Never Sleep Again.

Hauntings & Demons 👻

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Babadook (2014)

The Boy (2016)

Candyman (1992)

Child’s Play (1988)

The Conjuring (2013) / The Conjuring 2 (2016)

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Evil Dead series (especially the 2nd)*

The Exorcist (1973)

The Grudge (2004)

His House (2020)

The House of the Devil (2009)*

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

I am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House (2016)

The Innkeepers (2011)

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Ju-On (2002)

Lake Mungo (2008)

The Omen (1976)

The Orphanage (2007)

The Others (2001)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Ring (2002)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Umma (2022)

Veronica (2017)

Zombies 🧟

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Day of the Dead (1975)

Dead Alive (1992)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)*

Overlord (2018)

Pet Sematary (1989)

Re-Animator (1985)

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)*

Train to Busan (2016)

Zombeavers (2014)

Zombieland (2009)

Witches 🔮

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

Black Sunday (1961)

The Craft (1996)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

Häxan (1922)

Hereditary (2018)

The Love Witch (2016)

Suspiria (1977/2018)*

The Witch (2016)*

Vampires 🧛

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Dracula (1931)

Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

Fright Night (1985/2011)*

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

Interview With the Vampire (1994)

Let the Right One In (2008)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Nosferatu (1922)

Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)

Monsters 🐺

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

The Blob (1958)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)*

Cat People (1942)

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

The Descent (2005)*

Frankenstein (1931)

Ginger Snaps series (2000′s) (the first is a must-see)*

The Howling (1981)

It (1990/2017)* / It Chapter Two (2019)

It Follows (2014)

Jaws (1975)

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Krampus (2015)

Leprechaun (1993)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Mummy (1932)

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

A Quiet Place (2018)

Raw (2016)*

The Wolf Man (1941)

Serial Killers/Slashers 🔪

American Mary (2012)

The Babysitter (2017)

Better Watch Out (2016)

Black Christmas (1974/2019)

Creep (2014)

Don’t Breathe (2017)

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

The Final Girls (2015)

Friday the 13th series (particularly the first two)

Halloween series (the first is a must-see)*

Happy Death Day (2017) / Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

The House on Sorority Row (1983)

I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Martyrs (2008)

Misery (1986)

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

A Nightmare on Elm Street series (the first is a must-see)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Psycho (1960)*

Ready or Not (2019)

Saw (2004)

Scream series (the first is a must-see)*

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 

Stage Fright (2014)

Terror Train (1980)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)*

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2011)

We Are What We Are (2013)

X (2022) / Pearl (2022)

Aliens 👽

Alien (1979) / Aliens (1986)

The Faculty (1998)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Nope (2022)

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

The Thing (1982)

Comedies (for those not really interested in horror) 🍿

Beetlejuice (1988)

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Ghostbusters (1984/2016)

Heathers (1988)

Idle Hands (1999)

Little Evil (2017)

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (2016)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)*

What We Do in the Shadows (2015)

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Family-friendly 🎃

The Addams Family (1991/2019)

Coraline (2009)

Halloweentown series*

Hocus Pocus (1993)

The Monster Squad (1986)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Over the Garden Wall (2014) [technically a series but it’s movie-length]

Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (1998)

Psychological/Other 💀

Cabin in the Woods (2012)*

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Cam (2018)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Carrie (1976)*

Children of the Corn (1984)

Crimson Peak (2015)

Extraordinary Tales (2013)

Get Out (2017)*

Hellraiser (1987)

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Lighthouse (2019)

The Lodge (2019)

Midsommar (2019)*

The Neon Demon (2016)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

The Perfection (2018)

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

The Shining (1980)

Teeth (2007)*

Trick ‘R’ Treat (2007)

Us (2019)

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark — “On the Web”