American exploitation films

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.

2000 film directed by Mary Harron

1968 American independent zombie horror film by George A. Romero

1981 film by Sam Raimi

1984 film directed by Wes Craven

1994 film directed by Oliver Stone

1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham

1996 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. The film was marketed as being based on true events to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate. Although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.

1981 film by John Carpenter

1959 film directed by Ed Wood

1981 film directed by John Landis

2006 film directed by David R. Ellis

1998 film directed by John McNaughton

2011 film by Patrick Lussier

1974 film by Michael Winner

1972 film directed by Wes Craven

1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks

1989 film directed by Mark Goldblatt

2003 film by Rob Zombie

1953 film by Ed Wood

1964 film directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow

1986 film directed by Stephen Herek

1972 film by John Waters

1984 film directed by Fritz Kiersch

1960 film by Roger Corman

1958 film by Irvin Yeaworth

1988 film directed by Stephen Chiodo

Re-Animator (also known as '''''H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator''''') is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette "Herbert West–Reanimator". Directed by Stuart Gordon and produced by Brian Yuzna, the film stars Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, a medical student who has invented a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies. He and his classmate Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and conflict with Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), who is infatuated with Cain's fiancée (Barbara Crampton) and wants to claim the inventi

1975 film directed by Paul Bartel

2007 film by Robert Rodriguez

1979 film directed by Don Coscarelli

1981 film by Joe Dante

1977 film directed by Wes Craven

1978 film by Meir Zarchi

1986 film directed by John McNaughton

1985 American black comedy/zombie film directed by Dan O'Bannon

2018 film by Panos Cosmatos

1998 film directed by John Carpenter

1982 film by Michael Winner

1955 film by Ed Wood

1959 film by William Castle

1991 film directed by Wes Craven

2010 film by Steven R. Monroe

1979 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg

2006 film by Jonathan Levine

2015 film by Todd Strauss-Schulson

1985 film by Dan Attias

1973 film by Brian De Palma

2005 film directed by Uwe Boll

1962 horror film directed by Herk Harvey

1988 film by Stan Winston

1980 film by Lewis Teague

2006 film by Adam Green

1990 film by John Harrison

2013 film by Steven R. Monroe

1984 film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman

1966 film by Harold P. Warren

1984 film by Charles Sellier

2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright