Romantic-Horror Films
by Gymnopedies | created - 14 Feb 2019 | updated - 2 months ago | Public"Is there anything more terrifying than falling in love? Your heart starts to pound, your palms begin to sweat, you can’t sleep…
Much like those special feelings that come with a new romantic dalliance, watching a horror film can also feel like venturing into the unknown. You go in blind, and just hope that you make it out in one piece. It’s no wonder that romance and horror make such perfect cinematic bedfellows."
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1. Dead Leaves (1998)
80 min | Drama, Horror
Joey snaps when his girlfriend Laura dies. He takes her corpse from New York City to West Virginia. As she decomposes, he slips further into madness.
Director: Constantin Werner | Stars: Haim Abramsky, Beth Gondek, Ken Cypert, Christopher Medina
Votes: 114
2. Dance of the Damned (1989)
R | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life... See full summary »
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Starr Andreeff, Cyril O'Reilly, Debbie Nassar, Maria Ford
Votes: 562
3. Till Death (1978)
80 min | Horror
A widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. That night, he finds that she seems to have been cataleptic, rather than dead, and frees her ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Stocker | Stars: Keith Atkinson, Belinda Balaski, Marshall Reed, Bert Freed
Votes: 131
4. The Exorcism of Hugh (1972)
R | 110 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a pilot there and they quickly become lovers. Together they ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Burnley | Stars: Susan Hampshire, Frank Finlay, Michael Petrovitch, Michael Craze
Votes: 407
5. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror
Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas
Votes: 16,683 | Gross: $0.55M
6. The Iron Rose (1973)
TV-MA | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester, Natalie Perrey, Mireille Dargent
Votes: 2,300
7. Spring (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 109 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
A young man in a personal tailspin flees from US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti, Nick Nevern
Votes: 31,413 | Gross: $0.05M
8. Lifechanger (2018)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A murderous shapeshifter sets out on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves.
Director: Justin McConnell | Stars: Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Elitsa Bako, Sam White
Votes: 2,814
9. Night Tide (1961)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young sailor is attracted to a mysterious mermaid performing at a carnival, but soon suspects that the girl is actually a siren who draws men to their watery deaths during the full moon.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders
Votes: 4,102
10. A Ghost Waits (2020)
80 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
A man's job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her.
Director: Adam Stovall | Stars: MacLeod Andrews, Natalie Walker, Sydney Vollmer, Amanda Miller
Votes: 905
11. Glorious (2022)
79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After a breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop. He finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking from an adjacent stall. Soon Wes realizes he is involved in a situation more terrible than he could imagine.
Director: Rebekah McKendry | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, Sylvia Grace Crim, André Lamar
Votes: 7,212
12. Graveyard Shift (1986)
R | 89 min | Horror
A vampire who works as a taxi driver meets and romances a young woman whom he turns into a fellow vamp, which prompts her jealous and estranged husband to try to kill both of them.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Michael A. Miranda, Helen Papas, Cliff Stoker, Dorin Ferber
Votes: 618
13. The Love Witch (2016)
Unrated | 120 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Director: Anna Biller | Stars: Samantha Robinson, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys
Votes: 19,926 | Gross: $0.23M
14. Blood & Donuts (1995)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
A vampire falls for a woman working at a donut shop.
Director: Holly Dale | Stars: Gordon Currie, Louis Ferreira, Helene Clarkson, Fiona Reid
Votes: 1,401
15. The Mummy (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron
Votes: 30,144
16. Bug (2006)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins
Votes: 37,829 | Gross: $7.01M
17. Beyond the Darkness (1979)
Unrated | 94 min | Horror
A disturbed young taxidermist exhumes his recently deceased girlfriend, brings her body to his family villa and proceeds to embalm her corpse, with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto
Votes: 5,667
18. Kiss of the Damned (2012)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A beautiful, lonely vampire falls in love with a screenwriter and transforms him into one of the undead, but their budding romance is threatened by her vivacious, troublemaking sister.
Director: Xan Cassavetes | Stars: Joséphine de La Baume, Ching Valdes-Aran, Milo Ventimiglia, Caitlin Keats
Votes: 5,403 | Gross: $0.01M
19. Let the Right One In (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
Director: Tomas Alfredson | Stars: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
Votes: 226,853 | Gross: $2.12M
20. Thirst (2009)
R | 134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Choi Hee-jin, Seo Dong-soo
Votes: 51,427 | Gross: $0.30M
21. Habit (1995)
Unrated | 112 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Set in a gritty, real life New York City, alcoholic Sam meets up with a modern day succubus who marks him and controls his will. As his world unravels he slowly figures out what is happening and has to figure out what to do.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall, Patricia Coleman
Votes: 2,104
22. Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
R | 97 min | Horror
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: J. Trevor Edmond, Melinda Clarke, Kent McCord, James T. Callahan
Votes: 16,738 | Gross: $0.05M
23. Zombie Honeymoon (2004)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Zombie Honeymoon is a gore-soaked exploration of how far the boundaries of true love can be pushed without reaching a breaking point.
Director: David Gebroe | Stars: Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse, David M. Wallace
Votes: 2,525
24. Tale of a Vampire (1992)
R | 93 min | Horror, Drama, Romance
Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.
Director: Shimako Sato | Stars: Julian Sands, Suzanna Hamilton, Kenneth Cranham, Marian Diamond
Votes: 792
25. The Whip and the Body (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Romance
The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly betrothed to his brother.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli
Votes: 4,671
26. Life After Beth (2014)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.
Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon
Votes: 23,851 | Gross: $0.08M
27. Warm Bodies (2013)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Lio Tipton
Votes: 243,674 | Gross: $66.38M
28. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Navabi
Votes: 38,658
29. Dark Places (1974)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller
After the original owner dies in a mental asylum, a man moves into an abandoned mansion with a sordid history. Meanwhile, a few locals conspire to steal a large amount of money, said to be hidden somewhere on the premises.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin
Votes: 1,168
30. Cat People (1942)
Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Votes: 26,006 | Gross: $4.00M
31. Shadows of the Dead (2004)
R | 92 min | Horror, Drama
A woodland holiday turns into a hellish trip for a couple who discover a dead body among the branches. However, it transpires that the body is far from dead, and the couple are suddenly infected by a body-ravaging disease.
Director: Carl Lindbergh | Stars: Jonathan Flanigan, Beverly Hynds, Fred Dekom, Jason Schwartz
Votes: 393
32. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt
Votes: 108,200 | Gross: $1.88M
33. Audition (1999)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 89,297
34. The Hunger (1983)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror
A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire (Catherine Deneuve), her cellist companion (David Bowie), and a gerontologist (Susan Sarandon).
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young
Votes: 29,063 | Gross: $5.98M
35. Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994 Video)
R | 84 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
A woman destined for freedom manages to escape Hell. When she arrives from the sewers of Earth, she decides to punish Sinners. But the last thing she expected to find was love.
Director: Linda Hassani | Stars: Constantin Draganescu, Angela Featherstone, Cristina Stoica, Valentin Teodesiu
Votes: 1,322
36. Midnight Son (2011)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
Forced by a disease to drink human blood, Jacob must control his violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.
Director: Scott Leberecht | Stars: Zak Kilberg, Maya Parish, Jo D. Jonz, Larry Cedar
Votes: 1,913
37. After Midnight (2019)
TV-MA | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank's comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in.
Directors: Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella | Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant, Henry Zebrowski, Justin Benson
Votes: 4,789
38. The Transfiguration (2016)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Horror
When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.
Director: Michael O'Shea | Stars: Eric Ruffin, Karin Cherches, Chloë Levine, Luis Scott
Votes: 4,071 | Gross: $0.02M
39. Immortality (1998)
R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to redeem him.
Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall, Jack Davenport
Votes: 6,151 | Gross: $0.02M
40. Dead of Night (1996)
R | 95 min | Horror
As a vampire searches for his deceased wife, a homicide detective is hot on his trail.
Director: Kristoffer Tabori | Stars: John Enos III, Kathleen Kinmont, Robert Knepper, Alex Rocco
Votes: 179
41. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 202,038 | Gross: $40.46M
42. May (2002)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
Director: Lucky McKee | Stars: Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval
Votes: 40,518 | Gross: $0.15M
43. Daughters of Darkness (1971)
R | 87 min | Horror
While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
Director: Harry Kümel | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau
Votes: 7,050
44. Horns (2013)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his forehead.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson
Votes: 88,031 | Gross: $0.16M
45. Spellbinder (1988)
R | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.
Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich, Audra Lindley
Votes: 2,826 | Gross: $1.94M
46. Blacula (1972)
PG | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
Director: William Crain | Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 7,868 | Gross: $3.00M
47. Heartless (I) (2009)
114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.
Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy, Justin Salinger
Votes: 10,374 | Gross: $0.00M
48. Love Object (2003)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Kenneth is a socially awkward office worker who has little experience with romance. He buys a life-like sex doll in an attempt to rid him of his loneliness, but soon finds there may be a dark side to 'Nikki'.
Director: Robert Parigi | Stars: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Rip Torn
Votes: 3,742
49. Let Me In (I) (2010)
R | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono
Votes: 127,357 | Gross: $12.13M
50. Soulmate (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 104 min | Horror, Mystery
Widowed Audrey retreats to an isolated Welsh cabin after a failed suicide attempt, to recuperate. Still haunted by the tragic death of her husband and struggling with her psychosis, she begins to hear strange noises.
Director: Axelle Carolyn | Stars: Anna Walton, Tom Wisdom, Tanya Myers, Nick Brimble
Votes: 869
51. The Vampyr: A Soap Opera (1992 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ripley the vampire, revived and flourishing after being entombed beneath the streets of London for two centuries, must murder three women at the command of his master, Satan, to ensure his ... See full summary »
Directors: Nigel Finch, Robert Chevara | Stars: Omar Ebrahim, Philip Salmon, Winston, China Gordon
Votes: 51
52. Nina Forever (2015)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Suicidal Rob starts dating a colleague at the supermarket. But whenever they have sex, his dead girlfriend, Nina, pops up.
Directors: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine | Stars: Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham, Mandeep Dhillon, Katharine Bennett-Fox
Votes: 5,249
53. Don't Kill Me (2021)
TV-MA | 90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
19-year-old Mirta dies of drug overdose with her lover Robin. She then resuscitates alone and finds out that, in order to keep living, she must eat living humans.
Director: Andrea De Sica | Stars: Alice Pagani, Rocco Fasano, Silvia Calderoni, Fabrizio Ferracane
Votes: 2,375
54. An Unquiet Grave (2020)
72 min | Drama, Horror
A year after the death of his wife, a man enlists her sister to help him bring her back.
Director: Terence Krey | Stars: Jacob A. Ware, Christine Nyland
Votes: 554
55. Depraved (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux, Ana Cruz Kayne
Votes: 1,958
56. Mosquito State (2020)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns: His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown.
Director: Filip Jan Rymsza | Stars: Beau Knapp, Charlotte Vega, Jack Kesy, Olivier Martinez
Votes: 956
57. Memento Mori (1999)
R | 97 min | Horror, Romance, Drama
In this second installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a young girl finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students who seem to have an unusually close bond.
Directors: Kyu-dong Min, Kim Tae-yong | Stars: Kim Gyu-ri, Park Yejin, Lee Yeong-jin, Jong-hak Baek
Votes: 3,613
58. We Are the Night (2010)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In Berlin, a cop closes in on an all-female vampire trio who just took in a new member, Lena.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer
Votes: 8,847
59. The Secret (2007)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A wife and mother passes away, and her spirit returns in her daughter's body.
Director: Vincent Perez | Stars: David Duchovny, Lili Taylor, Olivia Thirlby, Brendan Sexton III
Votes: 3,984
60. Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness - and a few missing body parts.
Director: Zelda Williams | Stars: Kathryn Newton, Liza Soberano, Jenna Davis, Trina LaFargue
Votes: 14,583
61. Leonor (1975)
PG | 101 min | Fantasy, Drama, Horror
A female vampire rises from her crypt every night in search of children as her victims.
Director: Juan Luis Buñuel | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Liv Ullmann, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis
Votes: 462
62. The Night House (2020)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit
Votes: 67,215
63. Bones and All (2022)
R | 131 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young woman embarks on a 1000 mile odyssey through America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether love can survive their otherness.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Kendle Coffey
Votes: 58,154
64. The Oval Portrait (1973)
86 min | Horror
A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Wanda Hendrix, Barry Coe, Gisele MacKenzie, Maray Ayres
Votes: 63
65. Attachment (2022)
105 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
Maja, a Danish has-been actress, falls in love with Leah, a Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah's mother, Chana, a woman who could hold dark secrets.
Director: Gabriel Bier Gislason | Stars: David Dencik, Ellie Kendrick, Sofie Gråbøl, Josephine Park
Votes: 1,676
66. Are We Not Cats (2016)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
Two strangers spark romance through their unusual habit.
Director: Xander Robin | Stars: Michael Patrick Nicholson, Chelsea Lopez, Michael Godere, Dean Holtermann
Votes: 867
67. Blood and Roses (1960)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young heiress - jealous of her cousin's engagement to another woman - becomes obsessed with the legend of a vampire ancestor, who supposedly murdered the young brides of the man she loved.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Annette Stroyberg, Alberto Bonucci
Votes: 1,425
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