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Horror films (individual works)

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The Surrender

The Surrender is a 2025 supernatural horror film, the feature debut of writer-director Julia Max, starring Colby Minifie and Kate Burton as a daughter and mother who attempt an occult resurrection ritual after the family patriarch dies; it premiered at SXSW and streamed on Shudder from May 23, 2025.

The Tag-Along (红衣小女孩)

The Tag-Along (紅衣小女孩) is a 2015 Taiwanese horror film, Cheng Wei-hao's debut, starring Tiffany Hsu and River Huang, adapted from a 1998 V8 urban legend, grossing over NT$85 million and spawning a series.

The Taking of Deborah Logan

The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) is Adam Robitel's found-footage horror debut, starring Jill Larson as an Alzheimer's patient whose deterioration masks possession; released direct to VOD, later viral on Netflix.

The Tall Man (2012 film)

The Tall Man (2012) is Pascal Laugier's English-language debut horror thriller starring Jessica Biel as nurse Julia Denning in Cold Rock, a mining town where children vanish; the Tall Man legend conceals a child-rescue conspiracy. Metascore 52.

The Tenant

The Tenant (Le locataire) is Roman Polanski's 1976 psychological horror film, adapted from Roland Topor's novel Le Locataire chimérique, starring Polanski as Trelkovsky, a Paris tenant who assumes a dead woman's identity; it competed at Cannes 1976 and divides critics.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (also Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's 1974 independent horror film about Leatherface and a cannibal Texas family; ~$140,000 budget, $30 million gross, National Film Registry 2024.

The Thing (1982 film)

The Thing (1982) is John Carpenter's sci-fi horror film, also known as John Carpenter's The Thing, adapting Campbell's Who Goes There? about a shape-shifting alien at Antarctic Outpost 31, famous for Rob Bottin's practical effects and its re-evaluation after a poor 1982 reception.

The Third Parent

The Third Parent (aka Tommy Taffy) is an upcoming 2027 American horror film directed by David Michaels, adapted from Elias Witherow's creepypasta, starring Rob Lowe, Crispin Glover (as villain Tommy Taffy), and Roselyn Sánchez, released by Bleecker Street.

The Tingler

The Tingler is a 1959 American horror film directed by William Castle, starring Vincent Price, which deals with a parasitic creature along the spine.

The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia is Roger Corman's 1964 horror film, the last of his Vincent Price Edgar Allan Poe cycle, adapted by Robert Towne from Poe's "Ligeia" and shot at Norfolk's Castle Acre Priory and Stonehenge.

The Toolbox Murders

The Toolbox Murders is Dennis Donnelly's 1978 American exploitation slasher in which Cameron Mitchell's ski-masked handyman kills Los Angeles apartment tenants with tools; banned in the UK 1982-2000, remade by Tobe Hooper in 2004.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 film)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) is Charles B. Pierce's proto-slasher horror film loosely based on the unsolved 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders by the Phantom Killer, starring Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, and Dawn Wells; it cost about $400,000, earned around $5 million, and was remade in 2014.

The Tunnel (2011 film)

The Tunnel (2011) is an Australian found-footage horror film directed by Carlo Ledesma, about a news crew investigating a cover-up in Sydney's abandoned St James tunnels. Australia's first crowdfunded feature, funded by the 135K Project and released free on BitTorrent in May 2011.

The Turning (2020 film)

The Turning is a 2020 American horror film directed by Floria Sigismondi and adapted from Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw, starring Mackenzie Davis and Finn Wolfhard.

The Twins Effect (千机变)

The Twins Effect (千机变), aka The Vampire Effect, is a 2003 Hong Kong vampire action-comedy directed by Dante Lam with action by Donnie Yen, starring pop duo Twins, Ekin Cheng, and Edison Chen; it was 2003's top Hong Kong film and won six Hong Kong Film Awards.

The Ugly Stepsister

The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren) is a 2025 Norwegian body-horror comedy, Emilie Blichfeldt's debut, retelling Cinderella from stepsister Elvira's view; Sundance premiere, Oscar-nominated makeup, 50,675 Norwegian admissions.

The Unborn (2009 film)

The Unborn (2009) is an American supernatural horror film written and directed by David S. Goyer, starring Odette Annable and Gary Oldman, about a teenager haunted by a dybbuk tied to a family curse from Nazi-era experiments; it grossed $42.6 million and scored 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Uninvited (1944 film)

The Uninvited (1944) is a Paramount haunted-house film, Lewis Allen's directorial debut, adapted from Dorothy Macardle's Uneasy Freehold, starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, and Gail Russell, with Victor Young's Stella by Starlight.

The Uninvited (2009 film)

The Uninvited (2009) is an American psychological horror thriller directed by Charles and Thomas Guard, a remake of Kim Jee-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters, starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, and David Strathairn; released January 30, 2009, grossing $28.6M.

The Untamed (2016 film)

The Untamed (La región salvaje) is a 2016 Mexican sci-fi drama by Amat Escalante, starring Ruth Ramos and Simone Bucio, about a couple encountering a creature from a meteorite; it won the Venice Silver Lion for Best Director.

The Untold Story (八仙饭店之人肉叉烧饱)

The Untold Story (八仙飯店之人肉叉燒飽) is a 1993 Hong Kong Category III crime-horror film by Herman Yau, starring Anthony Wong as killer Wong Chi Hang, based on the unsolved 1985 Macau Eight Immortals Restaurant murders; it won Wong the HK Film Award for Best Actor.

The Vatican Tapes

The Vatican Tapes is a 2015 demon-possession horror film directed by Mark Neveldine, starring Olivia Taylor Dudley, Michael Peña, and Dougray Scott, in which a possessed young woman turns out to carry the antichrist; it grossed $1.8 million and scored 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Veil (2016 film)

The Veil (2016 film) refers chiefly to a Blumhouse horror film directed by Phil Joanou, written by Robert Ben Garant, starring Jessica Alba, Thomas Jane, and Lily Rabe, about a cult mass suicide survivor; a separate 2016 sci-fi film of the same name stars William Levy.

The Visit (2015 American film)

The Visit is a 2015 American found-footage horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, in which two teenage siblings spend a week with their estranged grandparents.

The Voices of Our Mother

The Voices of Our Mother is a 2026 Canadian supernatural horror film written, directed by, and starring Mark O'Brien, with Sheila McCarthy as a possibly possessed mother; released on Shudder June 19, 2026, 93 minutes, 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Void (2016 film)

The Void (2016) is a Canadian Lovecraftian horror film directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski of Astron-6, crowdfunded for its practical creature effects, released by Screen Media in 2017, and noted for 1980s-style monsters.

The Wailing (곡성) (2016 film)

The Wailing (곡성, Gokseong) is Na Hong-jin's 2016 South Korean supernatural horror thriller about a village plagued by mysterious deaths after a stranger arrives; it premiered Out of Competition at Cannes 2016, crossed four million Korean admissions, and won Blue Dragon Best Director.

The Walking Dead (1936 film)

The Walking Dead (1936) is a Warner Bros. horror film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff as executed man John Elman, revived with an artificial heart by Edmund Gwenn's scientist; distinct from the later comic and TV series.

The Ward (film)

The Ward is John Carpenter's 2010 psychological horror film, starring Amber Heard as a 1966 psychiatric patient stalked by a ghost. Premiered at TIFF, released July 8, 2011; his last feature to date.

The Watcher in the Woods

The Watcher in the Woods is Disney's 1980 PG supernatural horror film directed by John Hough, starring Bette Davis, based on Florence Engel Randall's 1976 novel, withdrawn after its New York premiere and re-released in 1981 with a new ending.