Creepy Kids
This film is a remake of a Korean horror film about a journalist who discovers an old VHS tape with a short film that causes its viewers to die seven days after they watch it.
The Ring (2002)
This movie director started as a sketch comedian before transitioning to writing and directing psychological horror films that often have a undertone of various social justice issues that the Black community faces.
Jordan Peele
Gunned down by Detective Mike Norris, dying murderer Charles Lee Ray uses voodoo magic to put his soul inside a doll, who eventually murders the babysitter of the young boy who was given the doll as a gift, in what horror franchise?
Child’s Play, (1988-present)
Long before his popular feature film and subsequent sequels, this friendly ghost was featured in a children’s cartoon series and later turned into a comic book series.
Casper
The first film in this franchise, with its graphic violence, twisted puzzles, and “GAME OVER” tagline, had one of the most shocking twist endings, making it an instant classic.
Saw (2004)
When this film was released in 1973, it was one of the first movies to depict demonic possession and many movie-goers suffered adverse physical reactions, fainting, or vomiting during some of the more gruesome scenes. However, it became the first horror movie nominated for an Academy Award.
The Exorcist (1973)
This Christmas-themed comedy horror film is based on an old folklore tale of a large half-goat, half-demon mythical creature that visits to the homes of the bad children and punishes them the night before St. Nicholas visits the good children to bring them presents.
Krampus (2015)
An artificially intelligent doll develops self-awareness and becomes hostile toward anyone who comes between her and her human companion, in what film?
M3GAN, (2022)
This 2003 classic horror comedy is loosely based on the Walt Disney’s theme park attraction of the same name.
Haunted Mansion, (2003 & 2023)
This film, starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Mark Ruffalo, follows a US Marshal who investigates a psychiatric facility after one of the patients goes missing?
Shutter Island (2010)
This movie follows a family who adopts a young girl from Russia, only to discover that she’s actually an adult woman pretending to be a child.
The Orphan (2009)
This film, staring a real-life husband and wife duo, features a family struggling to survive and raise their children in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing.
A Quiet Place (2018)
Despite being a creepy, zombie-like porcelain doll in the movie, the famously haunted doll from this movie was originally a Raggedy Anne doll.
Annabelle, (2014)
Originally developed as an independent film and shot for only $15,000, this movie went on to earn a total of $194 million after Paramount Pictures acquired it, changed the ending for $200,000, and released it in theaters.
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Two teens spend a spend a week with their estranged grandparents, only to find that when the sun goes down, things at Grandma and Pop-Pop’s house get scarier than they could have ever imagined.
The Visit (2015)
A baby dies during childbirth and the father is convinced to secretly adopt the baby of a mother who died giving birth, without telling his wife. The two raise the boy for five years when strange things start plague the family and it seems that maybe the child is the antichrist.
The Omen (1976-2016)
This 2020 remake of the 1987 HG Wells classic novel, is about a woman who believes she is being stalked and gaslit by her ex-boyfriend, who she believes has acquired the ability to become invisible.
The Invisible Man, (2020)
This hilariously cheesy horror movie features not one, but TWO haunted dolls that fall in love and get married.
The Bride of Chucky (1998)
This first movie in this franchise was the most successful film at the box office in 1984 when it was released, which led to many sequels and televisions series. But when the franchise was rebooted in 2016, the franchise received criticism for casting women for the lead roles.
Ghostbusters (1984-present)
This M. Night Shyamalan period-thriller features a blind woman and her community who live in fear of murderous creatures who live in the woods surrounding their small town.
The Village (2004)
This movie, based on a Stephen King short story, features a religious cult made up of children who murder all of the adults in town as human sacrifices, and worship a bloodthirsty deity that they call “He Who Walks Behind the Rows.”
Children of the Corn (1984)
This film shocked viewers with a scene where a main character is accidentally decapitated by a telephone pole, but was the highest grossing film for A24 at the time.
Hereditary (2018)
A woman is hired to be a nanny but when she arrives, the elderly couple introduces her to a doll named Brahms, and not a human child, like she’d been led to believe, in what movie?
The Boy (2016)
This movie used real human skeletons in a famous scene, which was later said to be the reason the movie was cursed, when four cast members died during and soon after filming the trilogy.
Poltergeist (1982-1988)
This film is the American remake of the South Korean horror film, A Tale of Two Sisters, where sisters Anna and Alex must protect their father from his new girlfriend, who was also the nurse for their mother during the traumatic event that killed her.
The Uninvited (2009)