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Megan Is Missing
Megan Is Missing (2011) is an American found-footage psychological horror film written and directed by Michael Goi, starring Rachel Quinn and Amber Perkins as teens abducted by an online predator; shot for $35,000, banned in New Zealand, and revived virally on TikTok in 2020.
Men (2022 film)
Men is a 2022 folk horror film written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Jessie Buckley as a widow stalked by men all played by Rory Kinnear.
Mermaid (2025 film)
Mermaid (魚人劫) is Tyler Cornack's 2025 American horror-comedy feature, starring Johnny Pemberton as a Percocet-addicted Florida man who shelters a wounded mermaid named Destiny; it premiered at SXSW March 8, 2025, and was released by Utopia in limited US theaters April 8, 2026, distinct from Fia Perera's 2026 drama of the same name.
Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil, also released as Dead People, is a 1973 American independent horror film by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz about an undead cult in a California coastal town, later restored by Radiance Films.
Midnight Garage (三更车库)
Midnight Garage (三更车库, Sāngēng Chēkù), also released as Ghost Garage and 11 Meters Underground, is a 2015 Chinese horror film by Zhou Yaowu starring Alex Fong, Yoon So-yi, and Gordon Lam, adapted from a 1980s Hong Kong cursed-garage legend and released April 3, 2015.
Midsommar
Midsommar (2019) is Ari Aster's folk horror film for A24, starring Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as a couple drawn into a Swedish commune's nine-day midsummer festival; shot in Hungary, Metascore 72.
Mikey (film)
Mikey is a 1992 American horror thriller, also called a killer-kid slasher, directed by Dennis Dimster and starring Brian Bonsall as a murderous nine-year-old adoptee. Notable for its UK ban from 1996 to 2025 after the James Bulger murder panic.
Milk & Serial
Milk & Serial, also called Milk and Serial, is a 2024 found-footage horror film by Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson, made for $800 and released free on their YouTube channel that's a bad idea.
Mimics (film)
Mimics (2026 horror-comedy, also listed as Mimics 2025) is Kristoffer Polaha's directorial debut, starring Polaha as impressionist Sam Reinhold, who pacts with the evil ventriloquist puppet Fergus; released February 13, 2026, filmed in Reno, Nevada.
Mirrors (2008 film)
Mirrors (2008) is a supernatural horror film directed by Alexandre Aja, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, and Amy Smart; a reworking of the 2003 Korean film Into the Mirror, released August 15, 2008 by 20th Century Fox.
Mole (video game)
MOLE (2026) is a first-person psychological horror simulation game by Sweden's Off Black Creations and publisher Oro Interactive, released June 15, 2026 on Steam and GOG for $12.99, about piloting a drilling vessel beneath Slavic soil toward a mysterious Signal.
Mom and Dad (2017 film)
Mom and Dad (2017) is a horror-comedy written and directed by Brian Taylor, his first solo feature, starring Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair as parents driven by mass hysteria to kill their own children; premiered at TIFF 2017, released January 19, 2018.
Monitor (film)
Monitor is a 2026 supernatural horror film and feature debut of Matt Black and Ryan Polly, based on their 2018 short, in which a content moderator's rejected video unleashes a screen-hopping tulpa; it premiered at SXSW and was acquired by Searchlight for April 16, 2027 release.
Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage
Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage (劇場版モノノ怪 第二章 火鼠, Hinezumi) is the 2025 second film of the Mononoke theatrical trilogy, directed by Kiyotaka Suzuki under chief director Kenji Nakamura, set in the Ōoku where the Medicine Seller faces the fire-rat mononoke; streamed exclusively on Netflix from August 14, 2025.
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.
Mother, May I? (film)
Mother, May I? is a 2023 American psychological horror film written and directed by Laurence Vannicelli, starring Kyle Gallner and Holland Roden. A fiancée begins imitating the protagonist's dead mother after they take mushrooms in his inherited house; released July 21, 2023 by Dark Sky Films.
Mother!
mother! is Darren Aronofsky's 2017 Paramount psychological horror film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, a biblical, environmental allegory written in five days, released September 15, 2017, with an F CinemaScore and $44.5M worldwide gross.
Motherwitch (Δωδεκάμερον)
Motherwitch (Δωδεκάμερον) is a 2026 Cypriot folk-horror film by Emmy-winning director Minos Papas, his third feature. Set in 1882 British Cyprus, painter Eleni's resurrection ritual awakens the Kalikantzari; world premiere at IFFR 2026, billed as the first Cypriot horror film.
Mouse of Horrors
Mouse of Horrors, originally titled The Mouse Experiment, is a 2025 British slasher directed by Brendan Petrizzo, about a mutated rat named Steamboat Willie stalking friends at an amusement park; released digitally January 25, 2025, IMDb 2.6/10.
Mouseboat Massacre
Mouseboat Massacre (米畸妙妙船) is a 2025 British slasher horror film directed by Andrea M. Catinella, written by Harry Boxley, from ITN Studios, about a woman in drug recovery terrorized by a mutated mouse-human hybrid after watching a cursed VHS tape.
Mouthwashing (video game)
Mouthwashing is a 2024 first-person psychological horror game by Swedish studio Wrong Organ, published by Critical Reflex for PC on September 26, 2024. Set on the crashed freighter Tulpar, it tells a nonlinear story of a stranded crew and has sold over 800,000 copies.
Mr. Crocket
Mr. Crocket is a 2024 American horror film, a Hulu Original directed by Brandon Espy, expanding his 2022 Bite Size Halloween short. A demonic children's TV host, played by Elvis Nolasco, emerges from TV sets in 1993 to kidnap children, and Jerrika Hinton's Summer searches for her son.
Mr. Harrigan's Phone
Mr. Harrigan's Phone is a 2022 Netflix supernatural coming-of-age film by John Lee Hancock, adapted from Stephen King's novella in If It Bleeds, starring Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell; released October 5, 2022, mixed reviews.
Mr. Vampire (僵尸先生)
Mr. Vampire (僵尸先生, Geung si sin sang; Taiwan title 暫時停止呼吸) is a 1985 Ricky Lau Hong Kong horror comedy produced by Sammo Hung, starring Lam Ching-ying as a Taoist priest fighting a hopping jiangshi, which launched the 1980s jiangshi film wave.
Ms. 45
Ms. 45 (Angel of Vengeance) is Abel Ferrara's 1981 American rape-revenge thriller starring 17-year-old Zoë Lund as mute seamstress Thana, who takes a .45 pistol revenge spree through New York after two rapes; now a feminist cult classic.
Mudborn (红衣小女孩外传?)
Mudborn (泥娃娃, Ni wa wa) is a 2025 Taiwanese supernatural horror film directed by Shieh Meng-Ju, starring Yo Yang and Cecilia Choi, inspired by the creepy children's song "Ni Wa Wa" and Taoist exorcism folklore; released on Netflix in 2026.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American pre-Code horror-mystery directed by Robert Florey, starring Bela Lugosi as a Paris doctor experimenting with ape blood, released by Universal Pictures.
My Bloody Valentine (film)
My Bloody Valentine (1981) is a Canadian slasher film directed by George Mihalka for Cinépix, released by Paramount on February 11, 1981, about a pickaxe killer stalking a mining town that revived its banned Valentine's Day dance.
My Bloody Valentine 3D
My Bloody Valentine 3D is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Patrick Lussier, a remake of the 1981 Canadian film, about a pickaxe-wielding killer terrorizing a coal-mining town.
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (我左眼见到鬼)
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (我左眼見到鬼), romanized Ngo joh ngan gin do gwai, is a 2002 Hong Kong romantic comedy directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Sammi Cheng as a widow who sees ghosts with her left eye and Lau Ching-wan as a classmate's ghost; it earned HK$30 million and Golden Horse nominations.