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The Ritual (2017 film)
The Ritual is a 2017 British folk-horror film directed by David Bruckner, based on Adam Nevill's novel, about four friends lost in a Scandinavian forest.
The Ritual (2025 film)
The Ritual (2025) is a horror film directed by David Midell, starring Al Pacino and Dan Stevens as priests performing the 1928 Emma Schmidt exorcism in Earling, Iowa; released June 6, 2025, grossing $525.9K.
The Ruins (film)
The Ruins (2008) is a horror film directed by Carter Smith, adapted by Scott B. Smith from his 2006 novel, starring Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, and Joe Anderson as tourists trapped by carnivorous vines at a Mayan ruin; released April 4, 2008, R, 91 minutes.
The Sacrament (2013 film)
The Sacrament (2013) is Ti West's found-footage-style horror thriller, produced by Eli Roth, about Vice journalists visiting the Eden Parish commune, a fictionalized retelling of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre; released by Magnolia in 2014, grossing $9,221, with a 66% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Sadness (哭悲)
The Sadness (哭悲) is a 2021 Taiwanese splatter horror film, Rob Jabbaz's debut, in which a mutating virus turns sentient Taipei residents into sadists; released January 2021 in Taiwan, on Shudder in May 2022, it won Fantasia's Best First Feature.
The Sand
The Sand (2015), also released as Killer Beach or Blood Sand, is an American horror sci-fi comedy directed by Isaac Gabaeff: hung-over students trapped on a beach where a tentacled creature under the sand devours anyone who touches it.
The Scurry
The Scurry is a British comedy-horror film about killer squirrels attacking a country park eco-café, directed by Craig Roberts, written by Tim Telling, starring Rhys Ifans, Ella Purnell, Paapa Essiedu, and Antonia Thomas; distinct from the 2024 Australian film Scurry.
The Seeding
The Seeding is a 2024 psychological horror film, the feature debut of writer-director Barnaby Clay, starring Scott Haze and Kate Lyn Sheil. It premiered at Tribeca 2023, opened January 26, 2024 via Magnet Releasing, and was shot in a Utah canyon.
The Sentinel (1977 film)
The Sentinel (1977) is a Michael Winner supernatural horror film based on Jeffrey Konvitz's 1974 novel, starring Cristina Raines as a model in a Brooklyn brownstone guarding Hell's gateway; critically panned (Metascore 19), it earned four Saturn nominations.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (film)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) is a Wes Craven horror film, also known as L'Emprise des ténèbres, starring Bill Pullman as a Harvard anthropologist investigating the Haitian zombification drug from Wade Davis's book, set in 1978 Duvalier-era Haiti.
The Seventh Curse (原振侠与卫斯理)
The Seventh Curse (原振侠与卫斯理) is a 1986 Golden Harvest Hong Kong action-horror film directed by Lam Nai-choi, starring Chin Siu-ho, Chow Yun-fat, and Maggie Cheung; the first film adaptation of Ni Kuang's Wisely character, earning HK$10.22 million.
The Seventh Sign
The Seventh Sign (第七の予言) is a 1988 TriStar apocalyptic horror film directed by Carl Schultz, starring Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, and Peter Friedman; originally titled The Boarder, it grossed $16.5M.
The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim (1943) is a Val Lewton-produced RKO horror-noir, Mark Robson's directorial debut and Kim Hunter's screen debut, about a woman finding her sister in a Greenwich Village Satanic cult, ending in suicide.
The Severed Sun
The Severed Sun is a 2024 British folk horror film, Dean Puckett's debut feature, starring Emma Appleton and Toby Stephens; shot in 12 days on Bodmin Moor, premiered at Fantastic Fest, released by Dark Sky Films in 2025.
The Shallows (film)
The Shallows (2016) is a Jaume Collet-Serra survival thriller starring Blake Lively as surfer Nancy Adams, stranded 200 yards from shore by a great white shark; it grossed $119 million worldwide on a $13-17 million budget.
The Shepherd (2026 film)
The Shepherd is an upcoming 2026 American horror thriller directed by John Hyams, starring Georgina Campbell as a woman who hitches a ride with a frightening stranger.
The Shining (film)
The Shining (1980) is Stanley Kubrick's psychological horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1977 novel, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall at the Overlook Hotel; shot at Elstree with Steadicam, initially panned, later canonical.
The Shout
The Shout (1978) is a British psychological drama by Jerzy Skolimowski, adapted from Robert Graves's short story, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York, and John Hurt; it shared Cannes 1978's Jury Grand Prix and was the first British Dolby-soundtrack film.
The Shrouds
The Shrouds (Les Linceuls) is David Cronenberg's 2024 France-Canada body-horror film, premiered in Cannes competition, starring Vincent Cassel as inventor of GraveTech camera shrouds for viewing the dead, written after his wife's 2017 death.
The Silence (2019 film)
The Silence (2019) is a Netflix horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, adapted from Tim Lebbon's 2015 novel, starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka as a family fleeing sound-hunting creatures called vesps and a cult; released April 10, 2019, poorly reviewed.
The Silence of the Lambs (film)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme's psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, adapted from Thomas Harris's novel; it swept the 1992 Big Five Oscars and is the only horror film to win Best Picture.
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment as a child psychologist and a boy who sees dead people.
The Skeleton Key
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Iain Softley and starring Kate Hudson as a hospice nurse at a Louisiana plantation house.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase (1946) is a Robert Siodmak RKO psychological thriller based on Ethel Lina White's Some Must Watch, starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore as a mute servant stalked by a killer targeting disabled women.
The Spooky Bunch (撞到正)
The Spooky Bunch (撞到正) is a 1980 Ann Hui horror comedy, written by Joyce Chan and produced by and starring Josephine Siao, about a Cantonese opera troupe haunted on Cheung Chau; Hui's second feature and part of her phantom trilogy.
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
The Stepford Wives (1975), Bryan Forbes film adapted by William Goldman from Ira Levin's 1972 novel, starring Katharine Ross; a box office flop that became a feminist horror cult classic and gave English the phrase "Stepford wife."
The Strays (film)
The Strays (2023) is a British psychological thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Nathaniel Martello-White, starring Ashley Madekwe as Neve/Cheryl, a Black woman who remade herself in a white suburb, with Bukky Bakray and Jorden Myrie; Netflix release February 22, 2023.
The Stuff
The Stuff is a 1985 satirical horror-comedy by Larry Cohen about an addictive white dessert that takes over its eaters, starring Michael Moriarty; released by New World Pictures, later restored in 4K by Arrow Video.
The Substance
The Substance (2024) is a body horror film by Coralie Fargeat starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid; it won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2024 and the 2025 Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling.
The Sudbury Devil
The Sudbury Devil is a 2023 American independent folk horror film by Andrew Rakich (Atun-Shei Films), about Puritan witch hunters in 1678 Massachusetts; made for $25,000, premiered at The Satanic Temple in Salem, self-streamed from December 2023.