11. Jaws
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb
Plot: A killer great white terrorizes a small community in New England.
12. Dawn of the Dead
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford, David Early
Plot: A group of four people barricade themselves in a mall to hoping to survive against the recently risen dead. A militant motorcylce gang threatens to ruin their plans.
13. The Evil Dead
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Betsy Baker, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Theresa Tilly, Ted Raimi
Plot: Five college age friends road trip to a remote location where they are slowly swallowed by an evil presence one by one.
14. Shaun of the Dead
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edgar Wright
Actors: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Nicola Cunningham
Plot: A man needs to sort out his life: with his girlfriend, his mother and
step-father, his job and his best friend. Oh, and the recently deceased
are now rising from the dead and trying to eat everyone.
15. Poltergeist
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Richard Lawson, James Karen, Beatrice Straight
Plot: A typical suburban family is first amused, then terrorized as ghosts and other paranormal phenomena take over their home.
16. Evil Dead 2
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Dan Hicks, Sarah Berry, Kassie DePaiva, Ted Raimi, Denise Bixler
Plot: Ash, Bruce Cambell, takes his girlfriend to a remote cabin in the woods where he finds a recorder. He plays the tape and summons the evil that lurks in the woods.
17. Misery
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Reiner
Actors: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis
Plot: A famous novelist crashes on a snowy Colorado road. He is rescued by his
"number one fan" but soon finds that she is unstable and willing to do
anything to have her way.
18. Saw
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Wan
Actors: Cary Elwes, Leight Wannell, Danny Glover, Ken Lueng, Mike Butters, Dina Meyer
Plot: Two men wake up in a dingy bathroom, chained to the floor. They are the newest victims of Jigsaw, a serial killer who sets elaborate traps to prove a point.
19. Scream
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courtney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard
Plot: A killer strikes a small town with fear, focusing on one young woman in particular. As the list of suspects grows, who to trust becomes a matter of life and death.
20. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn, Jim Siedow
Plot: A group of five friends travel through rural Texas when they pick up a strange hitchhiker. Things go from bad to worse when they end up at an old farm house that is home to a cannibalistic family.
