. Not by box office, and not by vote.
Supernatural power films over-index on doll, denim overalls and striped shirt — the objects that make the genre recognisable before a line is spoken.
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Bride of Chucky (1998)
Ronny YuDP Peter Pau Tak-HaiIMDb 5.6TMDB 6.1See in full on FrameThrower →
Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts, two eloping high-school graduates.
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Seed of Chucky (2004)
Don ManciniDP Vernon LaytonIMDb 4.9TMDB 5.5See in full on FrameThrower →
Brad Dourifas Chucky (voice)
Jennifer Tillyas Tiffany (voice) / Jennifer Tilly
Billy Boydas Glen / Glenda (voice)
The killer doll is back. Glen, the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come-to-life Chucky and his equally twisted bride Tiffany. When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents' lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. Although Glen - or is it Glenda? - is immediately accepted, the family dynamics are far from perfect. Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem, much to gentle Glen's dismay. Chucky can't believe that his son doesn't want to walk in his murdering footsteps, while star-struck Tiffany can't believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly, who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one.
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Curse of Chucky (2013)
Don ManciniDP Michael MarshallIMDb 5.6TMDB 5.9See in full on FrameThrower →
After the events of Seed of Chucky, Nica, a young woman forced to a wheelchair since birth, has to regroup her sister, Barb and her brother-in-law, Ian for a funeral after the death of her mother. While dealing with Barb, Ian, along with their 5-year-old daughter, Alice; Nica receives an odd package - a creepy doll. After people start showing up dead, the fearless Nica soon suspects that the creepy doll is much more than just a doll.
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Child’s Play 2 (1990)
John LafiaDP Stefan CzapskyIMDb 6.0TMDB 6.4See in full on FrameThrower →
Andy Barclay has been placed in a foster home after the tragic events of the first film, since his mother was committed. In an attempt to save their reputation, the manufacturers of Chucky reconstruct the killer doll, to prove to the public that nothing was wrong with it in the first place. In doing so, they also bring the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray back to life. As Chucky tries to locate Andy, the body count rises. Will Andy be able to escape, or will Chucky succeed in possessing his body?
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Cult of Chucky (2017)
Don ManciniDP Michael MarshallIMDb 5.3TMDB 5.8See in full on FrameThrower →
After accused of murdering her family, Nica is taken to an asylum and thinks that she's the cause of the deaths of her family. However, when grisly deaths start to occur, she then realizes that Chucky, her illusion might not be make believe. She also finds out that the doll is slowly starting to possess anyone or anything to join a huge cult to kill off Chucky's victims, but things don't go to well in the asylum, including for Chucky's long lost friend, Andy, who tries to stop the cult from getting bigger while also trying to get past Chucky's wife, "Tiffany."
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Terrifier 3 (2024)
Damien LeoneDP George SteuberIMDb 6.2TMDB 6.8See in full on FrameThrower →
Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.
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The Crow (1994)
Alex ProyasDP Dariusz WolskiIMDb 7.5TMDB 7.5See in full on FrameThrower →
A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
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Evil Dead (2013)
Fede ÁlvarezDP Aaron MortonIMDb 6.5TMDB 6.6See in full on FrameThrower →
Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.
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Under The Shadow (2016)
Babak AnvariIMDb 6.8TMDB 6.5See in full on FrameThrower →
In the 80's, during the war between the Islamic post-revolutionary Iran and Iraq, the former leftist medical student Shideh tries to return to the university but is barred by the dean. The upset Shideh returns home and when her husband Dr. Iraj is assigned to work in a war zone, she refuses to move to his parent's house with their daughter Dorsa. Shideh prefers to stay in her apartment with Dorsa, who loves her doll Kimia and has constant fever. Dorsa is afraid of demoniac Djinns and when Shideh asks who told her about the legend, she tells that her friend that lives downstairs. Shideh visits her neighbor and asks his mother to tell her son to not tell horror stories to Dorsa and she learns that the boy is mute. Then Kimia and Shideh's Jane Fonda workout tape disappear. When a missile strikes their building, the neighbors decide to leave Tehran, but Shideh stays in the apartment with Dorsa, who is increasingly disturbed. Soon Shideh reads about Djinns and finds that there is an evil entity in the apartment. Further she must find Kimia; otherwise Dorsa will be in danger since the Djinn will be attached to her.
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The Shining (1980)
Stanley KubrickDP John AlcottIMDb 8.4TMDB 8.2See in full on FrameThrower →
Haunted by a persistent writer's block, the aspiring author and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance, drags his wife, Wendy, and his gifted son, Danny, up snow-capped Colorado's secluded Overlook Hotel after taking up a job as an off-season caretaker. As the cavernous hotel shuts down for the season, the manager gives Jack a grand tour, and the facility's chef, the ageing Mr Hallorann, has a fascinating chat with Danny about a rare psychic gift called "The Shining", making sure to warn him about the hotel's abandoned rooms, and, in particular, the off-limits Room 237. However, instead of overcoming the dismal creative rut, little by little, Jack starts losing his mind, trapped in an unforgiving environment of seemingly endless snowstorms, and a gargantuan silent prison riddled with strange occurrences and eerie visions. Now, the incessant voices inside Jack's head demand sacrifice. Is Jack capable of murder?
What supernatural power films are made of
How much more often each element appears in a supernatural power frame than in an average frame from the catalogue. A ratio, not a share — doll is not in most frames, it is simply far more common here than anywhere else.
- doll51.2×
- denim overalls15.4×
- striped shirt4.6×
- blood3.1×
- teeth2.4×
- fire2.4×
- staircase2.0×
- girl1.9×
How supernatural power films are shot
Weaker signals than the objects above, and worth saying so: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy, so these numbers separate supernatural power from the catalogue far more than they separate it from its neighbours.
- 10%low anglevs 5% baseline
- 25%naturalvs 43% baseline
- 27%dayvs 42% baseline
- 60%low keyvs 40% baseline
- 60%nightvs 43% baseline
What breaks the pattern
Insidious (2010) is the least typical film here — it carries the least of what the rest of this list is made of. Which is either a failure of the genre label, or the most interesting film on the page.
Method
Every frame in the FrameThrower catalogue is tagged for shot size, lighting, time of day, camera angle, colour and the objects visible in it. This page aggregates those tags across 2,042 frames from 26 films carrying the supernatural power label, and compares each figure to the same measurement across the whole catalogue (408,752 frames). Films are ranked by how closely they match the theme’s over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series. Only films with at least 20 indexed frames and 500 TMDB votes are listed.
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