Contains horror, fantasy and sci-fi movies with experiments and drugs theme, mainly: 
* experiments to enlongate life,
* experiments on supernatural forces, excluding people with supernatural powers (see list: Supernatural),
* war experiments on soliders,
* drugs enhancing human's mental abilities,
* transforming people into other spieces.


Nils Asther and Helen Walker in The Man in Half Moon Street (1944)

List containing home invasion  themed movies, including horror and thriller movies.

Home invasion is an illegal and usually forceful entry to an occupied, private dwelling with intent to commit a violent crime against the occupants, such as robbery, assault, rape, murder, or kidnapping

Exclusions: 
* Rape and revenge, 
* Bunny boilers and stalking,
* Slashers,
* Serial killers,
* Alien invasion,
* Psychopaths
in which home invasion is often included as a basis theme.  

Films of these subgenres are listed on adequate lists.

Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller in Hackers (1995)

Joely Richardson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Joss Stone, Tamzin Merchant, Natalie Dormer, and Annabelle Wallis in The Tudors (2007)

List contains horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies with themes: 
* dystopia,
* anti-utopia.


A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia,[1] kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as "not-good place" and is an antonym of utopia. Dystopian societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in the future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many sub-genres of fiction and are often used to draw attention to real-world issues regarding society, environment, politics, economics, religion, psychology, ethics, science, or technology. / Wikipedia

Excluded:  
* artificial intelligence,
* cyberpunk,
* virtual world,
* post-apocalyptic.


'A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them.' Wikipedia

Typical schemes: 
* cop chasing after serial killer,
* person closely related to the victim chasing after serial killer,


List also includes giallo movies.

'Giallo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒallo], plural gialli) is a 20th-century Italian thriller or horror genre of literature and film. Especially outside Italy, giallo refers specifically to a particular Italian thriller-horror genre that has mystery elements and often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements.' Wikipedia

Excluded: supernatural themes.

Includes movies with themes: 
* occult, 
* witchcraft,
* witches,
* other religious themes.


Excluded: 
* fantasy comedy and romance movies with such themes, if they don't have even a pinch of horror.


Excluded: gotihc stories about vampires - for vampire movies look here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021757643/

Boris Karloff and Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House (1932)

List of paranormal horror movies related to the topics: 
* haunted house,
* haunted place other than house: hospitals, orphanages etc.
* haunted house trying to possess visitors.


Excluded:  
* ghost stories unrelated to the specific place (see list: Ghosts and Spirits),
* poltergeist unrelated to the place,
* witches and occult related to the place (see list: Witches and Occult),
* seemed to be ghost stories revealed to be thrillers,
* ghosts trying to reveal their murderers' identity (see list: Crime Supernatural).


Disclaimer: Because of abovementioned exclusions - list may contain spoilers.

Ray Milland, Donald Crisp, Ruth Hussey, Alan Napier, and Gail Russell in The Uninvited (1944)

List may contain spoilers.

Included: #psychopath, #dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder, #psychosis, 

Excluded: #serial_killers, #bunny boilers, #femme_fatale, #stalking, #horrors_with_madness_and_paranoia_theme, #psychos watching their victims from behind

Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

List includes thriller movies with themes: 
* bunny boiler,
* obsession, especially love obsession,
* stalker, stalking,
* cyberstalking,
* bullies and bullied.
May also contain non-fictional characters and be based on true stories.

Excluded: 
* typical psychopath movies, 
* ransom, 
* femme fatale.


Disclaimer: Because of abovementioned exclusions - list may contain spoilers.

Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, and Lori Martin in Cape Fear (1962)

Theme included: #ghost helping to reveal his/her murderer, #ghost helping to avoid murder.

James Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

List includes: 
* fairy tales turned into horror tales, 
* folk tales turned into horror,
* dark fantasy,
* fairy tales themes in thrillers.


Excluded:  
* folk tales including ghosts (see list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls025914759/) 


Micha Bergese in The Company of Wolves (1984)

Included: Ghost stories and tales, ghost looking for revenge.

Excluded: Haunted house, Supernatural Crime.

HORRORS | PARANORMAL | Ghosts and Spirits

'Rape and revenge films are a subgenre of exploitation film that was particularly popular in the 1970s. Rape and revenge films generally follow the same three-act structure:

Act I: A usually female character is (violently) raped and maybe further abused, tortured or left for dead. Act II: The character survives and/or rehabilitates themselves. Act III: The character exacts revenge and/or kills their rapist(s).

In some cases, the character is incapacitated or killed at the end of the first act, and the "revenge" is carried out by their family, as in The Virgin Spring, I Saw the Devil, Nocturnal Animals, the original The Last House on the Left and The House of the Spirits.' Wikipedia

List contains thrillers, horrors and sci-fi with revenge theme limited to 'rape and revenge' subgenre. 

List is generally sorted in chronological order, with sequels and remakes listed directly by their precedessors and insipirations. 

May include spoilers.

For pure 'revenge' movies, look here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021727688/

For bunny boilers and stalker movies, look here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls079593607/

List of films including theme of #body swap, expecially: #body swap between two or more people #body swap between parent and child #body swap between human and animal. 

Excluded themes: #reincarnation #coming back from the otherside #two spirits in one body #soul transferring #waking as future self #horror movies with body swap (unless it's black comedy) #sci-fi action movies with body swap.

Include: Crime, Investigation Exclude: Crime Supernatural

Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in Léon: The Professional (1994)

Clive Francis and Ciaran Madden in Sense and Sensibility (1971)

List contains horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies with theme: 
* post-apocalyptic.


Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization has collapsed. The story may involve attempts to survive  after the apocalyptical event. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, the way to maintain the human race alive and together as one, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in a non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of society and technology remain. / Wikipedia

Excluded: 
* dystopians and anti-utopians (movies that refer to the society than to fighting for survival of human race).


Horrors with monsters uncathegorized, including results of scientific experiments.

Subgenre of the horror/thriller movie that features a formerly-glamorous older woman who has become mentally unbalanced and terrorizes those around her. Other names: Grande Dame Guignol, hagsploitation and hag horror / Wikipedia

William Holden, Nancy Olson, and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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