Final Girls
Jamie Lee Curtis made her film debut playing this ultimate final girl who survives Michael Myers
Laurie Strode
Based on a Stephen King novel this 2017 film featuring Pennywise the Clown is the highest grossing horror movie of all time
It
Jeff Goldblum slowly transforms into a giant insect after a teleportation experiment goes wrong in this 1986 film
The Fly
Chloe Grace Moretz played the telekinetic teen in the 2013 remake of this Stephen King classic
Carrie
Ed and Lorraine Warren the real life paranormal investigators featured in this franchise looked into the haunted Perron family home in Rhode Island
The Conjuring
Neve Campbell plays this resilient heroine who faces off against various Ghostface killers in the Scream franchise
Sidney Prescott
Adjusted for inflation this 1973 demonic possession masterpiece remains one of the mot profitable horror films ever made
The Exorcist
This 1982 John Carpenter film features an arctic research team terrorized by an alien that perfectly mimics other organisms
The Thing
This 2002 Naomi Watts film about a cursed videotape was a remake of the Japanese horror movie Ringu
The Ring
Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were loosely inspired by the crimes of this real life Wisconsin murderer
Ed Gein
Heather Langenkamp plays this character who learns how to pull Freddy Krueger out of her dreams and into reality
Nancy Thompson
This 1999 independent found footage movie cost around $60,000 to make and grossed over $248 million worldwide
The Blair Witch Project
This French director won the Palme dOr at Cannes for Titane and directed the cannibalistic coming of age movie Raw
Julia Ducournau
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Director Fede Alvarez made his feature debut with a blood soaked 2013 remake of this Sam Ramie cabin in the woods classic
Evil Dead
This 1979 haunted house movie claims to document the real life paranormal experiences of the Lutz family in a Long Island home
The Amityville Horror
Sigourney Weaver played this iconic sci-fi horror survivor who famously fights off the Alien Queen
Ellen Ripley
In 2004 this low budget traps and torture film launched a massive multi billion dollar franchise for Lionsgate
Saw
In this 1999 Japanese psychological thriller a widower holds auditions for a new wife only to find a woman with a dark torturous secret
Audition
Gore Verbinski directed the 2002 American version of The Ring but this director took over the 2005 sequel The Ring Two after directing the original Japanese versions
Hideo Nakata
Wes Craven got the idea for this 1984 dream stalker film from a series of real newspaper articles about refugees dying mysteriously in their sleep
A Nightmare on Elm Street
In 2022s Pearl, Mia Goth plays the title character but she also played this final girl who escapes the farmhouse massacre in its sister film X
Maxine Miller
This 2007 micro budget movie about a haunted bedroom used home security cameras to gross over $190 million dollars
Paranormal Activity
This 2024 Demi Moore film features a black market cellular replication drug that promises a younger more perfect version of oneself
The Substance
This 2006 remake of a 1977 Wes Craven film follows a family trapped in a desert wasteland populated by mutated cannibals
The Hills Have Eyes
The 2018 movie The Wind and the 2015 period piece The Witch both drew their dialogue and plot lines from real colonial and frontier diaries detailing this psychological phenomenon
Cabin Fever/Isolation Psychosis