Horror Movie Title Generator

Titles for hauntings, slashers, folk horror, creature features, possession stories and found footage, with a tagline to go on the poster.

Subgenre

Title format

Press Generate Names for 8 horror movie titles.

Tap a name to copy it, or the bookmark to keep it.

black shadow = tap it

By Rich · Updated 21 October 2026

Example Horror Movie Titles

A few names this generator came up with. Tap one to copy it, or press "Generate Names" above for more.

Any · One word

Cornwake
Broodling
Cleaverfield
Staticfeed

Haunting · One word

Candlewick
Gloamgrave
Hushwood
Mourncote

Slasher · The X of Y

The Lifeguard of Camp Wren
The Hookman of Saint Clare's
The Stranger of Cedar Ridge
The Gravedigger of Black Rock

Folk horror · The X of Y

The Last Sheaf of Barrow End
The Harvest of Mardle
The May Queen of Little Hallowmere
The Hobby Horse of Skeld Island

Creature feature · With a tagline

Fangback: Something is in the water.
The Nest of Blackfen: It only hunts at night.
Clawmaw: Stay out of the reeds.
Hivetide: It's bigger than you think.

Possession · With a tagline

Crowwake: It wants to come home.
Whispermark: It knows your name.
The Unmaking of Thomas Vane: Say the words and it hears you.
Twinborn: The voice in the walls isn't hers.

How the Horror Movie Title Generator Works

It works from 363 titles and name parts, which combine into over 22,000 possible results.

The choices:

Subgenre: Any, Haunting, Slasher, Folk horror, Creature feature, Possession, Found footage.
Title format:
- One word, e.g. Deepback
- The X of Y, e.g. The Paperboy of Silver Lake
- With a tagline, e.g. Cornmother: Dance until the fire goes out.

Each press gives you 8 names. "Show 8 more" adds 8 you haven't seen yet, until the names for the choices you've made run out.

Horror titles do a lot in very few words: one strange word, or the name of a place where something went wrong. This horror movie title generator makes titles in six subgenres for scripts, stories, student films and party games, with a tagline if you want one.

How horror titles work

One word: a single strange word or place name is the classic horror title. It tells you nothing and promises everything.
"The X of Y": a title with a name in it (The Undoing of Clara Hale) makes it personal, and suits hauntings and possession stories.
A tagline does the selling on the poster: short, a little cryptic, and usually a warning.

The subgenres

Slasher: the killer with a mask and a body count. John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) set most of the rules.
Folk horror: old customs, isolated villages and the land itself. The term was popularised by Mark Gatiss's BBC series A History of Horror (2010), which named Witchfinder General, The Blood on Satan's Claw and The Wicker Man as its "unholy trinity".
Found footage: the film is the evidence. The Blair Witch Project (1999) made it famous.
Haunting, possession and creature features each have their own words: houses and names for hauntings, the body and the soul for possession, and teeth and water for creatures.

The generator never rebuilds a real film title. Search a title before you use it for a real film, though, as there are a lot of horror films out there. For the cast, try the Villain, Monster and Ghost name generators.