Television

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Dr. Strange, starring Peter Hooten, Haunted, starring Matthew Fox, Werewolf, featuring Chuck Connors, and The Norliss Tapes starring Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson.

10. The Sixth Sense

Created by Anthony Lawrence. With Gary Collins. Dr. Michael Rhodes is a college professor with an interest in the paranormal. He and his assistant Nancy spend much of their time investigating mysteries involving extra-sensory perception, spirits, possessions, and other such experiences.

09. The Dresden Files

Produced by Nicolas Cage. With Paul Blackthorne, Valerie Cruz, Terrence Mann. A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.

08. Fringe

Created by JJ Abrams. Starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, and John Noble. An FBI Agent, a Mad Scientist and that scientist’s doppleganger son from another dimension investigate strange phenomena and battle aggressive forces from a parallel universe.

07. Brimstone

Created by Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris. With Peter Horton, John Glover, Lori Petty. A dead cop, sentenced to Hell, is returned to Earth by the Devil to recover 113 evil spirits.

06. Millennium

Created by Chris Carter. With Lance Henriksen, Terry O’Quinn. A series that followed Frank Black, a freelance forensic profiler and former FBI Agent with a unique ability to see the world through the eyes of serial killers and murderers.

05. The X-Files

Created by Chris Carter. With David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson. Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

04. Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel

Created by Joss Whedon. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz. A teenage girl learns that she is her generation’s Slayer, destined to do battle against an onslaught of vampires. Ironically, she falls in love with a vampire who has been cursed with a soul… a soul that will be taken from him if he experiences even a single moment of blissful intercourse. Issues much?

03. Supernatural

Created by Eric Kripke. With Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver. After the mysterious disappearance of their father, two brothers seek out and combat paranormal and supernatural events to figure the meaning linking their mother’s death whom was killed years earlier by a mysterious demon.

02. Spectre

Directed by Clive Donner. With Robert Culp, Gig Young. Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton to aid him in his battle against evil.

01. Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Produced by Dan Curtis. With Darrin McGavin. An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.

Cinema

HONORABLE MENTION: Constantine

Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz. John Constantine teams up with a female police detective who seeks his help in investigating the suicide-like death of her twin sister.

10. The Name of the Rose

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Sean Connery, Christian Slater. A monk and his assistant investigate a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

09. Lord of Illusions

Directed by Clive Barker. With Scott Bukula, Daniel von Bargen. Harry D’Amour, a New York private investigator, stumbles upon members of a fanatic cult who are waiting for the resurrection of their leader.

08. The Devil Rides Out

Directed by Terence Fisher. With Christopher Lee, Charles Gray. Duc de Richeleau battles the occultist Mocata for the soul of his young charge Simon.

07. Hellboy

Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt. A demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.

06. In the Mouth of Madness

Directed by John Carpenter. With Sam Neil, Julie Carmen, Jurgen Prochnow. An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer’s books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

05. Sleepy Hollow

Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken. A series of bizarre murders, all involving decapitation, draws the eccentric detective Ichabod Crane into Sleepy Hollow for a showdown with the Headless Horseman.

04. Cast a Deadly Spell

Directed by Martin Campbell. With Fred Ward, Clancy Brown, David Warner, Julianne Moore. Hard-boiled Detective Phil Lovecraft investigates the theft of the Necronomicon in a 1940s Hollywood where black magic and sorcery is used by everyone…except for Lovecraft.

03. The Ninth Gate

Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella. A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demonic text, gets drawn into a supernatural conspiracy.

02. The Exorcist

Directed by William Friedkin. With Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max Von Sydow, Linda Blair. A teenage girl is possessed and her mother turns to a priest undergoing a crisis of faith for help.

01. Angel Heart

Directed by Alan Parker. With Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet. Harry Angel is a private investigator hired to track down a missing crooner who was mixed up in Voo Doo and the occult.