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Teen horror is a fairly divisive subject among both horror fans and non-fans. Film critic Creator/RogerEbert famously [[https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/eberts-guide-to-practical-filmgoing-a-glossary-of-terms-for-the-cinema-of-the-80s referred to them]] as "Dead Teenager Movies", a derisive phrase that he applied to "any movie primarily concerned with killing teenagers, without regard for logic, plot, performance, humor, etc." with the implication that they were LowestCommonDenominator garbage marketed to people too young to have seen better horror movies. Some horror fans take a similar view towards the genre, seeing it as the PoorMansSubstitute for the "real thing". MoralGuardians too despised them, seeing them as morally bankrupt trash that was [[TheNewRockAndRoll corrupting the minds of the youth]], a view that reached its apex in the '80s and '90s amidst the SlasherMovie wave and the ensuing controversies surrounding [[MurderSimulators violence in the media]]. On the other hand, teen horror has also been described as a [[GatewaySeries Gateway Genre]] for young people dipping their toes into the horror genre and a bridge between SpookyKidsMedia and adult horror, serving up characters who look and act like them without showing much in the way of brutal gore that they're not ready for. As such, it's not unusual for teen horror stories to come in for [[VindicatedByHistory reappraisal]] many years later once their target audiences are all grown up and nostalgic.
{{Slasher Movie}}s are an especially popular genre for teen horror. Compare and contrast TeensAreMonsters.
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Teen horror is a fairly divisive subject among both horror fans and non-fans. Film critic Creator/RogerEbert famously [[https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/eberts-guide-to-practical-filmgoing-a-glossary-of-terms-for-the-cinema-of-the-80s referred to them]] as "Dead Teenager Movies", a derisive phrase that he applied to "any movie primarily concerned with killing teenagers, without regard for logic, plot, performance, humor, etc." with the implication that they were LowestCommonDenominator garbage marketed to people too young to have seen better horror movies. Some horror fans take a similar view towards the genre, seeing it as the PoorMansSubstitute for the "real thing". MoralGuardians too despised them, seeing them as morally bankrupt trash that was [[TheNewRockAndRoll corrupting the minds of the youth]], a view that reached its apex in the '80s and '90s amidst the SlasherMovie wave and the ensuing controversies surrounding [[MurderSimulators violence in the media]]. On the other hand, teen horror has also been described as a [[GatewaySeries Gateway Genre]] for young people dipping their toes into the horror genre and a bridge between SpookyKidsMedia DefangedHorrors and adult horror, serving up characters who look and act like them without showing much in the way of brutal gore that they're not ready for. As such, it's not unusual for teen horror stories to come in for [[VindicatedByHistory reappraisal]] many years later once their target audiences are all grown up and nostalgic.
{{Slasher Movie}}s are an especially popular genre for teen horror. Compare and contrastTeensAreMonsters.
TeensAreMonsters. Also see DefangedHorrors for horror media designed to be safe for children ages 8 and up.
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* Discussed in ''Literature/HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie'', which argues that, if you find yourself trapped in a horror movie, the absolute worst place in the world to be is around teenagers who [[TooDumbToLive break every rule of horror movie survival]]. If you are yourself a teenager, then the book recommends that you not fall into any cliques (i.e. become a stock character), hang out by your locker (bad things happen by the lockers), or accept any invitations to after-school activities or the HighSchoolDance, while you ''should'' be nice to everybody, because {{Hate Sink}}s generally don't last long in horror movies. Also, become friends with the shop teacher, as not only will his [[WorkingClassHero blue-collar virtue]] save the day, he also has power tools.
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->''"When you're in a horror movie, nothing's more dangerous than a building full of 14- to 18-year-olds. Not demons, not serial killers, not chemical weapons -- nothing."''
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Teen Horror is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: {{Horror}} that is geared towards an audience comprised primarily of teenagers and/or young adults.
What sets teen horror apart from "adult" horror is right there in the name. The main viewpoint characters are between the ages of 13 and 19, with allowances for people in their 20s provided that they're college students or otherwise interacting primarily with teenagers. As such, their characterization, their problems, and the setting are likely to contain a lot of TeenageTropes, HighSchoolTropes, and TertiaryEducationTropes, and the tone of the story may superficially resemble a TeenDrama, with the horror typically rooted in themes relevant to teenagers ({{coming of age|Story}}, [[HormoneAddledTeenager puberty]], [[TheBully bullying]], [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]]) while more adult fears usually aren't lingered on except to flesh out the adult supporting characters. Due to the age of the target audience, teen horror has a reputation among horror fans for being LighterAndSofter and TamerAndChaster than adult horror, if not in the seriousness of the subject matter than certainly in the graphic content -- or lack thereof, as would be the case here. That said, every stereotype has exceptions, and there do exist teen horror movies that are also notorious for [[TorturePorn graphic violence]] and [[SexSells gratuitous nudity]].
The idea of making teen-friendly horror stories goes back almost to the birth of the "teenager" as a demographic. In 1957, Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures, a studio that specialized in youth-oriented films, struck box-office gold with the pulpy [[BMovie B-grade]] horror flick ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'', which took a Franchise/UniversalHorror premise and imagined what it might be like if [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 Larry Talbot]] was an edgy {{Greaser Delinquent|s}} at an American high school. The secret of AIP's success was that they realized that [[IntimacyViaHorror horror movies make for great date movies]], and young people typically go out on a lot of dates and usually have a lot of free time after school. Ever since, teenagers have been common characters in horror movies in hopes of picking up an audience of the same. Also, having teenagers as the heroes is a good way to signal to the audience that they are [[ActionSurvivor inexperienced, immature, lacking in survival skills, and vulnerable]], not the kinds of people who can easily solve any problem they face with a cool head, without running afoul of the taboos around [[DeathOfAChild killing off prepubescent child characters]].
Teen horror is a fairly divisive subject among both horror fans and non-fans. Film critic Creator/RogerEbert famously [[https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/eberts-guide-to-practical-filmgoing-a-glossary-of-terms-for-the-cinema-of-the-80s referred to them]] as "Dead Teenager Movies", a derisive phrase that he applied to "any movie primarily concerned with killing teenagers, without regard for logic, plot, performance, humor, etc." with the implication that they were LowestCommonDenominator garbage marketed to people too young to have seen better horror movies. Some horror fans take a similar view towards the genre, seeing it as the PoorMansSubstitute for the "real thing". MoralGuardians too despised them, seeing them as morally bankrupt trash that was [[TheNewRockAndRoll corrupting the minds of the youth]], a view that reached its apex in the '80s and '90s amidst the SlasherMovie wave and the ensuing controversies surrounding [[MurderSimulators violence in the media]]. On the other hand, teen horror has also been described as a [[GatewaySeries Gateway Genre]] for young people dipping their toes into the horror genre and a bridge between SpookyKidsMedia and adult horror, serving up characters who look and act like them without showing much in the way of brutal gore that they're not ready for. As such, it's not unusual for teen horror stories to come in for [[VindicatedByHistory reappraisal]] many years later once their target audiences are all grown up and nostalgic.
{{Slasher Movie}}s are an especially popular genre for teen horror. Compare and contrast TeensAreMonsters.
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* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': A ZombieApocalypse descends on a high school.
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* Creator/ArchieComics: In the 2010s, the teen comic book publisher created the ComicBook/ArchieHorror imprint in which they dropped their famously wholesome characters into decidedly non-wholesome scenarios.
** ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'': The kids from Riverdale battle a ZombieApocalypse after a spell by ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch to save Jughead's dog goes [[CameBackWrong horribly wrong]].
** ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'': The witchcraft that Sabrina and her family are associated with is now the classic horror movie kind, complete with HollywoodSatanism.
** ''ComicBook/ArchieVsPredator'': The kids from Riverdale go on a tropical vacation where they're targeted by a Franchise/{{Predator}}... who is himself implied to be a teenager on his first hunt.
* ''ComicBook/BadKidsGoToHell'': A horror take on ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' in which six prep school students in detention decide to hold a seance.
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* ''Film/AnnaAndTheApocalypse'': A group of teenagers in Scotland battle a ZombieApocalypse... [[TheMusical through song]].
* ''Film/TheBabysitter2017'': A group of teenagers try to carry out a Satanic ritual involving the adolescent boy who one of them is babysitting.
* ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'': A group of college sorority sisters are targeted by a mysterious killer who makes {{Harassing Phone Call}}s to them before killing them.
** ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'': A remake of the above.
** ''Film/BlackChristmas2019'': Another remake of the above, this time incorporating a plot about a FiendishFraternity.
* ''Film/CabinFever'': A group of college kids get infected with flesh-eating bacteria while vacationing at a cabin in the woods.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'': A DeconstructiveParody of teen horror, slasher movies, and horror cinema in general.
* ''Film/Carrie1976'': A film adaptation of the below-mentioned novel.
** ''Film/Carrie2002'': A remake of the above.
** ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'': A sequel to the 1976 film following a new teenage girl with telekinetic powers.
** ''Film/Carrie2013'': Another remake of the above.
* ''Film/CherryFalls'': A serial killer targets teenage virgins, leading the town's teenagers to plan a huge orgy to keep themselves safe.
* ''Film/TheCovenant'': Teenage boys who come from families of witches use their powers to get ahead at their elite boarding school.
* ''Film/TheCraft'': Outcast teenage girls in Catholic school use witchcraft to make their lives better and get back at their classmates, only for one of them to get DrunkWithPower.
* ''Film/CryWolf'': After hearing about a local murder, students at a boarding school cook up a fake SerialKiller inspired by slasher tropes as a prank, only for it to become all too real.
* ''Film/{{Decoys}}'': Aliens arrive in a college town on Earth and take the form of attractive women in order to [[MarsNeedsWomen mate with human men]], who they [[ConceiveAndKill kill in the process]].
* ''Film/{{Disturbia}}'': A teen version of ''Film/RearWindow'' in which the protagonist spying on his neighbors and discovering that one of them is a SerialKiller is now a troubled teenage boy under house arrest after assaulting a teacher.
* ''Film/DisturbingBehavior'': A high school retelling of ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' in which the families of troubled teenagers move to a town where they are {{brainwashed}} into "model students".
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'': A troubled teenage boy is informed by a demonic-looking rabbit (yeah, it's ''[[MindScrew that]]'' kind of movie) that the world will end in about a month.
* ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'': Five college students at a cabin in the woods accidentally awaken a demonic presence, which proceeds to possess members of the group to attack the others.
* ''Film/Excision2012'': An outcast teenage girl becomes a MadDoctor.
* ''Film/TheFaculty'': A teen version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' in which {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s infiltrate a high school in small-town Ohio.
* ''Film/FearStreet'': A loose adaptation of the below-mentioned novels.
* ''Film/TheFinal'': A group of teen outcasts stage a fake party for their classmates, only to kidnap them and subject them to ColdBloodedTorture as revenge for their bullying.
* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' films: Somebody has a premonition of a disaster and saves themselves and several others, but because they were all fated to die, they find themselves being [[BalancingDeathsBooks murdered by Death itself]] in what appear to be accidents. Barring the fifth film, all of them focus on high school or college students as the protagonists.
* ''Film/TheFinalGirls'': An AffectionateParody of the genre in which a group of modern-day teenagers get [[TrappedInTVLand trapped in an '80s teen slasher]].
* ''Film/{{Freaky}}'': A HorrorComedy version of ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' in which a teenage girl [[FreakyFridayFlip swaps bodies]] with a SerialKiller.
* The ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films: The teenage counselors at Camp Crystal Lake are murdered by a mysterious killer, revealed at the end of the first film to be [[spoiler:the mother of a camper who had died years ago due to the counselors' negligence]]. In the sequels, that camper, Jason Voorhees, becomes the main villain, slaughtering teenagers and others who try to reopen the camp or otherwise wander into his neck of the woods.
* ''Film/FriendRequest'': A college student is stalked by the ghost of a classmate she befriended on Website/{{Facebook}} who later killed herself.
* ''Film/FrightNight1985'': A horror-movie-obsessed teenage boy discovers that his new neighbor is a vampire.
** ''Film/FrightNightPart2'': A sequel to the above that moves the action to college.
** ''Film/FrightNight2011'': A remake of the original film.
** ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood'': A sequel to the remake.
* ''Film/TheGallows'': Teenagers break into their school at night, only to find that it is haunted by the murderous ghost of a student who died twenty years ago while putting on a production of the titular SchoolPlay, which the school is performing once again.
* ''Film/GingerSnaps'': A teenage girl is bitten by a werewolf and starts turning into one herself, while her sister must grapple with her increasingly unhinged and murderous behavior.
* The ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films: An escaped asylum inmate named Michael Myers returns to his hometown and murders teenage babysitters and their boyfriends on Halloween night.
* ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'': Teenagers at a boarding school are murdered, and it seems to be connected to a girl whose birthday is approaching and who still has issues with amnesia from an accident on a previous birthday.
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay'': A college student is murdered only to wake up again in a GroundhogDayLoop, and must survive and figure out who's trying to kill her in order to end the loop.
* ''Film/{{Haunt}}'': A group of college friends attend an "extreme" haunted house where they find themselves in real peril.
* ''Film/TheHauntingOfMollyHartley'': A teenage girl whose parents made a DealWithTheDevil to save her life is now being targeted as the Devil comes to collect.
* ''Film/HellFest'': Teenagers at a Halloween-themed horror amusement park are stalked and murdered by a mysterious killer.
* ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'': College sorority sisters are murdered by a mysterious killer.
** ''Film/SororityRow'': A remake of the above.
* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A loose adaptation of the below-mentioned novel.
** ''Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A sequel to the above that moves the action to a tropical island where a group of college students, including the first film's protagonist, are on vacation.
** ''Film/IllAlwaysKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A loose reboot of the franchise with a similar plot and teenage characters, but a new setting.
* ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'': As noted above, the {{Trope Maker|s}} for the genre, in which a rebellious teenage boy gets turned into a werewolf by a MadScientist's hypnosis.
* ''Film/ItFollows'': A teenage girl is targeted by a monster attached to a curse that is passed on through sex.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': An ItsAWonderfulPlot story in which the traumatized teenage FinalGirl of a slasher killing spree wishes she was never born, leading to a world where the killer she defeated won and kept on killing.
* ''Film/JennifersBody'': A teenage girl is [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed to Satan]] and comes back possessed by a {{succubus}}.
* ''Film/TheLostBoys'': A pair of teenage brothers move to a new town where one of them is targeted by a gang of punkish teen vampires, forcing his brother to team up with local kids to save him.
* The ''Film/MySuperPsychoSweet16'' films: Creator/{{MTV}}'s official parodies of their show ''Series/MySuperSweetSixteen'', in which bratty teenagers hosting lavish birthday parties get targeted by a masked killer.
* The ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' films: The malevolent spirit of the [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]] Freddy Krueger returns to murder teenagers in their sleep as [[SinsOfOurFathers revenge against their parents]] for their VigilanteExecution of him.
* ''Film/{{Ouija}}'': Teenagers play with a OuijaBoard, and things get ugly.
* ''Film/{{Polaroid}}'': A teenage girl stumbles upon a MagicalCamera that causes anybody photographed with it to die.
* ''Film/PromNight1980'': A group of teenagers who, as young children, were responsible for the AccidentalMurder of a young girl are targeted by a killer on prom night.
** ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'': An InNameOnly sequel about the ghost of a teenage girl who died on prom night coming back years later to possess another girl and become prom queen once again, by any means necessary.
** ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss'': A direct sequel to the last film in which the villainous Mary Lou comes BackFromTheDead and starts dating and [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] a teenage boy named Alex.
** ''Film/PromNightIVDeliverUsFromEvil'': Another InNameOnly sequel in which a SinisterMinister, who had murdered two people on prom night and was then placed in a medically-induced coma, wakes up and restarts his rampage.
** ''Film/PromNight2008'': A loose remake of the original film in which the killer is now a teacher who is [[StalkerWithACrush murderously obsessed]] with [[TeacherStudentRomance one of his students]].
* ''Film/PsychoBeachParty'': An AffectionateParody of '60s beach party films in which that kind of movie gets interrupted by a murderer.
* ''Literature/TheRing'':
** The 2002 American adaptation subverts this in an interesting manner. The film opens with two teenage girls, one of whom is the opening victim while the other is set up as a major character. However, the girl who survives turns out to be a DecoyProtagonist, having been institutionalized after she went catatonic from watching a ghost kill her best friend, while the actual main characters are grown adults.
** ''Film/TheRingTwo'' plays this straight, introducing a new cast of teenage characters who watch the cursed video tape after it becomes the subject of an {{urban legend|s}}.
* The ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films: A DeconstructiveParody of slashers and teen horror in which a masked killer inspired by '80s slashers starts murdering their classmates. The [[Film/Scream1996 first]], [[Film/Scream4 fourth]], and [[Film/Scream2022 fifth]] films focus on high schoolers while the [[Film/Scream2 second]] and [[Film/ScreamVI sixth]] focus on college students (many of them characters from previous films, now slightly older), while the [[Film/Scream3 third]] is about the TroubledProduction of an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe teen horror movie]].
* The ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' films: Teenage counselors are murdered at summer camp.
* ''Film/TheStepfather'': An unnamed SerialKiller who killed his whole family moves around trying to find the "perfect family", and [[TheBluebeard killing them]] if they don't meet his expectations. His newest family has a teenage daughter who starts to figure out the truth.
** ''Film/TheStepfather2009'': A remake of the above, with the teenage protagonist now a boy instead of a girl.
* ''Film/SummerOf84'': A fifteen-year-old boy becomes convinced that his next-door neighbor is a SerialKiller who's been kidnapping and murdering teenage boys throughout their rural town. Over the course of the summer, he and his friends need to try and figure out if he's right.
* ''Film/TalkToMe'': A group of teenagers use a ceramic hand statue to make contact with spirits.
* ''Film/Thanksgiving2023'': A year after a group of teenagers accidentally start a RetailRiot, a masked killer starts murdering the people involved in it.
* ''Film/TotallyKiller'': A teenage girl must travel back in time to 1987 to stop a SerialKiller.
* ''Film/TragedyGirls'': Two deranged teenage girls who host a TrueCrime podcast decide to start killing people for real.
* ''Film/TruthOrDare2018'': A game of truth or dare turns deadly for a group of college students.
* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'': Parodied. The protagonists are college students on spring break who ''[[WrongGenreSavvy think]]'' they're in a teen slasher flick, but wind up causing most of the film's problems.
* ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'': A group of teenagers are killed by the ghost of a classmate who [[DrivenToSuicide they bullied into killing herself]].
* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': College students are killed by a mysterious killer who patterns their murders after famous UrbanLegends.
** ''Film/UrbanLegendsFinalCut'': A sequel to the above set at a film school.
** ''Film/UrbanLegendsBloodyMary'': A sequel that switches gears from a slasher to supernatural horror as a group of teenagers are targeted by the ghost of Bloody Mary after invoking her legend.
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* Creator/LoisDuncan was a YoungAdultLiterature author who specialized in horror and suspense novels.
** ''Literature/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A year after a group of teenagers [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed a young boy]] in a hit-and-run accident, they receive letters indicating that somebody knows their secret.
** ''Literature/DownADarkHall'': A teenage girl sent to boarding school while her mother and stepfather are on honeymoon finds that the faculty are using her and her classmates to channel spirits.
** ''Literature/KillingMrGriffin'': A troubled teenage boy and three of his classmates plot to kidnap their [[SternTeacher most hated teacher]], only to accidentally kill him.
* The ''Literature/FearStreet'' series: A line of teen horror novels by Creator/RLStine.
* Creator/StephenKing has dabbled in the genre more than once:
** ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': A bullied teenage girl uses her [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]] to get revenge on her classmates and her abusive mother after a prank at the [[HighSchoolDance senior prom]] goes too far.
** ''Literature/Rage1977'': A teenage boy [[AxesAtSchool shoots up his school]] and takes his class hostage. The first novel King wrote under the Richard Bachman PenName, he had it [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes pulled from print]] in 1997 after a number of school shootings whose perpetrators were known to have read it.
** ''Literature/{{Christine}}'': A nerdy teenage boy gets corrupted by a SinisterCar who turns him into a {{Greaser Delinquent|s}}.
* ''Literature/MyBestFriendsExorcism'': A teenage girl in The80s is [[DemonicPossession possessed by a demon]] and has to be saved by her best friend.
* ''Literature/PointHorror'': A line of teen horror and thriller novels published by Scholastic from 1986 until 2005, with a short-lived relaunch in 2013. Authors who wrote for ''Point Horror'' include Creator/RLStine, Diane Hoh, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Creator/ChristopherPike, and Creator/CarolineBCooney.
** ''Literature/LosingChristina'': A trilogy originally published under the ''Point Horror'' line about a teenage girl staying with her friends at a boarding house run by her principal and her English teacher, who start {{gaslighting}} the house's other residents to turn against her and think she's insane.
** ''Literature/NightmareHall'': A spinoff of ''Point Horror'' by Diane Hoh that told a series of stories all connected to an allegedly haunted campus dormitory.
* ''Film/TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse'': A group of teenagers are murdered by somebody out to expose their secrets.
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* ''Series/AllOfUsAreDead'': A high school biology teacher unleashes TheVirus on a high school on exam day, and a group of students must band together to fight for survival against a ZombieApocalypse.
* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': A GenreAnthology series in which group of teenagers gather around a campfire to tell scary stories to one another.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': An homage to the genre, paired with a streak of comedy and ActionHorror by having its blonde teenage cheerleader protagonist be a quippy, supernaturally-empowered VampireHunter.
* ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'': A television adaptation of the comic book.
* ''Series/DeadOfSummer'': Teenage counselors at a summer camp in The80s must survive a series of murders seemingly tied to a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic cult]].
* ''Series/TheMidnightClub2022'': An adaptation of the Creator/ChristopherPike novel about a group of terminally ill teenagers who tell scary stories to one another after dark, only for the stories to become all too real.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': A number of episodes veered into this, especially when it started wearing its {{Giallo}} inspirations on its sleeve.
** ''Series/{{Ravenswood}}'': A spinoff of ''Pretty Little Liars'' that went all-in on supernatural horror, whereas its parent series remained more grounded.
** ''Series/PrettyLittleLiarsOriginalSin'': A SequelSeries to the show, following a new group of teenage girls.
* ''Series/ScreamTheTVSeries'': A television adaptation of the aforementioned ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films.
** ''Series/ScreamResurrection'': A ContinuityReboot of the TV series.
* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'': A HorrorComedy whose first season centers around a college sorority as the mysterious Red Devil killer starts murdering those connected to it.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Nancy and Steve's storylines focused on them contending with teenage problems while also battling the growing supernatural phenomena around them. In later seasons, the KidHero protagonists grow up into teenagers and do the same.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Teenaged Scott [=McCall=] is bitten by and transformed into a werewolf in the woods of Beacon Hills, leading him and his friend Stiles to learn about the supernatural. A DarkerAndEdgier TV adaptation of the [[Film/TeenWolf 1985 Michael J. Fox film]], this version leaned more into the supernatural horror of werewolves and other creatures and racked up a large body count.
* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': A HorrorComedy series focused on a teenage [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams]] and her friends at an AllGhoulsSchool where they solve a series of murders.
* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'' is set in two timelines. The earlier timeline, where an elite girls' soccer team gets stranded in the wilderness for two years after a plane crash and resort to ritualistic cannibalism, falls under this genre. The later timeline concerns the now-adult survivors of the affair grappling with it in the present day.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/ThirtyFiveMillimeterAMusicalExhibition'': "The Ballad of Sara Berry" centers around high school AlphaBitch Sara Berry, who goes through a SanitySlippage after her prom queen crown and status is threatened by WheelchairWoobie Julie Jenkins. [[spoiler: She ends up [[RemovingTheRival killing 6 of her 7 rivals]] before getting arrested and sent to an insane asylum]].
* ''Theatre/{{Carrie}}'': A musical adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing book, though it leans less into the horror and more into the tragedy of Carrie's life.
* ''Theatre/EvilDeadTheMusical'': A parody rock musical AdaptationAmalgamation of the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films, which leans into DenserAndWackier {{Camp}} but keeps all the bloody gore. Live performances even feature a splatter zone for those in the front rows who want to get hit by fake blood. Like the first film, it centers on five college kids.
* ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'': Part of the WebVideo/{{Hatchetfield}} SharedUniverse, this installment in particular was set at Hatchetfield High with all-teenage main characters, as a ghostly quarterback haunts the halls looking to murder nerds.
* ''[[Franchise/StrangerThings Stranger Things: The First Shadow]]'': A stage play prequel to ''Series/StrangerThings'' following teen versions of Hopper, Joyce, Bob Newby, and Henry Creel in 1959 Hawkins, as strange and gruesome things begin to happen.
* ''Theatre/WeAreTheTigers'': A pop-rock murder mystery/slasher musical centered around a high school cheer squad's annual sleepover, with the girls getting picked off by a mysterious killer. [[spoiler: Downplayed because only two people are actually killed by the killer (plus one by accident) and the second act focuses more on the squad trying to put the losses behind them after the events of the first act.]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The ''VideoGame/ObsCure'' games: A group of high school students discover a conspiracy by their school's principal involving a mutagenic plant after their friend goes missing. The second game, in the grand tradition of teen horror sequels, moves the action to a nearby college. The games' developers intended them as an homage to the teen horror films of The90s, complete with [[ComicBookFantasyCasting basing the character of Stan]] off of Creator/JoshHartnett (who played Zeke in the aforementioned ''Film/TheFaculty'').
* ''VideoGame/PromDreams'': Starts out as a non-scary teen romance adventure game about finding a date for prom, but turns into a horror story as it progresses.
* Creator/SupermassiveGames is best known for cinematic SurvivalHorror {{Adventure Game}}s inspired by horror movies, and several of their games are rooted in the genre.
** ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'': A year after a DeadlyPrank accidentally claimed the lives of two of their friends, eight young people travel to an isolated lodge in the wilderness in the dead of winter, only to be targeted by a mysterious killer. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a [[DiscOneFinalBoss decoy villain]] who consciously based the scenario the characters were in after the horror movies he was a fan of, and didn't intend for anyone to actually die. ''That'' comes in with the real, far more monstrous villains.]]
** ''VideoGame/LittleHope'': Four college students and their professor are trapped in the titular GhostTown after their bus crashes, where they are soon beset by malevolent forces.
** ''VideoGame/TheQuarry'': A group of camp counselors decide to stay one more night at the campground after the season is over and all the kids head home, only to learn the hard way why the camp's owner was so eager to get them out of there.
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[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'':
** The ''Cinderbrush: A Monsterhearts Story'' one-shot is set in high school with four teen characters, three of whom are involved in the supernatural, [[spoiler: having to deal with an evil cult that murdered their friend/acquaintance]].
** The ''Liam's Quest: Full Circle'' one-shot gives the cast an AgeLift, with Marisha and Ashley aged down to teenagers while the others are preteens or younger, dealing with a StandardPostApocalypticSetting beset with evil creatures that they suddenly found themselves in. Downplayed since not all of the cast are teens and they retain their adult memories.
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What sets teen horror apart from "adult" horror is right there in the name. The main viewpoint characters are between the ages of 13 and 19, with allowances for people in their 20s provided that they're college students or otherwise interacting primarily with teenagers. As such, their characterization, their problems, and the setting are likely to contain a lot of TeenageTropes, HighSchoolTropes, and TertiaryEducationTropes, and the tone of the story may superficially resemble a TeenDrama, with the horror typically rooted in themes relevant to teenagers ({{coming of age|Story}}, [[HormoneAddledTeenager puberty]], [[TheBully bullying]], [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]]) while more adult fears usually aren't lingered on except to flesh out the adult supporting characters. Due to the age of the target audience, teen horror has a reputation among horror fans for being LighterAndSofter and TamerAndChaster than adult horror, if not in the seriousness of the subject matter than certainly in the graphic content -- or lack thereof, as would be the case here. That said, every stereotype has exceptions, and there do exist teen horror movies that are also notorious for [[TorturePorn graphic violence]] and [[SexSells gratuitous nudity]].
The idea of making teen-friendly horror stories goes back almost to the birth of the "teenager" as a demographic. In 1957, Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures, a studio that specialized in youth-oriented films, struck box-office gold with the pulpy [[BMovie B-grade]] horror flick ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'', which took a Franchise/UniversalHorror premise and imagined what it might be like if [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 Larry Talbot]] was an edgy {{Greaser Delinquent|s}} at an American high school. The secret of AIP's success was that they realized that [[IntimacyViaHorror horror movies make for great date movies]], and young people typically go out on a lot of dates and usually have a lot of free time after school. Ever since, teenagers have been common characters in horror movies in hopes of picking up an audience of the same. Also, having teenagers as the heroes is a good way to signal to the audience that they are [[ActionSurvivor inexperienced, immature, lacking in survival skills, and vulnerable]], not the kinds of people who can easily solve any problem they face with a cool head, without running afoul of the taboos around [[DeathOfAChild killing off prepubescent child characters]].
Teen horror is a fairly divisive subject among both horror fans and non-fans. Film critic Creator/RogerEbert famously [[https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/eberts-guide-to-practical-filmgoing-a-glossary-of-terms-for-the-cinema-of-the-80s referred to them]] as "Dead Teenager Movies", a derisive phrase that he applied to "any movie primarily concerned with killing teenagers, without regard for logic, plot, performance, humor, etc." with the implication that they were LowestCommonDenominator garbage marketed to people too young to have seen better horror movies. Some horror fans take a similar view towards the genre, seeing it as the PoorMansSubstitute for the "real thing". MoralGuardians too despised them, seeing them as morally bankrupt trash that was [[TheNewRockAndRoll corrupting the minds of the youth]], a view that reached its apex in the '80s and '90s amidst the SlasherMovie wave and the ensuing controversies surrounding [[MurderSimulators violence in the media]]. On the other hand, teen horror has also been described as a [[GatewaySeries Gateway Genre]] for young people dipping their toes into the horror genre and a bridge between SpookyKidsMedia and adult horror, serving up characters who look and act like them without showing much in the way of brutal gore that they're not ready for. As such, it's not unusual for teen horror stories to come in for [[VindicatedByHistory reappraisal]] many years later once their target audiences are all grown up and nostalgic.
{{Slasher Movie}}s are an especially popular genre for teen horror. Compare and contrast TeensAreMonsters.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': A ZombieApocalypse descends on a high school.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Creator/ArchieComics: In the 2010s, the teen comic book publisher created the ComicBook/ArchieHorror imprint in which they dropped their famously wholesome characters into decidedly non-wholesome scenarios.
** ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'': The kids from Riverdale battle a ZombieApocalypse after a spell by ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch to save Jughead's dog goes [[CameBackWrong horribly wrong]].
** ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'': The witchcraft that Sabrina and her family are associated with is now the classic horror movie kind, complete with HollywoodSatanism.
** ''ComicBook/ArchieVsPredator'': The kids from Riverdale go on a tropical vacation where they're targeted by a Franchise/{{Predator}}... who is himself implied to be a teenager on his first hunt.
* ''ComicBook/BadKidsGoToHell'': A horror take on ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' in which six prep school students in detention decide to hold a seance.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AnnaAndTheApocalypse'': A group of teenagers in Scotland battle a ZombieApocalypse... [[TheMusical through song]].
* ''Film/TheBabysitter2017'': A group of teenagers try to carry out a Satanic ritual involving the adolescent boy who one of them is babysitting.
* ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'': A group of college sorority sisters are targeted by a mysterious killer who makes {{Harassing Phone Call}}s to them before killing them.
** ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'': A remake of the above.
** ''Film/BlackChristmas2019'': Another remake of the above, this time incorporating a plot about a FiendishFraternity.
* ''Film/CabinFever'': A group of college kids get infected with flesh-eating bacteria while vacationing at a cabin in the woods.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'': A DeconstructiveParody of teen horror, slasher movies, and horror cinema in general.
* ''Film/Carrie1976'': A film adaptation of the below-mentioned novel.
** ''Film/Carrie2002'': A remake of the above.
** ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'': A sequel to the 1976 film following a new teenage girl with telekinetic powers.
** ''Film/Carrie2013'': Another remake of the above.
* ''Film/CherryFalls'': A serial killer targets teenage virgins, leading the town's teenagers to plan a huge orgy to keep themselves safe.
* ''Film/TheCovenant'': Teenage boys who come from families of witches use their powers to get ahead at their elite boarding school.
* ''Film/TheCraft'': Outcast teenage girls in Catholic school use witchcraft to make their lives better and get back at their classmates, only for one of them to get DrunkWithPower.
* ''Film/CryWolf'': After hearing about a local murder, students at a boarding school cook up a fake SerialKiller inspired by slasher tropes as a prank, only for it to become all too real.
* ''Film/{{Decoys}}'': Aliens arrive in a college town on Earth and take the form of attractive women in order to [[MarsNeedsWomen mate with human men]], who they [[ConceiveAndKill kill in the process]].
* ''Film/{{Disturbia}}'': A teen version of ''Film/RearWindow'' in which the protagonist spying on his neighbors and discovering that one of them is a SerialKiller is now a troubled teenage boy under house arrest after assaulting a teacher.
* ''Film/DisturbingBehavior'': A high school retelling of ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' in which the families of troubled teenagers move to a town where they are {{brainwashed}} into "model students".
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'': A troubled teenage boy is informed by a demonic-looking rabbit (yeah, it's ''[[MindScrew that]]'' kind of movie) that the world will end in about a month.
* ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'': Five college students at a cabin in the woods accidentally awaken a demonic presence, which proceeds to possess members of the group to attack the others.
* ''Film/Excision2012'': An outcast teenage girl becomes a MadDoctor.
* ''Film/TheFaculty'': A teen version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' in which {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s infiltrate a high school in small-town Ohio.
* ''Film/FearStreet'': A loose adaptation of the below-mentioned novels.
* ''Film/TheFinal'': A group of teen outcasts stage a fake party for their classmates, only to kidnap them and subject them to ColdBloodedTorture as revenge for their bullying.
* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' films: Somebody has a premonition of a disaster and saves themselves and several others, but because they were all fated to die, they find themselves being [[BalancingDeathsBooks murdered by Death itself]] in what appear to be accidents. Barring the fifth film, all of them focus on high school or college students as the protagonists.
* ''Film/TheFinalGirls'': An AffectionateParody of the genre in which a group of modern-day teenagers get [[TrappedInTVLand trapped in an '80s teen slasher]].
* ''Film/{{Freaky}}'': A HorrorComedy version of ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' in which a teenage girl [[FreakyFridayFlip swaps bodies]] with a SerialKiller.
* The ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films: The teenage counselors at Camp Crystal Lake are murdered by a mysterious killer, revealed at the end of the first film to be [[spoiler:the mother of a camper who had died years ago due to the counselors' negligence]]. In the sequels, that camper, Jason Voorhees, becomes the main villain, slaughtering teenagers and others who try to reopen the camp or otherwise wander into his neck of the woods.
* ''Film/FriendRequest'': A college student is stalked by the ghost of a classmate she befriended on Website/{{Facebook}} who later killed herself.
* ''Film/FrightNight1985'': A horror-movie-obsessed teenage boy discovers that his new neighbor is a vampire.
** ''Film/FrightNightPart2'': A sequel to the above that moves the action to college.
** ''Film/FrightNight2011'': A remake of the original film.
** ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood'': A sequel to the remake.
* ''Film/TheGallows'': Teenagers break into their school at night, only to find that it is haunted by the murderous ghost of a student who died twenty years ago while putting on a production of the titular SchoolPlay, which the school is performing once again.
* ''Film/GingerSnaps'': A teenage girl is bitten by a werewolf and starts turning into one herself, while her sister must grapple with her increasingly unhinged and murderous behavior.
* The ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films: An escaped asylum inmate named Michael Myers returns to his hometown and murders teenage babysitters and their boyfriends on Halloween night.
* ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'': Teenagers at a boarding school are murdered, and it seems to be connected to a girl whose birthday is approaching and who still has issues with amnesia from an accident on a previous birthday.
* ''Film/HappyDeathDay'': A college student is murdered only to wake up again in a GroundhogDayLoop, and must survive and figure out who's trying to kill her in order to end the loop.
* ''Film/{{Haunt}}'': A group of college friends attend an "extreme" haunted house where they find themselves in real peril.
* ''Film/TheHauntingOfMollyHartley'': A teenage girl whose parents made a DealWithTheDevil to save her life is now being targeted as the Devil comes to collect.
* ''Film/HellFest'': Teenagers at a Halloween-themed horror amusement park are stalked and murdered by a mysterious killer.
* ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow'': College sorority sisters are murdered by a mysterious killer.
** ''Film/SororityRow'': A remake of the above.
* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A loose adaptation of the below-mentioned novel.
** ''Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A sequel to the above that moves the action to a tropical island where a group of college students, including the first film's protagonist, are on vacation.
** ''Film/IllAlwaysKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A loose reboot of the franchise with a similar plot and teenage characters, but a new setting.
* ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'': As noted above, the {{Trope Maker|s}} for the genre, in which a rebellious teenage boy gets turned into a werewolf by a MadScientist's hypnosis.
* ''Film/ItFollows'': A teenage girl is targeted by a monster attached to a curse that is passed on through sex.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': An ItsAWonderfulPlot story in which the traumatized teenage FinalGirl of a slasher killing spree wishes she was never born, leading to a world where the killer she defeated won and kept on killing.
* ''Film/JennifersBody'': A teenage girl is [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed to Satan]] and comes back possessed by a {{succubus}}.
* ''Film/TheLostBoys'': A pair of teenage brothers move to a new town where one of them is targeted by a gang of punkish teen vampires, forcing his brother to team up with local kids to save him.
* The ''Film/MySuperPsychoSweet16'' films: Creator/{{MTV}}'s official parodies of their show ''Series/MySuperSweetSixteen'', in which bratty teenagers hosting lavish birthday parties get targeted by a masked killer.
* The ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' films: The malevolent spirit of the [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]] Freddy Krueger returns to murder teenagers in their sleep as [[SinsOfOurFathers revenge against their parents]] for their VigilanteExecution of him.
* ''Film/{{Ouija}}'': Teenagers play with a OuijaBoard, and things get ugly.
* ''Film/{{Polaroid}}'': A teenage girl stumbles upon a MagicalCamera that causes anybody photographed with it to die.
* ''Film/PromNight1980'': A group of teenagers who, as young children, were responsible for the AccidentalMurder of a young girl are targeted by a killer on prom night.
** ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'': An InNameOnly sequel about the ghost of a teenage girl who died on prom night coming back years later to possess another girl and become prom queen once again, by any means necessary.
** ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss'': A direct sequel to the last film in which the villainous Mary Lou comes BackFromTheDead and starts dating and [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] a teenage boy named Alex.
** ''Film/PromNightIVDeliverUsFromEvil'': Another InNameOnly sequel in which a SinisterMinister, who had murdered two people on prom night and was then placed in a medically-induced coma, wakes up and restarts his rampage.
** ''Film/PromNight2008'': A loose remake of the original film in which the killer is now a teacher who is [[StalkerWithACrush murderously obsessed]] with [[TeacherStudentRomance one of his students]].
* ''Film/PsychoBeachParty'': An AffectionateParody of '60s beach party films in which that kind of movie gets interrupted by a murderer.
* ''Literature/TheRing'':
** The 2002 American adaptation subverts this in an interesting manner. The film opens with two teenage girls, one of whom is the opening victim while the other is set up as a major character. However, the girl who survives turns out to be a DecoyProtagonist, having been institutionalized after she went catatonic from watching a ghost kill her best friend, while the actual main characters are grown adults.
** ''Film/TheRingTwo'' plays this straight, introducing a new cast of teenage characters who watch the cursed video tape after it becomes the subject of an {{urban legend|s}}.
* The ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films: A DeconstructiveParody of slashers and teen horror in which a masked killer inspired by '80s slashers starts murdering their classmates. The [[Film/Scream1996 first]], [[Film/Scream4 fourth]], and [[Film/Scream2022 fifth]] films focus on high schoolers while the [[Film/Scream2 second]] and [[Film/ScreamVI sixth]] focus on college students (many of them characters from previous films, now slightly older), while the [[Film/Scream3 third]] is about the TroubledProduction of an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe teen horror movie]].
* The ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' films: Teenage counselors are murdered at summer camp.
* ''Film/TheStepfather'': An unnamed SerialKiller who killed his whole family moves around trying to find the "perfect family", and [[TheBluebeard killing them]] if they don't meet his expectations. His newest family has a teenage daughter who starts to figure out the truth.
** ''Film/TheStepfather2009'': A remake of the above, with the teenage protagonist now a boy instead of a girl.
* ''Film/SummerOf84'': A fifteen-year-old boy becomes convinced that his next-door neighbor is a SerialKiller who's been kidnapping and murdering teenage boys throughout their rural town. Over the course of the summer, he and his friends need to try and figure out if he's right.
* ''Film/TalkToMe'': A group of teenagers use a ceramic hand statue to make contact with spirits.
* ''Film/Thanksgiving2023'': A year after a group of teenagers accidentally start a RetailRiot, a masked killer starts murdering the people involved in it.
* ''Film/TotallyKiller'': A teenage girl must travel back in time to 1987 to stop a SerialKiller.
* ''Film/TragedyGirls'': Two deranged teenage girls who host a TrueCrime podcast decide to start killing people for real.
* ''Film/TruthOrDare2018'': A game of truth or dare turns deadly for a group of college students.
* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'': Parodied. The protagonists are college students on spring break who ''[[WrongGenreSavvy think]]'' they're in a teen slasher flick, but wind up causing most of the film's problems.
* ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'': A group of teenagers are killed by the ghost of a classmate who [[DrivenToSuicide they bullied into killing herself]].
* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': College students are killed by a mysterious killer who patterns their murders after famous UrbanLegends.
** ''Film/UrbanLegendsFinalCut'': A sequel to the above set at a film school.
** ''Film/UrbanLegendsBloodyMary'': A sequel that switches gears from a slasher to supernatural horror as a group of teenagers are targeted by the ghost of Bloody Mary after invoking her legend.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/LoisDuncan was a YoungAdultLiterature author who specialized in horror and suspense novels.
** ''Literature/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'': A year after a group of teenagers [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed a young boy]] in a hit-and-run accident, they receive letters indicating that somebody knows their secret.
** ''Literature/DownADarkHall'': A teenage girl sent to boarding school while her mother and stepfather are on honeymoon finds that the faculty are using her and her classmates to channel spirits.
** ''Literature/KillingMrGriffin'': A troubled teenage boy and three of his classmates plot to kidnap their [[SternTeacher most hated teacher]], only to accidentally kill him.
* The ''Literature/FearStreet'' series: A line of teen horror novels by Creator/RLStine.
* Creator/StephenKing has dabbled in the genre more than once:
** ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': A bullied teenage girl uses her [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]] to get revenge on her classmates and her abusive mother after a prank at the [[HighSchoolDance senior prom]] goes too far.
** ''Literature/Rage1977'': A teenage boy [[AxesAtSchool shoots up his school]] and takes his class hostage. The first novel King wrote under the Richard Bachman PenName, he had it [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes pulled from print]] in 1997 after a number of school shootings whose perpetrators were known to have read it.
** ''Literature/{{Christine}}'': A nerdy teenage boy gets corrupted by a SinisterCar who turns him into a {{Greaser Delinquent|s}}.
* ''Literature/MyBestFriendsExorcism'': A teenage girl in The80s is [[DemonicPossession possessed by a demon]] and has to be saved by her best friend.
* ''Literature/PointHorror'': A line of teen horror and thriller novels published by Scholastic from 1986 until 2005, with a short-lived relaunch in 2013. Authors who wrote for ''Point Horror'' include Creator/RLStine, Diane Hoh, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Creator/ChristopherPike, and Creator/CarolineBCooney.
** ''Literature/LosingChristina'': A trilogy originally published under the ''Point Horror'' line about a teenage girl staying with her friends at a boarding house run by her principal and her English teacher, who start {{gaslighting}} the house's other residents to turn against her and think she's insane.
** ''Literature/NightmareHall'': A spinoff of ''Point Horror'' by Diane Hoh that told a series of stories all connected to an allegedly haunted campus dormitory.
* ''Film/TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse'': A group of teenagers are murdered by somebody out to expose their secrets.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AllOfUsAreDead'': A high school biology teacher unleashes TheVirus on a high school on exam day, and a group of students must band together to fight for survival against a ZombieApocalypse.
* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': A GenreAnthology series in which group of teenagers gather around a campfire to tell scary stories to one another.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': An homage to the genre, paired with a streak of comedy and ActionHorror by having its blonde teenage cheerleader protagonist be a quippy, supernaturally-empowered VampireHunter.
* ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'': A television adaptation of the comic book.
* ''Series/DeadOfSummer'': Teenage counselors at a summer camp in The80s must survive a series of murders seemingly tied to a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic cult]].
* ''Series/TheMidnightClub2022'': An adaptation of the Creator/ChristopherPike novel about a group of terminally ill teenagers who tell scary stories to one another after dark, only for the stories to become all too real.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': A number of episodes veered into this, especially when it started wearing its {{Giallo}} inspirations on its sleeve.
** ''Series/{{Ravenswood}}'': A spinoff of ''Pretty Little Liars'' that went all-in on supernatural horror, whereas its parent series remained more grounded.
** ''Series/PrettyLittleLiarsOriginalSin'': A SequelSeries to the show, following a new group of teenage girls.
* ''Series/ScreamTheTVSeries'': A television adaptation of the aforementioned ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films.
** ''Series/ScreamResurrection'': A ContinuityReboot of the TV series.
* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'': A HorrorComedy whose first season centers around a college sorority as the mysterious Red Devil killer starts murdering those connected to it.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Nancy and Steve's storylines focused on them contending with teenage problems while also battling the growing supernatural phenomena around them. In later seasons, the KidHero protagonists grow up into teenagers and do the same.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Teenaged Scott [=McCall=] is bitten by and transformed into a werewolf in the woods of Beacon Hills, leading him and his friend Stiles to learn about the supernatural. A DarkerAndEdgier TV adaptation of the [[Film/TeenWolf 1985 Michael J. Fox film]], this version leaned more into the supernatural horror of werewolves and other creatures and racked up a large body count.
* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': A HorrorComedy series focused on a teenage [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams]] and her friends at an AllGhoulsSchool where they solve a series of murders.
* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'' is set in two timelines. The earlier timeline, where an elite girls' soccer team gets stranded in the wilderness for two years after a plane crash and resort to ritualistic cannibalism, falls under this genre. The later timeline concerns the now-adult survivors of the affair grappling with it in the present day.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/ThirtyFiveMillimeterAMusicalExhibition'': "The Ballad of Sara Berry" centers around high school AlphaBitch Sara Berry, who goes through a SanitySlippage after her prom queen crown and status is threatened by WheelchairWoobie Julie Jenkins. [[spoiler: She ends up [[RemovingTheRival killing 6 of her 7 rivals]] before getting arrested and sent to an insane asylum]].
* ''Theatre/{{Carrie}}'': A musical adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing book, though it leans less into the horror and more into the tragedy of Carrie's life.
* ''Theatre/EvilDeadTheMusical'': A parody rock musical AdaptationAmalgamation of the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films, which leans into DenserAndWackier {{Camp}} but keeps all the bloody gore. Live performances even feature a splatter zone for those in the front rows who want to get hit by fake blood. Like the first film, it centers on five college kids.
* ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'': Part of the WebVideo/{{Hatchetfield}} SharedUniverse, this installment in particular was set at Hatchetfield High with all-teenage main characters, as a ghostly quarterback haunts the halls looking to murder nerds.
* ''[[Franchise/StrangerThings Stranger Things: The First Shadow]]'': A stage play prequel to ''Series/StrangerThings'' following teen versions of Hopper, Joyce, Bob Newby, and Henry Creel in 1959 Hawkins, as strange and gruesome things begin to happen.
* ''Theatre/WeAreTheTigers'': A pop-rock murder mystery/slasher musical centered around a high school cheer squad's annual sleepover, with the girls getting picked off by a mysterious killer. [[spoiler: Downplayed because only two people are actually killed by the killer (plus one by accident) and the second act focuses more on the squad trying to put the losses behind them after the events of the first act.]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The ''VideoGame/ObsCure'' games: A group of high school students discover a conspiracy by their school's principal involving a mutagenic plant after their friend goes missing. The second game, in the grand tradition of teen horror sequels, moves the action to a nearby college. The games' developers intended them as an homage to the teen horror films of The90s, complete with [[ComicBookFantasyCasting basing the character of Stan]] off of Creator/JoshHartnett (who played Zeke in the aforementioned ''Film/TheFaculty'').
* ''VideoGame/PromDreams'': Starts out as a non-scary teen romance adventure game about finding a date for prom, but turns into a horror story as it progresses.
* Creator/SupermassiveGames is best known for cinematic SurvivalHorror {{Adventure Game}}s inspired by horror movies, and several of their games are rooted in the genre.
** ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'': A year after a DeadlyPrank accidentally claimed the lives of two of their friends, eight young people travel to an isolated lodge in the wilderness in the dead of winter, only to be targeted by a mysterious killer. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a [[DiscOneFinalBoss decoy villain]] who consciously based the scenario the characters were in after the horror movies he was a fan of, and didn't intend for anyone to actually die. ''That'' comes in with the real, far more monstrous villains.]]
** ''VideoGame/LittleHope'': Four college students and their professor are trapped in the titular GhostTown after their bus crashes, where they are soon beset by malevolent forces.
** ''VideoGame/TheQuarry'': A group of camp counselors decide to stay one more night at the campground after the season is over and all the kids head home, only to learn the hard way why the camp's owner was so eager to get them out of there.
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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'':
** The ''Cinderbrush: A Monsterhearts Story'' one-shot is set in high school with four teen characters, three of whom are involved in the supernatural, [[spoiler: having to deal with an evil cult that murdered their friend/acquaintance]].
** The ''Liam's Quest: Full Circle'' one-shot gives the cast an AgeLift, with Marisha and Ashley aged down to teenagers while the others are preteens or younger, dealing with a StandardPostApocalypticSetting beset with evil creatures that they suddenly found themselves in. Downplayed since not all of the cast are teens and they retain their adult memories.
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