American supernatural horror films

1967 film by Roman Polanski

2015 film directed by Leigh Whannell

2008 film by David Moreau

1990 film directed by Nicolas Roeg

1993 film by Adam Marcus

1989 film directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard

2006 film directed by Renny Harlin

2001 film by John Carpenter

2019 film directed by André Øvredal

1985 film by Tom Holland

2015 film directed by Breck Eisner

2018 film by Sylvain White

1992 film directed by Bernard Rose

2017 film directed by McG

2016 film directed by Gore Verbinski

2009 film directed by Charles Guard and Thomas Guard

Flatliners is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 (

1987 film by John Carpenter

2002 film directed by Mark Pellington

2011 film by Michael Dougherty

1989 film by Mary Lambert

2006 film by Takashi Shimizu

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.

2001 film directed by Steve Beck

2006 film directed by Sylvain White

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.

1999 film by Jan de Bont

1990 film directed by Adrian Lyne

2024 film by Parker Finn

2010 film directed by John Erick Dowdle

1936 film by Lambert Hillyer

2017 film directed by Adam Wingard

2023 film directed by Julius Avery

1988 film by John Carl Buechler

2016 film by Burr Steers

2023 film by David Gordon Green

2012 film by Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost

Unfriended (originally titled Cybernatural) is a 2014 American screenlife supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. Set on a computer screen, the film stars Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, and Courtney Halverson as six high school students in a Skype conversation which is haunted by a student, played by Heather Sossaman, who was bullied by them and killed herself. The film is told almost entirely through a screencast of a MacBook.

1999 film by Martin Scorsese

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

1984 film directed by Fritz Kiersch

2020 film directed by Jeff Wadlow

2004 film by Renny Harlin

2025 film directed by Oz Perkins

2006 film by John Moore

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.

1990 film by William Peter Blatty

1993 film directed by Mark Jones

2014 film directed by Christopher B. Landon

1996 film by Andrew Fleming

Creepshow is a 1982 American horror comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King in his screenwriting debut. It consists of five segments intercut with a sixth story acting mostly as an opening and epilogue; two of the segments, "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" and "The Crate", are based on stories by King, while the others are original material he wrote for the film.

2007 film directed by Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun

2011 film by Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost

2010 film by Scott Stewart

1986 film by Brian Gibson

1992 film directed by Anthony Hickox

2025 film directed by Leigh Whannell

1941 American horror film directed by Victor Fleming

2010 film by Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg