American religious horror films

2012 film directed by Ridley Scott

1973 film directed by William Friedkin

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. It is the inaugural film in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their purportedly real-life reports inspired The Amityville Horror story and the associated film franchise. The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family, who experienced increasingly disturbing events in their newly occupied farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

1997 film directed by Taylor Hackford

1968 film directed by Roman Polanski

2005 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2014 film directed by John R. Leonetti

1976 film directed by Brian De Palma

The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. The screenplay is by Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Wan, and David Leslie Johnson. It is the sequel to 2013's The Conjuring, the second installment in The Conjuring series, and the third installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren from the first film. The film follows the Warrens as they travel to England to assist the Hodgson family, who are experiencing poltergeist activity at their Enfield council house in 1977, which later became referred to as the Enfield poltergeist.

2002 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

2017 film directed by David F. Sandberg

2018 film by Corin Hardy

Mother! (stylized as mother!) is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig. Its plot follows a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple, leading to a series of increasingly chaotic and destructive events.

2009 film by Karyn Kusama

Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. It stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as an American couple who are drawn into a violent cult in rural Sweden. Supporting actors include William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, with a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick from a story by Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan. The film is a sequel to The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016), and the seventh installment in The Conjuring Universe. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, with Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook in her feature film debut, and Julian Hilliard also starring. Wan and Peter Safran return to produce the film, which is based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a murder trial that took place in 1981 Connecticut, in addition to The Devil in Connecticut, a book about the trial written by Gerald Brittle.

2005 film directed by Andrew Douglas

1999 film directed by Peter Hyams

2012 film directed by Scott Derrickson

2005 film by Scott Derrickson

Hereditary is a 2018 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, the film follows Annie Graham, a grieving miniature artist who uncovers disturbing secrets about her recently deceased mother. She, along with her husband Steve and their children, Peter and Charlie, are subsequently tormented by sinister occurrences.

2015 film directed by Robert Eggers

2013 film directed by Kimberly Peirce

2023 film directed by Michael Chaves

2011 film by Patrick Lussier

Heretic is a 2024 American psychological horror film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. It follows two young Mormon missionaries who visit the home of an eccentric man after he expresses interest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, only for his true intentions to quickly become clear.

2017 film directed by McG

The Conjuring: Last Rites is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves and written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. The film is the ninth installment in The Conjuring film series, and is based on the real-life investigations of the Smurl haunting case. It stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who reprise their roles as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, along with Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy.

1987 film by John Carpenter

2023 film by David Gordon Green

2006 film by Neil LaBute

1984 film directed by Fritz Kiersch

1990 film directed by Adrian Lyne

Ready or Not is a 2019 American comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. It stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni, Henry Czerny and Andie MacDowell. It follows a young bride who is hunted by her spouse's wealthy family as part of a wedding night ritual to worship the Devil.

1977 film by John Boorman, Rospo Pallenberg

2004 film by Renny Harlin

1992 film directed by Anthony Hickox

1990 film by William Peter Blatty

Longlegs is a 2024 American mystery horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. The film stars Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, and Nicolas Cage. Set in the 1990s, the story follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent assigned to hunt down an occult-obsessed serial killer responsible for a string of family murders across Oregon. The killer is dubbed Longlegs, and baffles the FBI with his perfect ability to seemingly leave zero trace of involvement at the crime scenes.

2014 film by Scott Derrickson

1988 film directed by Tony Randel

2024 film directed by Michael Mohan

2020 film directed by McG

2000 film by Patrick Lussier

1998 film directed by Gregory Hoblit

2011 film directed by Scott Stewart

2009 film by Peter Cornwell

2001 film by Bill Paxton

2015 film directed by Ciaran Foy

1998 film directed by John Carpenter

2007 film by Stephen Hopkins

2024 film directed by Arkasha Stevenson

2000 film by Scott Derrickson

1934 film by Edgar George Ulmer

1999 film directed by Rupert Wainwright

2009 film directed by David S. Goyer

2005 film directed by Paul Schrader

2016 film by André Øvredal

1996 film directed by Joe Chappelle and Kevin Yagher

1985 film by Dan Attias