Fear of the Dark

Fear of the Dark

Don't turn off the light!

All the scariest things we can imagine lurk in the darkness. Creeping around in the impenetrable black, just waiting for the chance to grab our feet as we run up the stairs or jump into bed.

Banish this terror, or maybe make it worse, with a curated collection of Cult films where what hides in the shadows is more terrifying than anything you can think of. Shine a flickering flashlight on any of the horrors below and give yourself a real Fear of the Dark.

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Fear of the Dark
  • This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

    1967 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

    The success of At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul embedded Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) in the psyche of Brazil.  With his iconic long fingernails, top hat and cape, writer, director, star José Mojica Marins became the living embodiment of his creation, a...

  • Ringu

    1998 • Japan • Directed by Hideo Nakata

    In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-ha...

  • Prague Nights

    1969 • Czech Republic • Directed by Jiří Brdečka

    In the vein of horror anthologies like Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague: caught between Mod Sixties fashions and nightmarish Medieval catacombs, and filled...

  • The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave

    1971 • Italy • Directed by Emilio Miraglia

    At the height of the Italian giallo boom of the early 1970s, scores of filmmakers turned their hand to crafting their own unique takes on these lurid murder-mystery thrillers.

    In The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, director Emilio P. Miraglia (The ...

  • Electronic Nightmares

  • Deep Red

    From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red - arguably the ultimate giallo movie. One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street be...

  • Vamp

    1986 • United States • Directed by Richard Wenk

    Two fraternity pledges head to a seedy part of town to find some entertainment for their college friends but are faced with bloodthirsty vampires!

    Keith (Chris Makepeace, Meatballs) and AJ (Robert Rusler, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s ...

  • The Monkey's Paw

    2022 • United Kingdom • Directed by Ben Caplan

    When a mysterious stranger turns up on a stormy night, a family is seduced by tales of wishes granted by a monkey's paw. The wish they make doesn't quite turn out how they expect.

  • Sleep

    2020 • Germany • Directed by Michael Venus

    Nightmare and trauma. Fear and repression. Guilt and atonement. Weaving together the emotional violence of horror with the cryptic motifs of German folk and fairy tales, ARROW is proud to present Sleep, the debut feature from a major new talent in worl...

  • Lady Morgan's Vengeance

    1965 • Italy • Directed by Massimo Pupillo

    Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo’s Lady Morgan’s Vengeance – a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural – as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan (Paul Muller, Nightmare Castle) attempts to destroy his new bride...

  • Season of the Witch

    1972 • United States • Directed by George A. Romero

    Perhaps the most unclassifiable of filmmaker George A. Romero’s works, 1972’s Season of the Witch sees the Night of the Living Dead filmmaker returning to the realm of the supernatural for this bewitching tale of a housewife driven to an intere...

  • The Night of the Scorpion

    1972 • Spain • Directed by Alfonso Balcázar

    A man brings his new wife to his sinister Spanish mansion, much to the displeasure of his family who also live there. It is then that the sinister happenings start, and it appears a killer might be on the loose trying to cover up the tragic death of wi...

  • Legs

    2022 • United Kingdom • Directed by Celine Cotran

    Joy and Harry are trying to have a baby. One night, Joy swallows a spider in her sleep. When Joy subsequently develops an insatiable appetite for flies, it dawns on her that there may be more than one way of becoming a mother.

  • .com For Murder

    2002 • United States • Directed by Nico Mastorakis

    In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream! This turn-of-the-millennium cyber psycho-thriller from Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, Nightmare at Noon) showcases the usual gleeful eye for excess and inspired casting (including rock stars Roger Da...

  • BLEEP

    2023 • United Kingdom • Directed by Ben S. Hyland

    Jason and Clara are stuck in a rut. They have the same argument every single night, their relationship is on the brink of dying. One particular night they awake to a strange bleep. Determined to find the mysterious sound they search the house fro...

  • Mill of the Stone Women (Italian version)

    1960 • Italy • Directed by Giorgio Ferroni

    Before Black Sabbath, before I Vampiri, director Giorgio Ferroni (The Lion of Thebes, Blood for a Silver Dollar) introduced audiences to period horror Italian-style with his chilling 1960 shocker Mill of the Stone Women – a classic tale of terror redole...

  • Dream Demon

    A young bride-to-be's anxieties over her upcoming wedding take on a horrifying, demonic form in this underseen 1988 'rubber reality' shocker from director/co-writer Harley Cokeliss ('Black Moon Rising'), starring Timothy Spall and Jemma Redgrave. As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws...

  • The Deeper You Dig

    2019 • United States • Directed by John Adams and Toby Poser

    Themes of family, loss and survival intersect on the thin line that separates the living from the dead in 'The Deeper You Dig', the latest feature written, directed by and starring filmmaking family the Adams Family ('Knuckle Jack', 'R...