Top Horror Movies


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

211. Them!

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gordon Douglas
Actors: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory
Plot: Early atomic experiments in the desert have given rise to a colony of gigantic ants. A group of scientists along with the army must work together to stop the menacing problem before it spreads.

212. Paranormal Activity

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oren Peli
Actors: Michael Bayouth, Katie Featherston, Randy McDowell, Ashley Palmer, Tim Piper, Amber Armstrong
Plot: A couple moves into a typical suburban tract house, but soon begins to experience strange phenomena at night. Setting up a video camera, they hope to capture evidence of the force, demonic or otherwise, that is terrorizing them.

213. Reincarnation ( Rinne )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Actors: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shiina, Tetta Sugimoto, Shun Oguri, Marika Matsumoto
Plot: Nagisa Sugiura is a young aspiring actor that lands a role in a horror movie based on a real incident where a man took his familiy on vacation to a hotel. There he first killed his family then he killed the entire staff before he took his own life. From the moment the young actor leaves the audition she begin to see people that nobody else can see.

214. The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Jennifer Carpenter, Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Kenneth Welsh, Joshua Close
Plot: A young girl dies under the supervision of her priest who tried to preform an exorcism. He tells his story to the court in hopes the people will understand.

215. Christine

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Kelly Preston
Plot: High school geek Arnie Cunningham becomes enamored with a rundown, red 1958 Plymouth Fury and makes it his task to restore it to glory. His friends notice his personality begins to change for the worse and find the car has a deadly past.

216. The Prophecy

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregory Widen
Actors: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz, Viggo Mortensen, Amanda Plummer
Plot: The Archangel Gabriel tries to win the war in heaven by killing a man on earth and taking his soul.

217. Inside ( À l'intérieur )

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel, François-Régis Marchasson, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Dominique Frot
Plot: On Christmas Eve a pregnant woman stays at home alone a day before her scheduled delivery. Shunning friends and family after a near-fatal crash takes the life of her husband, she is awakened by a mysterious woman who wants the child for her own and will let no one stand in her way to get it.

218. Barbarian

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Zach Cregger
Actors: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Kurt Braunohler, Jaymes Butler, Matthew Patrick Davis
Plot: After arriving in town for a job interview, a young woman discovers the Airbnb she has reserved has been double-booked. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay with the young man but discovers the house holds a far deadlier secret down below than anything she might be afraid of up above.

219. Benny's Video

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek
Plot: With little contact from his parent, Benny is left alone and quietly loses himself in his film fantasy world - so much so that he finds it hard to even relate to real life. It leads up to inviting a girl over and almost casually murdering her - and leaving behind a filmed confession for his absent parents.

220. Repo! The Genetic Opera!

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Actors: Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega, Anthony Head, Paul Sorvino, Sarah Brightman
Plot: The year is 2056, after a world-wide epidemic of organ failure, the GeneCo
company forms and offers organ transplants. If someone cannot pay their
bill, repo men come to claim the tissue back. In this dangerous world, a
young girl seeks to find a cure for her own illness and the mystery behind
her family and it all leads back to GeneCo.

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