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As the nights grow longer and the air turns crisp, it’s the perfect time to settle in with some of the best spooky films ever made. From eerie silent classics to modern horror hits, spooky cinema has evolved across decades, yet each era has its own spine-tingling gems. Whether you love atmospheric terror or heart-pounding scares, here’s a journey through the best films from the 1920s to today that will give you chills.

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1920s – 1980s

‘The Haunting’ (1963)

Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton, Rosalie Crutchley, Lois Maxwell, Valentine Dyall

Director: Robert Wise | Writer: Nelson Gidding, Shirley Jackson

Category: Horror

‘Dead of Night’ (1945)

Cast: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall 

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Writer: John Baines, Angus MacPhail, H.G. Wells, E.F. Benson

Category: Horror

‘Dead Ringers’ (1988)

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack 

Director: David Cronenberg | Writer: David Cronenberg, Norman Snider, Bari Wood, Jack Geasland

Category: Horror / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

‘The Wolf Man’ (1941)

Cast: Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles

Director: George Waggner | Writer: Curt Siodmak

Category: Horror

‘The Omen’ (1976)

Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner

Director: Richard Donner | Writer: David Seltzer

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ (1984)

Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, John Saxon

Director: Wes Craven | Writer: Wes Craven

Category: Horror

‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ (1954)

Cast: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno

Director: Jack Arnold | Writer: Harry Essex, Arthur A. Ross, Maurice Zimm, William Alland

Category: Horror

‘Gremlins’ (1984)

Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Louie

Director: Joe Dante | Writer: Chris Columbus

Category: Holiday / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller / Comedy / Horror

‘Eraserhead’ (1977)

Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates

Director: David Lynch | Writer: David Lynch

Category: Holiday / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller / Comedy / Horror

‘The Birds’ (1963)

Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Writer: Evan Hunter, Daphne Du Maurier

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Horror

‘Godzilla’ (1954)

Cast: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi

Director: Ishirô Honda | Writer: Takeo Murata, Ishirô Honda, Shigeru Kayama

Category: Sci-Fi / Horror

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‘The Thing’ (1982)

Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Director: John Carpenter | Writer: Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr.

Category: Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller

‘Bride of Frankenstein’ (1935)

Cast: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

Director: James Whale | Writer: William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley

Category: Horror

‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (1956)

Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Director: Philip Kaufman | Writer: W.D. Richter, Jack Finney

Category: Horror / Sci-Fi

‘M’ (1931)

Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos

Director: Fritz Lang | Writer: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou

Category: Mystery / Thriller/ Crime / Drama

‘The Night of the Hunter’ (1955)

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden

Director: Charles Laughton | Writer: James Agee, Davis Grubb

Category: Mystery / Thriller

‘Dracula’ (1931)

Cast: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye

Director: Tod Browning | Writer: Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston, Garrett Fort

Category: Horror

‘The innocents’ (1961)

Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave

Director: Jack Clayton | Writer: William Archibald, Truman Capote, John Mortimer, Henry James

Category: Horror

‘Dawn of the Dead’ (1978)

Cast: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross

Director: George A. Romero | Writer: George A. Romero

Category: Horror

‘The Shining’ (1980)

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd 

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Stephen King

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Halloween’ (1978)

Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes

Director: John Carpenter | Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill

Category: Holiday / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Don’t Look Now’ (1973)

Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania

Director: Nicolas Roeg | Writer: Chris Bryant, Allan Scott, Daphne Du Maurier

Category: Mystery / Thriller

‘Nosferatu’ (1922)

Cast: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder

Director: F.W. Murnau | Writer: Bram Stoker, Henrik Galeen

Category: Horror / Fantasy

‘Alien’ (1979)

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Director: Ridley Scott | Writer: Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett

Category: Sci-Fi / Horror

‘Carrie’ (1976)

Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta

Director: Brian De Palma | Writer: Lawrence D. Cohen, Stephen King

Category: Horror

‘Frankenstein’ (1931)

Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles

Director: James Whale | Writer: Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Faragoh, Peggy Webling, Mary Shelley

Category: Horror

‘Night of the Living Dead’ (1968)

Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman

Director: George A. Romero | Writer: George A. Romero, John A. Russo

Category: Horror

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‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1968)

Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer

Director: Roman Polanski | Writer: Roman Polanski, Ira Levin

Category: Horror

‘Jaws’ (1975)

Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary

Director: Steven Spielberg | Writer: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb

Category: Holiday / Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Adventure

‘Psycho’ (1960)

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Writer: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘The Exorcist’ (1973)

Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Director: William Friedkin | Writer: William Peter Blatty

Category: Horror

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ (1974)

Cast: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain

Director: Tobe Hooper | Writer: Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

1990s 

‘Interview with the Vampire’ (1994)

Cast: Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Virginia McCollam, John McConnell, Tom Cruise, Mike Seelig, Kirsten Dunst, Thandiwe Newton

Director: Neil Jordan | Writer: Anne Rice

Category: Horror / Drama / Romance

‘Sleepy Hollow’ (1999)

Cast: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon

Director: Tim Burton | Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker, Kevin Yagher

Category: Horror

‘Scream’ (1996)

Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Roger Jackson

Director: Wes Craven | Writer: Kevin Williamson

Category: Horror / Comedy

‘The Craft’ (1996)

Cast: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich, Christine Taylor

Director: Andrew Fleming | Writer: Peter Filardi, Andrew Fleming

Category: Horror

‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991)

Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Director: Jonathan Demme | Writer: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Drama

‘It’ (1990)

Cast: Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O’Toole, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Richard Masur, John Ritter, Tim Curry

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Writer: Stephen King, Lawrence D. Cohen, Tommy Lee Wallace

Category: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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‘Misery’ (1990)

Cast: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis

Director: Rob Reiner | Writer: Stephen King, William Goldman

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1997)

Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anne Heche, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr. 

Director: Jim Gillespie | Writer: Kevin Williamson 

Category: Horror

‘Cape Fear’ (1991)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck

Director: Martin Scorsese | Writer: James R. Webb, Wesley Strick 

Category: Mystery / Thriller

‘Fear’ (1996)

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petersen, Amy Brenneman, Alyssa Milano

Director: James Foley | Writer: Christopher Crowe 

Category: Mystery / Thriller

‘Death Becomes Her’ (1992)

Cast: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Writer: Martin Donovan, David Koepp 

Category: Thriller / Comedy / Fantasy

‘Hocus Pocus’ (1993)

Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw

Director: Kenny Ortega | Writer: Mick Garris, Neil Cuthbert 

Category: Thriller / Kids & Family / Holiday / Comedy / Fantasy

‘Practical Magic’ (1998)

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest

Director: Griffin Dunne | Writer: Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks

Category: Thriller / Comedy / Drama

‘Candyman’ (1992)

Cast: Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams

Director: Bernard Rose | Writer: Bernard Rose

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘The Addams Family’ (1991)

Cast: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Carel Struycken, Judith Malina, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman, Christopher Hart

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Writer: Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson

Category: Thriller / Comedy

‘Seven’ (1995)

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey

Director: David Fincher | Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Drama

‘Edward Scissorhands’ (1990)

Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest

Director: Tim Burton | Writer: Caroline Thompson

Category: Thriller / Holiday / Fantasy / Comedy / Drama / Romance

‘The Sixth Sense’ (1999)

Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Writer: M. Night Shyamalan

Category: Mystery / Thriller

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2000s 

‘The Descent’ (2005)

Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder

Director: Neil Marshall | Writer: Neil Marshall

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Drag Me to Hell’ (2009)

Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver

Director: Sam Raimi | Writer: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘American Psycho’ (2000)

Cast: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage

Director: Mary Harron | Writer: Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner, Bret Easton Ellis

Category: Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Horror

‘Jennifer’s Body’ (2009)

Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons

Director: Karyn Kusama | Writer: Diablo Cody

Category: Horror / Comedy

‘Scary Movie’ (2000)

Cast: Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Marlon Wayans, Carmen Electra, Dave Sheridan

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans | Writer: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg, Phil Beauman, Buddy Johnson, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans

Category: Thriller / Comedy

‘The Others’ (2001)

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James Bentley

Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Writer: Alejandro Amenábar 

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ (2006)

Cast: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Writer: Guillermo del Toro 

Category: Supernatural Fantasy / Drama / Family 

‘The Mist’ (2007)

Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher

Director: Frank Darabont | Writer: Frank Darabont, Stephen King 

Category: Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller

‘Hannibal’ (2001)

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta

Director: Ridley Scott | Writer: David Mamet, Steven Zaillian, Thomas Harris 

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Drama

‘Signs’ (2002)

Cast: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Writer: M. Night Shyamalan 

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Sci-Fi / Drama

‘Shaun of the Dead’ (2004)

Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis

Director: Edgar Wright | Writer: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg 

Category: Comedy / Horror

‘Final Destination’ (2000)

Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke

Director: James Wong | Writer: James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick, Glen Morgan 

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Orphan’ (2009)

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Writer: Jaume Collet-Serra, David Leslie, Alex Mace 

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Monster House’ (2006)

Cast: Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Ryan Whitney

Director: Gil Kenan | Writer: Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Pamela Pettler 

Category: Kids & Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Comedy / Animation / Horror

‘The Ring’ (2002)

Cast: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman

Director: Gore Verbinski | Writer: Ehren Kruger, Kôji Suzuki

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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2010s 

‘A Quiet Place’ (2018)

Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cade Woodward

Director: John Krasinski | Writer: John Krasinski, Bryan Woods, Scott Beck

Category: Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller

‘Midsommar’ (2019)

Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter

Director: Ari Aster | Writer: Ari Aster

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Shutter Island’ (2010)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams

Director: Martin Scorsese | Writer: Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis Lehane

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Drama

‘It Follows’ (2014)

Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe

Director: David Robert Mitchell | Writer: David Robert Mitchell

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Hereditary’ (2018)

Cast: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff

Director: Ari Aster | Writer: Ari Aster

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Suspiria’ (2018)

Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela, Dakota Johnson

Director: Luca Guadagnino | Writer: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, David Kajganich

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Doctor Sleep’ (2019)

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis

Director: Mike Flanagan | Writer: Mike Flanagan, Stephen King

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Get Out’ (2017)

Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, LaKeith Stanfield

Director: Jordan Peele | Writer: Jordan Peele

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Comedy

‘Lights Out’ (2016)

Cast: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello, Billy Burke

Director: David F. Sandberg | Writer: David F. Sandberg, Eric Heisserer

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘The Conjuring’ (2013)

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor

Director: James Wan | Writer: Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Us’ (2019)

Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker

Director: Jordan Peele | Writer: Jordan Peele

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Happy Death Day’ (2017)

Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken

Director: Christopher Landon | Writer: Scott Lobdell

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Comedy

‘The Witch’ (2016)

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Julian Richings

Director: Robert Eggers | Writer: Robert Eggers

Category: Horror / History / Drama

‘Sinister’ (2012)

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Fred Thompson

Director: Scott Derrickson | Writer: Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Split’ (2017)

Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Writer: M. Night Shyamalan

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘The Babadook’ (2014)

Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney

Director: Jennifer Kent | Writer: Jennifer Kent

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (2015)

Cast: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Jonny Brugh

Director: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi | Writer: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi

Category: Comedy / Horror

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2020s

‘Smile’ (2022)

Cast: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert, Caitlin Stasey

Director: Parker Finn | Writer: Parker Finn

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Pearl’ (2022)

Cast: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland

Director: Ti West | Writer: Ti West, Mia Goth

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Comedy

‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ (2022)

Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders, Pete Davidson, Lee Pace

Director: Halina Reijn | Writer: Sarah DeLappe, Kristen Roupenian

Category: Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Comedy / Drama

‘The Black Phone’ (2021)

Cast: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies

Director: Scott Derrickson | Writer: Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Joe Hill

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Talk to Me’ (2023)

Cast: Ari McCarthy, Hamish Phillips, Kit Erhart-Bruce, Sarah Brokensha, Jayden Davison, Sunny Johnson, Sophie Wilde, Marcus Johnson

Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou | Writer: Danny Philippou, Bill Hinzman, Daley Pearson

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘The First Omen’ (2024)

Cast: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom

Director: Arkasha Stevenson | Writer: Arkasha Stevenson, Tim Smith, Keith Thomas, Ben Jacoby, David Seltzer

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Nope’ (2022)

Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott

Director: Jordan Peele | Writer: Jordan Peele

Category: Sci-Fi / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘The Invisible Man’ (2020)

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge

Director: Leigh Whannell | Writer: Leigh Whannell

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Fear Street’ (2021)

Cast: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Julia Rehwald

Director: Leigh Janiak | Writer: Leigh Janiak, Phil Graziadei, Kyle Killen, R.L. Stine

Category: Horror

‘Totally Killer’ (2023)

Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro

Director: Nahnatchka Khan | Writer: David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver, Jen D’Angelo

Category: Horror / Comedy

‘Barbarian’ (2022)

Cast: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long

Director: Zach Cregger | Writer: Zach Cregger

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Host’ (2020)

Cast: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova

Director: Rob Savage | Writer: Rob Savage, Gemma Hurley, Jed Shepherd

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘The Innocents’ (2021)

Cast: Rakel Lenora Petersen Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim

Director: Eskil Vogt | Writer: Eskil Vogt

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

‘Longlegs’ (2024)

Cast: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt

Director: Osgood Perkins | Writer: Osgood Perkins

Category: Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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