101 Horror Movie Names For Dogs

Spot. Fido. Buster. Great names for a dog, all.

But there are times when you want something a little less common — and a little more spooky. Enter this list of 101 names pulled from horror movies, the characters in them, that actors that portrayed them, and the people that made them.

If you're a horror movie aficionado and a connoisseur of the chills, scroll on for inspiration and to see how many of your creepy, unnerving, and scary as heck horror movie faves made the .... [devilish cackle] .... cut.

• Alice — Protagonist of the Resident Evil franchise, portrayed by Milla Jovovich

• Amity — The fictional Massachusetts island featured in the first two Jaws movies

• Annie (or Wilkes) — The deranged villainous who keeps her favorite author hostage in Misery

• Armitage — A nod to the deceptively evil family in 2017's Get Out

• Ash — Played by cult actor Bruce Campbell, Ash is the antihero of The Evil Dead franchise

• Barnabas — The rich aristocrat turned vampire from the Dark Shadows television series and 2012 film

• Bates — As in Norman Bates and the Bates Motel from the 1960 Hitchcock classic, Psycho

• Beast — The 24th and most murderous of James McAvoy's multiple personalities in Split

• Bela (or Lugosi) — As in the actor who famously played Dracula in the 1931 film

• Barbara — One of the leads from Night Of The Living Dead, which gave us this oft-quoted and spooky gem of a line:

• Beverly — One of the seven children (and the only girl) to join forces against Pennywise in Stephen King's It

• Brody — As in Chief Brody, the police officer tasked with stopping from the great white shark in Jaws

• Bronson — One of the main characters in I Know What You Did Last Summer

• Brundle — Jeff Goldblum's character's last name in The Fly

• Buffy — The vampire slayer from film and TV

• Bugsy — The family dog who meets an untimely demise in The Babadook (a/k/a the scariest film ever)

• Busan — A nod to the South Korean port city in the 2016 zombie flick, Train To Busan

• Campbell — As in Neve Campbell, star of the Scream franchise

• Carrie — The teenager from the 1976 American supernatural horror film of the same name

• Chopper — The junkyard dog from Stand By Me (which technically isn't a horror film but was written by Stephen King)

• Christine — As in the sentient 1958 Plymouth Fury that starts to run over people in the movie of the same name

• Chucky — The villain in the long-running Child's Play slasher film series

• Church — The cat who comes back to life in Stephen King's Pet Sementary

• Clarice — The FBI cadet who breaks the case in The Silence Of The Lambs

• Clive — As in Clive Barker (you can't make this stuff), the creator of the Hellraiser franchise

• Copper — The doctor in The Thing

• Craven — As in Wes Craven, the film director, writer, and producer behind the Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream movies

• Crystal — As in Crystal Lake, the fictional town in upstate New York home to the Friday The 13th franchise

• Curtis — As in Jamie Lee Curtis, the heroine of the Halloween franchise

• Cushing — As in Peter Cushing, a classic British actor who appeared in everything from The Mummy to Star Wars

• Cujo — The titular rabid canine from the movie of the same name

• Darcy — The leader of the skinheads played by Patrick Stewart in Green Room

• Dekker — As in Fred Dekker, the screenwriter best known for cult classic horror comedy films like Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad

• Denbrough — Older brother to Georgie, one of Pennywise's victims and the leader of "The Losers Club" in Stephen King's It

• Dixie — As in Dixie Boy, the name of the truck stop in Maximum Overdrive.

• Dr. Mambo — The very bad boy from 2002's Cabin Fever

• Dourif — As in the actor Brad Dourif, who has appeared in everything from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest to The Lord Of The Rings but also voiced Chucky in the Child's Play series (my mind was literally blown when I recently pieced that one together.

• Eccles — As in Donald Eccles, one of the British actors to appear in the chilling classic, The Wicker Man

• Elvira — A nod to the cult-movie TV hostess

• Ghostface — The masked killer(s) in the Scream movies

• Goblin — The name of the prog rock band who has soundtracked numerous horror films with a distinctive and atmospheric sound

• Gorgon — A nod to the 1964 film of the same name, starring legendary character actor and former British spy Christopher Lee

• HAL 9000 — Traitorous AI program in 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Hammer — As in Hammer Studios, a British film production company that developed spooky and gothic horror films from the mid-1950s until the 1970s

• Hendershot — A nod to the great character actor Pat Hingle's performance in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive

• Hitchcock — As in director Alfred, the master of suspense.

• Jaws — The titular sea beast in the Jaws movies.

• Jigsaw — The creepy antagonist of the Saw series

• Jonesy — The cat (!!!) from Alien, who along with her human Ripley are the only survivors to emerge from the U.S.S. Sulaco unscathed

• Kane — The crew member who is the first victim of the xenomorph facehugger in 1979's Alien (and the first name of the actor who portrayed Jason Voorhees in 4 of the Friday The 13th films)

• Karloff — As in Boris, the actor who played Frankenstein in a number of movies

• Kibner — Leonard Nimoy's character in the 1978 version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

• Kraken — Mythical sea monster seen in 1981's Clash Of The Titans & Disney's Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise

• Kronos — The title character from 1974's Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

• Krueger (or Freddy) — As in Freddy, the star of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films

• Krug — One of the villains in The Last House On The Left

• Leatherface — One of the cannibalistic killers from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

• Lecter — As in Hannibal the cannibal from The Silence Of The Lambs

• Lillian — The fictional Ohio town depicted in 2011's Super 8 (one of my favorite films ever)

• Loomis — The psychiatrist trying to stop Michael Myers' murderous rampages in the Halloween releases

• Lurch — The servant and butler to The Addams Family

• MacReady — Kurt Russel's character from 1982's The Thing

•** Malachi** — One of the murderous and creepy kids in Children Of The Corn

• Max / Wolfie — John Connor's dog in Terminator 2 (and the fake name the T-800 uses to throw the T-1000 off their scent)

• Myers — The villainous killer at the heart of the Halloween movies

• Nanook — The Alaskan Malamute from 1987's vampire classic, The Lost Boys

• Oriok — What Dracula was called in the 1922 German film Nosferatu

• Pazuzu — The demon from The Exorcist

• Pennywise — The shapeshifting clown haunting the town of Derry, Maine in IT

• Pete — The dog from The Monster Squad

• Phibes — As in the vengeful doctor played by Vincent Prince in the 1971 movie, The Abominable Dr. Phibes

• Pinhead — The cenobite demon from the Hellraiser movies

• Pynchot — The doctor in 1984's Firestarter

• Raimi — As in Sam Raimi, noted horror director

• Regan — Linda Blair's character in The Exorcist

• Rasputin — The Russian mystic who conspires with Nazis to open an interdimensional portal in Hellboy

• Red — Nic Cage's character in 2018's unlikely breakout success, Mandy

• Ripley — The heroine of the Alien franchise

• Romero — As in George Romero, the godfather of the zombie genre

• Rosemary — The title character from the 1968 American psychological thriller

• Sadie — The dog from The Conjuring

• Samara — The vengeful ghost from The Ring movies

• Savini — As in Tom Savini, legendary makeup artist, actor, and stunt performer

• Shaun — The title character played by Simon Pegg in Edgar Wright's Shaun Of The Dead

• Sidney (or Prescott) — The star of the Scream franchise

• Solobonite — The MacGuffin at the heart of the trash movie cult classic, Plan 9 From Outer Space

• Somerset (or Mills) — The detectives played by Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt in Se7en

• Sparky — The reanimated pup from Tim Burton's Frankenweenie

• Stoker — As in Bram Stoker, the author of 1897 Gothic novel Dracula

• Stripe — The mohawked leader of the gremlins

• Strode (or Laurie) — Jamie Lee Curtis' character in the Halloween movies

• Tallahassee — The undead slayer in Zombieland portrayed by Woody Harrelson

• Thorn — As in Damien Thorn, the villainous child terror in The Omen series

• Tiffany — Chucky's equally malevolent bride in the Child's Play series.

• Torrance — As in Jack, the crazed antagonist in The Shining.

• Vinz or Clortho — One of the two supernatural terror dogs from Ghostbusters (thought to be male)

• Voorhees — The hockey goalie-masked teen slasher from Friday The 13th series

• Weathers (or Gale) — The ambitious television reporter played by Courtney Cox in the Scream series

• Xeno — The xenomorph from the Alien franchise

• Zuul — One of the two supernatural terror dogs from Ghostbusters (thought to be female)

Do you have a dog named after something related to a horror movie? Share their story in the comments below!