Film Series
NYC Horror
From East Village vampires and serial killer Wall Street yuppies to South Bronx werewolves and brownstone Brooklyn satanists, New York City has been home to some of the most memorably terrifying monsters, creeps, and villains in all of horror cinema. Making potent use of the city’s anything-goes energy and gritty history, these films find horror in both the supernatural and the all-too-real everyday terrors that come with life in one of the world’s most thrillingly unpredictable metropolises.
A Romanian vampire seeks a fresh start in NYC in this stylishly offbeat indie.
Sex, religion, and vampirism collide in Bill Gunn’s Afrocentric avant-horror freakout.
Brian De Palma’s labyrinthine murder mystery involving conjoined twins and a spooky insane asylum.
Christian Bale is iconic as a Wall Street uber-yuppie with a taste for murder.
The wildest and weirdest of the wave of 1970s satanic horror shockers.
Larry Cohen’s jaw-dropping portrait of a society gone mad.
The old-school creature-feature meets 1980s New York sleaze.
South Bronx gentrifiers beware in this smart, subversive twist on the werewolf legend.
A haunting existential chiller from legendary B horror producer Val Lewton.
Eddie Murphy teams up with Wes Craven for this offbeat horror comedy.
It’s man versus rat in this all-too-relatable slice of NYC terror.
This unsung 90s indie gem is part buddy comedy, part neon-soaked horror fever dream.
Cult auteur Larry Fessenden probes the horrors of destructive desire and self-delusion.