10 Horror Titles In Justin Long’s Filmography
Friendly face, easy smile… and then suddenly, a left-turn into the uncanny. Justin Long has a knack for playing the guy you trust right before everything goes horribly wrong.
One minute he’s awkward and funny, the next he’s facing unexplainable forces, bad-luck spirals or something you definitely don’t want in the dark. When that guy starts screaming, you know things are about to get terrifying.
Disclaimer: Film details and casting information reflect publicly available sources as of February, 2026, and titles, platform availability, and catalog listings can change due to licensing or distributor updates. Horror coverage can involve unsettling themes, and the descriptions above are intentionally phrased in a general-audience way to avoid graphic or needlessly intense language.
10. Jeepers Creepers 2
Darry’s story echoes in the sequel through a brief vision sequence.
A short vision featuring Darry links the first film’s fear to the sequel’s school-bus setup. Return of the Creeper reinforces the creature’s relentless pattern of hunting victims across different years.
Expanded mythology deepens the story while keeping the original sense of dread firmly intact. Limited screen time still matters, since Darry’s fate fuels a revenge thread that adds emotional weight beyond basic survival horror.
9. Tusk
Wallace Bryton starts as a loudmouthed podcaster hunting weird stories in Canada.
He ends as something unrecognizable.
Kevin Smith pushes full-body transformation horror, and Long commits to a role built around an extreme, unsettling makeover. Long commits fully to the physical and psychological degradation, spending much of the film in prosthetics that erase his humanity piece by piece.
It’s the kind of role that separates actors willing to look foolish from those brave enough to become genuinely disturbing.
8. Barbarian
At first glance, AJ Gilbride comes across as almost impossible to like. Through that role, Justin Long portrays a Hollywood figure whose career suddenly in free fall, sending him to check on a rental property in Detroit.
What waits in the basement quickly flips every assumption about who the real threat might be.
Leaning fully into AJ’s narcissism and clueless behavior, Long makes the character’s later fear feel deserved rather than forced.
Unexpected box office success followed, with his commitment to playing such an unlikable presence adding extra tension to the horror lurking beneath the house.
7. House Of Darkness
Cocky confidence drives Hap Jackson as he assumes a late night ride home will end in a simple hookup.
Inside the eerie estate, Justin Long plays the smooth talking everyman whose bravado starts to crumble after meeting the woman’s unsettling housemates. Soon, the story twists expectations and turns supposed the confident one into the cornered one as supernatural forces step out of the shadows.
Watching Hap talk himself into deeper trouble adds tension, especially when his charm proves useless against ancient powers with plans of their own.
6. Yoga Hosers
Long returns to Kevin Smith’s bizarre Canadian horror universe as Yogi Bayer, a yoga instructor who helps two teenage convenience store clerks battle absurd, villain-coded sausage creatures.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The film embraces absurdity with both arms, mixing teen comedy with horror elements that feel lifted from a fever dream. Long plays his role with complete sincerity despite the ridiculous premise, which somehow makes the whole thing work.
It’s the kind of movie that defies conventional criticism because it exists in its own weird wavelength, and Long seems perfectly comfortable there.
5. Drag Me To Hell
Clay Dalton enters the story as a supportive boyfriend trying to steady Christine as her world tilts into something terrifying. In that role, Justin Long brings grounded concern to the chaos unleashed by Sam Raimi’s wild mix of shocks and dark humor.
Flying demon goats and possessed objects swirl around them, while Clay reacts like the only person still thinking clearly.
Through his eyes, the audience watches a loved one pulled toward a terrible fate, powerless to stop what is unfolding. Devotion never fades, even as events grow stranger and more unsettling by the minute.
4. It’s A Wonderful Knife
Long joins this holiday horror mashup that reimagines It’s a Wonderful Life as a slasher film.
The premise alone deserves points for audacity, blending Christmas cheer with slasher-style danger in a small town where a masked attacker stalks victims. Long’s character adds depth to the twisted alternate reality the protagonist experiences after wishing she’d never been born.
The film proves that holiday horror can work when it commits to the tonal whiplash between festive decorations and gory beats. Long brings his trademark likability to a story that gleefully subverts seasonal movie expectations with every candy cane attack scenes.
3. Goosebumps
The Goosebumps TV series uses a season-long story with multiple monsters and nods to familiar book titles.
Casting Justin Long adds genre credibility, linking his horror background with lighter, family friendly frights. Careful balance keeps the tone spooky enough to feel exciting while still accessible for younger audiences.
His presence helps signal that the series respects its source material while giving the stories a modern update.
2. After.Life
Paul Coleman drives the story as a grieving boyfriend who refuses to believe Anna is truly gone, even while her body lies in a funeral home.
In that role, Justin Long plays a man clinging to hope while facing a funeral director who may hold unsettling, otherworldly influence. Shifting layers of reality and delusion blur together as Paul pushes back against everything he is told.
Raw grief mixes with rising panic in his performance, capturing the fear of watching certainty slip away.
Uncomfortable questions about what it really means to be alive echo through the film, with Paul’s refusal to give up shaping the eerie mood from start to finish.
1. Jeepers Creepers
A deserted highway fading into the distance sets an uneasy mood before the horror even begins.
In Jeepers Creepers, Justin Long plays Darry Jenner, a college student whose spring break trip spirals into terror when a demonic entity known as The Creeper decides he has something worth harvesting.
Sudden danger forces Darry and his sister Trish into a frantic escape from a threat that never seems to tire.
Abandoned churches and shadowy drainage pipes start to look less like scenery and more like carefully laid traps. Believable fear in Long’s performance drives the film’s relentless tension, leaving viewers wary of ever taking lonely rural shortcuts again.
