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A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place is a 2018 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski, starring Krasinski and Emily Blunt as parents living in silence from sound-hunting creatures; it grossed $341M worldwide and spawned a franchise.
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is a 2024 American horror film directed by Michael Sarnoski, a prequel showing the invasion's first day in New York City.
Affection (2025 film)
Affection (2025) is an American sci-fi horror film, the debut of writer-director BT Meza, starring Jessica Rothe as an amnesiac woman whose memory resets cyclically. Premiered at Screamfest 2025; released May 8, 2026; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ash (2025 film)
Ash (2025) is a sci-fi horror film directed and scored by Flying Lotus, his second feature after Kuso (2017). Starring Eiza González and Aaron Paul, it premiered at SXSW, released March 21, 2025, grossed $1.1M, and scored 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Black Box (2020 film)
Black Box (2020) is a psychological horror-thriller, the feature debut of director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., starring Mamoudou Athie and Phylicia Rashad. Released October 6, 2020 on Prime Video in the Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology, it follows an amnesiac father whose experimental memory treatment unravels his identity; 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 62.
C.H.U.D.
C.H.U.D. is a 1984 American horror film directed by Douglas Cheek, starring John Heard and Daniel Stern as people who confront mutated humanoid creatures in the New York City sewers.
Cell (film)
Cell (film): 2016 American sci-fi horror directed by Tod Williams, adapted from Stephen King's 2006 novel; John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson survive a phone-signal zombie epidemic; Metascore 38, RT 11%.
Color Out of Space (film)
Color Out of Space (2019) is Richard Stanley's sci-fi horror film adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's 1927 story, starring Nicolas Cage; a SpectreVision production, TIFF 2019 premiere, US release January 24, 2020, 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dark Skies (2013 film)
Dark Skies (2013) is a Blumhouse alien-abduction horror film written and directed by Scott Stewart, starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, and J.K. Simmons; released February 22, 2013, 97 minutes, $17.4M US gross, 42% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Deadly Friend
Deadly Friend (1986), Wes Craven's Warner Bros. sci-fi horror based on Diana Henstell's novel Friend, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin: teen genius Paul revives dead neighbor Samantha with robot BB's brain; studio reshoots added gore, box office $8.9M.
Disturbing Behavior
Disturbing Behavior is a 1998 teen horror film directed by David Nutter, written by Scott Rosenberg, starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, and Nick Stahl as students uncovering mind control of the Blue Ribbons clique in Cradle Bay, Washington.
Doctor X
Doctor X is a 1932 Warner Bros./First National horror film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Lee Tracy; the first horror film shot in color, in two-strip Technicolor, about the cannibalistic Moon Killer.
Double Blind (film)
Double Blind is a 2023 Irish horror-thriller, Ian Hunt-Duffy's feature debut written by Darach McGarrigle, starring Millie Brady, Pollyanna McIntosh, and Akshay Kumar as drug-trial subjects who die if they sleep; released February 2024.
Dreamcatcher (2003 film)
Dreamcatcher is a 2003 American science fiction horror film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, based on Stephen King's novel about four friends fighting an alien invasion in Maine.
Fiend Without a Face
Fiend Without a Face (1958) is a British sci-fi horror film directed by Arthur Crabtree, adapted from Amelia Reynolds Long's "The Thought-Monster", about invisible atomic thought-creatures that suck out brains, with celebrated stop-motion effects.
Firestarter (1984 film)
Firestarter is a 1984 American science-fiction horror film directed by Mark L. Lester, based on Stephen King's novel, starring Drew Barrymore as a girl who starts fires with her mind.
Firestarter (2022 film)
Firestarter (2022) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror-thriller remake of Stephen King's 1980 novel, directed by Keith Thomas, starring Zac Efron and Ryan Kiera Armstrong, released May 13, 2022 in theaters and on Peacock, grossing $15 million and scoring 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Flatliners (2017 film)
Flatliners is a 2017 American psychological horror film directed by Niels Arden Oplev, in which five medical students stop their hearts and are haunted by visions of past wrongs.
Frogs
Frogs (1972) is an American eco-horror film directed by George McCowan for American International Pictures, starring Ray Milland and Sam Elliott, in which Florida swamp wildlife takes revenge on a pesticide-using patriarch; a cult revenge-of-nature film, not the Aristophanes play.
Imposters (film)
Imposters (2026 film), also known simply as Imposters, is Caleb J. Phillips's SXSW Midnighter sci-fi horror debut starring Jessica Rothe and Charlie Barnett, about a mother who retrieves her taken baby from a mysterious cave.
In the Earth
In the Earth is a 2021 folk-horror film written and directed by Ben Wheatley, starring Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith. Shot in 15 days during COVID lockdown, it premiered at Sundance 2021 and follows a scientist and park scout in a pandemic-era forest.
Infinity Pool (film)
Infinity Pool (2023), Brandon Cronenberg's third feature after Antiviral and Possessor, is a sci-fi horror film starring Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth about rich tourists who pay to have clones executed for their crimes in the fictional Li Tolqa.
Marshmallow (film)
Marshmallow (2025) is an American horror-science fiction film, Daniel DelPurgatorio's feature debut, written by Andy Greskoviak. A 12-year-old camper finds a campfire tale of "The Doctor" is real; premiered at Panic Fest 2025, released theatrically April 11, 2025.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 horror drama film directed by Kenneth Branagh, who stars as Victor Frankenstein, adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, with Robert De Niro as the Creature.
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive (1986) is Stephen King's only film as director, an adaptation of his short story "Trucks" in which machines turn homicidal; it flopped critically and commercially but gained a cult following via its AC/DC soundtrack, Who Made Who.
Moontrap
Moontrap is a 1989 American sci-fi horror film directed by Robert Dyke, written by Tex Ragsdale, starring Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell as astronauts fighting the Kaaliums, cyborgs harvesting human parts on the Moon; premiered at WorldFest Houston, released direct-to-video by Shapiro Glickenhaus.
Nightflyers (1987 film)
Nightflyers is a 1987 American science-fiction horror film directed by Robert Collector, based on the novella by George R. R. Martin, about a space expedition stalked by a malevolent presence.
Patient Zero (film)
Patient Zero (2018) is a pandemic horror thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, starring Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, and Stanley Tucci; a rabies-virus survivor who can talk to the infected hunts the outbreak's first victim. Released 2018, 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Phantoms (film)
Phantoms is a 1998 American horror film directed by Joe Chappelle, adapted by Dean Koontz from his 1983 novel, and starring Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, and Ben Affleck.
Planet of the Vampires
Planet of the Vampires (Terrore nello spazio) is Mario Bava's 1965 Italian-Spanish sci-fi horror film about astronauts on planet Aura whose dead crewmates are reanimated by disembodied aliens, based on Renato Pestriniero's story and a cited influence on Alien.