I have a soft spot for psychological horrors about predicting death and disasters. There’s often an underlying mystery that is solved by interviewing people or looking through old archives at the library or mental asylum while creepy music plays. Usually an underlying sense of dread and helplessness as the protagonists try to change fate.
The Mothman Prophecies (underrated IMO)
The Ring
Knowing
Final Destination series
The Butterfly Effect
Donnie Darko
Not exactly the same, but similar in tone to the others:
Session 9
White Noise
Any others you can recommend?
A lot of sci-fi time travel movies are about preventing disasters, but I wouldn’t generally include them. Something like 12 Monkeys is in a gray area.
Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (originally released in theaters as Timescape) turns this sideways. The time travelers are just there to witness the disaster; it’s up to the protagonist to figure out what that disaster will be and how to prevent it.
Based upon the classic short story “Vintage Season” by SF greats Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore (most critics believe it’s primarily Moore’s story: She and Kuttner were married and collaborated on everything, and the story was released with their joint byline “Lewis Padgett.”
The most obvious examples of this trope are Oedipus Rex and Macbeth.
Angelina Jolie’s *** Life or Something Like It*** is a romantic comedy rather than a horror movie, but the whole plot revolves around a psychic who predicts that Jolie will die.