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Movies by Lists - The 47 Best Italian Horror Movies (51 [47])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.1963Federico Fellini (*)Drama8.0 (115.2K votes)13820211228
Baron BloodA young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor in Austria, accidentally brings his dead relative back to life - searching for new victims.1972Mario Bava (*)Horror6.0 (3.7K votes)9020211228
Bay of Blood, A [Reazione a catena]The murder of a wealthy countess, which was erroneously deemed suicide, triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to take over her large estate.1971Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.6 (10.5K votes)8420211228
Beyond the Door II [Shock] A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.1977Mario Bava, Lamberto BavaHorror6.3 (4.5K votes)9320231114
Beyond, The aka E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilàA young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.1981Lucio Fulci (*)Horror6.8 (22K votes)8720211228
Bird With The Crystal Plumage, TheAn American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer, he conducts his own investigation.1970Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.2 (20.3K votes)9620211228
Black Cat, The aka Gatto neroA professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies.1981Lucio Fulci (*)Horror5.9 (3.7K votes)9220211228
Black Glasses [Dark Glasses]Diana, a young woman who lost her sight, finds a guide in a Chinese boy named Chin. Together they will track down a dangerous killer through the darkness of Italy.2022Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller4.9 (841 votes)8620220531
Black Sabbath aka I tre volti della pauraBoris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.1963Mario Bava (*)Horror7.1 (11.6K votes)9720211228
Black Sunday aka La maschera del demonioA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, with only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way.1960Mario Bava (*)Horror7.2 (15K votes)8720211228
Blood and Black LaceA masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.1964Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.2 (10.5K votes)8820211228
Blood and Black Lace aka Sei donne per l'assassinoA masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.1964Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.2 (10.5K votes)8820211228
Blood Brides aka Hatchet For The Honeymoon [Il rosso segno della follia]A cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.1970Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.4 (3.7K votes)8820211228
Cannibal FeroxThree friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe.1981Umberto LenziAdventure, Horror5.2 (9.7K votes)9320211228
Cannibal HolocaustDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.1980Ruggero DeodatoAdventure, Horror5.8 (55.5K votes)9520220806
Card Player, TheA Rome policewoman teams up with a British Interpol agent to find a crafty serial killer who plays a taunting game of cat-and-mouse with the police by abducting and killing young women and showing it over an Internet web cam.2003Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller4.9 (5.3K votes)10320211228
Cat o' Nine Tails [Il Gatto A Nove Code], TheA newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company's top-secret experimental research projects; in doing so they become targets of the killer.1971Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.7 (11.2K votes)11220211228
Cemetery Man aka Dellamorte DellamoreA cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.1994Michele SoaviComedy, Horror7.1 (21.1K votes)10520211228
Church [Demons 3], TheAn old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.1989Michele SoaviHorror6.2 (7.7K votes)10220211228
Church, The [La Chiesa]An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.1989Michele SoaviHorror6.2 (7.7K votes)10220211228
Church, The aka La chiesaAn old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.1989Michele SoaviHorror6.2 (7.7K votes)10220211228
City of the Living DeadA reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.1980Lucio Fulci (*)Horror6.3 (17K votes)9320211228
Classic Horror Story, AIn this gruesome suspense film, strangers traveling in southern Italy become stranded in the woods, where they must fight desperately to get out alive.2021Roberto De Feo, Paolo StrippoliDrama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller5.7 (21.2K votes)9520231116
Deep RedA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.1975Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.6 (36.5K votes)12720211228
Demons 2 aka Dèmoni 2 - L'incubo ritornaA group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.1986Lamberto BavaHorror6.0 (10.3K votes)9220211228
Demons aka DèmoniA group of random people is invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.1985Lamberto BavaHorror6.7 (22.6K votes)8820211228
Don't Torture a Duckling aka Non si sevizia un paperinoWhen a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.1972Lucio Fulci (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.1 (9.1K votes)10520211228
DraculaAsia Argento stars in horror legend Dario Argento's sexy spin on the classic tale about the sharp-toothed count who craves human blood.2012Dario Argento (*)Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller3.6 (4.4K votes)11020211228
Evil Eye, The [La ragazza che sapeva troppo]A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.1963Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (4.5K votes)8620211228
Four Flies on Grey VelvetA musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.1971Dario Argento (*)Crime, Mystery, Thriller6.6 (8.2K votes)10420211228
Girl Who Knew Too Much, TheA mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.1963Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (4.5K votes)8620211228
Hatchet For The HoneymoonA cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.1970Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.4 (3.7K votes)8820211228
House by the Cemetery aka Quella villa accanto al cimiteroA New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.1981Lucio Fulci (*)Horror6.2 (14K votes)8620211228
InfernoAn American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.1980Dario Argento (*)Horror6.6 (20.6K votes)10620211228
Lisa and the Devil [Lisa e il diavolo]A tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an ancient fresco.1974Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery6.4 (4.6K votes)9520211228
Lizard In A Woman's Skin [Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di, AThe potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.1971Lucio Fulci (*)Mystery, Thriller6.9 (4.9K votes)9520211228
Mother of TearsAn American art student in Rome accidentally triggers the return of Mater Lachrymarum - the Third Mother - and must use her latent magical powers to end the witch's reign of terror.2007Dario Argento (*)Drama, Horror, Thriller5.1 (10K votes)10220211228
New York Ripper, The aka Lo squartatore di New YorkA burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.1982Lucio Fulci (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.4 (10.6K votes)8520211228
OperaA young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.1987Dario Argento (*)Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (16.7K votes)10720211228
Phantom of the OperaGory remake of the Gaston Leroux classic story, only this time, the phantom is not disfigured, but a man who was raised by rats deep under the Paris Opera House.1998Dario Argento (*)Horror4.3 (5.4K votes)9920211228
Planet of the Vampires aka Terrore nello spazioAfter landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.1965Mario Bava (*)Action, Adventure, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi6.3 (5.9K votes)8820211228
Psychic, The aka Sette note in neroA clairvoyant woman discovers a skeleton in a wall in her husband's house, and seeks to find the truth about what happened to the victim.1977Lucio Fulci (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.9 (5.1K votes)9020211228
Stendhal Syndrome, TheA young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.1996Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.1 (8.2K votes)11320211228
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
TenebreAn American writer in Rome is stalked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book.1982Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.1 (22.7K votes)10120211228
Torso aka I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnaleA string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sadistic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.1973Sergio MartinoHorror, Mystery, Thriller6.5 (6.5K votes)9220211228
TraumaA young man tries to help a teenage European girl who escaped from a clinic after witnessing the murder of her parents by a serial killer, and they try to find the killer before the killer finds them.1993Dario Argento (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller5.9 (6.9K votes)10620211228
Twitch of the Death Nerve aka Reazione a catenaThe murder of a wealthy countess, which was erroneously deemed suicide, triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to take over her large estate.1971Mario Bava (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.6 (10.5K votes)8420211228
What Have You Done to Solange aka Cosa avete fatto a SolangeA teacher who is having an affair with one of his students is reluctant to present an alibi when his lover witnesses the first in a series of murders connected to their school.1972Massimo DallamanoHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (5.2K votes)10720211228
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key [Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave]A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his wife.1972Sergio MartinoDrama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller6.7 (3.8K votes)9720211228
Zombie aka Zombie 2Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.1979Lucio Fulci (*)Horror6.8 (27.2K votes)9120211228
The Nest2019nanHorror, Mystery, Thrillernan (Unkn) Excluded