Back to School Horror Films

Don’t let starting a new school year scare you. Instead, check out these chilling films all about haunted schools, deranged faculty, and monsters with a taste for students. 


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The Blackcoat's Daughter

Beautiful and haunted Joan makes a bloody and determined pilgrimage across a frozen landscape toward a prestigious all-girls prep school, where Rose and Kat find themselves stranded after their parents mysteriously fail to retrieve them for winter break. As Joan gets closer, Rose watches in horror while Kat suffers terrifying visions and becomes possessed by an unseen force.


The Devil's Backbone

Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.


Diabolique

The sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress who are then terrified by reports of sightings when it’s discovered that the body has disappeared.


The Host

A creature plunges from a bridge into the Han River emerging on its shores for a feeding frenzy upon onlookers. When a young schoolgirl is snatched in the melee, her family sets off to recover her from the monster that the government claims to be a host of an unidentified virus. This title is also available for checkout on Hoopla 


Let the Right One In

12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to help Oscar the only way she knows how. This title is also available for checkout on Hoopla. 


Picnic at Hanging Rock

Three schoolgirls and their governesses mysteriously disappear on Valentines Day in 1900.


Raw

In Justine’s family everyone is a veterinarian and vegetarian. Sixteen-years-old, and an exceptional student, she is about to start studies at a veterinarian school where her older sister is also a student. But, she has barely arrived when the hazing starts. Justine is forced to eat raw meat. It is the first time in her life she has eaten meat of any kind. The consequences quickly make themselves felt, and Justine discovers her true nature. 


Tragedy Girls

Two death-obsessed teenage girls use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy, cementing their legacy as modern horror legends. This title is also available for checkout on Hoopla.