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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 Keep (film)
The Keep is a 1983 supernatural horror film written and directed by Michael Mann, adapted from F. Paul Wilson's 1981 novel and released by Paramount.
The Keeping Hours
The Keeping Hours is a 2017 Blumhouse supernatural drama directed by Karen Moncrieff, starring Lee Pace and Carrie Coon as a divorced couple reunited by their dead son's ghost; it won the LA Film Festival audience award and went straight to streaming in 2018.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a 2017 psychological thriller by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, and Barry Keoghan; it shared Cannes Best Screenplay and adapts themes from Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.
The Killing Tree (film)
The Killing Tree, aka Demonic Christmas Tree, is a 2022 British horror comedy directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield in which an executed serial killer's soul is resurrected inside a Christmas tree; 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Last Breath (2024 film)
The Last Breath is a 2024 survival horror film directed by Joachim Hedén, in which scuba divers become trapped in a WWII shipwreck with dwindling air and sharks.
The Last Exorcism
The Last Exorcism (2010) is a found-footage horror film directed by Daniel Stamm, produced by Eli Roth, starring Patrick Fabian and Ashley Bell; it opened number one with over $21 million and grossed $41.0M in the US.
The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left (1972) is Wes Craven's directorial debut, a rape-revenge horror produced by Sean S. Cunningham for about $90,000, inspired by Bergman's The Virgin Spring, banned by the BBFC, and remade in 2009.
The Last House on the Left (2009 film)
The Last House on the Left (2009) is Dennis Iliadis's remake of Wes Craven's 1972 horror film, starring Garret Dillahunt, Tony Goldwyn, and Monica Potter; released March 13, 2009 by Universal, it grossed $45,995,223 worldwide and scored 42% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a 2023 Universal horror film directed by André Øvredal, adapting the Captain's Log chapter of Dracula; crew of a ship carrying fifty crates from Carpathia to London is stalked by Dracula, played by Javier Botet.
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 Legend of Hell House
The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 British-American horror film directed by John Hough, adapted by Richard Matheson from his novel about investigators in a haunted mansion.
The Leopard Man
The Leopard Man (1943) is a Val Lewton-produced, Jacques Tourneur-directed RKO horror film, the third of their collaborations, adapted from Cornell Woolrich's Black Alibi, about killings blamed on an escaped leopard that are actually a human killer's work.
The Lighthouse (2019 film)
The Lighthouse (2019) is Robert Eggers' black-and-white psychological horror film starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as 1890s lighthouse keepers descending into madness, shot in 1.19:1 on 35mm, released by A24, and nominated for the Best Cinematography Oscar.
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) is Roger Corman's black-and-white horror comedy, shot in about two days on leftover A Bucket of Blood sets, about Seymour Krelborn and a bloodthirsty talking plant; basis of the 1982 Ashman-Menken musical and 1986 film.
The Lodge (film)
The Lodge (2019) is a psychological horror film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, their English-language debut for Hammer Films and FilmNation. Premiered at Sundance 2019; Riley Keough plays a cult survivor snowed in with her fiancé's children.
The Lords of Salem (film)
The Lords of Salem is a 2012 Rob Zombie horror film starring Sheri Moon Zombie as Salem DJ Heidi, whose playing of a mysterious record awakens a vengeful witch coven; released 2013 by Anchor Bay.
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror-comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, in which teenage brothers move to a California beach town and find a local biker gang are vampires.
The Love Witch
The Love Witch is a 2016 horror-comedy film written, directed, produced, edited, designed, and scored by Anna Biller, starring Samantha Robinson as Elaine, a witch whose love spells kill her suitors; shot on 35mm in 1960s Technicolor style.
The Loved Ones (film)
The Loved Ones is a 2009 Australian horror film, Sean Byrne's debut, in which Xavier Samuel's Brent is kidnapped and tortured by Robin McLeavy's Lola and her father after he declines her school-dance invitation; TIFF Midnight Madness People's Choice winner, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Lure (2015 film)
The Lure (Córki dancingu), 2015 Polish musical-horror debut by Agnieszka Smoczyńska; mermaid sisters Silver and Golden in 1980s Warsaw nightclubs; Sundance Special Jury Award, Fantasporto Best Film, Criterion Spine #896.
The Machine Girl (片腕マシンガール)
The Machine Girl (片腕マシンガール, Kataude Mashin Gāru) is a 2008 Japanese splatter action-comedy by Noboru Iguchi about schoolgirl Ami Hyuga, whose machine-gun arm prosthetic drives a yakuza revenge rampage; a J-splatter boom landmark with Tokyo Gore Police.
The Machinist
The Machinist (2004) is a psychological thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Scott Kosar, starring Christian Bale as insomniac machinist Trevor Reznik; Bale lost 63 pounds for the role, filmed in Barcelona, grossed $8.2M.
The Mad Monster
The Mad Monster is a 1942 PRC Poverty Row werewolf horror film directed by Sam Newfield, starring George Zucco, Johnny Downs, Anne Nagel, and Glenn Strange; banned in Britain until 1952 and later mocked on MST3K.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin as a brain surgeon in love with a disembodied brain.
The Manitou
The Manitou (1978) is a supernatural horror film directed by William Girdler, adapted from Graham Masterton's novel, starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, and Michael Ansara; a neck tumor contains the reincarnating 400-year-old medicine man Misquamacus.
The Mansion of Madness
The Mansion of Madness (La mansión de la locura), aka Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon, is Juan López Moctezuma's 1973 Mexican surrealist horror debut, adapted from Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", about asylum inmates who seize their institution, with art direction by Leonora Carrington.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) is Roger Corman's Poe adaptation starring Vincent Price as Prince Prospero, shot in England by Nicolas Roeg, censored in the UK and US, and restored in 4K in 2019.
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 Medium (2021 film)
The Medium (Thai: Rang Song, ร่างทรง) is a 2021 Thai-South Korean found-footage horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun, produced by Na Hong-jin, about a shaman's niece's possession in Isan; a BIFAN winner and Thailand's 94th Academy Awards submission.