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Movies by Lists - 101 Scariest Horror Movies EVER (102 [104])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Alice, Sweet AliceIn 1961, a divorced Catholic couple's life is turned upside down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her first holy communion and a series of subsequent stabbings.1976Alfred SoleCrime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.5 (10.9K votes)10720211228
AlligatorA baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.1980Lewis TeagueHorror, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.0 (11.8K votes)9120211228
Altered StatesA psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.1980Ken Russell (*)Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.9 (34.3K votes)10220211228
American GothicA group of travellers make emergency landing on an island in the Pacific Northwest after their seaplane malfunctioned, and stumble across an isolated and psychopathic family.1987John HoughHorror5.9 (3.5K votes)9020211228
American PsychoA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.2000Mary HarronCrime, Drama, Horror7.6 (546.6K votes)10120211228
Amityville Horror, TheNewlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.1979Stuart Rosenberg (*)Horror6.2 (38.5K votes)11720211228
Apartment Complex, TheWhen a grad student takes a job managing an apartment complex, he discovers all the tenants are weirdos and there's a corpse in the bottom of the swimming pool.1999Tobe Hooper (*)Comedy, Mystery, Thriller5.3 (504 votes)9920231101
ArachnophobiaA species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and starts to breed and kill.1990Frank MarshallComedy, Horror, Thriller6.4 (68.2K votes)10920211228
Army Of DarknessA sardonic hardware store clerk is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead so he can return home.1992Sam Raimi (*)Comedy, Horror7.5 (171.7K votes)8120211228
Birds, TheA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.1963Alfred Hitchcock (*)Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance7.7 (182.9K votes)11920211228
Blue VelvetThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.1986David Lynch (*)Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller7.7 (192.4K votes)12020211228
Brood, TheA man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.1979David Cronenberg (*)Horror, Sci-Fi6.8 (28.8K votes)9220211228
BugAn unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.2006William Friedkin (*)Drama, Horror, Thriller6.1 (34.7K votes)10220211228
Cabin in the WoodsFive friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.2011Drew GoddardHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (401.1K votes)9520211228
Campfire TalesA group of teens entertain themselves by telling an anthology of famous urban legends with a modern twist; including make-out-point, monsters, psychopaths, and ghosts.1997Matt Cooper, Martin Kunert, David SemelHorror, Mystery5.9 (4K votes)8820211228
Cape FearA convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.1991Martin Scorsese (*)Crime, Thriller7.3 (187.1K votes)12820211228
CarrieCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.1976Brian De Palma (*)Horror, Mystery7.4 (182.8K votes)9820220524
Changeling, TheAfter the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.1980Peter MedakHorror, Mystery7.2 (33.4K votes)10720211228
Child's PlayA single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.1988Tom HollandHorror, Thriller6.6 (99.1K votes)8720220423
Contraption, TheA man toils at building an elaborate contraption. As he builds you begin to determine what exactly it is he is building. It is a mousetrap, only the mouse it would catch would have to be the same size as him. Perhaps that is the p...1977James DeardenHorror, Short, Thriller7.0 (200 votes)820240515
CopycatAn agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.1995Jon AmielDrama, Mystery, Thriller6.6 (58K votes)12320211228
CreepshowAn anthology which tells five terrifying tales inspired by the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s.1982George A. Romero (*)Comedy, Fantasy, Horror6.9 (46K votes)12020211228
CronosA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.1993Guillermo del Toro (*)Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller6.7 (29.4K votes)9420211228
Cry WolfEight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.2005Jeff WadlowDrama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller5.8 (27K votes)9020211228
CujoCujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.1983Lewis TeagueHorror, Thriller6.1 (44.1K votes)9320211228
Dead EndChristmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.2003Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice CanepaAdventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.5 (28.3K votes)8520211228
Deranged [Deranged Confessions of a Necrophile]A deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps, among others, as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.1974Jeff Gillen, Alan OrmsbyDrama, Horror, Thriller6.4 (5K votes)18320211228
Devil's Backbone, The [El espinazo del diablo]After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.2001Guillermo del Toro (*)Drama, Horror, Thriller7.4 (64.6K votes)10620211228
Devil's Rejects, TheThe murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.2005Rob ZombieCrime, Horror, Western6.8 (97.7K votes)10720211228
Donnie DarkoAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.2001Richard KellyDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller8.0 (774.8K votes)11320211228
Dracula [Bram Stoker's]The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.1992Francis Ford Coppola (*)Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance7.4 (209.1K votes)12820211228
Drag Me to HellA loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.2009Sam Raimi (*)Horror6.5 (197.2K votes)9920211228
DreamcatcherFriends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.2003Lawrence Kasdan (*)Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller5.5 (91.5K votes)13420211228
Entity, TheA woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.1982Sidney J. FurieDrama, Horror6.7 (16.1K votes)12520211228
Evil DeadFive friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.2013Fede AlvarezHorror6.5 (165.7K votes)9120211228
Evil Dead 2The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.1987Sam Raimi (*)Comedy, Horror7.7 (157.8K votes)8420211228
Evil Dead, TheFive friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.1981Sam Raimi (*)Horror7.5 (200.1K votes)8520211228
Exorcist, TheWhen a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.1973William Friedkin (*)Horror8.0 (384.5K votes)12220211228
Final DestinationAlex Browning is among a group of high school students readying themselves for a trip to Europe. When he suddenly has a premonition their airplane will crash, he screams to warn the others but instead he is thrown off of the plane.2000James WongHorror, Thriller6.7 (245.1K votes)9820211228
Fly, TheA brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.1986David Cronenberg (*)Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi7.6 (172.7K votes)9620211228
FrailtyA mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."2001Bill PaxtonCrime, Drama, Thriller7.2 (82.2K votes)10020211228
Girl in the Empty Grave, TheThe police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, shows up at the funeral of her parents, who had been murdered.1977Lou AntonioMystery6.6 (199 votes)10020211228
GothikaA depressed psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she worked, with no memory of why she is there or what she has done.2003Mathieu KassovitzHorror, Mystery, Thriller5.8 (116.5K votes)9820230806
GremlinsA young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.1984Joe DanteComedy, Fantasy, Horror7.3 (216.1K votes)10620211228
Grim Prairie Tales [Grim Prairie Tales - Hit the Trail...A cynical bounty hunter and a clerk traveling through the prairie rest by the campfire telling four stories of terror to each other.1990Wayne CoeHorror, Western5.4 (996 votes)8620211228
HalloweenFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.1978John Carpenter (*)Horror, Thriller7.7 (262.1K votes)9120211228
Haunting, TheA study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.1999Jan de BontFantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller5.0 (75.1K votes)11320211228
HellraiserA woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body so he can escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their sadistic underw1987Clive BarkerHorror, Thriller7.0 (115.5K votes)9420211228
Hollywood Chainsaw HookersA detective embarks on a mission to track down a woman in L.A.'s seedy nightclubs, only to come face-to-face with a blood-thirsty cult of lethally beautiful prostitutes. Is he the next victim of Hollywood's demented Chainsaw Hookers?1988Fred Olen RayComedy, Horror5.3 (3.5K votes)7520220806
House Of 1000 CorpsesTwo young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.2003Rob ZombieHorror6.1 (83.4K votes)8920211228
House of UsherUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.1960Roger Corman (*)Drama, Horror7.0 (13.1K votes)7920211228
I Am LegendYears after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.2007Francis LawrenceAction, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller7.2 (727.4K votes)10120211228
I Know What You Did Last SummerFour young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.1997Jim GillespieHorror, Mystery5.7 (142.3K votes)10120211228
I Saw The DevilA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.2010Jee-woon Kim (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller7.8 (123.5K votes)14420211228
InsidiousA family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.2010James WanHorror, Mystery, Thriller6.8 (297.2K votes)10320211228
Interview with the Vampire - The Vampire ChroniclesA vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.1994Neil JordanDrama, Fantasy, Horror7.5 (320.3K votes)220220912
ItIn 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.1990Tommy Lee WallaceDrama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.8 (122.9K votes)020211228
JawsWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.1975Steven Spielberg (*)Adventure, Thriller8.0 (573.2K votes)12420211228
Lady in WhiteAn author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.1988Frank LaLoggiaFantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.7 (6.8K votes)11320211228
Last House on The Left, TheTwo teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.1972Wes Craven (*)Crime, Horror, Thriller6.0 (36.5K votes)8420211228
Legend of Hell House, TheA physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.1973John HoughHorror6.7 (12.8K votes)9520211228
Lost Boys, TheAfter moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.1987Joel SchumacherComedy, Horror7.3 (136.3K votes)9720211228
Lost HighwayAnonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.1997David Lynch (*)Mystery, Thriller7.6 (138.4K votes)13420211228
Lost SoulsA Catholic teacher meets an atheist journalist, whom a group of Catholics and Priests believes has been chosen by the devil to be the Antichrist.2000Janusz KaminskiDrama, Horror, Thriller4.8 (10.9K votes)9720211228
MiseryAfter a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.1990Rob Reiner (*)Drama, Thriller7.8 (200.1K votes)10720211228
Motel HellA seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.1980Kevin ConnorComedy, Horror, Thriller6.0 (11.5K votes)10120211228
Mr. & Mrs. SmithA well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.2007Bruce A. EvansCrime, Drama, Thriller7.3 (148.5K votes)12020211228
Mr. BrooksA well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.2007Bruce A. EvansCrime, Drama, Thriller7.3 (148.6K votes)12020211228
Needful ThingsA mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.1993Fraser C. HestonCrime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller6.3 (24.5K votes)12020211228
Night TerrorsA woman visiting her father in Egypt becomes involved with Marquis De Sade's descendant and his terrifying cult.1993Tobe Hooper (*)Horror3.5 (1.4K votes)9820211228
Nightmare on Elm Street, ATeenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real l1984Wes Craven (*)Horror7.5 (226.5K votes)9120211228
Nightmare on Elm Street, AThe spectre of a disfigured man haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams.2010Samuel BayerCrime, Drama, Horror, Mystery5.2 (98K votes)9520211228
NightmaresAnthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.1983Joseph SargentHorror, Sci-Fi5.8 (3.2K votes)9920211228
Nightmares & DreamscapesAnthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.1983Joseph SargentHorror, Sci-Fi5.8 (3.2K votes)9920211228
NoseratuVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.1922F.W. Murnau (*)Fantasy, Horror7.9 (93.9K votes)9420211228
Others, TheA woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.2001Alejandro AmenábarHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.6 (354.3K votes)10420211228
Paranormal ActivityAfter moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.2007Oren PeliHorror, Mystery6.3 (232.4K votes)8620211228
PiecesThe co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.1982Juan Piquer SimónHorror, Mystery, Thriller6.1 (10.2K votes)8520211228
Pieces aka Mil gritos tiene la nocheThe co-eds of a Boston college campus are targeted by a mysterious killer who is creating a human jigsaw puzzle from their body parts.1982Juan Piquer SimónHorror, Mystery, Thriller6.1 (10.2K votes)8520211228
PsychoA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.1960Alfred Hitchcock (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller8.5 (643.8K votes)10920211228
Redneck ZombiesA barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks the liquor they produced turns into zombies.1989Pericles LewnesComedy, Horror4.3 (3K votes)8420211228
Ring, TheA journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.2002Gore VerbinskiHorror, Mystery7.1 (338.2K votes)11520211228
Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.1968Roman Polanski (*)Drama, Horror8.0 (207.9K votes)13720211228
SawTwo strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.2004James WanHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.6 (404.7K votes)10320211228
ScreamA year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.1996Wes Craven (*)Horror, Mystery7.3 (322.6K votes)11120211228
Serpent and the Rainbow, TheAn anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.1988Wes Craven (*)Fantasy, Horror6.5 (24.8K votes)9820211228
SevenTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.1995David Fincher (*)Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller8.6 (1.6M votes)12720211228
Seventh Sign, TheAbby Quinn is eagerly awaiting childbirth but is haunted by dreams where she suffers a miscarriage. When she decides to rent a room to a mysterious stranger, she realizes a chain of events that will unleash the end of humanity.1988Carl SchultzDrama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller5.9 (14.4K votes)9720211228
Shining, TheA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.1980Stanley Kubrick (*)Drama, Horror8.4 (968K votes)14620211228
Silence of the Lambs, TheA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.1991Jonathan Demme (*)Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller8.6 (1.4M votes)11820211228
Sixth Sense, TheA frightened, withdrawn Philadelphia boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.1999M. Night Shyamalan (*)Drama, Mystery, Thriller8.1 (957K votes)10720211228
SlitherA small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.2006James GunnComedy, Horror, Sci-Fi6.5 (80K votes)9520211228
Stir of EchoesAfter being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.1999David KoeppHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (79.9K votes)9920211228
Strangers, TheA young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.2008Bryan BertinoHorror, Mystery, Thriller6.2 (127.1K votes)8620211228
SuspiriaAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.1977Dario Argento (*)Horror7.4 (89.3K votes)9220211228
Tales from the Darkside The MovieA young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.1990John HarrisonComedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller6.3 (16.8K votes)9320211228
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Next Generation [The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre]A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface (Robert Jacks) and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths.1994Kim HenkelComedy, Horror, Thriller3.3 (22.6K votes)8720220315
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, TheFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.1974Tobe Hooper (*)Horror7.5 (151K votes)8320211228
Toolbox MurdersA historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades, but when renovations start, a series of murders take place.2004Tobe Hooper (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller5.3 (8.6K votes)9520231101
Twilight Zone - The MovieFour horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.1983Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven SpielbergHorror, Sci-Fi6.4 (37.8K votes)10120220806
What Lies BeneathThe wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.2000Robert Zemeckis (*)Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.6 (123.3K votes)13020211228
Within The WoodsWhile spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated, making way to kill his friends.1978Sam Raimi (*)Horror, Short6.5 (2.3K votes)3120211228
Masters of Horror2005nanHorror7.4 (Unkn) Excluded
Tales from the Crypt1989nanComedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller8.0 (Unkn) Excluded