It's that time of the year again for horror fans to recognize the works of women in horror media. Below are thirty movies of different horror subgenres, all directed by women only.
A vegan and progidal student at a veteranarian school develops a penchant for human flesh after being hazed by her peers. TRAILER |
A clique of bratty, hateful teenagers come apart at the seams during a party in this arthouse slasher. Later, an uninvited stranger shows up. TRAILER |
A homicidal man with a drill targets a group of young women during their slumber party. The two sequels, Slumber Party Massacre II and Slumber Party Massacre III, were respectively directed by Deborah Brock and Sally Mattison. TRAILER |
An artsy black-and-white pic about a vampire draining the residents in an Iranian ghost town. TRAILER |
This modern-made sendup to '60s horror, which partly revolved around cults, witchcraft, and Satanism, boasts some desirable fashion, hair, and mood. TRAILER |
This bizarre comedy focuses on a Chinese opera troupe being haunted because of an old feud. WATCH THE MOVIE Visible Secret |
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A shy officer worker gets a taste for murder after accidentally killing one of her coworkers. TRAILER |
In what is considered to be the first mainstream noir directed by a woman, the movie follows two friends that make the mistake of picking up a hitch-hiker. WATCH THE MOVIE |
A widow and her child fear for their lives as they think something sinister is haunting them. TRAILER |
A serial killer's groomed protégé has to decide whether or not to follow in his mentor's footsteps, or finding a way to escape. TRAILER |
A high school student incidentally becomes possessed with a demon after participating in a supernatural ritual. TRAILER The Invitation In this slow burn thriller, something underlyingly evil is brewing during a very awkward dinner party in the Hollywood Hills. TRAILER |
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In a seaside town only inhabited by boys and women, a child begins to question his existence after a corpse washes ashore. TRAILER |
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Set in the '80s, a yuppie investment banker becomes a serial killer. TRAILER The Moth Diaries |
A grieving father resurrects his family using a supernatural cemetery intended for raising dead animals. TRAILER Pet Sematary Two A teenager, whose mother recently died, and his friend face the consequences after using the notorious pet cemetery. TRAILER |
The friendship between two struggling actors is tested when one of them becomes more successful. Their tense weekend away together then takes a dangerous turn. TRAILER |
A med student desperate for money becomes a body modification surgeon. TRAILER See No Evil 2 In this sequel to the 2006 slasher See No Evil, the body of killer Jacob Goodnight and his victims from a mass murder inside an abandoned hotel are all brought to a city morgue. The employees and their friends soon become trapped inside the building with Goodnight, who they presumed was dead. They were wrong. TRAILER |
In this mockumentary aired on BBC1 on Halloween in 1992, a paranormal news show investigates a haunted house in Northolt, Greater London. The special sparked controversy at the time because viewers thought the special was real. TRAILER |
Three longtime friends reunite after becoming distant from one another. On their trip to a remote island they visited when they were younger, the women encounter danger after one of them is attacked by a man. TRAILER |
Three daughters return home after their mother goes missing in an unusually deep lake. They become drawn to the mysteries of the lake, though. TRAILER |
A teenager learns that she's the next-in-line of a long series of vampire-fighting warriors known collectively as Slayers. Now with her mentor, she must save her town from a gang of vampires. TRAILER |
Two mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one acclimates to human life, the other feasts on the locals. TRAILER |
A four-part omnibus of horror stories directed by women: "The Box" follows a family that changes for the worse after the son looks into a stranger's box; a mother tries to hide her dead husband's body before their daughter's birthday party begins in "The Birthday Party;" four friends on a desert expedition succumb to an ancient evil in "Don't Fall," and finally in "Her Only Living Son," a single mother's fears come to light as her son approaches his eighteenth birthday. The framing story is directed by Sofia Carrillo. TRAILER |
What is your favorite subgenre of horror movies, ONTD?
Favorite director?