125 Horror Scripts to Download and Study

Cinematic horror comes in so many shapes and sizes. It can involve anything from reanimated corpses and stop-motion monsters to unstoppable serial killers and demonic possessions — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes it’s painfully grounded in the real world, sometimes it’s operatic and soaked in garishly red buckets of blood, and sometimes it makes you piss yourself with laughter. On occasion, it’s even fun for the whole family. Rules don’t do well in this environment, you might say.

The point is: horror is one of our most important storytelling genres and one as old as human culture. All mythology is steeped in it, including the Bible — which, if you actually read, is filled with unimaginable violence and misogyny and sadism. Maybe we find some of the same complicated, often disturbing emotional gratification from it as we do, say, watching The Last House on the Left (1972) or horny teenagers trying to survive an unstoppable killing machine in the woods (the Friday the 13th series). Studying it in all its cinematic forms, how it’s evolved over the decades, even how…