Lin Shaye films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 53 films on Boxlist

Known for A Nightmare on Elm Street, Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy and Pump Up the Volume.

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Starring Lin Shaye

A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents...
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
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Pump Up the Volume
1990 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the...
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There's Something About Mary
1998 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find...
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The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
When an evil contractor goes to extreme measures to evict a testy tenant who is standing in the way of his new project, he fails to take into account that this seemingly harmless old woman is a trained killer and will do anything to...
The Hidden
1987 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck (Michael Nouri) is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan) determine the cause in this...
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Insidious
2010 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
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Dumb and Dumber
1994 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to...
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The Running Man
1987 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals...
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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this...
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Dead End
2003 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
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New Nightmare
1994 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
As Heather Langenkamp considers making another Nightmare on Elm Street film with Wes Craven, her son, Dylan, falls under the spell of the iconic disfigured villain Freddy Krueger. Eventually, Langenkamp must confront Freddy's demonic...
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Living with Chucky
2022 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A filmmaker who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll seeks out the other families surrounding the Child's Play films as they recount their experiences working on the ongoing franchise and what it means to be a part of the, "Chucky"...
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Alone in the Dark
1982 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A small town video game store clerk must go from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces of evil from a cursed Colecovision game.
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The Signal
2014 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area...
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Cellular
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
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Me, Myself & Irene
2000 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named...
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My Sister's Keeper
2009 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The...
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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBIn cinemas
Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm, 'The Further'.
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Snakes on a Plane
2006 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
America is on the search for the murderer Eddie Kim. Sean Jones must fly to L.A. to testify in a hearing against Kim. Accompanied by FBI agent Neville Flynn, the flight receives some unexpected visitors.
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Kingpin
1996 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly...
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Critters
1986 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
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Stuck on You
2003 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the...
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Insidious: The Red Door
2023 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind...
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Detroit Rock City
1999 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's...
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Corrina, Corrina
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a...
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Brewster's Millions
1985 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's...
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The Final Wish
2019 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
Following the passing of his father, Aaron Hammond returns to his hometown to help his devastated mother and to confront his past demons. Sifting through his father’s belongings, Aaron comes upon a mysterious item that is far more than it...
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Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
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Last Man Standing
1996 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts...
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Frank and Penelope
2022 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
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2001 Maniacs
2005 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their annual barbecue celebration... but instead of getting a taste of the old South, the old...
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The Midnight Man
2016 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.
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Barely Legal
2005 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and...
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.
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Critters 2
1988 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.
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A Cinderella Story
2004 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
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Dreamkatcher
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Gail is forced to come to terms with Josh, her new stepson, at a remote country home. After stealing an evil talisman from a mysterious neighbor, Josh has sinister dreams of his dead mother, who commands Josh to murder Gail. When Josh's...
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The Call
2020 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize...
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the 'Wilderness Girls' cookie drive.
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Jack Goes Home
2016 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very...
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Abattoir
2016 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
A reporter unearths an urban legend about a home being constructed from rooms where horrific tragedies have occurred.
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The Grudge
2020 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do...
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Darkness Falls
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
After his wife's suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.
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The Black Room
2017 · Film
3.7/10 · TMDB
Paul and Jennifer Hemdale have just moved into their dream house. But their happy marriage is about to be put to the test as they slowly discover the secret behind the black room in the cellar. Something else is already living in their new...
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Ouija
2014 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
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Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
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Boat Trip
2002 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.
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Say It Isn't So
2001 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Boy meets girl; boy falls in love (and had wild, non-stop sex) with girl; boy loses girl... when they discover they are brother and sister! But when he learns that he's the victim of the ultimate case of mistaken identity, the lovesick...
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003 · Film
4.1/10 · TMDB
This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece...
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