DON'T DO IT! Horror movie titles with "don't"
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1. Don't Look Now (1973)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania
Votes: 62,337 | Gross: $0.98M
2. The Forgotten (1973)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a remote asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup, Harryette Warren
Votes: 3,516
3. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Director: John Newland | Stars: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, Barbara Anderson, William Demarest
Votes: 4,115
4. Don't Hang Up (1974)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In this horror movie, a dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Susan Bracken, Larry O'Dwyer, Gene Ross, James N. Harrell
Votes: 642
5. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
R | 95 min | Horror
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a hunger for human flesh by ultrasonic radiation being used for pest control.
Director: Jorge Grau | Stars: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy, Aldo Massasso
Votes: 9,322
A.K.A Don't open the window
6. Don't Go in the House (1979)
R | 82 min | Horror
A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.
Director: Joseph Ellison | Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Carnegie
Votes: 5,246
7. Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
R | 80 min | Horror
Two siblings cursed in prehistoric times survive for millennia by feasting on the entrails of young people, prowling in what eventually becomes a park in contemporary Los Angeles.
Director: Lawrence David Foldes | Stars: Aldo Ray, Meeno Peluce, Tammy Taylor, Barbara Bain
Votes: 870
8. Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.
Director: Robert Hammer | Stars: James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence, Nicholas Worth
Votes: 2,161
9. Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
R | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
Four friends camping in the woods inadvertently stumble upon the domain of a maniacal killer.
Director: James Bryan | Stars: Nick Cleland, Mary Gail Artz, James P. Hayden, Angie Brown
Votes: 3,502
10. Don't Go to Sleep (1982 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Robin Ignico, Kristin Cumming
Votes: 1,491
11. Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery
Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition.
Director: Edmund Purdom | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, Mark Jones
Votes: 3,048
12. Don't Panic (1987)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
On his seventeenth birthday, Michael unwittingly unlocks the evil forces of a Ouija board.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Jon Michael Bischof, Gabriela Hassel, Helena Rojo, Jorge Luke
Votes: 1,498
13. Don't Look Down (1998 TV Movie)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman tries to get over the death of her sister by taking an Acrophobiac group. Then the group starts to get killed one by one.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Megan Ward, Billy Burke, Angela Moore, William MacDonald
Votes: 1,142
14. Don't Be Scared (2006 Video)
45 min | Horror
A serial killer is on the loose and looking for more victims amongst unsuspecting college students.
Director: Master P | Stars: Sarah Abendschein, Jessica Bercovici, Dana Desiree, Samantha Droke
Votes: 111
15. Don't Look in the Cellar (2008)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror
A group of college students regret their decision to sneak into the cellar of a haunted asylum on Halloween. One by one they encounter Smiley, the last of a flawed bloodline.
Director: Dennis Devine | Stars: Randal Malone, Shevaun Kastl, Tara Shayne, Jed Rowen
Votes: 365
16. Don't Wake the Dead (2008)
78 min | Horror
A group of women, hired to assist with an impromptu concert, spend the evening at an ancient German castle. Unbeknownst to them, they've chosen the worst night on Earth to visit, as every ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Schnaas | Stars: Ralph Fellows, Sonja Kerskes, Fiana de Guzman, Wolfgang Wobeto
Votes: 254
17. Don't Look Back (2009)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A psychodrama about a photographer whose pictures tell a different story to that of her perception.
Director: Marina de Van | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano, Thierry Neuvic
Votes: 7,440
18. Don't Look Up (2009)
R | 85 min | Horror
Evil spirits released from old celluloid cause a film crew to slowly go insane while in production on a new project.
Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Rachael Murphy, Eli Roth, Ben DiGregorio, Reshad Strik
Votes: 1,743
19. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
R | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.
Director: Troy Nixey | Stars: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Bruce Gleeson
Votes: 50,593 | Gross: $24.04M
20. Don't Go in the Woods (2010)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Musical
A young band heads to the woods in order to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to emerge with new music that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension.
Director: Vincent D'Onofrio | Stars: Bo Boddie, Eric Bogosian, Gwynn Galitzer, Tim Lajcik
Votes: 1,112
21. Don't Fall Asleep (2010)
TV-MA | 72 min | Horror
Janice and Sam move into a new neighborhood and their first home--but something just isn't right. Janice has started sleepwalking again...and people are disappearing.
Director: Brent Roske | Stars: Dave Bean, Ana Belibasis, Derek Easley, Jill Evyn
Votes: 85
22. Don't Let Him In (2011)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Director: Kelly Smith | Stars: Sophie Linfield, Sam Hazeldine, Gordon Alexander, Gemma Harvey
Votes: 1,899
23. Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You! (2012 Video)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
In this campy throwback to 1950's monster films, a vicious monster has risen from its watery lair to terrorize a small New England town. Local tutor Neil Stuart must warn the town and make them believe him before it's too late!
Director: Charles Roxburgh | Stars: Matt Farley, Kevin McGee, Sharon Scalzo, Elizabeth M. Peterson
Votes: 214
24. 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
25. Don't Grow Up (2015)
R | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The story about a group of youths who can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.
Director: Thierry Poiraud | Stars: Fergus Riordan, Madeleine Kelly, McKell David, Darren Evans
Votes: 1,290
26. Don't Let the Light In (2015)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Horror
For Sarah, it was just a job that started off like any other babysitting gig. But Sarah wasn't the normal babysitter, and Jack wasn't quite the normal boy that he appeared to be. He has a ... See full summary »
Director: Jaysen P. Buterin | Stars: Will Garrett Davis, Rebecca Larken, Chao Vang, Justin H. Reich
Votes: 28
27. Don't Blink (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Ten people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.
Director: Travis Oates | Stars: Mena Suvari, Brian Austin Green, Joanne Kelly, Zack Ward
Votes: 7,073
28. The Village (2015)
82 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Can you keep a secret? I haven't heard anyone for a long time until they arrived. They came for help and they broke the rules. I tried to warn them but it was too late. Little did they know. The party is over. Who will survive?
Director: Amadeu Artasona | Stars: Pol Baulida, Liliana Cabal, Antonio de la Cruz, Maria Galan
Votes: 2,557
29. Don't Breathe (2016)
R | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.
Director: Fede Alvarez | Stars: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto
Votes: 300,631 | Gross: $89.22M
30. Don't Kill It (2016)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Horror
An ancient demon terrorizes a tiny Mississippi town.
Director: Mike Mendez | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Kristina Klebe, Tony Bentley, James Chalke
Votes: 5,006
31. Don't Let Me Go (II) (2013)
96 min | Fantasy, Horror
An ailing father, who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery, takes his teenage kids into the woods to try and recapture their early closeness, before he and his wife ... See full summary »
Director: Giorgio Serafini | Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Natalia Dyer, Joel Courtney, James Le Gros
Votes: 203
32. Don't Knock Twice (2016)
R | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
Director: Caradog W. James | Stars: Katee Sackhoff, Lucy Boynton, Richard Mylan, Nick Moran
Votes: 14,942
33. Don't Hang Up (2016)
R | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for two teenagers when a stranger turns their own game against them, with deadly consequences.
Directors: Damien Macé, Alexis Wajsbrot | Stars: Gregg Sulkin, Garrett Clayton, Bella Dayne, Sienna Guillory
Votes: 16,349
34. Don't Look in the Basement 2 (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
In 1972, the patients and doctors at Stephens Sanitarium were brutally murdered. Over forty years later, the only known survivor returns only to find the ghosts of the past have not been resting in peace.
Director: Tony Brownrigg | Stars: Andrew Sensenig, Frank Mosley, Arianne Martin, Scott Tepperman
Votes: 458
35. Don't Let Them In
Horror | Pre-production
Six friends, on their annual camping trip, are having the time of their lives, enjoying the lake, roasting marshmallows, and telling scary stories around the fire. As the night goes on, ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Steven Williams, Jessica Morris, Brandon Fobbs, Tiffany Shepis
36. Don't Open Your Eyes (2018)
105 min | Drama, Horror
When an apathetic home hospice nurse learns he shares a sinister connection with the mysterious old woman in his care, it forces him to confront a darkness he never could have imagined.
Director: Dmitry Yun | Stars: Tom Kemnitz Jr., Gergana Mellin, Jamie Carroll, Travis Cox
Votes: 310
37. Don't Let the Devil In (2016)
89 min | Horror, Thriller
After suffering a miscarriage, Newlyweds John and Samantha Harris relocate from New York City to a small Appalachian town where they become wrapped up in a nightmarish tapestry of evil.
Director: Courtney Fathom Sell | Stars: Anthony J. Anastasio, Constance Archer, Mark Ashby, Mark Baker
Votes: 48
38. Don't Fuck in the Woods (2016)
Unrated | 73 min | Horror
A group of friends are going on a camping trip to celebrate graduating college. But once they enter the woods, the group are attacked by a creature.
Director: Shawn Burkett | Stars: Brandy Mason, Scott Gillespie, Brittany Blanton, Ayse Howard
Votes: 1,748
39. Don't Look Up (2015)
5 min | Short, Horror
A young woman comes home late night on public transportation and puts herself in a precarious position where she comes across an urban legend that may be true.
Director: Nance Nickels | Stars: Drea Hoffman, Celeste Marie Martinez
Votes: 9
40. Don't Move (2013)
14 min | Short, Horror
Set on one fateful night, six friends gather for their monthly 'games night'... and accidentally unleash a demonic force that might tear them - and their friendships - to pieces.
Director: Anthony Melton | Stars: Rachel Bright, Jake Hendriks, Beth Cooper, Kate Braithwaite
Votes: 751
41. Don't Go Into the House by the Woods (2017)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young man goes to his parents house over the weekend and is scared to death when he starts to receive phone calls from a psycho who might be inside the house.
Director: Manny Velazquez | Stars: Richàrd A. LaBon, Alen Rios, Samuel Torres Wagner, Alex Velazquez
Votes: 32
42. Don't Sleep (II) (2017)
Unrated | 101 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After moving into a cottage together, two young lovers confront the horrors of a forgotten childhood.
Director: Rick Bieber | Stars: Dominic Sherwood, Charlbi Dean, Jill Hennessy, Drea de Matteo
Votes: 1,230
43. Don't Leave Home (2018)
86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American artist's obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story's origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.
Director: Michael Tully | Stars: Bobby Roddy, Mark Lawrence, Sue Walsh, Alisha Weir
Votes: 1,736
44. Don't Let Go (2019)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Detective Jack Radcliff and his recently murdered niece race against time to solve the crime before it happens.
Director: Jacob Estes | Stars: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina
Votes: 12,970 | Gross: $4.69M
45. Don't Listen (2020)
TV-MA | 97 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Daniel and Sara have a 9-year-old son, Eric, and they've just moved to a new home not knowing the neighbours call it "the house of the voices". Eric is the first one to notice the odd noises behind each door.
Director: Ángel Gómez Hernández | Stars: Rodolfo Sancho, Ana Fernández, Ramón Barea, Belén Fabra
Votes: 16,951
46. Don't Let Them In (2020)
81 min | Horror, Mystery
A home invasion horror movie in the vein of You're Next and The Purge, about a group of people under siege by masked intruders in an abandoned hotel.
Director: Mike Dunkin | Stars: Scott Britton, Louis Dunkin, Amanda Hunt, Michelle Luther
Votes: 985
47. Don't Look at the Demon (2022)
95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A team of paranormal investigators head for the highlands of Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, to probe a series of alleged disturbances at a house with a dark past.
Director: Brando Lee | Stars: Fiona Dourif, Jordan Belfi, Malin Crépin, Harris Dickinson
Votes: 459
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