
Predator 2
1990 · MovieLos Angeles, 1997: the city is baking, and drug gangs are fighting open battles in the streets when an invisible hunter starts carving through both sides. One stubborn police lieutenant decides to take it personally.
Urban horror is horror set in cities, where tenants, strangers, landlords and the police can all become part of the threat. The city has its own mythology. Alleyways, rooftops, subway platforms at midnight, curated urban horror uses dense, populated environments to isolate its characters in plain sight. Being surrounded by people has never been a guarantee of safety in these films.

Los Angeles, 1997: the city is baking, and drug gangs are fighting open battles in the streets when an invisible hunter starts carving through both sides. One stubborn police lieutenant decides to take it personally.

Lestat wakes from a long sleep, becomes a rock star, and draws the attention of an ancient vampire queen who's been dormant for centuries.

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.

Hoping New York City will give them a clean slate, the four survivors of the last Woodsboro killings move to Manhattan, only to find a bolder Ghostface waiting in the Halloween crowds.

Smoke and Stack Ruffin return to their 1932 Mississippi hometown and open a juke joint that draws the local community together. Visitors arrive that night with a very specific interest in what's happening inside.

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

Dr. Rose Cotter encounters a patient mid-psychotic episode involving a smiling figure and after the patient's suicide, the same experience transfers to her.

Al Simmons is betrayed by his own organization, cut a deal in hell, and came back from the dead as something neither side fully planned for.

Ray Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.

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.

A year to the night after a gang murders him and the woman he was about to marry, a young rocker climbs out of his grave with a crow at his shoulder and a list of names. Detroit's rain-slicked rooftops become his hunting ground.

Residents of Staten Island are paid $5,000 to stay put for a government trial of twelve lawless hours, and a neighborhood drug boss and a young activist each have to decide how they will get through the night.

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.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 2025 revisits the nanny-thriller premise with a contemporary understanding of what the dynamics at its center actually mean.

After sixteen years in prison, Dolores Roach returns to a Washington Heights she doesn't recognize and takes desperate measures to survive in a neighborhood that's been gentrified out from under her.

Edgar Allan Poe is at West Point in 1830 when cadets start dying in ways that connect to a visitor's past.

Artist Perempuán wakes up in the Pit to find the prisoners have made their own Law: everyone eats only the dish they chose, and anyone who takes more is punished.

The sirens wail across Los Angeles, and strangers end up stranded on the open streets: a waitress and her daughter forced from home, a quarreling couple whose car dies at the worst moment, and an armed loner chasing a private revenge.

Vowing to abolish the yearly bloodbath has made one presidential candidate the most wanted woman in Washington, D.C., and when Purge night arrives, her head of security has to keep her alive on the streets until morning.
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