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Horror films (individual works)

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The Final Girls

The Final Girls is a 2015 horror comedy directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, written by M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller, in which Taissa Farmiga's Max is pulled into the 1980s slasher film Camp Bloodbath starring her late mother; 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, Sitges award winner.

The Final Wish

The Final Wish is a 2019 American horror film directed by Timothy Woodward Jr., written by Final Destination writer Jeffrey Reddick, starring Lin Shaye and Michael Welch as a mother and son entangled with a wish-granting urn and its jinn.

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 (1986 film)

The Fly (1986) is David Cronenberg's body horror remake of the 1958 film, starring Jeff Goldblum as scientist Seth Brundle, who fuses with a housefly during teleportation. Produced by Brooksfilms, it won the 1987 Oscar for Best Makeup.

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 Fog

The Fog is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, his first after Halloween, about vengeful ghosts in a glowing fog attacking a coastal California town.

The Forest Hills Festival Cut

The Forest Hills Festival Cut is the 2023 festival version of Scott Goldberg's indie horror film The Forest Hills, starring Chiko Mendez, Shelley Duvall in her final role, Edward Furlong, and Dee Wallace, released theatrically October 4, 2024.

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 Frighteners

The Frighteners (1996) is a Peter Jackson comedy-horror film starring Michael J. Fox as con-man exorcist Frank Bannister. Written with Fran Walsh, produced by Robert Zemeckis for Universal, shot in New Zealand, a box office flop that launched Weta Digital.

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 Fury

The Fury (1978) is a Brian De Palma horror-thriller, written by John Farris from his 1976 novel, starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, and Amy Irving, about a CIA agent whose telekinetic son is kidnapped by a secret agency; 118 minutes, 20th Century Fox, scored by John Williams.

The Gallows

The Gallows (2015) is a found-footage horror film by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, made for $100,000 by Blumhouse and released by Warner Bros. It grossed about $43 million worldwide but holds 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Game of Killing

The Game of Killing (天黑请闭眼, Tian hei qing bi yan) is a 2004 mainland Chinese Mandarin horror film directed and written by Kiefer Liu (Agan), starring Wang Zhiwen, Wu Qianlian, and Roy Cheung; it topped the 2004 domestic Chinese box office.

The Gate (1987 film)

The Gate (1987) is a Canadian-American PG-13 supernatural horror film directed by Tibor Takács, starring Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, and Louis Tripp; kids open a gateway to hell in a backyard, grossing $13 million.

The Ghost Game

The Ghost Game (강령: 귀신놀이) is a 2025 South Korean horror-mystery-thriller and Son Dong-wan's directorial debut, starring Red Velvet's Yeri (Kim Ye-rim). Six teens film a fake séance for a YouTube contest in an underground cistern; a real ritual goes wrong. Premiered at BIFAN July 5, 2025; released August 6, 2025 by Studio DHL; 94 minutes; 72,305 admissions in South Korea.

The Ghouls (Вурдалаки) (2015 film)

The Ghouls (Вурдалаки) is a 2015 Russian fantasy horror film directed by Sergei Ginzburg, loosely based on Aleksey Tolstoy's 1839 novella and released in 2017.

The Gift (2000 film)

The Gift is a 2000 American supernatural thriller directed by Sam Raimi, written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson, and starring Cate Blanchett as a widowed Georgia psychic.

The Ginkgo Bed

The Ginkgo Bed (은행나무 침대, Eunhaengnamoo Chimdae) is a 1996 South Korean fantasy romance, Kang Je-kyu's debut feature, starring Han Suk-kyu and Shin Hyun-jun; a reincarnated-love story notable for early Korean CGI, 452,580 Seoul admissions, and Grand Bell and Blue Dragon awards.

The Girl with the Needle

The Girl with the Needle (Pigen med nålen) is Magnus von Horn's 2024 Cannes competition drama, inspired by Danish serial killer Dagmar Overby, who murdered infants between 1913 and 1920; it won two 2024 European Film Awards.

The Good Neighbor (film)

The Good Neighbor (2016), originally titled The Waiting, is an American psychological thriller directed by Kasra Farahani, starring James Caan, Logan Miller, and Keir Gilchrist; two teens fake a haunting on neighbor Harold Grainey, premiered at SXSW, released by Vertical Entertainment, grossing $90,573.

The Green Inferno (film)

The Green Inferno is Eli Roth's 2013 cannibal horror film, co-written with Guillermo Amoedo, about student activists captured by an Amazon tribe. Shot in Peru and Chile, delayed to a 2015 release, grossing $7.2 million.

The Guest (2014 American film)

The Guest is a 2014 American action thriller directed by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett, starring Dan Stevens and Maika Monroe. A soldier claims to be a dead friend of the Peterson family; premiered Sundance Jan 17, 2014, US limited release Sep 17, 2014, $332.9K gross.

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 Hallow

The Hallow (2015) is a UK-Irish folk horror film and Corin Hardy's feature debut, premiering at Sundance 2015. A London family in a remote Irish mill house is attacked by changeling and banshee creatures, realized mainly with practical animatronic effects.

The Hanged Woman

The Hanged Woman (La ahorcada) is a 2026 Spanish supernatural horror film by Miguel Ángel Lamata, adapted from Mayte Navales' novel, starring Amaia Salamanca and Eduardo Noriega; distinct from the 1973 José Luis Merino film The Hanging Woman.

The Harvest (2013 film)

The Harvest (2013) is an American psychological thriller directed by John McNaughton, starring Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon, Natasha Calis, and Peter Fonda; premiered at Chicago 2013, released theatrically by IFC Midnight in 2015.

The Haunted Cop Shop

The Haunted Cop Shop (猛鬼差館) is a 1987 Hong Kong horror comedy directed by Jeffrey Lau, co-written by Wong Kar-wai, starring Jacky Cheung and Ricky Hui as cops fighting a resurrected Japanese vampire general.

The Haunted Mansion (2003 film)

The Haunted Mansion (2003) is a Disney supernatural comedy directed by Rob Minkoff, starring Eddie Murphy as realtor Jim Evers trapped in Gracey Manor with 999 ghosts; it earned $75.8M in the US but only 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Haunted Palace (1963 film)

The Haunted Palace (1963) is Roger Corman's horror film starring Vincent Price, Debra Paget, and Lon Chaney Jr., the first screen adaptation of Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, marketed by AIP as an Edgar Allan Poe picture.

The Haunting (1963 film)

The Haunting (1963) is a Robert Wise British-American psychological horror film adapted by Nelson Gidding from Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House, starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn at haunted Hill House, showing no ghost on screen.