Films set in Massachusetts

2001 film by Ron Howard

Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay was adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane. It follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, with Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow and Michelle Williams in supporting roles.

2016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo

2018 film directed by James Wan

2003 film directed by Clint Eastwood

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.

2010 film directed by David O. Russell

Knives Out is a 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film's eleven-actor ensemble cast is led by Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a famed private detective who is summoned to investigate the death of a bestselling author. Police think his death is a suicide but Blanc suspects foul play and investigates to ascertain the true cause of it. Johnson produced Knives Out with his longtime collaborator Ram Bergman. Funding came from MRC and tax subsidies from the Massachusetts state government.

2003 film directed by Mike Newell

2019 film directed by Greta Gerwig

2009 film directed by Alex Proyas

2010 film by Roman Polanski

2001 film directed by Robert Luketic

2021 film directed by Sian Heder

2019 film directed by Michael Dougherty

2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

2004 film directed by Jon Turteltaub

2010 film directed by Ben Affleck

2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood

1993 film by Sydney Pollack

2016 film by Rawson Marshall Thurber

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.

1995 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

1981 film by Warren Beatty

2007 film by Ben Affleck

1978 American action horror film by Jeannot Szwarc

2024 film directed by David Ayer

1989 film directed by Edward Zwick

2000 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

1991 film by Joseph Ruben

Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Kenny Ortega from a screenplay by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert, and a story by David Kirschner and Garris. It follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night.

2015 film by Scott Cooper

1987 film by George Miller

2015 film directed by Robert Eggers

1992 film by Spike Lee

1998 film directed by Griffin Dunne

2016 film directed by Pablo Larraín

1994 film by Gillian Armstrong

2002 film directed by George Clooney

2012 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

1984 film by Ron Howard

2006 film directed by Todd Field

1937 film by Victor Fleming

Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote-controlled robots). It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.

1987 film directed by Joseph Sargent

2013 film directed by Fede Álvarez

1933 film by George Cukor

2001 film directed by Ted Demme

2018 film by Sylvain White

2016 film by Peter Berg

1966 film directed by Norman Jewison

2006 film directed by Renny Harlin

2007 double feature film consisting of Planet Terror and Death Proof

2012 film directed by Sean Anders

1999 film by Jan de Bont

1968 film by Norman Jewison

2013 film directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash

1992 film directed by Robert Mandel

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

1949 film by Mervyn LeRoy