Villain / Threat Tropes

Sasha lost her husband in a rock-climbing accident and set off for Australia for another extreme adventure, where she becomes hunted.

Two kids enter the care of a grieving foster mother.

An old man dies, leaving behind a storage unit, which gets sold to a MAGA asshole. Only, someone owns the storage unit and is desperate to get it back. Why?…

A loan officer denies an elderly woman's extension on her home loan to impress her boss. The woman places a curse on her, and she must find a way to…

Passengers on a transpacific flight encounter supernatural phenomena after a fellow traveler dies unexpectedly during the journey.

An MIT astrophysics professor discovers a 50-year-old time capsule note containing a sequence of numbers that accurately predicts every major disaster in history.

Katie Cannon is taken from her home, returning 8 years later as a creepy, crusty, possessed child.

The Freelings are your typical (white) middle-class family. They move into a new suburban development built by Steve Freeling's employer, and as they break ground on a new swimming pool,…

Dr. Joyce Reardon is a parapsychologist hell-bent on proving the paranormal exists, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to make sure she gets her proof. She assembles a…

The slasher genre's favorite Final Girl is back alongside her daughter, Tatum, who Ghostface seems to be after. Stu Macher, seemingly back from the dead, claims the recent murders...but is…

Dr. Rose Cotter, a psychiatric resident, witnesses a patient’s shocking suicide and immediately begins experiencing increasingly disturbing events: people smiling at her in ways that feel deeply wrong. She discovers…

Harper is having some trouble post-partum and ends up at her mom's house, seemingly a haunted one.

A biological weapon contaminates a small Iowa town's water supply, causing residents to become violently insane. The sheriff and his pregnant wife must survive as the military quarantines the town…

In a dystopian (not-so-distant) future, a father desperate to earn cash for his sick baby, participates in a deadly televised game show where contestants must survive 30 days of being…

A quiet drifter is tricked into spending the night cleaning an abandoned family fun center, only to find that the animatronic mascots come to life and hunt him. He fights…