American action horror films

1999 film directed by Stephen Sommers

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, the leader of a paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in a Central American rainforest, who encounters a deadly Predator, a skilled and technologically advanced extraterrestrial that stalks and hunts his team down. The film also features Elpidia Carrillo, Carl Weathers, Richard Chaves, Sonny Landham, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black.

2007 film directed by Francis Lawrence

1963 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2013 film directed by Marc Forster

2004 film directed by Stephen Sommers

2017 film directed by Jordan Peele

2004 film directed by Alexander Witt

2007 film by Mark Steven Johnson

2005 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2002 film directed by Guillermo del Toro

1998 film directed by Stephen Norrington

2017 film by Ridley Scott

2007 film directed by Quentin Tarantino

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.

1996 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

2004 film by David S. Goyer

2003 film by Len Wiseman

28 Weeks Later is a 2007 post-apocalyptic action horror film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who co-wrote it with Rowan Joffé, Enrique López Lavigne, and Jesús Olmo. It is a standalone sequel to 28 Days Later (2002) and the second instalment in its series. The film stars Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots, and Idris Elba. Set six months after the earlier Rage Virus outbreak, it follows the US-led NATO forces' attempt to establish a safe zone in London, the consequences of two young siblings breaking protocol, and the virus's reintroduction into Britain.

2003 film by Ronny Yu

2012 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2024 film directed by Fede Álvarez

2013 film directed by James DeMonaco

2000 film directed by David Twohy

1999 film directed by Peter Hyams

2019 film directed by Jordan Peele

2007 vampire horror film directed by David Slade

2009 film directed by Patrick Tatopoulos

2012 film by Timur Bekmambetov

2014 film directed by James DeMonaco

2014 film directed by Gary Shore

1992 film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui

2012 film by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein

2004 film directed by Zack Snyder

2011 film by Patrick Lussier

2011 film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.

2006 film by Len Wiseman

2021 film directed by Johannes Roberts

2016 film by James DeMonaco

2015 film directed by Breck Eisner

Prey is a 2022 American science fiction action horror film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Patrick Aison, based on a story by Aison and Trachtenberg. It is the fifth installment in the Predator franchise and a prequel to Predator (1987), set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. It stars Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp, Julian Black Antelope, and Bennett Taylor. The story revolves around a young Comanche woman, Naru, who is striving to prove herself as a hunter. She finds herself having to protect her people from a vicious, humanoid alien that hunts humans for sport.

1985 film by George A. Romero

2001 film by John Carpenter

2018 film directed by Gerard McMurray

2007 double feature film consisting of Planet Terror and Death Proof

Mindhunters is a 2004 crime slasher film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Kathryn Morris, LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Patricia Velásquez, Clifton Collins Jr., Christian Slater and Val Kilmer. It was written by Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin with an uncredited rewrite by Ehren Kruger. Unusually, the last country to receive this film was the United States in 2005, because of the film's distribution rights being changed from 20th Century Fox to Dimension Films.

2009 film by Declan O'Brien

2022 superhero television special produced by Marvel Studios

Daybreakers is a 2009 dystopian sci-fi action-horror vampire film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires, and centers around a vampiric corporation which sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a substitute for human blood. Ethan Hawke plays vampire hematologist Edward Dalton, whose work is interrupted by human survivors led by former vampire 'Elvis' (Willem Dafoe), who has a cure that can save the human species.

2007 film by Robert Rodriguez

2010 film by Scott Stewart

2020 film directed by William Eubank

2022 film directed by Baltasar Kormákur

2007 film by Greg McLean

2024 film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

2011 film directed by Scott Stewart

2020 film directed by Craig Zobel

2021 film directed by Everardo Valerio Gout

2007 film by Dave Meyers

2005 film by George A. Romero