Maika Monroe’s essential horror movies are It Follows (2014), Longlegs (2024), Watcher (2022) and The Guest (2014), with Villains, Significant Other and Tau rounding out her genre work. We rank all seven below, with spoiler-free picks, honest scare levels and…
If you searched for the Farmiga actress from American Horror Story or The Nun, you want Taissa Farmiga. She was born in New Jersey in 1994 and is the youngest sister of Vera Farmiga, which is why the two names…
Matthew Lillard has a rare horror résumé: a cult VHS creature feature, one of the most quoted slasher villains of the 1990s, and a starring role in the biggest opening in Blumhouse history. This guide covers his horror films and…
Jenna Ortega has become one of the defining horror faces of her generation in about five years. She survived Ghostface twice, outlasted a farmhouse full of trouble in Ti West’s X, and turned Wednesday Addams into one of Netflix’s biggest…
The Strangers (2008) is not the true story of a real couple. Writer-director Bryan Bertino built it from a strange knock on his family’s door when he was a kid, and he has also pointed to the Manson Family’s 1969…
A Nightmare on Elm Street is not a true story, but it grew from one. Wes Craven built Freddy Krueger after reading newspaper reports about healthy young Southeast Asian refugees who died in their sleep after terrifying nightmares. He then…
The Amityville Horror true story has two halves. The first is a documented crime: on November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed six members of his family at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. The second is…
The Exorcist (1973) is based on a real exorcism performed in 1949 on a boy from suburban Maryland, known in church records and later books by the pseudonym “Roland Doe.” Jesuit priests from Saint Louis University carried out the rite…
The Conjuring sold itself as “based on the true case files of the Warrens,” and the Perron family it portrays were real people who lived in a real Rhode Island farmhouse. How much of the 2013 movie actually happened is…
Mia Goth is the English actress behind Maxine Minx and Pearl in Ti West’s X trilogy, and her horror filmography now runs eight features, from A Cure for Wellness in 2017 to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein in 2025. Below, every…
