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Roy Lee
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Roy Lee is an American film and television producer best known for bringing international horror films to Hollywood and developing some of the genre's most successful modern franchises. As the founder of Vertigo Entertainment, he has produced acclaimed films including The Ring, The Grudge, It, Barbarian, Late Night with the Devil, and Companion. Lee has also played a key role in bringing internet-born horror to mainstream audiences, serving as a producer on Backrooms, the feature adaptation of Kane Parsons' viral YouTube phenomenon. His work spans horror, thriller, science fiction, and action, making him one of the most influential producers in contemporary genre cinema.
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The Bogeyman Never Dies
From Elm Street to Halloween, Scream to Candyman, horror icons keep returning in new forms. Freddy's Dead marked a strange end that became a beginning.
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Remakes That Missed but Matter
From Neil LaBute's Wicker Man to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a journey through remakes that stumbled yet reveal why we keep returning to the classics.
8 films
The Art of the Fall
From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...
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Hokum
2026
undertone
2026
V/H/S/Halloween
2025
The Long Walk
2025
Weapons
2025
How to Train Your Dragon
2025
A Minecraft Movie
2025
Companion
2025
Woman of the Hour
2024
Boy Kills World
2024
Late Night with the Devil
2024
Barbarian
2022
Godzilla vs. Kong
2021
Doctor Sleep
2019
It Chapter Two
2019
The Lego Ninjago Movie
2017
It
2017
The Disaster Artist
2017
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
Blair Witch
2016
The Boy
2016
Poltergeist
2015
The Lego Movie
2014
The Voices
2014
The Woman in Black
2012
Abduction
2011
Quarantine 2: Terminal
2011
Quarantine
2008
The Strangers
2008
Shutter
2008
The Eye
2008
Assassination of a High School President
2008
The Grudge 2
2006
The Departed
2006
The Lake House
2006
Dark Water
2005
The Grudge
2004
The Ring
2002
Anything but Ghosts
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Untitled Curry Barker Film
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