A list of horror films released in 1998.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 303 Fear Faith Revenge | Somching Srisupap | Taya Rogers, Ananda Everingham, Arthit Ryu | Thailand | [1] | ||
| Apt Pupil | United States | Based on the 1982 Stephen King novel [2] | ||||
| Blade | United States | Based on the 1970s Marvel Comics series[3] | ||||
| Bride of Chucky | Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, John Ritter, Alexis Arquette | United States | Fourth entry in the Child's Play film series[4] [5] | |||
| Carnival of Souls | Adam Grossman, Ian Kessner | United States | Produced by Wes Craven Remake of the 1962 film classic[6] | |||
| Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Eva Mendes, Ahmet Zappa | United States | Direct-to-video Based loosely on a Stephen King story[7] | ||||
| data-sort-value="Clown" | The Clown at Midnight | Jean Pellerin | Canada | [8] | ||
| Club Vampire | Andy Ruben | John Savage, Starr Andreef, Mariam Parris | United States | [9] | ||
| Curse of the Puppet Master | David DeCoteau (credited as Victoria Sloan) | George Peck, Emily Harrison, Marc Newburger | United States | Produced by Charles Band[10] | ||
| Deep Rising | United States | [11] | ||||
| data-sort-value="Dentist" | The Dentist 2 | Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Linda Hoffman, Clint Howard | United States | Written by Charles Band Sequel to The Dentist (1996) [12] | ||
| data-sort-value="Die Hard" | Die Hard Dracula | Peter Horak | Bruce Glover, Denny Sachen, Kerry Dustin | United States | Low budget comedy[13] | |
| Dream House | Timothy Busfield, Lisa Jakub, Brennan Elliott, Cameron Graham | United States | Television film[14] | |||
| data-sort-value="Faculty" | The Faculty | Clea DuVall, Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Famke Janssen, Jon Stewart, Piper Laurie | United States | [15] | ||
| Fantom Kiler | Roman Nowicki | Eliza Borecka, Andrej Jass, Magda Szymborska | Poland | |||
| Frankenstein Reborn! | Jaason Simmons, Roxana Papa, Haven Paschall, Oana Stefanescu | United States, Romania | Produced in Romania by Full Moon Pictures[16] | |||
| Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, Janet Leigh, LL Cool J, Michelle Williams | United States | Seventh film in the Halloween franchise[17] | ||||
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Brandy, Bill Cobbs | United States | Sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)[18] | |||
| I've Been Waiting for You | Christopher Leitch | Sarah Chalke, Markie Post, Soleil Moon Frye, Christian Campbell | United States | Television film Based on the 1997 Lois Duncan novel Gallows Hill[19] | ||
| data-sort-value="Last" | The Last Broadcast | Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler, David Beard, Faith Weiler, Michele Pulaski | United States | [20] | ||
| data-sort-value="Minion" | The Minion | Jean-Marc Piché | Dolph Lundgren, Françoise Robertson, David Nerman, Roc LaFortune | Canada United States | Direct to Video [21] | |
| Modern Vampires (a.k.a. Revenant) | United States | [22] | ||||
| data-sort-value="Mutilation" | The Mutilation Man | Andrew Copp | Jim Van Bebber, Terek Puckett, Kristy Bowersock | United States | Includes genital mutilation and cannibalism[23] | |
| Canada | Made as a Canadian television film Filmed in Luxembourg[24] | |||||
| Reggie Bannister, Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Angus Scrimm | United States | Direct to Video[25] | ||||
| data-sort-value="Phantom" | The Phantom of the Opera | Hungary Italy | Based loosely on the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Music by Ennio Morricone[26] | |||
| data-sort-value="Prophecy" | The Prophecy II | Greg Spence | Christopher Walken, Brittany Murphy, Jennifer Beals, Russell Wong | United States | Direct-to-video[27] | |
| Psycho | Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, Robert Forster | United States | Remake of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic[28] | |||
| Razor Blade Smile | Eileen Daly, David Warbeck, Christopher Adamson, Jonathan Coote, Heidi James | Premiered at a film festival[29] | ||||
| Ring (a.k.a. Ringu) | Japan | Based on the 1991 Koji Suzuki novel Ringu Remade in America in 2002[30] | ||||
| Shadow Builder (a.k.a. Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder) | Michael Rooker, Tony Todd, Shawn Thompson, Leslie Hope, Kevin Zegers | Canada | Based on a short story by Bram Stoker[31] | |||
| Shrieker | David DeCoteau (credited as Victoria Sloan) | United States | Direct to video | |||
| Sometimes They Come Back... for More | Daniel Zelik Berk | Clayton Rohner, Damian Chapa, Jennifer O'Dell, Faith Ford, Max Perlich | United States | Sequel to Sometimes They Come Back (1991) Direct to Video Based on a Stephen King story [32] | ||
| Spiral (a.k.a. Rasen) | Jôji Iida | Japan | Sequel to Ring (also 1998) Based on the 1994 novel Spiral[33] | |||
| Strangeland | John Pieplow | Dee Snider, Kevin Gage, Linda Cardellini, Elizabeth Pena, Robert Englund, Brett Harrelson | United States | Written by Dee Snider[34] | ||
| Tale of the Mummy (a.k.a. Talos, the Mummy) | Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee, Lysette Anthony, Honor Blackman | United Kingdom United States | The European version is 27 minutes longer | |||
| Talisman | David DeCoteau (credited as Victoria Sloan) | Ilinca Goia, Mircea Caraman, Oana Stefanescu | United States | Produced by Charles Band[35] | ||
| Trance (released on DVD as The Eternal) | United States | Direct to Video | ||||
| Troublesome Night 3 | Hong Kong | |||||
| Troublesome Night 4 | Hong Kong | |||||
| Tumbling Doll of Flesh | Tamakichi Anaru | Kikurin, Yuuji Kitano, Kanako Ooba, Tamakichi Anaru | Japan | Direct-to-video Considered one of the most violent splatter films ever made | ||
| data-sort-value="Untold" | The Untold Story 2 (a.k.a. Human Flesh Bun 2) | Andy Ng Yiu Kuen | Pauline Suen, Anthony Wong Chau Sang, Emotion Cheung Kam Ching, Yeung Faan | China | ||
| Urban Legend | Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Englund, Brad Dourif | United States | Filmed in Toronto, Canada [36] | |||
| Vampires | James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Maximilian Schell, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith | United States | Based on the 1990 John Steakley novel[37] | |||
| Whispering Corridors (a.k.a. Yeogogoedam) | Park Ki-Yong | Lee Mi-Yun, Park Yong-Su, Lee Yong-Nyuh | South Korea | First in a series of five films [38] | ||
| (a.k.a. Witchcraft 10) | Elisar Cabrera | Stephanie Beaton, Kerry Knowlton, Eileen Daly, Sean Harry, Wendy Cooper | United States | Tenth film in the WitchCraft film series Shot in England[39] |