Halloween horror films

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 American stop-motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and written by Caroline Thompson. It tells the tale of Jack Skellington, King of Halloween Town, who stumbles upon Christmas Town and becomes obsessed with celebrating the holiday himself. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast includes Chris Sarandon, Ken Page, Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix, William Hickey, Paul Reubens and Ed Ivory.

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.

2009 animation film directed by Henry Selick

2005 stop-motion-animated dark fantasy film by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson

1999 film by Tim Burton

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American gothic horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse, along with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder.

1991 film by Barry Sonnenfeld

2012 American animated film directed by Tim Burton

2006 Animated film directed by Gil Kenan

2024 film directed by Tim Burton

2018 film directed by Shane Black

1982 film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

2019 film directed by André Øvredal

2018 film directed by Ari Sandel

2003 film by Rob Zombie

2013 American film by John Luessenhop

1963 film by Robert Wise

Terrifier is a 2016 American independent slasher film written, edited, co-produced, and directed by Damien Leone. The film stars Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, Catherine Corcoran, and David Howard Thornton. The plot centers on partygoer Tara Heyes (Kanell) and her sister Victoria (Scaffidi), who become targets of the enigmatic serial killer known only as Art the Clown (Thornton) on Halloween night.

2000 film directed by John Fawcett

2012 film by Declan O'Brien

2007 film by Michael Dougherty

2023 film directed by Justin Simien

V/H/S is a 2012 American found footage horror anthology film and the first installment in the V/H/S franchise created by Brad Miska and Bloody Disgusting, and produced by Miska and Roxanne Benjamin. It features a series of six found footage shorts written and directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and the filmmaking collective Radio Silence.

2022 film directed by Damien Leone

1999 film by Rodman Flender

1962 horror film directed by Herk Harvey

1985 film by Howard Storm

2020 film directed by Steven Brill

2016 film by Rob Zombie

2023 film directed by Nahnatchka Khan

2015 film directed by Uli Edel

2018 film directed by Gregory Plotkin

2007 film by Alex Zamm

2013 film directed by Damien Leone

2015 film directed by Neil Marshall

1976 film by Peter Sykes

2019 film by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

2017 film by Holger Tappe

2012 film directed by Robert Heath

animated feature film

2004 film by Paul Etheredge

1988 film by Kevin S. Tenney

2020 film directed by Rachel Talalay

2005 film by Anthony C. Ferrante

1986 film by Charles Martin Smith

2016 film by Tyler Perry

2005 film directed by Ellory Elkayem

2022 film directed by Jeff Wadlow

2016 anthology horror film

2021 film directed by Kirk Thatcher

1981 television film directed by Frank De Felitta

Jack-O a 1995 American horror film directed and co-produced by Steve Latshaw and executive produced by Fred Olen Ray. It is the third collaboration between Latshaw as director and Ray as executive producer, following 1993's Dark Universe and 1994's Biohazard: The Alien Force.

1988 film by Frank LaLoggia

1999 film directed by Kenneth Johnson

2020 film directed by Maxwell Atoms

2006 horror film directed by Mark Atkins

2009 film by Adam Gierasch

2005 film by Jim Hemphill

2004 film by Jeff Lieberman

1982 film by Gary Graver