Curated Practical FX in Horror

Kirsty Cotton is in a psychiatric hospital and the horror from the first film has followed her there. A new doctor is very interested in the puzzle box.

Frank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box and gets more than he bargained for. When his brother's family moves into his old house, a single drop of blood gives Frank a way back.

Pinhead ends up trapped inside a sculpture at a nightclub. A journalist and a reckless club owner make decisions that let him out.

Amity Island has a problem in the water and a mayor who won't close the beach. Three men eventually go out on a boat to solve it themselves.

Alien creatures shaped like circus clowns land in a small town and start harvesting the population using cotton candy cocoons. Two teenagers try to warn people.

Seymour Krelborn works at a Skid Row flower shop and nurtures a strange plant that arrived after a solar eclipse. Audrey II grows quickly once she finds her preferred diet.

The most celebrated directors in horror each take a full hour to make exactly the kind of horror film they want, with no restrictions and no compromises.

Dr. Susan Tyler engineered an insect to wipe out a disease killing New York children, but years later the species has been surviving and changing in the subway system.

Farmer Vincent runs a roadside motel and sells smoked meats locals swear by. The production process is what makes this a horror film.

Alien parasites, college comedy, zombies, and one perfectly exhausted detective.

The dead are rising and a group of survivors locks themselves in a farmhouse. Fear does as much damage as what's outside.

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

Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic University with a glowing reagent and complete certainty about his work. His experiments work, which turns out to be the actual problem.

A teenager uses a military experiment to bring his girlfriend back after she dies in an accident. She comes back, but not entirely as herself.

The same military canisters from the first film turn up in a suburb, the same gas escapes, and the dead start moving again.

Angela Baker barely speaks when she arrives at Camp Arawak with her cousin. Then campers start dying and the investigation circles back to the new arrivals.

Billy Warlock is popular, wealthy, and increasingly uneasy about the life he's been living. The more he looks, the more wrong things get.

A stylish Italian slasher with gorgeous set pieces, giallo flair, and some of the most creative kills of the ’80s.

The Crypt Keeper hosts weekly horror pulled from the EC Comics catalog, complete with outstanding practical effects and a very mean sense of humor.

A mean, beautifully photographed camp slasher with unforgettable practical work.