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Spooky Encounters
Spooky Encounters (鬼打鬼, Gui da gui), aka Encounter of the Spooky Kind, is Sammo Hung's 1980 Hong Kong kung fu horror-comedy about a cuckolded cart driver fighting black magic, and the film that launched the jiangshi hopping-vampire genre.
Spree (film)
Spree is a 2020 American satirical thriller, also described as a horror comedy, directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko and co-written with Gene McHugh. Joe Keery plays rideshare driver Kurt Kunkle, who livestreams killing his passengers to go viral; premiered at Sundance 2020, released August 14, 2020 by RLJE Films.
Spring (2014 film)
Spring (2014) is a horror-romance film by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, starring Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker, about an American in Italy who falls for a woman with a monstrous secret.
Sssssss
Sssssss (1973) is an American body horror film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, starring Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, and Heather Menzies, about a herpetologist who secretly transforms his lab assistant into a snake.
Stake Land
Stake Land (2010) is a Jim Mickle post-apocalyptic vampire horror film, co-written with and starring Nick Damici, with Connor Paolo; it won the Midnight Madness Award at TIFF 2010 and earned a 2011 limited US release.
Starry Eyes
Starry Eyes is a 2014 American body-horror film by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, starring Alex Essoe as an aspiring actress whose Faustian deal with a satanic Hollywood production company transforms her physically and mentally; premiered at SXSW 2014.
Starve Acre
Starve Acre: 2023 British folk horror film directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, adapted from Andrew Michael Hurley's 2019 novel, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark as grieving parents in 1970s Yorkshire; premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.
Stay Alive
Stay Alive (2006) is a horror film directed by William Brent Bell, co-written with Matthew Peterman, about a video game whose players die in real life; it earned $23.1M and 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stephanie (film)
Stephanie (2017) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror-thriller directed by Akiva Goldsman, starring Shree Crooks, Frank Grillo, and Anna Torv; it premiered at the Overlook Film Festival and went straight to VOD in 2018.
Stigmata (film)
Stigmata is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright, in which an atheist hairdresser in Pittsburgh develops the wounds of Christ and the Vatican sends a priest to investigate.
Stiletto (2026 film)
Stiletto is a 2026 American slasher film directed by Samuel Gonzalez Jr., co-written by and starring former exotic dancer Gigi Gustin as Lyric, who hunts the masked, shoe-collecting killer of her sister; released October 30, 2026 by Eli Roth's The Horror Section.
Sting (film)
Sting (2024) is an Australian creature-feature horror film written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, in which 12-year-old Charlotte's alien pet spider grows into a giant man-eater in a Brooklyn apartment building; released April 12, 2024, with Weta Workshop practical effects.
Stir of Echoes
Stir of Echoes (1999) is a supernatural horror film directed by David Koepp, based on Richard Matheson's 1958 novel, starring Kevin Bacon as a Chicago lineman haunted by a murdered girl's ghost after hypnosis; it earned $23 million worldwide and was overshadowed by The Sixth Sense.
Stonehearst Asylum
Stonehearst Asylum, also released as Eliza Graves, is a 2014 Brad Anderson psychological thriller starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley, and Michael Caine, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's story about patients taking over a Victorian asylum.
Stopmotion (film)
Stopmotion (2023) is a British psychological horror film and the feature debut of director Robert Morgan, starring Aisling Franciosi as animator Ella Blake, whose puppet film blurs with reality after her mother's death; 93 minutes, Sitges Special Jury Prize, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital
Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital is a 2024 Philippine found footage horror film, a meta adaptation of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum directed by Kerwin Go, in which seven Filipino celebrities live-stream a ghost hunt at the abandoned Xinglin Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan; an MMFF 2024 entry released on Netflix in 2025.
Strange Harvest (film)
Strange Harvest is a 2024 American horror mockumentary by Stuart Ortiz, also titled Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, following San Bernardino detectives hunting the ritualistic serial killer Mr. Shiny; released theatrically August 8, 2025.
Street Trash
Street Trash is a 1987 American horror-comedy directed by J. Michael Muro and written by Roy Frumkes, in which Brooklyn homeless people melt after drinking Tenafly Viper, a toxic 40-year-old liquor; it spawned the melt-movie subgenre and a 2024 South African sequel.
Studio 666
Studio 666 (スタジオ666) is a 2022 American comedy horror film starring the Foo Fighters as themselves, directed by B.J. McDonnell from Dave Grohl's story, shot in the Encino house where Medicine at Midnight was recorded; $2.2M U.S. gross, 56% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stuffed (film)
Stuffed (2026) is a British musical comedy-drama by Theo Rhys, expanded from his 2021 SXSW-winning short, starring Jodie Comer as taxidermist Araminta and Harry Melling as Bernie, who volunteers to be her human specimen; premiered at TIFF 2026, 117 minutes, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the 2019 Erin Derham taxidermy documentary of the same name.
Suicide Club (自殺サークル) (film)
Suicide Club (自殺サークル, Jisatsu Sākuru), also Suicide Circle, is a 2001 Japanese horror-mystery film written and directed by Sion Sono, released March 9, 2002, opening with 54 schoolgirls' mass suicide at Shinjuku station; sequel Noriko's Dinner Table.
Sumathi Valavu
Sumathi Valavu (സുമതി വളവ്) is a 2025 Malayalam horror-comedy by Vishnu Sasi Shankar, written by Abhilash Pillai, starring Arjun Ashokan; released 1 August 2025, it earned about ₹24.85 crore worldwide despite negative reviews.
Summer of 84
Summer of 84 is a 2018 Canadian horror-thriller by RKSS (François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell), written by Matt Leslie and Stephen J. Smith. A teen suspects his cop neighbor is the Cape May Slayer; Sundance 2018 premiere, 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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.
Tag (2015 film)
Tag (リアル鬼ごっこ, Riaru Onigokko) is a 2015 Japanese horror-action film by Sion Sono, loosely based on Yusuke Yamada's novel, following schoolgirls including Mitsuko hunted through shifting realities; released July 11, 2015, 85 minutes.
Tales from the Crypt (film)
Tales from the Crypt (1972) is a British-American horror anthology film directed by Freddie Francis for Amicus and Metromedia, adapting EC Comics stories with Ralph Richardson as the Crypt Keeper; not the 1989–1996 HBO series.
Tales from the Dark Part 1 (李碧华鬼魅系列)
Tales from the Dark Part 1 (李碧華鬼魅系列：迷離夜, Blurred Night) is a 2013 Hong Kong horror anthology adapted from Lilian Lee's Night series, with segments by Simon Yam, Lee Chi Ngai, and Fruit Chan; released 11 July 2013, banned in mainland China.
Tales from the Hood
Tales from the Hood is a 1995 American horror anthology film directed by Rusty Cundieff, in which a mortician tells three drug dealers four supernatural tales.
Tales of Halloween
Tales of Halloween (2015) is an American horror-comedy anthology of ten shorts by eleven directors, conceived by Axelle Carolyn, set in one suburb on one Halloween night, narrated by Adrienne Barbeau, released October 16, 2015 by Epic Pictures.
Talk to Me (2022 film)
Talk to Me is a 2022 Australian supernatural horror film, the debut of RackaRacka's Danny and Michael Philippou, in which teens use an embalmed hand to summon spirits under a 90-second rule; released by A24 in 2023, it grossed $92 million on a $4.5 million budget.