Horror: High School/Graduation
by lovealandjill | created - 18 Dec 2015 | updated - 11 Oct 2022 | PublicA list of horror films and television episodes, or series), that take place in, or have scenes in high schools, feature high school students as central characters, and/or high school graduations.
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1. Cherry Falls (1999)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the small town of Cherry Falls, a psychotic murderer is killing off the virgins of the local high school.
Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn, Jesse Bradford
Votes: 14,765
2. Prom Night (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 88 min | Horror
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Dana Davis
Votes: 38,161 | Gross: $43.87M
3. In 3 Tagen bist du tot (2006)
R | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
In Ebensee, the teenagers Nina, her boyfriend Martin, Clemens, his girlfriend Alex and Mona are best friends since their childhood. On their high-school graduation day, they all receive the... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Sabrina Reiter, Julia Rosa Peer, Michael Steinocher, Nadja Vogel
Votes: 2,639
4. June 9 (2008)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
What happened on june 9? On a search for some harmless fun at the end of the school year, 17 year-old Derek Boggman led his friends on a mischievous journey of caught-on-camera pranks. But ... See full summary »
Director: T. Michael Conway | Stars: Jon Ray, Trevor Williams, Maggie Blazunas, Alasha Wright
Votes: 708
5. Zombie High (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
A college freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive, but she's having none of it.
Director: Ron Link | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Richard Cox, Kay E. Kuter, James Wilder
Votes: 1,447 | Gross: $0.02M
6. Carrie (2013)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A shy girl, outcast by her peers and sheltered by her religious mother, unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday
Votes: 148,205 | Gross: $35.27M
7. The Hole (2001)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox
Votes: 48,263
8. Don't Go to the Reunion (2013)
75 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A prank goes too far for the popular students at Hamilton High as they begin to pay for their actions 10 years later at their high school reunion.
Director: Steve Goltz | Stars: Stephanie Leigh Rose, Spencer Harlan, Matty Dorschner, Hannah Herdt
Votes: 502
9. Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
R | 104 min | Horror
Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Jonathan Breck, Ray Wise, Nicki Aycox, Garikayi Mutambirwa
Votes: 70,595 | Gross: $35.67M
10. The Faculty (1998)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett
Votes: 135,146 | Gross: $40.06M
11. Gremlins (1984)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Louie
Votes: 247,865 | Gross: $148.17M
12. Satan's Cheerleaders (1977)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice. One day he kidnaps the cheerleading squad to use for their ... See full summary »
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: John Ireland, Yvonne De Carlo, Jack Kruschen, John Carradine
Votes: 1,253
13. All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
A rebel girl signs up a group of cheerleaders to help her take down the captain of their high school football team, but a supernatural turn of events thrusts the girls into a different battle.
Directors: Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson | Stars: Sidney Allison, Charon R. Arnold, Shay Astar, Sam Bean
Votes: 9,552
14. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,734 | Gross: $33.80M
15. Carrie (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure
Votes: 11,465
16. Disturbing Behavior (1998)
R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The new kid in Cradle Bay, Washington stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Tobias Mehler
Votes: 25,292 | Gross: $17.41M
17. Disturbia (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a teenager is placed under house arrest, he succumbs to despair and starts spying on his neighbors, hoping to spice up his life. This, however, leads him to witness a serial killer on the loose.
Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer
Votes: 248,341 | Gross: $80.21M
18. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
R | 91 min | Horror
Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, John Saxon
Votes: 262,592 | Gross: $25.50M
19. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The spectre of a disfigured man haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams.
Director: Samuel Bayer | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy
Votes: 107,503 | Gross: $63.08M
20. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
R | 87 min | Horror
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler
Votes: 77,458 | Gross: $30.00M
21. Scream (1996)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich
Votes: 388,547 | Gross: $103.05M
22. Apt Pupil (1998)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson, Mickey Cottrell
Votes: 41,633 | Gross: $8.84M
23. Halloween (1978)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes
Votes: 306,862 | Gross: $47.00M
24. Halloween (2007)
R | 109 min | Horror
After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.
Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif
Votes: 130,602 | Gross: $58.27M
25. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
R | 93 min | Horror
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, John Beckman, Kisha Brackel
Votes: 61,662 | Gross: $49.37M
26. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of high-schoolers invite Mandy Lane, an innocent, desirable girl, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop mysteriously.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Whitney Able, Michael Welch
Votes: 34,771
27. Forget Me Not (II) (2009)
R | 103 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
"Do you remember me?" A childhood game turns terrifyingly real for a group of high schoolers celebrating graduation. After a hide and seek like game in a cemetery, the players begin to disappear one by one.
Director: Tyler Oliver | Stars: Carly Schroeder, Cody Linley, Brie Gabrielle, Micah Alberti
Votes: 6,598
28. Prom Night (1980)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
At a high-school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin
Votes: 20,932 | Gross: $14.80M
29. Graduation Day (1981)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.
Director: Herb Freed | Stars: Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy, E.J. Peaker
Votes: 4,891 | Gross: $23.89M
30. All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
A rebel girl signs up a group of cheerleaders to help her take down the captain of their high school football team, but a supernatural turn of events thrusts the girls into a different battle.
Directors: Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson | Stars: Sidney Allison, Charon R. Arnold, Shay Astar, Sam Bean
Votes: 9,552
31. Unfriended (2014)
R | 83 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of online chatroom friends find themselves haunted by a mysterious, supernatural force using the account of their dead friend.
Director: Levan Gabriadze | Stars: Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson, Shelley Hennig
Votes: 81,451 | Gross: $32.48M
32. All Cheerleaders Die (2001 Video)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A group of high school cheerleaders rise from the dead as zombies to take bloody revenge on the their football player ex-boyfriends for killing them.
Directors: Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson | Stars: Julia Carpenter, Drama, Dirty Ernie, Jennifer Grant
Votes: 193
33. Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.
Director: Skip Schoolnik | Stars: Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, George Thomas
Votes: 2,023
34. The Craft: Legacy (2020)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A group of high school students form a coven of witches.
Director: Zoe Lister-Jones | Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone
Votes: 16,512
35.
Creepshow (2019– )
Episode:
The Right Snuff/Sibling Rivalry
(2021)
TV-MA | 48 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A misunderstanding in space ensures two astronauts go down in history for all the worst reasons; Lola is convinced her brother is trying to kill her but she's worried about the wrong monster.
Directors: Rusty Cundieff, Joe Lynch | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Breckin Meyer, Gabrielle Byndloss, Kara Kimmer
Votes: 789
36. Kandisha (2020)
85 min | Horror
Learning of an ancient Moroccan legend, three friends summon a powerful female entity with an insatiable thirst for revenge.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Mathilde La Musse, Suzy Bemba, Samarcande Saadi, Mériem Sarolie
Votes: 1,478
37. The Hollow Child (2017)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.
Director: Jeremy Lutter | Stars: Jess McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy, Jana Mitsoula
Votes: 1,727
38. Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Shu-wei is an unpopular student who is a constant target for the school bullies, but he ends up joining forces with them when they encounter two demonic sisters who feast on human flesh at night, and they manage to capture one of them.
Director: Giddens Ko | Stars: Yu-Kai Teng, Kent Tsai, Bonnie Liang, Carolyn Chen
Votes: 1,706
39. Excision (2012)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A disturbed, delusional high-school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.
Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Roger Bart, Ariel Winter, Traci Lords
Votes: 24,618
40. Party Hard Die Young (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Finally, graduated and off to Croatia. It's supposed to be the "party of their lives." But for Julia and her friends their graduation trip turns into a horror trip, from which not everyone will return.
Director: Dominik Hartl | Stars: Elisabeth Wabitsch, Michael Glantschnig, Marlon Boess, Markus Freistätter
Votes: 1,495
41. Split (IX) (2016)
PG-13 | 117 min | Horror, Thriller
Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula
Votes: 554,117 | Gross: $138.29M
42. What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students is reluctant to present an alibi when his lover witnesses the first in a series of murders connected to their school.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Cristina Galbó, Joachim Fuchsberger
Votes: 5,925
43. Them (2021– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Anthology horror series with varying characters and locations by season, featuring different aspects of the horror genre.
Stars: Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Alison Pill
Votes: 24,863
44. Spiral (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A same-sex couple move to a small town to enjoy a better quality of life and raise their daughter with strong social values. But when neighbors throw a very strange party, nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood.
Director: Kurtis David Harder | Stars: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen, June Laporte, Ty Wood
Votes: 5,044
45. Nightlight (I) (2015)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
Five friends play a game in a ''mysterious'' forest with a long history as a beacon for troubled young people contemplating suicide.
Directors: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods | Stars: Shelby Young, Carter Jenkins, Chloe Bridges, Taylor Murphy
Votes: 2,369
46. Stir of Echoes (1999)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas
Votes: 87,521 | Gross: $21.13M
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