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Pontypool (ИTYPOOL) (film)

Pontypool (POИTYPOOL) is a 2008 Canadian psychological horror film by Bruce McDonald, written by Tony Burgess from his novel Pontypool Changes Everything, in which a virus spread through English words infects an Ontario town while DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) broadcasts from a basement radio studio.

Quatermass and the Pit (film)

Quatermass and the Pit (US: Five Million Years to Earth) is Hammer's 1967 British sci-fi horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker, written by Nigel Kneale, starring Andrew Keir, about a Martian craft unearthed in London.

Synchronic (film)

Synchronic is a 2019 American sci-fi thriller by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan as New Orleans paramedics investigating a designer drug.

Tarantula (1955 film)

Tarantula (1955) is a Universal-International black-and-white sci-fi horror film directed by Jack Arnold, starring John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll, in which a growth serum turns a lab tarantula into a giant monster destroyed by Air Force napalm.

The Blob

The Blob is the 1958 American sci-fi horror film directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., starring Steve McQueen as a teen warning a Pennsylvania town about a meteor-borne, people-consuming gelatinous mass; it spawned a 1972 sequel, a 1988 remake, and later remake projects.

The Bunker (2024 film)

The Bunker (2024 film), also released in Germany as Bunker 06: Das Exitus-Protokoll, is an American sci-fi horror film directed by Brian Hanson, starring Chelsea Edmundson, Tony Todd, and Tobin Bell; premiered at Popcorn Frights 2024 and released digitally in 2025 by Electric Entertainment.

The Crazies (1973 film)

The Crazies (1973), aka Code Name: Trixie, is George A. Romero's horror film about a military bio-weapon contaminating Evans City, Pennsylvania; a commercial failure that became a Vietnam-era cult classic, remade in 2010 by Breck Eisner.

The Cure (2026 film)

The Cure (2026) is an American sci-fi horror thriller directed by Nancy Leopardi, starring Samantha Cochran, David Dastmalchian, and Ashley Greene, about a teen whose billionaire parents harvest her blood; released March 20, 2026 by Vertical.

The Devil Doll

The Devil Doll is a 1936 American horror and science fiction film directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore as an escaped convict who shrinks people into obedient dolls.

The Endless (film)

The Endless (2017) is a cosmic horror film by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who star as brothers revisiting the UFO death cult they escaped; connected to Resolution, it premiered at Tribeca and earned 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Faculty

The Faculty is a 1998 American science fiction horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez, in which Herrington High students discover their teachers are controlled by alien parasites.

The Fly (1958 film)

The Fly is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed by Kurt Neumann, in which a scientist's matter-transporter experiment fuses him with a housefly.

The Fly II

The Fly II (1989) is a sci-fi horror sequel directed by Chris Walas, starring Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga. Martin Brundle, son of Brundlefly, transforms at Bartok Industries; 24% on Rotten Tomatoes, $19.6M US gross.

The Fourth Kind

The Fourth Kind is a 2009 Universal found-footage horror film by Olatunde Osunsanmi starring Milla Jovovich as Nome, Alaska psychologist Abigail Tyler; its 'archival footage' was staged, and Universal settled over fake news archives.

The H-Man (美女と液体人間)

The H-Man (美女と液体人間, Bijo to ekitai ningen) is a 1958 Toho tokusatsu sci-fi film directed by Ishirō Honda with effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, about H-bomb radiation turning humans into liquid creatures; first of Toho's Transforming Human series.

The Incredible Melting Man

The Incredible Melting Man (1977) is a William Sachs sci-fi horror film starring Alex Rebar as a radiation-afflicted astronaut who melts and kills for flesh, with Rick Baker makeup effects.

The Invisible Ray

The Invisible Ray is a 1936 Universal science fiction horror film directed by Lambert Hillyer, the third Karloff-Lugosi pairing, in which Boris Karloff's Dr. Janos Rukh is poisoned by meteorite Radium X radiation and becomes a glowing killer.

The Lazarus Effect (2015 film)

The Lazarus Effect is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by David Gelb, starring Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass as medical researchers experimenting with reviving the dead.

The Mist (film)

The Mist (2007) is Frank Darabont's horror film adapting Stephen King's 1980 novella, starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden; townspeople trapped in a grocery store by a creature-filled mist, famous for its devastating ending.

The Mole People

The Mole People (1956) is a Universal-International black-and-white sci-fi horror film, Virgil Vogel's directorial debut, starring John Agar, about archaeologists finding an underground albino Sumerian colony with mole-man slaves; distinct from Toth's 1993 tunnel-dweller book.

The Monolith Monsters

The Monolith Monsters (1957) is a Universal-International black-and-white sci-fi horror film directed by John Sherwood, from a story by Jack Arnold, in which meteor fragments grow with water, petrify people by draining silicon, and are stopped by salt water.

The Platform 2

The Platform 2 (El hoyo 2) is a 2024 Spanish dystopian horror film by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, a prequel to The Platform set in the Pit's 333-floor vertical prison, starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian, released on Netflix October 4, 2024 to weak reviews (36% Tomatometer, Metascore 45).

The Stuff

The Stuff is a 1985 satirical horror-comedy by Larry Cohen about an addictive white dessert that takes over its eaters, starring Michael Moriarty; released by New World Pictures, later restored in 4K by Arrow Video.

The Thing (1982 film)

The Thing (1982) is John Carpenter's sci-fi horror film, also known as John Carpenter's The Thing, adapting Campbell's Who Goes There? about a shape-shifting alien at Antarctic Outpost 31, famous for Rob Bottin's practical effects and its re-evaluation after a poor 1982 reception.

The Tingler

The Tingler is a 1959 American horror film directed by William Castle, starring Vincent Price, which deals with a parasitic creature along the spine.

The Void (2016 film)

The Void (2016) is a Canadian Lovecraftian horror film directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski of Astron-6, crowdfunded for its practical creature effects, released by Screen Media in 2017, and noted for 1980s-style monsters.

The Walking Dead (1936 film)

The Walking Dead (1936) is a Warner Bros. horror film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff as executed man John Elman, revived with an artificial heart by Edmund Gwenn's scientist; distinct from the later comic and TV series.

Touch Me (2025 film)

Touch Me (2025) is Addison Heimann's American horror-comedy sci-fi feature about codependent friends addicted to an alien's touch; Sundance Midnight premiere, Overlook Grand Jury Prize winner.

Underwater (film)

Underwater is a 2020 American science-fiction horror film directed by William Eubank and starring Kristen Stewart, whose crew walks across the Mariana Trench floor after an earthquake destroys their drilling station.