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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 The Amityville Horror

The Lutz family buys a house on Long Island where a family was murdered, reasoning that it's cheap for a reason. They spend 28 days inside before leaving everything behind.

2000sHaunted HouseGhost Story
Poster artwork for The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Tommy and Austin Tilden perform an autopsy on an unidentified young woman with no visible cause of death. The examination reveals something not in any textbook.

2010sSupernaturalSlow Burn
Poster artwork for The Babadook

The Babadook

2014 · Movie
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Amelia is still managing her grief over her husband's death when her son Samuel becomes obsessed with a picture book called Mister Babadook.

2010sCult ClassicPsychological
Poster artwork for The Black Phone

The Black Phone

2022 · Movie
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Finney Blake is taken by the Grabber and held in a soundproofed basement in 1978 Denver. A disconnected black phone on the wall begins receiving calls from boys who were killed before him.

2020sSlasherSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Blackcoat's Daughter

Kat and Rose are left behind at Bramford Academy when their parents fail to pick them up for winter break. Miles away, a young woman named Joan accepts a ride from a couple headed the same way.

2010sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Boy

The Boy

2016 · Movie

Greta Evans takes a nannying job at an English country estate caring for a porcelain doll that the grieving Heelshire family treats as their deceased son.

2010sIsolationMasked Killer
Poster artwork for The Coffee Table

The Coffee Table

2023 · Movie
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Jesús and María's ordinary life is permanently altered by a catastrophic domestic event. The film documents the aftermath and what that horror does to their domestic routines.

2020sHorror ComedyOccult
Poster artwork for The Collection

The Collection

2012 · Movie

The Collector is back and working on a much larger scale, and the one man who escaped him is forced to lead a team of mercenaries into his booby-trapped hotel lair.

2010sSerial KillerSurvival Horror
Poster artwork for The Conjuring

The Conjuring

2013 · Movie
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Ed and Lorraine Warren are called to examine a Rhode Island farmhouse and find the house has been waiting for a family like the Perrons for years.

2010sHaunted HouseDemons
Poster artwork for The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring 2

2016 · Movie
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Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the Enfield Poltergeist case in 1977 England, involving a single mother and her children in a council house.

2010sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Conjuring: Last Rites

Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate a case in their final years that connects to the larger demonic framework established across the previous Conjuring films.

2020sHaunted HouseDemons
Poster artwork for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Arne Johnson's murder case in 1981 Connecticut involves Ed and Lorraine Warren's claim that he was not responsible for his actions because of demonic influence.

2020sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Curse of La Llorona

Anna Garcia investigates a custody case connected to La Llorona and finds herself and her children targeted by the weeping figure.

2010sFolk HorrorSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Exorcist: Believer

Two Georgia schoolgirls vanish into the woods and walk back out three days later with no memory of where they went. A widowed father turns to Chris MacNeil, the one person who has seen this before.

2020sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The First Omen

The First Omen

2024 · Movie

Margaret, a young American novice, arrives in Rome in 1971 to work at a church orphanage before taking her vows. She's drawn to a troubled girl the nuns keep apart, and to a plot inside the Church that wants something born.

2020sDemonsReligious Horror
Poster artwork for The Good Son

The Good Son

1993 · Movie

Mark Evans is sent to stay with his aunt's family after his mother's death and slowly realizes his charming, popular cousin is capable of things that go well beyond bad behavior.

1990sPsychologicalEvil Children
Poster artwork for The Haunting of Bly Manor

An American au pair arrives at a remote English estate in the 1980s to care for two orphaned children. The estate's centuries of secrets surface around her.

2020sGhost StoryHaunted House
Poster artwork for The Haunting of Hill House

A fractured family returns to the sprawling mansion where they spent a haunted childhood. Past and present unravel together across ten episodes.

2010sHaunted HouseGhost Story
Poster artwork for The Hills Have Eyes

A family's desert shortcut ends near an abandoned nuclear test zone where a community has been surviving for generations in ways the government would rather not acknowledge.

2000sCannibalSurvival Horror
Poster artwork for The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Lewis Barnavelt moves in with his eccentric uncle Jonathan after his parents die and finds a house full of magic, secrets, and a clock hidden in the walls.

2010sHaunted HouseGhost Story