Top Horror Movies


The Top Horror Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Horror List". Lists are calculated daily.

101. Day of the Dead

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Terry Alexander, Lori Cardille, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy, Sherman Howard, Taso N. Stavrakis
Plot: As the dead have taken over most of the world, a group of scientists,
along with a military unit, hole up in an underground bunker and attempt
to cure the zombie problem.

102. Last Night in Soho

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edgar Wright
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, Michael Ajao
Plot: A young fashion student, obsessed with the 60s aesthetic, moves to London where she inexplicably finds herself connected across time and space to Sadie, a rising 60s starlet. But even as she dives deeper down the rabbit hole and her connection to Sadie grows stronger, reality begins to take a surreal turn.

103. Longlegs

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oz Perkins
Actors: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby
Plot: Young FBI Agent Lee Harker seems to have a sixth sense and is put on the
case of a mysterious string of family murders - with a cryptic cipher
being left behind at each one signed "Longlegs". Despite never being at
the scene of the murders, each also revolving around the daughter's
birthday on the 14th of the month, he somehow seems to exert control
over the actions. As Lee gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own
connection to the killer - and the revelations won't stop there.

104. Cube

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Wayne Robson, Maurice Dean Wint
Plot: A group of six strangers find themselves in a giant cube maze filled with
deadly traps. Each has a unique skill and they must work together to solve
the puzzle and escape before they all perish or let paranoia tear them
apart.

105. Funny Games

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann
Plot: A family vacation is interrupted by two educated, articulate and sadistic young men who come up with some interesting games for the family to play.

106. The Uninvited

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Allen
Actors: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest
Plot: A sister and brother buy a house in the country where they soon discover the house is haunted, and that the haunting is related to their newly introduced neighbors.

107. Stephen King's It

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Actors: Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Annette O'Toole, John Ritter, Tim Curry, Seth Green
Plot: This is Stephen King's story about a group of friends are called back to
their hometown to face an evil they thought they defeated 30 years ago. In
able to do so they are forced to open old wounds and face unwanted
memories.

108. Weapons

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Zach Cregger
Actors: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Austin Abrams, Alden Ehrenreich, Amy Madigan, Benedict Wong
Plot: On a seemingly normal school day, teacher Justine Gandy walks into her class to find on one, lone student has shown up: Alex. Despite intensive investigation, the rest of the children remain missing. With tensions rising, she finds herself a pariah in the community. She is convinced Alex is the key to solving the puzzle but things are complicated by hooking up with an old flame, police officer Paul and the fury of Archer, father of one of the missing boys. As the puzzle slowly comes together, it turns out a much darker presence has been behind the scenes, manipulating with a purpose.

109. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Sharman
Actors: Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Meat Loaf, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien
Plot: A couple's vehicle breaks down and they are forced to contact some one
don't even know when the couple are instituted in a weird place.

110. Pearl

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ti West
Actors: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Matthew Sunderland, Alistair Sewell
Plot: Prequel to X in which we discover Pearl's origin - growing up isolated and dealing with an ailing father and overbearing mother, she only wants to capture some of the glamour like she's seen in the movies - no matter the cost.

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