Top Horror Movies


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

131. Stir of Echoes

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Koepp
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Illeana Douglas, Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe, Kevin Dunn, Conor O'Farrell
Plot: Working-class man Tom Witzky has a son and pregnant wife and hangs out
with the same group of friends - one night his sister-in-law convinces him
to get hypnotized where she plants the simple suggestion to "open your
mind." What nobody would suspect is that Tom is soon treated to visions of
the ghost of a young woman who went missing from the neighborhood years
ago.

132. Green Room

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Actors: Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Mark Webber, Callum Turner
Plot: A punk rock band on a tour in a secluded area of the Pacific Northwest come across a horrific act of violence. Because they are the only witnesses, they soon all become targets of the white power skinheads responsible, and soon find themselves on the run for their lives.

133. World War Z

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Daniella Kertesz, Ludi Boeken, Fana Mokoena
Plot: Based on the book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks - ten years after a zombie epidemic nearly exterminates the human race, the author takes a tour of the world interviewing survivors and tracing the history of the outbreak and how humanity fought back.

134. Drag Me to Hell

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza
Plot: An ambitious loan officer is forced to evict an old woman from her long-
time home. But the elderly, mysterious Mrs. Ganush won't go quietly: she
places a curse on her - turning her life into a literal living hell. When
it is revealed the only way to stop the curse is to pass it on to another
person, how far will she go to rid herself of the curse?

135. Godzilla ( Gojira )

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ishirô Honda
Actors: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Fuyuki Murakami, Sachio Sakai
Plot: A giant monster attacks Tokyo.

136. 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.

137. Re-Animator

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbot, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson
Plot: A brilliant but misguided young scientist creates an agent that gives life to dead tissue. Test subjects are hard to come by and even worse, a professor has taken an unhealthy interest in his work.

138. Dog Soldiers

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neil Marshall
Actors: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer, Leslie Simpson
Plot: A band of soldiers is dispatched for participation in war games. Upon
arrival they discover another band deep in the woods who have been
massacred as well as a surviving soldier who claims the team was taken out
by werewolves.

139. The Amityville Horror

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Val Avery, Murray Hamilton
Plot: A family moves into a new dream home, but find that is actually a mass-murder site and the ghosts of the victims may still be there.

140. Ju-On: The Grudge

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Actors: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kanji Tsuda, Kayako Shibata
Plot: A house with a violent past curses anyone who steps inside.

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