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The Funhouse
The Funhouse (1981) is a Tobe Hooper horror film, written by Larry Block and released by Universal on 13 March 1981, in which four teens spending the night in a carnival funhouse are stalked by a deformed killer in a Frankenstein mask; Dean Koontz novelized it as Owen West.
The House by the Cemetery
The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) is Lucio Fulci's 1981 Italian horror film, third of his Gates of Hell trilogy, about a family in a New England house with Dr. Freudstein alive in the basement.
The Inheritance (2024 American film)
The Inheritance (2024 American film), also simply The Inheritance, is a horror film directed by Alejandro Brugués in which billionaire Charles Abernathy (Bob Gunton) stakes his four estranged children's inheritances on keeping him alive until dawn; released July 12, 2024 by Vertical.
The Jester (2023 film)
The Jester (2023 film), directed by Colin Krawchuk, is an American supernatural horror movie based on his YouTube shorts, starring Michael Sheffield, Lelia Symington, and Delaney White; released September 29, 2023 by Epic Pictures, 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Mean One
The Mean One (2022) is an unauthorized American Christmas horror-comedy parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, directed by Steven LaMorte, starring David Howard Thornton as a green killer in Newville; released December 9, 2022, 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Midnight Meat Train
The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, adapted by Jeff Buhler from Clive Barker's Books of Blood story, starring Bradley Cooper and Vinnie Jones, released on only 100 screens by Lionsgate.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (also Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's 1974 independent horror film about Leatherface and a cannibal Texas family; ~$140,000 budget, $30 million gross, National Film Registry 2024.
The Toolbox Murders
The Toolbox Murders is Dennis Donnelly's 1978 American exploitation slasher in which Cameron Mitchell's ski-masked handyman kills Los Angeles apartment tenants with tools; banned in the UK 1982-2000, remade by Tobe Hooper in 2004.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 film)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) is Charles B. Pierce's proto-slasher horror film loosely based on the unsolved 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders by the Phantom Killer, starring Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, and Dawn Wells; it cost about $400,000, earned around $5 million, and was remade in 2014.
There's Someone Inside Your House (film)
There's Someone Inside Your House is a 2021 American teen slasher film directed by Patrick Brice, based on Stephanie Perkins' best-selling novel and released on Netflix in October 2021.
They/Them (film)
They/Them (pronounced "They Slash Them") is a 2022 Blumhouse slasher horror film on Peacock, John Logan's directorial debut, set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp starring Kevin Bacon, Theo Germaine, and Anna Chlumsky; it scored 32% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Time Cut
Time Cut is a 2024 Netflix teen time-travel slasher directed by Hannah Macpherson, starring Madison Bailey and Antonia Gentry as sisters Lucy and Summer Field; released October 30, 2024, it scored 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap (1979) is an American PG horror film directed by David Schmoeller, starring Chuck Connors as Mr. Slausen, whose telekinetic mannequins menace stranded travelers; an $800,000 Charles Band production praised by Stephen King.
Untitled Takashi Miike film
Untitled Takashi Miike film, also known as the Untitled Kyoto Project: upcoming slasher-horror film directed by Takashi Miike, starring and produced by Charli xcx. Three friends' Kyoto trip turns nightmarish when Katie is possessed by a violent, tortured spirit (Kiko Mizuhara); filming began in Japan in 2026, release TBA.
Urban Legend (film)
Urban Legend (1998) is a slasher horror film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, and Rebecca Gayheart; campus murders staged as urban legends, $38.1M US gross.
Vacancy (film)
Vacancy is a 2007 American horror-thriller film directed by Nimród Antal, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale as an estranged couple targeted by snuff filmmakers at a remote motel.
Valentine (film)
Valentine is a 2001 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, based on Tom Savage's novel, about young women stalked by a killer sending Valentine's Day cards.
Venom (2005 film)
Venom (2005) is an American voodoo slasher horror film directed by Jim Gillespie, starring Agnes Bruckner and D.J. Cotrona; shot as Backwater, it grossed $881,745 domestically against a $25 million budget and holds 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Vindicta (film)
Vindicta (2023 film), also called VINDICTA, is an American horror thriller directed by Sean McNamara starring Elena Kampouris, Jeremy Piven, and Sean Astin; a masked killer leaves Latin phrases in blood, released October 2023, distinct from the 1923 Feuillade silent and Sedlar's 2025 WWII film.
Wolf Creek (film)
Wolf Creek (2005) is Greg McLean's Australian outback horror debut starring John Jarratt as killer Mick Taylor, inspired by the Ivan Milat and Bradley Murdoch cases, banned briefly in the Northern Territory, and now a franchise with a sequel, TV series, and third film Wolf Creek: Legacy.
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (Wrong Turn VI: Last Resort) is a 2014 direct-to-video American slasher, the sixth Wrong Turn film, directed by Valeri Milev, about Danny inheriting the Hillicker cannibal family's Hobb Springs resort; recalled in Ireland in 2014.
X (2022 film)
X (2022) is Ti West's A24 slasher about a 1979 Texas porn shoot attacked by elderly hosts, starring Mia Goth in a double role as Maxine and Pearl; first of the X trilogy with Pearl and MaXXXine.
You're Next
You're Next is a 2011 American home-invasion horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, starring Sharni Vinson as survivalist Erin. Premiered at TIFF 2011, released by Lionsgate in 2013; masked killers attack the Davison family, unaware one guest fights back.