15 Valentine’s Day Horror Movies for Those Who Hate the Holiday

When it comes to Valentine’s Day, it seems there are only two schools of thought regarding the holiday. You either love it and the chance it gives you to be cheesy and shower your partner with candy and chocolate, or you hate it and think it’s a Hallmark holiday. Horror is a niche genre of movies as it is, and there are some horror movies that put love at the forefront and set the underlying tone that if the characters love one another and stick together, they’ll be victorious through whatever evil is plaguing them. Then there are the movies where evil wins, obsession, and revenge run rampant, and toxicity is high.

This list is for the audiences that hate Valentine’s Day and want to see the most demented plots of love, obsession, and revenge.

1 Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody teamed up together this lover’s season to bring Lisa Frankenstein to the doorstep of every goth, angsty teen who is perpetually stuck in the ’80s and early ’90s. Starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse, Lisa Swallows is an incredibly misunderstood teenager who recently lost her mother and has to deal with that trauma while also processing being sexually assaulted at a party. Feeling lost and unsure, she heads to her favorite spot to clear her head; the cemetery. While there, she visits the grave of a young Victorian man and wishes that she could be with him. The goth gods hear her cries, green lightning strikes, and the boy returns to life as a lover boy zombie. From here, Lisa and the Creature start to develop a bond over tanning beds, shared loneliness, and the dismemberment of their enemies. Til Death Do Us Part really has nothing on Lisa and the Creature.

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2 My Bloody Valentine (2009)

As a remake of the 1981 classic, My Bloody Valentine has to be added to a Valentine’s Day horror movie list. Jensen Ackles stars as Tom. Tom’s father owns a mining company and causes an accident in the mines that kills six men. The only survivor, Harry, wakes from a coma and wreaks havoc on the town, and is eventually killed by the police. 10 years later, on Valentine’s Day, when Tom returns to his hometown after his father’s death, Harry also returns to exact his revenge on Tom and the town that killed him. The original movie is also worth a watch, as both cover love triangles, revenge, and gore.

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3 Bones And All (2022)

Maren Yearly (Taylor Russell) is a girl who, at the ripe age of three, discovered she has cannibalistic tendencies. Being able to skate by in life because her father (Andre Holland) keeps covering up her incidents, she lives a somewhat nomadic life, moving from place to place to escape the consequences of her actions. After she turns 18 and has another incident, her father abandons her, and she’s left to figure life out for herself. On her journey to find her family, Maren meets a creepy man who seeks her out because he can smell that she’s an “eater” too. Trusting her gut, she avoids joining forces with the weirdo and traverses Middle America when she meets Lee (Timothée Chalamet). In Bones And All, the two fall in love and try to control their hunger while navigating life on the fringe.

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4 The Love Witch (2016)

Love will make people do some crazy things, and being desperate for love will push crazy right over the edge to insane. The Love Witch is about Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young woman who wants to find the love of her life. It seems simple enough, but she’s also a witch who conjures up potions and spells in her Victorian goth apartment in an idyllic California town. Unfortunately for her, her love spells turn the men she’s after into versions of men that she doesn’t actually want. This leaves her to kill and poison these men and move on to the next in the hopes that maybe he will be Mr. Right. She’s spellbound to find him eventually, right?

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5 Valentine (2001)

David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Denise Richards, and Katherine Heigl star in this teen slasher, Valentine, about exacting revenge on a love interest. In middle school, a young man is accused of forcing himself on Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw) at a Valentine’s Day dance. When everyone finds out, he is bullied extensively, expelled, and sent away to a mental institution. Flash forward to high school, and Dorothy and her friends become the target of a killer donning a Cupid mask, no doubt as a result of them being bullies in middle school. Revenge is sweet, and Valentine’s Day is the sweetest holiday.

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6 Fresh (2022)

Online dating is difficult, ask anyone on the internet, and Fresh shows the worst turn modern dating can possibly take. Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is just like many people and has a slew of failed online dates. She eventually becomes so disheartened that she swears off dating apps and aims to find someone in an organic way. Maybe even specifically in the organic aisle of the supermarket, which is where she meets Steve (Sebastian Stan). Usually, when things are too good to be true, we trust that, but Noa thinks it’s a sign and agrees to go out with Steve. After a few dates, the two decide to go on a trip together against Noa’s friend’s advice. She thinks Steve is a great guy and trusts him… until she wakes up shackled to the floor in his basement. Steve isn’t who he says he is, obviously, and the only thing he wants from Noa is her flesh.

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7 Midsommar (2019)

Ari Aster‘s Midsommar is a wild ride, and I don’t think anyone was ready for it. Florence Pugh stars as Dani, a student who is reeling from the death of her parents and sister. Because of this tragedy, her distant and absent boyfriend reluctantly invites her to come to Sweden with him to partake in a festival that only occurs once every 90 years. What could possibly go wrong in a foreign country in a horror movie? Turns out, a pagan cult runs the festival, and their ultimate goal is to crown a queen and offer sacrifices to their gods. Any guesses about who might become queen and who might be sacrificed?

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8 Bride Of Chucky (1998)

Bride Of Chucky is the fourth installment of the Child’s Play franchise, and it has so much Valentine in it. Tiffany Valentine, that is. Jennifer Tilly stars as Tiffany, a deranged and obsessed previous girlfriend of Charles Lee Ray before he is murdered and placed into the Chucky doll. Tiffany is obsessed with him, so she bribes a police officer to give her the parts of the Chucky doll so she can stitch him back together and perform the ritual to bring him back to life for her benefit. Once alive, their toxic love and obsession take over, and eventually, Tiffany is killed, and her spirit goes into a bride doll. Now the two are a perfect match made in hell that can take out their anger on whoever crosses their paths.

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9 The Loved Ones (2009)

Oh, the prom. The perfect time for teenage romance, canoodling, and happiness. That’s all that Lola (Robin McLeavy) wants from Brent (Xavier Samuel) when she asks him to prom in The Loved Ones. Unfortunately for Brent, when he turns Lola down because he has a girlfriend, she takes that personally. Instead of licking her wounds and moving on, Lola drugs and kidnaps him to make him attend her own twisted prom. Nothing says love and romance quite like pink glitter and power drills.

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10 Knock Knock (2015)

America’s Sweetheart Keanu Reeves stars in Knock Knock as Evan, a married architect who opens his home to two stranded women who seem totally normal and not at all seductive in nature. The two women, played by Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas, do everything they can to seduce Evan. Once they get their way with him, they flip the script and seek revenge on him for his infidelity. That makes sense, right? This turns into an interesting cat-and-mouse game between the women and Evan. It takes a really unhinged individual to want revenge for a situation that they caused, and in this case, it’s double unhinged.

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11 Misery (1990)

If you love Stephen King, Misery is the movie for you. After being involved in a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates in an Oscar-winning performance). Conveniently for Annie, she is Paul’s biggest fan! She is so excited to be taking care of Paul until she learns that he is going to kill off her favorite character in the next book. To that, she says “absolutely not” with a sledgehammer. Annie takes it upon herself to torture Paul into writing his book in her vision, and escaping seems impossible for Paul. Toxic fandom is real, and Annie Wilkes is the mascot.

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12 Jennifer’s Body (2009)

What Valentine’s Day is complete if you aren’t killing boys, Needy? Jennifer’s Body stars Megan Fox as Jennifer and Amanda Seyfried as Needy, two high school best friends who couldn’t be any more opposite. When a semi-popular band comes to their town and the lead singer thinks Jennifer is a virgin, they decide to sacrifice her in a satanic ritual, so they can gain more popularity. That would maybe work if Jennifer were a virgin, but she isn’t. Because of this, a demon possesses Jennifer’s body, and the only thing it wants is revenge in the form of male flesh and blood.

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13 Audition (1999)

The Japanese horror film, Audition, is the story of a recently widowed man, Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), who takes it upon himself to set up a fake production and auditions to serve as a dating service for his benefit. At the fake audition, he becomes very interested in Asami (Eihi Shiina) and decides he would like to date her. Things are going well until they aren’t, and Aoyama finds himself in a very deadly situation with a woman who has experienced years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of men she trusted. Because of this, she wants nothing more than to torture men the way they have tortured her.

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14 Mandy (2018)

Nicolas Cage is vengeance incarnated in Mandy when a sadistic cult leader kidnaps his true love, Mandy (Andrea Riseborough), from their quiet and serene cabin-in-the-woods life. Red (Cage) takes it upon himself, with crossbow and axe in tow, to get her back and will let nothing and no one get in his way. The movie itself is stunningly red in scenery and lighting, giving it a true Valentine’s Day feel. Plus, who wouldn’t want a partner as hell-bent on getting their love back as Red is?

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15 May (2002)

Angela Bettis stars as May, a socially awkward and bullied child who becomes an equally socially awkward adult who works as a veterinary assistant. She is lonely and dejected, but eventually feels her love life taking a turn for the better when she meets Adam (Jeremy Sisto), but he is eventually spooked away from her. Her co-worker, Polly (Anna Faris), also likes May but ends things for similar reasons as Adam. Desperate for love and angry from rejection, May takes it upon herself to create her own companion in her own twisted version of “if you build it, they will come.

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