Curated Practical Effects Horror Movies

Camp Crystal Lake is reopening after years of deaths nobody fully explained and a new group of counselors has moved in to prepare for the season. Somebody's already there.

A new counselor training camp opens near Crystal Lake. Jason has been there the whole time.

Jason is back at Crystal Lake and the family renting a house next door is going to have a very bad weekend.

A machine designed to stimulate a hidden sense in the human brain opens a door to something that has always been nearby and was never meant to be seen.

A broke punk band takes a gig at a backwoods skinhead bar and witnesses a murder in the green room afterward. The owner has a very specific plan for making sure nobody talks.

A Mogwai named Gizmo arrives as a Christmas gift with three very specific rules. One spilled glass of water and one midnight snack later, Kingston Falls has a gremlin problem.

Guillermo del Toro personally selected eight horror stories from filmmakers he admires, each rendered in a completely different visual style.

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.

The FBI finally blows Jason Voorhees apart in a hail of gunfire. What crawls out of his corpse and starts body-hopping toward his bloodline is a much bigger problem than anyone anticipated.

Tommy Jarvis tries to cremate Jason Voorhees's corpse to finally exorcise his own nightmares. A stray lightning bolt has other plans, and Camp Crystal Lake gets its killer back permanently.

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.

Frank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.

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.

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