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Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and his disturbed mother. A private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin) and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.

2019 musical film directed by Todd Phillips

2016 film directed by David Yates

1968 American independent zombie horror film by George A. Romero

2015 film directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

1998 film directed by Stephen Norrington

1976 film directed by Brian De Palma

1994 film directed by Oliver Stone

2023 film directed by Andy Muschietti

Dragonheart (stylized as DragonHeart) is a 1996 fantasy adventure film directed by Rob Cohen and written by Charles Edward Pogue, based on a story created by him and Patrick Read Johnson. The film stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and Sean Connery as the voice of Draco the Dragon.

1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

1974 novel by Stephen King

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.

1981 film by John Boorman

2019 film directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer

2011 film directed by Catherine Hardwicke

1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer

1994 film directed by Peter Jackson

2015 film directed by Robert Eggers

Bugonia is a 2025 black comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth. A co-production of the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.

2013 film directed by Kimberly Peirce

2015 film by Guillermo del Toro

1989 film directed by Stephen Hopkins

2022 film directed by Mark Mylod

2022 film directed by Robert Eggers

2004 film directed by D. J. Caruso

1785 novel by Marquis de Sade

1986 film by Anthony Perkins

1983 film by Richard Franklin

2010 video game

1998 film directed by Gus Van Sant

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.

2006 film directed by Glen Morgan

1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard

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2001 film by Bill Paxton

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1986 film directed by John McNaughton

Brightburn is a 2019 American superhero horror film directed by David Yarovesky, written by Brian and Mark Gunn, and produced by James Gunn and Kenneth Huang, starring Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner. The plot follows Brandon Breyer, a young boy of extraterrestrial origin reared on Earth who discovers he has superpowers, using them with dark intentions. The film was financed by The H Collective, who produced with Troll Court Entertainment.

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1976 film by Nicolas Gessner

2022 film directed by Ti West

2014 film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala

1990 film directed by Tom Savini

2001 film by Ringo Lam

2016 film by Mike Flanagan

2014 film by Marjane Satrapi

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Targets is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Bogdanovich in his theatrical directorial debut, and starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Bogdanovich, James Brown, Arthur Peterson and Sandy Baron. The film depicts two parallel narratives which converge during the climax: one follows Bobby Thompson, a seemingly ordinary and wholesome young man who embarks on an unprovoked killing spree; the other depicts Byron Orlok, an iconic horror film actor who, disillusioned by real-life violence, is contemplating retirement.

1990 TV film directed by Mick Garris

2024 film directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield

Deceived is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Damian Harris. The script was written by Mary Agnes Donoghue and rewritten by Bruce Joel Rubin. Goldie Hawn and John Heard star as a happily married couple whose lives are disrupted when secrets from the past are revealed. The film also marks the final screen appearance of veteran actress Beatrice Straight, who plays Adrienne's mother.

2002 film directed by David Cronenberg

2017 film directed by Franck Khalfoun

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novel by Robert Bloch (1959)

2002 TV film directed by David Carson

1995 film directed by Brett Leonard

1989 film by Martin Campbell

2015 film directed by Neil Marshall