Curated collection

Curated Practical FX in Horror

Foam latex. Animatronics. In-camera blood rigs. The techniques behind curated practical FX in horror are half the story. These films are on this list because the craft holds up, sometimes better than anything a render farm could produce. Watch the making-ofs. You'll never see these the same way.

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Poster artwork for The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

1982 · Movie
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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.

1980sDemonsCabin in the Woods
Poster artwork for The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973 · Movie
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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.

1970sDemonsReligious Horror
Poster artwork for The Fly

The Fly

1986 · Movie
Pick

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

1980sBody HorrorCreature Feature
Poster artwork for The Fly II

The Fly II

1989 · Movie

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

1980sBody HorrorCreature Feature
Poster artwork for The Return of the Living Dead

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

1980sZombieHorror Comedy
Poster artwork for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.

1970sSlasherCannibal
Poster artwork for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

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

1980sSlasherCannibal
Poster artwork for The Thing

The Thing

1982 · Movie
Pick

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.

1980sCreature FeatureBody Horror
Poster artwork for The Witches

The Witches

1990 · Movie
Pick

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

1990sWitchcraftDark Fantasy
Poster artwork for Twilight Zone: The Movie

Four directors, four very different approaches to the same source material. At least two of the segments are legitimately great.

1980sAnthologySci-Fi Horror
Poster artwork for Willy's Wonderland

Willy's Wonderland

2021 · Movie

Nolan inherits a building once used as a children's entertainment venue and is forced to survive the night with its mechanical residents.

2020sDemonsSupernatural