Ranked by our 1-10 weirdness score (highest first), based on each film's ghostly premise and standout elements pulled from our database.
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It's Christmas, Carol!
2012 · 87 min★ 5.8Weirdness 10/10A ruthless publishing exec nicknamed "Stalin in Stilettos" (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is haunted by the ghost of her dead boss, who first turns up in a restroom stall. Weirdness 10. The spirit refers to her superiors as "The Board of Correctors," and the office staff chant "Viva la Revolucion" while plotting to steal the company's authors. Carrie Fisher co-stars. Rated 5.8. A Christmas Carol riff with the volume cranked all the way up, and the swing is the whole charm.
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Five More Minutes: Moments Like These
2022 · 84 min★ 6.8Weirdness 10/10A young widow (Ashley Williams) returns to her former home for Christmas, where a holiday wish reaches into the beyond. Weirdness 10. Inspired by Scotty McCreery's song "Five More Minutes," it folds a brush with a lost loved one into a story about a family house and second chances. Lucas Bryant co-stars. Rated 6.8. The high weirdness comes from its central supernatural wish rather than any spectacle, a quiet, tear-jerking haunting.
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A Nashville Christmas Carol
2020 · 84 min★ 6.3Weirdness 9/10A workaholic Nashville TV producer (Jessy Schram) gets a visit from her recently deceased mentor, who warns her that her current path leads somewhere dark. Weirdness 9. The Spirit of Christmas Past is a country singer who time-travels via guitar, and the Spirit of Christmas Future is skipped entirely because "the future is a song yet to be written." Wynonna Judd and Sara Evans appear. Rated 6.3. A music-city Christmas Carol with some genuinely odd spirit logic.
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A Carol Christmas
2003 · 92 min★ 5.2Weirdness 9/10An ego-maniacal talk-show host (Tori Spelling) gets the full ghostly intervention on Christmas Eve. Weirdness 9. The Ghost of Christmas Past is Gary Coleman cracking meta-jokes about his own child-star past, the Ghost of Christmas Present is William Shatner as a self-help TV doctor named Dr. Bob, and her idea of a staff bonus is handing everyone soap. Rated 5.2. A stunt-cast Carol adaptation that's exactly as strange as that lineup promises.
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Edge of the Garden
2011 · 89 min★ 7.0Weirdness 9/10A newly single tech exec (Rob Estes) buys an abandoned Maine cottage and starts communicating with a woman who lived there in 1960, trading letters through a crevice in the wall. Weirdness 9. The wild part is the cross-time mystery: he eventually meets the elderly version of a man who tried to murder her fifty years earlier. A locket bridges the decades. Rated 7. The most gothic, somber entry here, and one of the most haunting in the literal sense.
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Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major
2023 · 84 min★ 7.1Weirdness 9/10A former orchestra conductor (Tamera Mowry-Housley) moves to a remote Irish village to teach, settles into a dead composer's house, and ends up with his ghost as a roommate, one who insists he didn't murder his wife. Weirdness 9. The spirit can only communicate through her and a piano, describes limbo as "not the fun dance-party game it's cracked up to be," and is physically blocked from leaving town by an invisible barrier at the bridge. Rated 7.1. A cozy ghost-and-mystery combo with real personality.
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Oliver's Ghost
2011 · 82 min★ 5.9Weirdness 9/10A young boy moves into a new home and discovers it comes with a ghost, then sets out to figure out why the spirit is still hanging around. Weirdness 9. Martin Mull and Rhea Perlman feature, with a piano in the attic at the heart of it. Our database logs nothing past the setup, so I'll keep this honest and short. Rated 5.9. A gentle, kid-led haunting from 2011 about understanding the people, and spirits, around you.
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Love & Jane
2024 · 84 minWeirdness 9/10A copywriter and devoted Austen fan (Alison Sweeney) gets her wish to talk to her favorite author when the literal ghost of Jane Austen turns up and moves into her apartment for days. Weirdness 9. Jane is fixated on whether modern men own "cattle" or "livestock," and watches a film adaptation of her own novel to rate the actors' looks. Benjamin Ayres co-stars. No IMDb rating logged yet. A bookish, very funny premise that fully commits to its ghostly mentor.
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Ghosts of Christmas Always
2022 · 84 min★ 7.4Weirdness 8/10The twist here is the point of view: the lead, Katherine (Kim Matula), is herself the Ghost of Christmas Present, assigned to a man who's already full of holiday spirit and, strangely, the only mortal who can remember her. Weirdness 8. A "Department of Cosmic Order" manages scrooging assignments like a corporate office, and the film cheerfully meta-references Scrooged. Ian Harding co-stars. Rated 7.4 over more than 2,200 votes, the highest-rated entry here. A clever inversion of the Carol formula.
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One Summer
2021 · 84 min★ 7.1Weirdness 8/10A grieving father (Sam Page) takes his kids to his late wife's hometown for the summer and starts having full, interactive conversations with her ghost at a dilapidated lighthouse. Weirdness 8. The lighthouse beacon is treated as a literal bridge between the living and the dead, and the backstory carries real weight around survivor's guilt. Sarah Drew co-stars. Rated 7.1. One of the more emotionally serious hauntings, with the supernatural used for healing rather than scares.
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Lake Effects
2012 · 94 min★ 5.6Weirdness 8/10Two estranged sisters reunite at the family lake house after their father's death, and his ghost turns up to dispense advice throughout. Weirdness 8. Orbiting that are a group of elderly men obsessed with a Loch Ness-style monster named Smithy, a crew of jet-skiing widows called the "She-Doos," and a mechanical lake monster that catches fire during a TV shoot. Jane Seymour and Casper Van Dien feature. Rated 5.6. A grief drama with a delightfully odd supporting cast.
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Chasing Leprechauns
2012 · 90 min★ 6.3Weirdness 8/10An American company can't build its smelting plant in an Irish village until a local expert certifies the land is "leprechaun-free," so they send their top fixer (Adrian Pasdar) to find a loophole. Weirdness 8. Ambiguous supernatural events keep piling up, pine cones in beds, banshee cries, a car that mysteriously moves, and a businessman ends up hospitalized by sheer "fear of leprechauns." Rated 6.3. More folklore than ghost story, and charmingly committed to keeping you guessing.
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The Real West
2024 · 84 minWeirdness 8/10A widowed history professor (Kimberley Sustad) takes her family to a Colorado ranch and falls for a record-holding cowboy, while her 9-year-old son pursues a serious ghost-hunting hobby. Weirdness 8. He's obsessed with specific ghost types, funnel ghosts, wisps, orbs, and there's a "Ghost Call" ritual involving deep breathing and chanting "Come out, ghosts" in a sinister voice. James Denton co-stars. No IMDb rating logged yet. The haunting is more atmosphere than apparition, but the kid sells it.
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The Valley of Light
2006 · 97 min★ 6.7Weirdness 7/10A WWII veteran (Chris Klein) returns to a home that no longer exists and is guided by a mysterious old man to a secluded valley, where he builds a new life as a fisherman and painter. Weirdness 7. The supernatural reveal, that the man who sent him there has been dead for years, quietly recasts the whole film as a quest steered by a ghost. Gretchen Mol co-stars. Rated 6.7. Unusually somber and dark for the brand, and genuinely affecting.
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Hello, It's Me
2015 · 85 min★ 6.7Weirdness 7/10Two years after her husband's fatal accident, a widow (Kellie Martin) starts receiving messages from him, through her phone, a SIM card, and a dying-battery video. Weirdness 7. The late husband's voice literally turns up to offer dating advice, and there's a side character known as the "discontinued candy guy" running black-market snacks. Kavan Smith co-stars. Rated 6.7. A grief story where the haunting is really just permission to love again.
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
2022 · 84 min★ 6.7Weirdness 7/10A former child star (Torrey DeVitto) tries to reinvent herself by directing a small-town mock-trial play about who really wrote "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." Weirdness 7. Two cast members are heavily implied to be actual ghosts, or time-travelers, from the 1800s who simply vanish after the show. Her old catchphrase, "Great googly!," haunts her in its own way. Rated 6.7. A theatrical, oddball haunting tucked inside a backstage romance.
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Angel in the Family
2004 · 120 min★ 5.9Weirdness 7/10An ailing widowed father and his two estranged daughters get a Christmas miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend the holiday with them. Weirdness 7. Meredith Baxter plays the returning mother in this 2004 family drama. Our database logs no detail past the premise, so I'll keep it straight: it's a reconciliation story powered by a benevolent visiting spirit. Rated 5.9. A heartfelt, old-school Hallmark haunting that's more healing than eerie.
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3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Ghost
2023 · 84 minWeirdness 7/10A newly licensed real estate agent (Julie Gonzalo) is handed a "jinxed" historic estate to sell, only to find it occupied by the ghost of a 1920s socialite who won't leave. Weirdness 7. Ruby teaches her how to wink and dance the Charleston, takes a car ride to gawk at the 2020s, and visits an antique shop to see her own old belongings. The plot even resolves via letters from Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Chris McNally co-stars. No IMDb rating logged yet. A buddy-comedy haunting with serious style.
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Haunted Wedding
2024 · 84 minWeirdness 7/10Two ghost hunters (Janel Parrish and Dominic Sherwood) try to get married at a haunted inn, and their wedding gets sabotaged by an 18th-century ghost who mistakes the groom for her own dead fiance. Weirdness 7. A rival ghost hunter uses a miniature "ghost house" to trap spirits, wine turns to vinegar as a spectral tantrum, and the plot hinges on Revolutionary War-era grave goods. No IMDb rating logged yet. A wedding-week haunting that escalates exactly the way you'd hope.
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted by Murder
2022 · 84 min★ 7.1Weirdness 6/10Aurora Teagarden by way of a ghost story. A house the Lawrenceton locals swear is haunted, the same one where a teenage Aurora and her friend Sally once found a body, drags a cold murder case back into the light. The supposed haunting is the hook the whole town can't stop chewing on, and Aurora being Aurora, she'd rather check the facts than the floorboards. At 7.1 it's one of the sturdier franchise entries. Whether anything actually goes bump, and who's behind the case, stays sealed.
Frequently asked questions
What is the weirdest Hallmark ghost movie?
By our weirdness score, the Scrooge-style It's Christmas, Carol! tops the list at a perfect 10, with a ruthless executive haunted into kindness by three Christmas spirits. Five More Minutes: Moments Like These also scores a 10.
How many Hallmark ghost movies are there?
Our database tracks 20 Hallmark ghost movies, ranging from Christmas Carol-style spirit visits to romantic hauntings and a few that blur into mystery.
Are Hallmark ghost movies scary?
Rarely. The ghosts here tend to be benevolent, matchmaking, advising, or finishing unfinished business, rather than menacing. The mood is cozy and emotional far more often than frightening.
What is the best-rated Hallmark ghost movie?
Among the films here, Ghosts of Christmas Always (2022) has the highest IMDb rating at 7.4, told from the unusual point of view of the Ghost of Christmas Present herself.
Which Hallmark ghost movies are based on A Christmas Carol?
Several lean on the Dickens template, including It's Christmas, Carol!, A Carol Christmas, A Nashville Christmas Carol, and Ghosts of Christmas Always, each with its own twist on the visiting spirits.
Where can I watch Hallmark ghost movies?
They air on the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Mystery, and stream on Hallmark+, with many of the Christmas titles airing seasonally. Check each film's page for current availability.