With the upcoming Marvel feature Morbius, audiences will soon be able to enjoy a new Jared Leto horror movie. Throughout the actor’s lengthy career, Jared Leto has appeared in all manner of projects. The star’s roles range from big-budget blockbuster parts in divisive superhero movies, like Leto’s Justice League Joker cameo, to subtle, poignant dramas like The Dallas Buyers’ Club.

The first Jared Leto horror movie was 1998’s Urban Legend, in which he appeared as the main love interest. A post-Scream self-referential slasherUrban Legend earned largely bad reviews thanks to its lack of invention but did not deter Leto from seeking out more horror roles. Shortly after, he had a part in the cult classic American Psycho and director David Fincher’s Panic Room, while 2021 saw Leto return to the genre in The Little Things.

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As proven by his unique take on the Joker, Leto is not averse to traveling some over-the-top genre territory, and the actor’s horror movies range from the corny to the self-serious. However, while Leto isn’t a stranger to horror, not all of his outings in the genre have been big hits. Here is every Jared Leto horror movie, ranked from worst to best.

4. The Little Things

Jared Leto Little Things

Despite starring Leto alongside Denzel Washington, the promising police procedural The Little Things fails to find anything new in its story of a twisted (potential) serial killer taunting the grizzled detective hunting him. A great cast including No Time To Die's victorious villain Rami Malek can’t help The Little Things from feeling like a thin knock-off of numerous better movies. Reminiscent of Se7en, Frailty, and Washington’s own earlier outing Fallen, unfortunately, The Little Things can’t compare to its impressive influences.

3. Urban Legend

Jared Leto in Urban Legend

A fun, goofy post-Scream slasher, Urban Legend is an early role for Leto and likely one the actor would rather forget. Urban Legend is let down by its draggy pacing and ludicrous killer reveal, but features a few fun and inventive kills and boasts an unusually solid cast including Rebecca Gayheart and Tara Reid. Superior to both its sequels, Urban Legend won’t wow horror fans but is worth a watch for the playful cameo by Nightmare On Elm Street’s Robert Englund alone.

2. Panic Room

Jared Leto - Panic Room

One of director David Fincher’s lesser efforts, Panic Room is still a taut and tense home invasion thriller that excels as a Hitchcock homage. There’s not a lot to the plot (desperate criminals trap mother-daughter duo Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart in the titular tiny cell), but the escalating tension is impressive given the limited locations. The cast is also stellar across the board even though Panic Room compares unfavorably to the likes of Fight Club and Zodiac.

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1. American Psycho

Jared Leto - American Psycho

Leto plays a pivotal role in 2000’s superb, blackly comic psychological horror American Psycho, appearing as the doomed Paul Allen in one of the movie’s most memorable scenes. Although American Psycho’s ending explains that Leto’s character may not even exist (or may actually be the antihero’s real name), his murder sequence remains a sublime condensation of American Psycho’s appeal. Witty, gruesome, satirically sharp, laugh-out-loud funny, and still surprisingly tense, Jared Leto’s American Psycho role is the adaptation in a nutshell and remains his best horror part to date, ahead of the as yet unreleased Morbius.

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