Top Horror Movies


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

181. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Philip Kaufman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy, Art Hindle
Plot: In San Francisco a group of people are brought together when they notice friends and relatives somehow changing. As more and more people are affected, they soon realize an alien life-form is behind the changes and must act before they are all taken.

182. The Witch

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Eggers
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson, Ellie Grainger
Plot: In 1630 a devout New England family - William, Katherine and their five children, lead a hard but rewarding life on the edge of a vast wilderness. But when the youngest child goes missing and their crops begin to fail - the family turns on one another as fear and paranoia grip them as they search for an evil that may or may not exist.

183. Shadow of the Vampire

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: E. Elias Merhige
Actors: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack, Eddie Izzard

184. Tremors

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ron Underwood
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire, Bobby Jacoby
Plot: The locals and a visiting geologist in a small town must fend for themselves after new, deadly creatures that can move underground and sense the slightest vibration appear.

185. Island of Lost Souls

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Actors: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Bela Lugosi, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke
Plot: The original telling of H.G. Well's classic novel about a man who stumbles upon an island of half-human and half-animal inhabitants.

186. Phantasm

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Coscarelli
Actors: Michael Baldwin, Lynn Eastman, Reggie Bannister, David Arntzen, Angus Scrimm, Bill Cone
Plot: Mike looks up to his older brother who seems to have it all - the looks, the car and the girls. However, the two are thrown into a different world after a funeral when the mortician, The Tall Man, is seen lifting a coffin with ease and taking it with him. Thus begins their quest to bring down The Tall Man.

187. House of Wax

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: André De Toth
Actors: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson, Paul Picerni
Plot: A disfigured sculptor opens his own house of wax where the figures are life-like for a very good reason: he's stealing bodies to create his art.

188. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chuck Russell
Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman
Plot: Nancy Thompson is back, but this time to help some troubled teens fight
back against Freddy and his razor hands.

189. Final Destination

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Wong
Actors: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott, Kristen Cloke, Tony Todd
Plot: After a terrifying vision of a plane crash, a group of people are thrown
off a flight... which explodes soon after. Having cheated death once, the
friends find that cheating it a second time isn't so easy.

190. The Changeling

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Medak
Actors: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos, Barry Morse
Plot: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a specter.

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