Curated collection

Curated Family Horror Movies

Family horror is horror about relatives, where the danger grows out of a household, a parent's choices or a family's inherited secrets. The family unit is horror's most reliable pressure cooker. Curated family horror uses the home, the bloodline, and the people you're supposed to trust as the source of everything wrong. These films work because the relationships are real before the horror ever arrives.

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Poster artwork for Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Lee Cronin's The Mummy brings the Evil Dead Rise sensibility to Universal Monster territory: practical effects, real dread, and a formal confidence that distinguishes it from previous attempts at the property.

2020sBody HorrorCreature Feature
Poster artwork for Longlegs

Longlegs

2024 · Movie

Lee Harker is sent to Astoria, Oregon to investigate a series of killings and finds that the local killer has connections to her own past the case file doesn't explain.

2020sPsychologicalDemons
Poster artwork for M3GAN

M3GAN

2022 · Movie
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Gemma takes custody of her orphaned niece Cady and uses her prototype M3GAN doll to help manage the transition. The doll begins developing beyond its intended parameters.

2020sSlasherSci-Fi Horror
Poster artwork for Marrowbone

Marrowbone

2017 · Movie

In 1968, a mother flees England with her four children for her childhood home in rural Maine. When she dies, the children start experiencing things they can't explain.

2010sPsychologicalInternational Horror
Poster artwork for mother!

mother!

2017 · Movie

A poet and his wife live in an isolated house she has been rebuilding. A series of uninvited guests disrupts the domestic order and the disruption escalates.

2010sOccultDream Horror
Poster artwork for Nope

Nope

2022 · Movie
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OJ and Emerald Haywood run a horse ranch in Agua Dulce and find that something in the clouds above their property has been taking an interest in movement below.

2020sAlienPsychological
Poster artwork for Orphan: First Kill

Orphan: First Kill

2022 · Movie

Orphan: First Kill explains how Leena Klammer first became Esther, set in 2007 before the events of the original.

2020sEvil ChildrenSerial Killer
Poster artwork for Paranormal Activity 3

Home movies from 1988 reveal the origin of what has been haunting the household from the second film.

2010sFound FootageWitchcraft
Poster artwork for Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

Unpacking boxes left in the garage of their new house, Ryan finds a stack of old VHS tapes and a strange camera that seems to pick up something drifting through the rooms around his young daughter.

2010sFound FootageSupernatural
Poster artwork for Pearl

Pearl

2022 · Movie
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Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother, a paralyzed father and a husband away at the war, and desires the world has no room for.

2020sSlasherPsychological
Poster artwork for Poltergeist

Poltergeist

1982 · Movie

Strange things are happening in the Freeling house. Then the youngest daughter disappears into the walls.

1980sSupernaturalHaunted House
Poster artwork for Presence

Presence

2025 · Movie

A family moves into a New Jersey house that already has an occupant, and the audience sees everything through its eyes. The presence isn't there to hurt them.

2020sSupernaturalFamily Horror
Poster artwork for R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour

R.L. Stine's darker anthologies come to life in a series aimed at children who can handle something a little scarier than Goosebumps.

2010sAnthologyFamily Horror
Poster artwork for Run

Run

2020 · Movie

Homeschooled, whip-smart and counting the days until college letters arrive, Chloe starts to notice that the pills her devoted mother hands her every day don't match the label.

2020sPsychological HorrorThriller
Poster artwork for Scream 7

Scream 7

2026 · Movie

Sidney Prescott has a husband, a teenage daughter and a quiet life in a small town far from Woodsboro, until a new Ghostface makes it clear her past has caught up with her family.

2020sSlasherMeta Horror
Poster artwork for Signs

Signs

2002 · Movie

Crop circles appear overnight on a Pennsylvania farm and a former minister tries to make sense of what his family is facing.

2000sAlienBackwoods Horror
Poster artwork for Sinister

Sinister

2012 · Movie
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Ellison Oswalt moves his family into a house where murders occurred and finds a box of Super 8 home movies in the attic documenting deaths across decades.

2010sFound FootageSupernatural
Poster artwork for Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil

2024 · Movie
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Ben and Louise accept an invitation from Paddy and Ciara, the charismatic couple they met on holiday, to spend a weekend at their remote farm in the English countryside. The hosts have been planning it very carefully.

2020sPsychologicalParanoia
Poster artwork for Terrifier 2

Terrifier 2

2022 · Movie

Art the Clown returns for a longer night in Miles County with more elaborate sequences and even less interest in restraint.

2020sSlasherTorture Horror
Poster artwork for The 'Burbs

The 'Burbs

1989 · Movie

Ray Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.

1980sHorror ComedySuburban Horror