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Vicious (film)
Vicious is a 2025 horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Dakota Fanning as Polly, who must fill a mysterious box with something she needs, hates, and loves. Released on Paramount+ October 10, 2025 after its theatrical release was canceled.
Victorian Psycho (film)
Victorian Psycho is a 2026 gothic horror-comedy film directed by Zachary Wigon, adapted by Virginia Feito from her 2025 novel. Maika Monroe plays killer governess Winifred Notty; premiered at Cannes 2026, Un Certain Regard.
Videodrome
Videodrome (1983) is a Canadian body-horror science fiction film by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods and Deborah Harry, about a torture-show broadcast that physically transforms viewers; also the name of an Atlanta video rental store.
Vile: Exhumed
VILE: Exhumed is a 2025 FMV horror video game by solo developer Cara Cadaver (Final Girl Games), published by DreadXP; an expanded edition of VILE, banned from Steam in July 2025 and re-released free as shareware.
Villains (film)
Villains is a 2019 American horror-comedy film by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, starring Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe as criminal lovers who break into a house owned by Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Donovan's characters and find a dark secret; premiered at SXSW, released September 20, 2019 by Gunpowder & Sky's Alter banner.
Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari
Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari is a 2024 Indonesian horror film directed by Anggy Umbara, based on the 2016 death of 16-year-old Vina Dewi Arsita in Cirebon, West Java.
Vindicta (film)
Vindicta (2023 film), also called VINDICTA, is an American horror thriller directed by Sean McNamara starring Elena Kampouris, Jeremy Piven, and Sean Astin; a masked killer leaves Latin phrases in blood, released October 2023, distinct from the 1923 Feuillade silent and Sedlar's 2025 WWII film.
Violence (2025 film)
Violence (2025 film), Connor Marsden's Canadian punk crime thriller, 84 min, starring Rohan Campbell as Henry Violence in an alternate 1980s drug war; premiered Brooklyn Horror Film Festival October 19, 2025.
Visions (2015 film)
Visions (2015) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Greutert, starring Isla Fisher as pregnant Eveleigh Maddox, whose visions at a Paso Robles vineyard prove to be premonitions of a cult attack; 82 minutes, R-rated, direct-to-video in the US.
Visitation (film)
Visitation (film) covers several unrelated films: Volker Schlöndorff's 2026 German drama Heimsuchung from Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, the 2006 Peretti supernatural thriller The Visitation, Suzan Pitt's 2011 animated short, and Nicolas Pesce's completed horror film.
Voice from the Stone
Voice from the Stone is a 2017 supernatural psychological thriller directed by Eric D. Howell, adapted from Silvio Raffo's Italian novel La voce della pietra, starring Emilia Clarke as a nurse treating a mute boy in a 1950s Tuscan castle.
Watchers
Watchers is a 1988 American horror film based on Dean Koontz's novel, starring Corey Haim as a teen who adopts Einstein, an intelligent golden retriever, while Michael Ironside's agent hunts it and a rampaging mutant beast.
Waxwork
Waxwork is a 1988 American horror comedy, the feature debut of writer-director Anthony Hickox, distributed by Vestron Pictures. Teens enter wax displays of evil figures; grossed $808,114; sequel Waxwork II (1992).
We Are the Night
We Are the Night (Wir sind die Nacht) is a 2010 German vampire horror-drama by Dennis Gansel, starring Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, and Max Riemelt; Berlin-set, Sitges Special Jury Award winner.
We Are What We Are (2013 film)
We Are What We Are (2013) is Jim Mickle and Nick Damici's American horror-drama remake of Jorge Michel Grau's 2010 Mexican film Somos lo que hay, starring Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, and Julia Garner as a cannibalistic rural family; Sundance and Cannes 2013, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
We Bury the Dead
We Bury the Dead is a 2026 Australian zombie horror-thriller by Zak Hilditch, starring Daisy Ridley as Ava, who joins a body retrieval unit in Tasmania after an experimental weapon kills 500,000 people; released by Vertical, 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.
We Have a Ghost
We Have a Ghost is a 2023 Netflix supernatural comedy directed by Christopher Landon, adapted from Geoff Manaugh's short story "Ernest". David Harbour plays a silent ghost discovered by a Chicago family; it topped Netflix's English film list with 42.62M hours viewed.
We Summon the Darkness
We Summon the Darkness is a 2019 horror-comedy directed by Marc Meyers, written by Alan Trezza, starring Alexandra Daddario and Johnny Knoxville. Set in 1988 Indiana during the Satanic Panic, religious fanatics stage satanic murders; Metascore 55, $190,760 worldwide gross.
We're All Going to the World's Fair
We're All Going to the World's Fair, also called the World's Fair Challenge film, is Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 creepypasta-inspired horror debut starring Anna Cobb, premiered at Sundance, 86 minutes, $15,000 budget, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
We're Going to Eat You
We're Going to Eat You (Diyu wu men) is Tsui Hark's 1980 Hong Kong horror-comedy-kung fu film about Agent 999 (Norman Chu) trapped in a cannibal island village hunting the criminal Rolex, produced by Seasonal Film Corporation.
Weapons (2025 film)
Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Zach Cregger, in which all but one child from a school class vanish at 2:17 a.m.
Werewolves (film)
Werewolves is a 2024 American action horror film directed by Steven C. Miller. It stars Frank Grillo as a marine fighting werewolves triggered by a supermoon.
Werewolves Within (film)
Werewolves Within (2021) is a horror-comedy whodunit directed by Josh Ruben, written by Mishna Wolff, and loosely based on Ubisoft's 2016 VR social-deduction game. Sam Richardson and Milana Vayntrub star in the snowbound town of Beaverfield; IFC Films released it June 25, 2021.
Werwulf
Werwulf is Robert Eggers' 2026 period horror film, co-written with Sjón, set in 13th-century England and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, and Willem Dafoe; dialogue is in Middle English, released December 25, 2026 by Focus Features.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 psychological horror film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as feuding sisters, adapted from Henry Farrell's 1960 novel and origin of the psycho-biddy subgenre.
What Keeps You Alive
What Keeps You Alive (2018) is a Canadian survival horror-thriller written and directed by Colin Minihan, starring Brittany Allen and Hannah Emily Anderson as wives whose cabin anniversary turns deadly; IFC Midnight release, SXSW premiere, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath (2000) is a Robert Zemeckis supernatural thriller starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as a Vermont couple haunted by a dead mistress. Budgeted at $100 million, it grossed $291.4 million worldwide and is read as female Gothic.
When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)
When a Stranger Calls (2006) is a Simon West horror remake starring Camilla Belle as babysitter Jill Johnson, terrorized by calls from inside the house; Screen Gems release grossed $47.9M US but scored 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
When Evil Lurks
When Evil Lurks (Cuando acecha la maldad) is Demián Rugna's 2023 Argentine possession horror film about brothers Pedro and Jimi unleashing a demonic epidemic; it won Sitges best film and premiered at TIFF Midnight Madness.
Whistle (2025 film)
Whistle (2025) is a Corin Hardy supernatural horror film, written by Owen Egerton, starring Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse; teens find an Aztec death whistle that accelerates their fated deaths. TIFF premiere, 2026 release, mixed reviews.