American supernatural horror films

ParaNorman is a 2012 American stop motion animated comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, and written by Butler. Produced by Laika, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3-D color printer to create character faces. In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old w

2024 film directed by Robert Eggers

2019 film directed by Jordan Peele

2005 film directed by Andrew Douglas

1999 film directed by Peter Hyams

1987 film by Alan Parker

2012 film directed by Scott Derrickson

Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural mystery horror film directed, written, co-produced, and co-scored by Zach Cregger. It stars an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Its plot follows the case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time.

2005 American film directed by Hideo Nakata

2010 film directed by Samuel Bayer

2019 film directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer

Gothika is a 2003 American supernatural horror film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, written by Sebastian Gutierrez, co-produced by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis, and starring Halle Berry with Robert Downey Jr., Penélope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, and Bernard Hill. The film follows a psychiatrist who finds herself incarcerated in the penitentiary in which she works, accused of brutally murdering her husband.

2004 film directed by Takashi Shimizu

1932 film directed by Karl Freund

2011 film by Mikael Håfström

2011 film directed by Catherine Hardwicke

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.

2005 film by Scott Derrickson

1992 film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui

2002 film directed by Steve Beck

1987 film by Joel Schumacher, Richard Donner

2015 film directed by Robert Eggers

2013 film directed by James Wan

2015 film by Guillermo del Toro

2019 film directed by Michael Chaves

2013 film directed by Kimberly Peirce

2000 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

2014 film directed by David Robert Mitchell

2022 film directed by Parker Finn

1994 film directed by John Carpenter

2011 film by Patrick Lussier

1980 film directed by John Carpenter

2019 film directed by Robert Eggers

2023 film directed by Michael Chaves

2002 film by Michael Rymer

2019 film directed by Mike Flanagan

2013 film directed by Mike Flanagan

2007 film directed by James Wan

2001 film directed by Victor Salva

2000 film by Robert Zemeckis

1983 film by David Cronenberg

2003 film by Rob Minkoff

1958 film directed by Terence Fisher

2013 film directed by Fede Álvarez

1994 slasher film

2025 film directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky

2018 film directed by Jeff Wadlow

2006 film by Len Wiseman

1996 film by Peter Jackson

2000 film by E. Elias Merhige

1982 film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

2008 film directed by Alexandre Aja

1995 film directed by Joe Chappelle

2018 film directed by Luca Guadagnino

2005 film by Iain Softley

2016 film directed by David F. Sandberg

2015 film directed by Leigh Whannell

1967 film by Roman Polanski

1990 film directed by Nicolas Roeg

2013 film directed by Malcolm D. Lee