Franchise lists⁴

The complete filmography of Hammer Film Productions — the British studio whose Gothic horror cycle from 1957 (The Curse of Frankenstein) onward defined the genre's color era and elevated Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to icon status. Spans the studio's original 1934-79 output plus the 2008-present revival.

The 124 horror, mystery, and dark-fantasy films released by Universal Pictures between 1923 and 1959 — the studio's classic-monster era. Spans from Lon Chaney's Hunchback of Notre Dame through The Leech Woman, including the canonical creature features (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon), Universal's Sherlock Holmes mysteries with Basil Rathbone, and the Abbott & Costello monster parodies.

The independent studio Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz founded in 1974, and the films it made or picked up and released: Blood Sucking Freaks, Mother's Day, The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, Tromeo & Juliet, Poultrygeist and a long tail of backyard splatter.

Dark Castle Entertainment was founded in 1998 to remake William Castle's gimmick horror films, starting with House on Haunted Hill and Thir13en Ghosts. This list puts the studio's films next to Castle's own, from Macabre (1958) to Bug (1975).