Curated Practical Effects Horror Movies

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

Sent into the rainforests of Central America to pull hostages out of a guerrilla camp, Dutch and his commando unit realize something in the canopy is picking them off, and it can vanish into the trees at will.

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.

Cameron Vale has spent his life hearing everyone else's thoughts and it's driven him to the street. A shadowy corporation wants to weaponize what's wrong with him, and someone else's head is about to pay the price for the demonstration.

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.

Bill Whitney is a popular, wealthy Beverly Hills teenager who grows more uneasy about his family by the day. The more he looks, the more wrong things get.

Suzy Bannion arrives at a prestigious German dance academy during a violent storm. The instructors are strange, a student has just fled in terror, and the school's real curriculum has nothing to do with ballet.

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

Five friends find an old tape recording in a remote Tennessee cabin and play it. Whatever it wakes up in the woods doesn't stop until it's gone through everyone inside.

Chris MacNeil's twelve-year-old daughter has been changing in ways no doctor can explain and when medicine runs out of answers, two priests are brought in. What they find tests everything they believe about what's possible.

Seth Brundle has built a working teleporter and decides to test it on himself. The machine doesn't account for a passenger.

Seth Brundle's son was born already changing, raised inside a Bartok Industries lab that has very specific plans for what he's becoming.

Two workers accidentally release a gas at a medical warehouse. By nightfall the cemetery next door has a problem.

America can't stop eating a creamy white dessert that bubbles up out of the ground, so a smooth-talking industrial spy is hired to find out what exactly is in it.

Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.

A radio DJ accidentally broadcasts audio evidence of a murder on live air. The Sawyer family now knows who has it.

A research team in Antarctica takes in a stray dog from a neighboring camp. What comes out of that dog is a very different problem.

A boy on holiday with his grandmother stumbles into a hotel conference room full of witches and overhears exactly the wrong thing.