Nothing grabs attention like a dark, eerie vibe. Horror filters with ghostly details, dark shadows, or analog effects can instantly transform your visuals. Whether for spooky photos or scary videos, the right filter sets a chilling atmosphere.
This guide shows you the coolest horror filters and the best apps to apply them. By the end, you’ll have all the tools to make your photos and videos unsettling and share-worthy.

Part 1. Horror Filters To Make Videos and Photos Look Scary
Filmora offers scary filter packs and effects you can combine with its editing tools. Here are some packs you can use:
- Horror Film Filter Pack: Distortion effects, glitch overlays, horror transitions, and chilling sounds for cinematic horror vibes.
- Creepy Halloween Pack: Ghosts, monsters, blood effects, and jump scare animations—great for Halloween edits or pranks.
- Horror Pack: Cinematic overlays, thriller-style titles, and AI Image-to-Video tools for ghostly scenes.
- Horror Cinematic Intro Vol 03: Creepy intros, haunted animations, and AI Portrait Cutout for eerie backgrounds.
- Oriental Horror Pack: Transitions, titles, and overlays paired with unsettling AI sound effects.
- VHS Horror Filters: Retro glitches, distortions, and camcorder aesthetics for vintage horror looks.
- Horror Movie Filters: Bloody overlays, ghost frames, and color grading for gloomy visuals.
- Cursed Horror Film Pack: Vintage curse-style overlays with AI Color Palette for consistency.
- Halloween Horrors Pack: Horror openers, titles, transitions, and overlays in multiple color schemes.
- Weird Flashlight: Haunted flashlight-style effects with pumpkins, shadows, and ghosts.
Part 2. 5 Best Apps To Add Scary Filters to Photos
You don’t need pro editing to try a scary photo filter. Here are some of the best apps:
YouCam Makeup
Real-time Halloween looks like vampires, ghosts, or Joker-style effects.

LightX
AI-powered Halloween filters add eerie backgrounds and scary costumes.

Fotor
Zombie and creepy overlays with text tools for horror-poster designs.

Snapchat
Seasonal scary filters twist faces, add glowing eyes, or ghost effects live.

TikTok
Horror-style effects like VHS distortions and flickering lights for photos or short videos.

Part 3. How To Create a Horror Movie in Filmora
Filmora makes it simple to combine filters, overlays, sounds, and text for scary videos. Here’s how:
Open Filmora, create a new project, and drag videos, photos, and audio onto the timeline.
Browse eerie drones, jump scares, or ambient horror music in the Audio tab.

Add scary-themed titles to introduce your horror short or emphasize suspense.

Use scary transitions between clips for unsettling cuts. Adjust duration for pacing.

Overlay fog, glitches, or film grain to amplify the horror filter vibe.

Conclusion
Horror filters instantly shift your visuals from harmless to hair-raising. You can use ready-made packs, try apps with scary filters, or build creepy edits with Filmora. Enhance shadows with color grading, layer glitches, and add eerie sound effects to make your content spine-chilling. With Filmora, creating unsettling and share-worthy horror edits is easy—even for beginners.