Top Horror Movies


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

241. Creature from the Black Lagoon

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Horror
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Bernie Gozier
Plot: An Amazon River expedition uncovers an ancient Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. They capture the creature, but it breaks free - kidnapping a woman from camp, with whom he has fallen in love with.

242. 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.

243. 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.

244. The Man Who Laughs

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Paul Leni
Actors: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar Jr., Olga Baclanova, Brandon Hurst, Cesare Gravina

245. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wallace Worsley
Actors: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson, Nigel De Brulier

246. Happy Death Day

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Landon
Actors: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Jason Bayle
Plot: Tree Gelbman has been murdered. But the college student finds herself reliving the same day over and over again and the only way out is to find out who is killing her... and why.

247. The Stepfather

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joseph Ruben
Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Charles Lanyer, Stephen Shellen, Stephen E. Miller
Plot: A seemingly average man, after murdering his entire family, remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it again.

248. The Neon Demon

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee
Plot: A young, aspiring model arrives in L.A. with dreams of making it big, but, unbeknownst to her, a sinister cabal of beauty-obsessed women will go to great lengths to reclaim their own youth and vitality by draining it from her.

249. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nicolas Gessner
Actors: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Scott Jacoby, Dorothy Davis
Plot: A lone 13-year-old resorts to murder to protect her haven.

250. Martin

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Tom Savini, Elyane Nadeau, George A. Romero
Plot: A neurotic young man, claiming to be a vampire, is abused by his Catholic grandfather for being the bearer of an old family curse. But is the boy actually a vampire, or merely a murderer with supernatural delusions?

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