Horror movie means a movie in which the story of the spirit of a dead person is shown. Every year many horror films are made in India. But only a few of them become popular. The number of horror movies in Hindi language is much less than the horror movies in Hollywood. Every year one-third of the films made in Hollywood are horror films whereas in India less than ten horror films are made in Hindi in a year.
Here are the names of famous horror movies of Bollywood in Hindi language.
- Mahal (1949) (Director - Kamal Amrohi, Cast - Ashok Kumar, Madhubala)
- Jaani Dushman (1979) (Director - Raj Kumar Kohli, Cast - Sunil Dutt, Sanjiv Kumar, Jitendra, Shatrughna Sinha, Reena Roy, Rekha, Nitu Singh, Vinod Mehra)
- Raaz (2002) (Directors - Vikram Bhatt and Mohit Suri, Cast - Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Emraan Hashmi, Ashutosh Rana etc.)
- Bhoot (2003) (Director - Ram Gopal Verma, Cast - Ajay Devgan, Urmila Matondkar, Fardeen Khan, Nana patekar, etc)
- Saaya (2003) (Director - Anurag Basu, Cast - John Abraham, Tara Sharma, Mahima Chaudhry)
- Phoonk (2008) (Director - Ram Gopal verma, Cast - Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Kenny Desai, Ashwini Kalsekar, Zakir Hussain)
- 1920 London (2016) (Director - Tinu Suresh, Cast - Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, Vishal Karwal, etc.)
- Stree (2018) (Director - Amar Kaushik, Cast - Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana and Abhishek Banerjee)
- Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (2022) (Director - Anees Bazmee, Cast - Tabu, Kartik Aryan, Kiara Advani, etc.)
- Aseq (2023) (Director - Sarim Momin, Cast - Vardhan Puri, Sonnalli Seygall, Siddhant Kapoor, Adi Chugh, etc.)
- Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2024) (Director - Anees Bazmee, Cast - Kartik Aryan, Madhuri Dixit, Vidya Balan, Tripti Dimri etc.)
- Stree 2 (2024) (Director - Amar Kaushik, Cast - Rajkumar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, etc)