Horror Movies Across the Genre

Hereditary

2018

After the death of her secretive mother, artist Annie Graham and her family struggle with grief, strained relationships, and increasingly disturbing supernatural events. As unsettling visions and occult clues accumulate around the household, the family’s emotional fractures become entangled with a malevolent force that seems to have been waiting for them.

• Psychological Horror Movies

The Conjuring

2013

In 1971, the Perron family moves into an isolated Rhode Island farmhouse and soon encounters unexplained noises, apparitions, and escalating attacks. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in and conclude that a dangerous supernatural presence is attached to the home and threatening the family, turning domestic space into a battleground.

• Demonic Possession Horror Movies
• Haunted House Horror Movies

Get Out

2017

Photographer Chris travels with his girlfriend Rose to meet her affluent family at their secluded estate. Their awkward attempts at friendliness soon give way to stranger behavior from the household and its guests, while Chris becomes increasingly suspicious that something deeply disturbing lies beneath the weekend’s polished, welcoming surface.

• Psychological Horror Movies

The Ring

2002

Seattle journalist Rachel Keller investigates the mysterious death of her niece and hears about a videotape said to kill anyone who watches it seven days later. When Rachel views the tape herself, she begins tracing its disturbing images while a supernatural countdown turns her investigation into a race for survival.

Saw

2004

Photographer Adam and surgeon Lawrence Gordon awaken chained at opposite ends of a filthy bathroom with a corpse between them. Recorded instructions reveal that they are trapped in a sadistic test designed by the elusive Jigsaw killer, forcing them to solve clues and confront increasingly brutal choices before time runs out.

It

2017

In the town of Derry, Maine, a group of bullied children discovers that the disappearances around them are connected to a shape-shifting entity that often appears as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The creature exploits each child’s deepest fears, drawing the friends into a shared fight against an ancient, recurring evil.

Midsommar

2019

Still reeling from a devastating family tragedy, Dani joins her boyfriend and his friends on a trip to a remote Swedish community for a rare midsummer festival. What begins as an idyllic cultural visit gradually becomes unsettling as unfamiliar rituals, communal customs, and the group’s strained relationships take increasingly disturbing turns.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Nosferatu

2024

In 1838, Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania to complete a property deal with the reclusive Count Orlok, despite his wife Ellen’s ominous fears. As Thomas encounters the count’s unnatural presence, Ellen experiences a powerful psychic connection to him, while a spreading plague and vampiric threat move toward their home in Wisburg.

• Vampire Horror Movies

The Babadook

2014

Widowed mother Amelia is exhausted by grief, sleeplessness, and her young son Samuel’s fear of monsters. Their lives become more frightening after a mysterious pop-up book about the Babadook appears in their home, and its sinister figure seems to intrude on both the house and Amelia’s increasingly unstable emotional state.

• Psychological Horror Movies

The Mist

2007

After a violent storm, a strange mist engulfs a small Maine town and traps residents inside a supermarket. Deadly creatures appear beyond the windows, but the growing fear, suspicion, and extremism among the survivors inside soon become another threat as they struggle to understand what has descended on them.

Insidious

2010

After their son Dalton inexplicably falls into a coma, Josh and Renai Lambert begin experiencing terrifying phenomena in their home. Moving does not end the disturbances, and the family learns that the danger may not be tied to the house at all, leading them toward a frightening supernatural realm connected to Dalton.

The Invisible Man

2020

Cecilia escapes an abusive relationship with a wealthy optics engineer, only to learn that he has apparently died. Soon she becomes convinced that an unseen presence is stalking and manipulating her, but the lack of visible proof leaves others doubting her as the attacks grow more personal, calculated, and terrifying.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Alien: Romulus

2024

A group of young colonists desperate to escape a bleak mining world boards a derelict space station in search of equipment for their journey. Inside, they encounter remnants of dangerous corporate research and a lethal alien organism, turning the abandoned facility into a claustrophobic fight for survival.

Raw

2016

Lifelong vegetarian Justine begins veterinary school and is pushed through an intense hazing ritual that forces her to eat meat for the first time. The experience awakens unfamiliar physical cravings and impulses, turning her coming-of-age into disturbing body horror as she struggles with appetite, identity, and family expectations.

Smile

2022

Psychiatrist Rose Cotter witnesses a traumatized patient die after claiming she is being pursued by a malevolent presence. Soon Rose begins seeing the same unnerving smiles and impossible apparitions herself, while those around her question her stability. She races to understand the pattern before the escalating terror consumes her life.

• Psychological Horror Movies

The Host

2006

After toxic chemicals are dumped into Seoul’s Han River, a strange amphibious creature emerges years later and attacks people along the waterfront. When a young girl is taken, her dysfunctional family bands together to find her, combining monster horror, family desperation, and social satire around a very physical urban threat.

Don't Breathe

2016

Three young thieves break into the isolated home of a blind man, expecting an easy robbery and a large cash haul. Once inside, they discover their target is far more dangerous than anticipated. The locked-down house becomes a tense maze where every sound can reveal their location and every escape route narrows.

Drag Me to Hell

2009

Loan officer Christine Brown denies an elderly woman an extension on her mortgage while trying to impress her boss. Soon afterward, Christine is targeted by a supernatural curse that brings violent apparitions and mounting terror. Desperate to escape her fate, she turns to spiritual advisers and increasingly extreme measures.

Us

2019

Adelaide Wilson returns with her family to the coastal town where she experienced a childhood trauma. Their vacation becomes a nightmare when a silent family of red-clad strangers appears outside their home. The intruders look exactly like them, transforming the night into a violent confrontation with uncanny doubles and buried fears.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Annihilation

2018

Biologist Lena joins an expedition into the Shimmer, a mysterious expanding zone where previous teams disappeared and nature no longer behaves normally. Inside, the group encounters mutated landscapes, altered organisms, and growing psychological strain, while the boundary between biological transformation and personal disintegration becomes increasingly difficult to separate.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

1994

In modern-day San Francisco, Louis tells a reporter the story of his long life as a vampire, beginning in eighteenth-century Louisiana. His relationship with the charismatic Lestat draws him into immortality, blood hunger, and moral conflict, creating a gothic horror tale focused as much on companionship and conscience as predation.

• Vampire Horror Movies

Audition

1999

Years after losing his wife, widower Shigeharu Aoyama agrees to a friend’s scheme to stage a fake film audition so he can meet a potential partner. He becomes fascinated by the quiet, enigmatic Asami, but unanswered questions about her past gradually turn the courtship into an increasingly unsettling psychological nightmare.

• Psychological Horror Movies

In the Mouth of Madness

1994

Private investigator John Trent is hired to find missing horror novelist Sutter Cane and recover his latest manuscript. Trent’s search leads him toward a town that seems to exist only in Cane’s fiction, where reality, madness, and written horror begin bleeding together in increasingly impossible and cosmic ways.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Funny Games

1997

A family arrives at its lakeside holiday home and is approached by two polite young men asking to borrow eggs. The visit rapidly becomes a calculated ordeal as the strangers invade the family’s space and impose cruel games, creating a stark home-invasion horror built around helplessness, control, and psychological intimidation.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

2010

Well-meaning friends Tucker and Dale head to their newly purchased cabin for a quiet getaway, while a nearby group of college students mistakes them for murderous backwoods killers. A chain of accidents and misunderstandings spirals into bloody chaos, turning familiar slasher conventions into a horror-comedy of mistaken identity.

The Faculty

1998

Students at an Ohio high school notice that several teachers are behaving strangely, aggressively, and increasingly unlike themselves. A mismatched group of teenagers begins to suspect that an alien organism is taking over the faculty and spreading through the school, combining teen horror, paranoia, and body-snatching science fiction.

Pearl

2022

In 1918 rural Texas, Pearl lives on an isolated farm with her strict mother and disabled father while her husband is away at war. Desperate for fame, romance, and escape from domestic confinement, she finds her ambitions colliding with resentment and violent impulses in a character-driven blend of psychological horror and slasher menace.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Inside

2007

A pregnant widow preparing to give birth spends Christmas Eve alone at home, months after losing her husband in a car crash. A mysterious woman arrives and becomes determined to get inside, turning the house into the setting for a brutal siege centered on bodily vulnerability, grief, and relentless home-invasion terror.

Pontypool

2008

Radio host Grant Mazzy arrives for his morning shift in the small town of Pontypool as confusing reports of violence begin coming in from outside. Isolated inside the station, Grant and his crew slowly realize that the outbreak may be spreading in an unusual way, making language itself part of the horror.

Ravenous

1999

In 1847, Army officer John Boyd is sent to a remote mountain outpost after the Mexican-American War. When a stranger arrives with a horrifying tale of starvation and cannibalism, the isolated soldiers are drawn into a grim mystery involving hunger, survival, and a disturbing force associated with consuming human flesh.

Mother!

2017

A young woman quietly restores the secluded home she shares with her celebrated poet husband, hoping for a peaceful life together. Their privacy is disrupted when unexpected guests begin arriving and ignoring her boundaries, escalating the household into a surreal, oppressive nightmare shaped by anxiety, intrusion, and symbolic horror.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Orphan

2009

After suffering a devastating loss, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt and welcome a poised nine-year-old girl named Esther into their family. Esther initially appears unusually mature and charming, but troubling incidents soon make Kate increasingly suspicious, creating a domestic psychological horror centered on distrust inside the home.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Housebound

2014

After being sentenced to home detention, Kylie is forced to move back in with her mother, who insists that their old house is haunted. Kylie dismisses the idea until strange sounds and unexplained activity make her question what is actually inside the property, blending haunted-house horror with mystery and dark comedy.

• Haunted House Horror Movies

Mandy

2018

Lumberjack Red Miller lives a quiet life in the wilderness with his partner Mandy until a strange religious cult and its leader become fixated on her. Their peaceful isolation is shattered, sending Red into a feverish world of occult menace, extreme violence, and psychedelic horror shaped by grief and revenge.

Triangle

2009

Jess joins friends on a sailing trip that turns disastrous when a storm capsizes their yacht. The survivors board a seemingly deserted ocean liner, where Jess begins noticing repeated events and an unseen attacker. The ship becomes a disorienting trap built around cyclical time, identity, and mounting psychological dread.

Better Watch Out

2016

On Christmas Eve, teenager Ashley babysits twelve-year-old Luke at his suburban home. Strange noises and apparent intruders turn the night into what seems like a home-invasion crisis, but the situation grows more disturbing as control shifts inside the house, mixing holiday horror, suspense, and cruel psychological games.

The Invitation

2015

Will attends a dinner party at the Hollywood Hills home he once shared with his ex-wife, now hosted by her and her new husband. Old grief and strained relationships make the evening uncomfortable, but Will becomes convinced that the hosts’ unusual behavior and spiritual beliefs conceal a more dangerous purpose.

• Psychological Horror Movies

Bring Her Back

2025

After their father dies, teenage Andy and his partially blind stepsister Piper are placed with foster carer Laura, who is also caring for a withdrawn boy. Andy grows uneasy about Laura’s behavior and the strange rules of the household, as grief, occult practices, and disturbing intentions begin to converge.

• Demonic Possession Horror Movies
• Psychological Horror Movies

Frankenstein

2025

During a perilous Arctic expedition, sailors discover the badly injured Victor Frankenstein, whose story leads back to his obsessive experiments with life and death. His attempt to create a living being from human remains becomes a gothic horror tale of scientific ambition, bodily creation, isolation, and the consequences of rejecting what he made.

Backrooms

2026

In 1990, struggling architect and furniture-store owner Clark is already unraveling under personal and financial pressure when unexplained electrical problems draw him toward his basement. There he encounters an impossible, labyrinthine space that seems detached from ordinary reality, transforming familiar rooms and corridors into a source of surreal psychological horror.

• Psychological Horror Movies