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Curated Teen Horror Movies

Teen horror makes adolescents the targets, and often the heroes, with adults who won't listen, so the kids must solve the mystery themselves. High school was already a horror premise before cinema got involved. Curated teen horror uses that pressure, social hierarchies, first experiences, and the specific vulnerability of not yet knowing who you are, as the foundation for genuine dread. The best entries here were never just for teenagers.

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Poster artwork for R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour

R.L. Stine's darker anthologies come to life in a series aimed at children who can handle something a little scarier than Goosebumps.

2010sAnthologyFamily Horror
Poster artwork for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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Stella and her friends find Sarah Bellows's book of horror stories. The creatures from the illustrations start manifesting.

2010sHaunted HouseFolk Horror
Poster artwork for Scream (1996)

Scream (1996)

1996 · Movie
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Still grieving her mother's murder, Sidney Prescott starts getting calls from a killer in a ghost mask who loves horror-movie trivia, and everyone around her in quiet Woodsboro becomes a suspect.

1990sSlasherMeta Horror
Poster artwork for Scream

Scream (2022)

2022 · Movie

Sam Carpenter and her sister Tara are caught in a new Ghostface killing cycle in Woodsboro that connects back to the events of 1996.

2020sSlasherPsychological
Poster artwork for Scream 4

Scream 4

2011 · Movie

A decade and a half after the first killings, Sidney comes home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour, and a new generation of teenagers learns the old rules have been rewritten.

2010sSlasherMeta Horror
Poster artwork for Scream Queens

Scream Queens

2015 · TV

Someone in a Red Devil costume is killing off the members of Kappa Kappa Tau sorority, and everyone at Wallace University is a suspect.

2010sSlasherDark Comedy
Poster artwork for Slender Man

Slender Man

2018 · Movie

Hallie and her friends call on the Slender Man through an online ritual and start losing members of their group.

2010sSupernaturalOccult
Poster artwork for Stranger Things

Stranger Things

2016 · TV
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Will Byers vanishes from Hawkins, Indiana and the investigation pulls his friends, his mother, and a local cop into something that shouldn't exist.

2010sCreature FeatureSci-Fi Horror
Poster artwork for The Babysitter: Killer Queen

Two years after surviving a night with a satanic babysitter, Cole is the school weirdo nobody believes, until a lake trip with his best friend and a mysterious new girl turns into a bloody rerun.

2020sHorror ComedySlasher
Poster artwork for The Black Phone

The Black Phone

2022 · Movie
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Finney Blake is taken by the Grabber and held in a soundproofed basement in 1978 Denver. A disconnected black phone on the wall begins receiving calls from boys who were killed before him.

2020sSlasherSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Faculty

The Faculty

1998 · Movie

A handful of outsiders at Herrington High start comparing notes on their teachers' behavior and arrive at an explanation that sounds impossible and turns out to be accurate.

1990sAlienBody Horror
Poster artwork for The Gallows

The Gallows

2015 · Movie

Twenty years after an accident ended a high school's production of a play, the drama club stages it again, and a few students sneak into the theater the night before to wreck the set.

2010sFound FootageSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Green Inferno

The Green Inferno

2013 · Movie

Justine joins a group of college activists flying into the Amazon to save the rainforest. Their plane goes down in the jungle, the tribe that finds them is hungry, and getting out proves impossible.

2010sCannibalTeen Horror
Poster artwork for The Nun II

The Nun II

2023 · Movie

An investigation into the Nun's activity in France brings Sister Irene back into contact with the entity first encountered in Romania.

2020sDemonsSupernatural
Poster artwork for The Ugly Stepsister

The Ugly Stepsister

2025 · Movie
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Elvira lives in the shadow of her beautiful stepsister in a Norwegian Cinderella retelling where the fairy tale's embedded violence is treated as something real.

2020sBody HorrorPsychological
Poster artwork for Until Dawn

Until Dawn

2025 · Movie
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Clover and her friends go looking for her missing sister in a valley where people disappear. Every time they die, the night starts over, and every night brings a new way to die.

2020sSlasherBody Horror
Poster artwork for Weapons

Weapons

2025 · Movie
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At 2:17 one morning, seventeen children from the same third-grade class get out of bed, walk into the dark and vanish. Only one kid from the class is left, and the town of Maybrook wants answers from their teacher.

2020sPsychologicalFolk Horror
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Y2K

2024 · Movie

Eli and his best friend Danny crash a New Year's Eve 1999 house party. The computer crash they were warned about triggers something considerably more dangerous than power outages.

2020sDark ComedySci-Fi Horror
Poster artwork for Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets

2021 · TV

A women's soccer team survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. What they do to stay alive is something they've spent twenty-five years trying not to think about.

2020sSurvival HorrorFolk Horror