Top Horror Movies


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

131. Near Dark

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Tim Thomerson, Jenette Goldstein
Plot: A small group of vampires turn a new man into one of them. But before they accept him into the group he must make his first kill. Can he go through with it?

132. Frankenstein

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Mia Goth, Oscar Isaac, Ralph Ineson, Christoph Waltz, Jacob Elordi, Charles Dance

133. 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.

134. Sole Survivor

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Actors: Anita Skinner, Kurt Johnson, Robin Davidson, Caren L. Larkey, Andrew Boyer, Daniel Bryan Cartwell

135. Weapons

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 3.0 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.

136. 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.

137. 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.

138. Nosferatu

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Eggers
Actors: Emma Corrin, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill SkarsgÄrd, Willem Dafoe, Lily-Rose Depp

139. 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?

140. Ju-On: The Grudge

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 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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