Curated Slow Burn Horror Movies

In 1968, a mother flees England with her four children for her childhood home in rural Maine. When she dies, the children start experiencing things they can't explain.

Evelyn inherits a mountain chalet from her father and arrives to find herself caught in a relentless blizzard. The silence inside is louder than the storm.

A young priest arrives on a dying island community with what looks like a miracle. What he's actually brought with him is something the island isn't prepared for.

Dani follows her boyfriend and his friends to a remote Harga commune in Sweden months after a personal tragedy. The midsummer festival they attend becomes increasingly difficult to classify as merely cultural.

A poet and his wife live in an isolated house she has been rebuilding. A series of uninvited guests disrupts the domestic order and the disruption escalates.

A former artist who has put her career on hold to raise her young son is feeling disconnected from domesticity when something begins changing about her at night.

Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Orlok. The consequences follow him home to Wisborg and his wife Ellen.

A shy music-store clerk breaks a One Wish Willow to make his coworker love him, and gets exactly what he asked for.

Kate and John Coleman adopt a nine-year-old Russian girl from a local orphanage and bring her home. Esther is not what she appears to be.

A family moves into a New Jersey house that already has an occupant, and the audience sees everything through its eyes. The presence isn't there to hurt them.

Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.

Gus Van Sant recreates Hitchcock's original shot for shot, in color, with a new cast. Norman Bates still runs the motel, and the shower still isn't safe.

After twenty-two years in a psychiatric institution, Norman Bates is declared rehabilitated and returns to the motel. He's trying very hard to stay well.

A runaway nun checks into the Bates Motel looking for somewhere quiet. Norman is genuinely trying to keep things normal.

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into a storied Manhattan apartment building and their charming elderly neighbors take an unusually strong interest in Rosemary's pregnancy.

Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot after decades away and finds that a recent arrival in an old house has been systematically working through the town.

A killer wakes up in the city morgue on the night Amy's friends throw her a surprise birthday party there. Amy and her coworker Seth are caught in the middle.

Libraries, conversations, small gestures. Nothing feels wrong at first, but calm instructions and careful preparation are building toward something.

A grieving Philadelphia couple hires a nanny to care for a reborn doll their therapist prescribed. Leanne Grayson's arrival opens something in the house that shouldn't be open.

Maude Garrett boards a World War II B-17 bomber with a secret package and a crew that doesn't want her there. Then she spots something outside the plane that keeps coming back.