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Get Out
2017 film directed by Jordan Peele
Night of the Living Dead
1968 American independent zombie horror film by George A. Romero
Blade II
2002 film directed by Guillermo del Toro
Blade
1998 film directed by Stephen Norrington
Sinners (2025 film)
Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.
Us
2019 film directed by Jordan Peele
Nope
2022 film directed by Jordan Peele
Candyman
1992 film directed by Bernard Rose
The First Purge
2018 film directed by Gerard McMurray
Candyman
2021 film directed by Nia DaCosta
Ma
2019 film directed by Tate Taylor
Michael Jackson's Thriller
1983 music video for the song of the same name by Michael Jackson directed by John Landis
Candyman 3: Day of the Dead
1999 film directed by Turi Meyer
Blacula
Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William Crain. It stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refuses to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade. The film co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995 film directed by Bill Condon
I Saw the TV Glow
2024 film directed by Jane Schoenbrun
Antebellum
2020 film by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz
Beloved
1998 film directed by Jonathan Demme
Him (2025 film)
Him is a 2025 American supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Justin Tipping. The film stars Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, and Jim Jefferies. Its plot follows a young up-and-coming football player (Withers) training at the isolated compound of an aging, nearly retired quarterback (Wayans).
Gallowwalkers
Gallowwalkers is a 2012 American horror Western film written and directed by Andrew Goth, and starring Wesley Snipes, Kevin Howarth, Riley Smith, Tanit Phoenix, Patrick Bergin, and Diamond Dallas Page. Due to Wesley Snipes' tax problems, the film went through many changes and delays and was completed in 2010. It still had no official release until a 2012 screening at the "Film4 FrightFest" festival in the United Kingdom. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States in 2013, nearly eight years after the film started production in 2006.
Eve's Bayou
1997 film by Kasi Lemmons
The Woman in the Yard
2025 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Bones
2001 film directed by Ernest Dickerson
Never Let Go
2024 film by Alexandre Aja
Black Box
2020 film directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.
The Intruder
2019 film directed by Deon Taylor
Vampires vs. the Bronx
2020 film directed by Oz Rodriguez
Def by Temptation
1990 film by James Bond III
Scream Blacula Scream
1973 film
Sweetheart
2019 film directed by J. D. Dillard
Abby
1974 film by William Girdler
Ganja & Hess
1973 film by Bill Gunn
J. D.'s Revenge
1976 film by Arthur Marks
Blackenstein
Blackenstein (also known as Black Frankenstein on its theatrical release poster and whose actual on-screen title is Blackenstein the Black Frankenstein) is a 1973 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William A. Levey, and starring John Hart, Ivory Stone, Andrea King, Roosevelt Jackson, Joe De Sue, Nick Bolin and Liz Renay. It is loosely based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Released on August 3, 1973, it was made in an attempt to cash in on the success of Blacula; released the previous year by American International Pictures. However, Blackenste
Rattlesnake
2019 film
Jacob's Ladder
2019 film directed by David M. Rosenthal
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
1976 film directed by William Crain
Trick
2019 film directed by Patrick Lussier
Sugar Hill
1974 film by Paul Maslansky
Son of Ingagi
1940 film by Richard C. Kahn
Tales from the Hood
1995 film directed by Rusty Cundieff