Top Horror Movies


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

261. The Tingler

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Castle
Actors: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge
Plot: A scientist (Price) discovers a strange creature that latches on to people's spines when they are afraid and causes a tingling sensation. A person must scream to get rid of the tingler; otherwise, he or she will die. When the film was first released in theaters, buzzers were attached to some audience members' seats to replicate the tingling sensation at key points in the movie.

262. The Endless

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Actors: Callie Hernandez, Lew Temple, Tate Ellington, Emily Montague, James Jordan, Justin Benson

263. Ravenous

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antonia Bird
Actors: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer
Plot: Captain John Boyd is transferred to Fort Spencer. Shorty after his arrival a stranger appear telling a horrible tale of a party stranded near a cave tend to cannibalism in order to survive. A search party is formed heading for the cave to search for survivors.

264. The Entity

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, Margaret Blye, David Labiosa, Allan Rich, George Coe
Plot: Supposedly based on actual events: a woman awakens on night to find herself the victim of assault and rape by an invisible force. With friends and family shunning her, and possibly thinking of committing her, she turns to parapsychologists who in turn find an evil presence that is drawn to her and must somehow figure out how to stop it.

265. Night of the Living Dead

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Savini
Actors: Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson, William Butler, Katie Finneran, Bill Moseley
Plot: A remake of the 1968 classic finds a group of people once again stranded
in a farm house while legions of the undead try to get inside.

266. Fragile ( Frágiles )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Actors: Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Gemma Jones, Yasmin Murphy
Plot: A young woman (Calista Flockhart) who has suffered a serious trauma is hired as a third shift nurse to help a hospital with very ill children as patients. A lot of them are terminal. The hospital is very run down. Most of the patients have already been moved to another hospital, and these kids are said to be moved from this hospital at some point. The children keep seeing someone in the shadows who terrifies them and who comes and goes at will without a trace. They believe it is someone they know who died in the hospital before. What they don't seem to know is what the someone wants.

267. Children of the Corn

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Actors: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, John Franklin, Courtney Gains, R.G. Armstrong, Robby Kiger
Plot: A couple takes a wrong turn in the mid-west and get stuck in an almost abandoned town. They find that all the adults are gone and the children run the town in this eerie film written by Steven King.

268. The Fly

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kurt Neumann
Actors: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson
Plot: The plot involves a scientist who is working on a a method of instantly transporting people across space. When he chooses to conduct his first human test on himself, there is literally a fly in the ointment. The transporter mixes up the scientist and a fly that is stowing away in the chamber, creating a monster mash-up: a human with the head and arm of a fly and a fly with the head and arm of a human! Can either survive without the other? Can the scientist find the fly in time to correct the error?

269. Children of the Damned

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anton Leader
Actors: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael
Plot: Six children from around the world suddenly develop amazing intellect and abilities and are brought to London for study.

270. Stoker

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chan-wook Park
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Goode, Lucas Till, Jacki Weaver
Plot: After her father dies in an accident, India Stoker's mysterious uncle - a person who she didn't even know existed until he showed up - helps deal with her unstable mother. Even though she suspects he has his own motives, she finds herself increasingly infatuated with him.

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