Horror films based on actual events

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.

The Conjuring 2 is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. The screenplay is by Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes, Wan, and David Leslie Johnson. It is the sequel to 2013's The Conjuring, the second installment in The Conjuring series, and the third installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren from the first film. The film follows the Warrens as they travel to England to assist the Hodgson family, who are experiencing poltergeist activity at their Enfield council house in 1977, which later became referred to as the Enfield poltergeist.

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.

2005 film directed by Andrew Douglas

2005 film by Scott Derrickson

2011 film by Mikael Håfström

2001 film by Christophe Gans

2002 film directed by Mark Pellington

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.

2023 film directed by Julius Avery

2009 film by Peter Cornwell

2005 film directed by Greg McLean

1979 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg

2018 film by Gaspar Noé

1988 film by Wes Craven

1988 Hong Kong–Chinese historical horror film directed by Mou Tun-fei

2018 film directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig

2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright

2007 film by Tommy O'Haver

2017 film directed by Franck Khalfoun

2009 film directed by Nelson McCormick

2002 film by David Jacobson

1981 film by Tony Maylam

Romasanta, also known as in Spanish, and Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt in English, is a 2004 Spanish-Italian-British horror film directed by Paco Plaza and starring Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky and John Sharian. It is available on DVD from Lion's Gate Entertainment under the title Werewolf Hunt.

2014 film directed by Greg McLean

2007 film directed by Darrell Roodt

2017 film by Paco Plaza

1987 film directed by Joseph Ruben

2003 film

Leptirica () is a 1973 Yugoslav folk horror TV-film, directed by Serbian and Yugoslav director Đorđe Kadijević and based on the short story "After Ninety Years" (1880) by Serbian writer Milovan Glišić.

2025 film directed by David Midell

2007 film directed by Gregory Wilson

2013 film directed by Tom Elkins

1974 film directed by Alan Ormsby

2001 film directed by Chuck Parello

2014 film by John Pogue

2013 film directed by Ti West

2010 film by Sion Sono

1983 Austrian film directed by Gerald Kargl

Animated film from Chile

1949 Indian Hindi film directed by Kamal Amrohi

2016 film directed by Taneli Mustonen

1970 film by Pedro Olea

2009 film

2007 film directed by Michael Feifer

2008 film by Lars Jacobson and Amardeep Kaleka

2023 Thai horror film

2006 film by John Stimpson

2021 film directed by Daniel Farrands

2011 film directed by Pawan Kripalani

1991 television film, direct by Robert Mandel