Lin Shaye

Full filmography

• Insidious: Out of the Further (2026) as Elise Rainier
• Scared to Death (2026) as Max
• Scared to Death (2026) Executive Producer
• Common Side Effects (2025) as Sonia (voice)
• House of Abraham (2025)
• House of Abraham (2025) Executive Producer
• 1000 Women in Horror (2025) as Self
• The Last Stand of Ellen Cole (2024) as Ellen
• The Last Stand of Ellen Cole (2024) Executive Producer
• Insidious: The Red Door (2023) as Elise Rainier
• Frank and Penelope (2022) as Ophelia
• Pines (2022) as Julie (voice)
• Living with Chucky (2022) as Self
• The Quarry: Movie Mode (2022) as Constance Hackett
• Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022) as Self
• We Are Gathered Here Today (2022) as Jean Cole
• Remote (2022) as Kane
• Behind the Monsters (2021) as Self
• Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021) as Mrs. Bundy
• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) as Dottie Minter
• Dreamkatcher (2020) as Ruth
• Dreamkatcher (2020) Executive Producer
• Dead Talk Live (2020) as Self - Guest
• The Call (2020) as Edith Cranston
• Darkness Falls (2020) as Angela Anderson
• Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020) as Mrs. Wylder
• The Voices (2020) as The Vagabond
• The Horror Crowd (2020) as Self
• The Grudge (2019) as Faith Matheson
• The Final Wish (2019) as Kate Hammond
• Ambition (2019) as Lady Bum
• Room for Rent (2019) as Joyce
• Room for Rent (2019) Co-Producer
• Get Gone (2019) as Mama
• Gothic Harvest (2019) as Griselda
• Insidious: The Last Key (2018) as Elise Rainier
• Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018) as Self
• Los Angeles Overnight (2018) as Cousins
• Herbert West: Reanimator (2018) as Meredith
• The Main Course: The Making of Critters 2 (2018) as Self
• They Bite!: The Making of Critters (2018) as Self
• All About the Money (2017) as Mrs. Womack
• The Black Room (2017) as Miss Black
• Buster's Mal Heart (2017) as Pauline
• Mountain Top (2017) as Muriel Miller
• Grow House (2017) as Mrs. Gilliam
• Director's Cut (2016) as Captain Wheeler
• Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) as Old Paulina Zander
• Abattoir (2016) as Allie
• Texas Heart (2016) as Mrs. Smith
• The Midnight Man (2016) as Anna
• Jack Goes Home (2016) as Teresa
• Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) as Elise Rainier
• Tales of Halloween (2015) as Lynn's Mother
• Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves (2015) as Helen Keller
• Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha (2015) as The Grand Lady
• Ouija (2014) as Paulina Zander
• The Signal (2014) as Mirabelle
• Grace (2014) as Helen
• Lost Time (2014) as Mysterious Woman
• Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) as Elise Rainier
• Big Ass Spider! (2013) as Mrs. Jefferson
• Crazy Kind of Love (2013) as Denise Mack
• Insidious: Spectral Sightings (2013) as Elise
• Noobz (2013) as Mrs. Theodore
• All American Christmas Carol (2013) as Barbara Belnap
• The Three Stooges (2012) as Nurse Crotchet
• EastSiders (2012) as Diane
• Waffle Hut (2012) as Jerrie Wolf
• FDR: American Badass! (2012) as Eleanor Roosevelt
• Life's an Itch (2012) as Gloria
• 3 Days of Normal (2012) as May
• Jewtopia (2012) as Dr. Sutton
• Matchmaker Santa (2012) as Debbie
• Insidious (2011) as Elise Rainier
• Chillerama (2011) as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
• Take Me Home (2011) as Jill
• A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011) as Dody
• Rosewood Lane (2011) as Mrs. Hawthorne
• Sedona (2011) as Claire
• I Was a Teenage Werebear (2011)
• Goldberg - P.I. (2011) as Violet
• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010) as Self
• Killer by Nature (2010) as Leona
• Small Town Saturday Night (2010) as Phyllis Ryan
• Pickin' and Grinnin' (2010) as Bonnie Johnson
• The Penthouse (2010) as Frances
• 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010) as Granny Boone
• VideoDome Rent-O-Rama (2010) as The Lush
• Farewell Mr. Kringle (2010) as Zelda
• Next Stop Murder (2010) as Detective Reeson
• The Land of the Astronauts (2010)
• The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue (2010) as Mrs. Rawlings
• My Sister's Keeper (2009) as Nurse Adele
• Dark Moon Rising (2009) as Sunny
• American Cowslip (2009) as Lou Anne
• Stuntmen (2009) as Bumble Jackson
• Asylum (2008) as String's Mother
• Killer Pad (2008) as Marge
• Doggie Heaven (2008) as Woman
• Starz Inside: In the Gutter (2008) as Self
• Chronic Town (2008) as Nurse
• Private Practice (2007) as Mrs. Taylor
• Homo Erectus (2007) as Museum Guide
• Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles (2007) as Self
• Pledge This! (2007) as Miss Prin
• The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane' (2007) as Self
• Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes (2007) as Self
• Chasing Robert (2007) as Martha the Bookie
• The Election (2007) as The Wife
• Snakes on a Plane (2006) as Grace
• Bachelor Party Vegas (2006) as Cassandra
• Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006) as Clara
• Unbeatable Harold (2006) as Jeannie
• Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane (2006) as Self
• Hoboken Hollow (2006) as Mrs. Brodrick
• Surf School (2006) as Larry's Mom
• Driftwood (2006) as Nancy Forrester
• Down the P.C.H. (2006) as Wendy O'Hara
• My Name Is Earl (2005) as Paul's Mom
• Made in Hollywood (2005) as Self
• 2001 Maniacs (2005) as Granny Boone
• Drop Dead Sexy (2005) as Ma Muzzy
• Confessions of an Action Star (2005) as Samantha Jones
• Born Killers (2005) as Willow
• Hate Crime (2005) as Kathleen Slansky
• A Cinderella Story (2004) as Mrs. Wells
• Cellular (2004) as Exotic Car Driver
• Who's Your Daddy? (2004) as Ms. Harding
• The Hillside Strangler (2004) as Jenny Buono
• The Almost Guys (2004) as Repo Boss
• Barely Legal (2003) as Tequlia
• Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) as Margie
• Dead End (2003) as Laura Harrington
• Stuck on You (2003) as Makeup Babe
• ManFast (2003) as Marge
• Boat Trip (2002) as Sonya the Coach
• Wish You Were Dead (2002) as Jinny Macintosh
• Contagion (2002) as Laura Crowley
• Crossing Jordan (2001) as Leather Lauren
• Say It Isn't So (2001) as Nurse Bautista
• Without Charlie (2001)
• A Letter from My Father (2001) as Elise
• Me, Myself & Irene (2000) as Mrs. Caleron
• Attention Shoppers (2000) as Libby
• Detroit Rock City (1999) as Mrs. Bruce
• Becker (1998) as Mrs. Cooper
• There's Something About Mary (1998) as Magda
• Breakfast with Einstein (1998) as Miss Desmond
• Living Out Loud (1998) as Lisa's Nurse
• Perversions of Science (1997) as Nurse
• Trading Favors (1997) as Darla
• Arli$$ (1996) as Shurja
• Last Man Standing (1996) as The Madame
• Kingpin (1996) as Landlady
• Project: ALF (1996) as Waitress
• Trial by Fire (1995) as Phyliis Cardell
• Nature of the Beast (1995) as Carol Powell
• Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995) as Bonnie
• ER (1994) as Margaret
• Dumb and Dumber (1994) as Mrs. Neugeboren
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) as Nurse with Pills
• My So-Called Life (1994) as Parent #2
• Corrina, Corrina (1994) as Repeat Nanny
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994) as Rubber Rose Maid
• Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1994) as Inmate
• In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance (1994) as Foreman #2
• Frasier (1993) as Anne
• National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) as Witness
• The Temp (1993) as Rosemary
• Three of Hearts (1993) as Operator
• Amityville: A New Generation (1993) as Nurse Turner
• Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993) as Make up Artist
• Roadside Prophets (1992) as Celeste
• Critters 3 (1991) as Sal (archive footage)
• Pump Up the Volume (1990) as PTA Parent #3
• Book of Love (1990) as Mrs. Flynn
• Life Goes On (1989) as Parent #2
• Critters 2 (1988) as Sal
• Lucky Stiff (1988) as Bratty Kid's Mom
• The Running Man (1987) as Propaganda Officer
• Extreme Prejudice (1987) as Employment Office Clerk
• The Hidden (1987) as Carol Miller
• Stillwatch (1987)
• My Demon Lover (1987) as Anemic Counter Girl
• Slam Dance (1987) as Librarian
• Mistress (1987) as Woman Customer
• Critters (1986) as Sally
• The Twilight Zone (1985) as Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")
• Brewster's Millions (1985) as Journalist at Rally
• Highway to Heaven (1984) as Lila Barnes
• Who's the Boss? (1984) as Mrs. Padnick
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as Teacher
• Summer Fantasy (1984) as Woman on Beach
• Why Me? (1984)
• Cagney & Lacey (1982) as Secretary
• Alone in the Dark (1982) as Receptionist at Haven
• Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) as Nurse with Telegram
• Falcon Crest (1981) as Smoking Female Prisoner
• The Long Riders (1980) as Kate
• A Cry for Love (1980)
• The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979) as Freida
• The Seeding of Sarah Burns (1979) as 2nd Nurse
• Goin' South (1978) as Parasol Lady
• Eight Is Enough (1977) as Band Member
• Sex and the Married Woman (1977) as Sandra
• A Secret Space (1977) as Amy
• Hester Street (1975) as Whore
• Mascotland
• Thread: An Insidious Tale as Elise Rainier
• Dead of Nowhere 3D as Meemaw
• The Old World as The Aunt (voice)
• The Possession at Gladstone Manor as Nurse
• Devoted as Aunt Dottie
• Carrier as Joan Pierson
• Before Memory
• Jackson's Hole as Netter
• The Bench