291. Dracula
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Badham
Actors: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve, Jan Francis
Plot: This retelling of the classic vampire story is based on the more
romantic stage play, but the story remains essentially the same as the
original 1931 film.
The story begins as Count Dracula is being transported to England to
take up residence in an old, abandoned castle on property adjacent to an
insane asylum. Upon his arrival, Dracula is instantly drawn to Lucy
Seward , (the daughter of the doctor in charge of the asylum), and her
friend, MIna Van Helsing (daughter of Abraham Van Helsing, a noted
expert on occult phenomena such as werewolves and vampires). The story
involves Dracula's attempt to make both of these women immortal wives,
and Van Helsing's attempts to thwarts his plans.
292. Scream 4
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin
Plot: On a cross-country tour promoting her new book, Sydney Prescott returns to
her home town where old friends wait... and also a new serial killer
inheriting the Ghostface mantle.
293. Cat People
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Plot: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
294. The Fly
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.6 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?
295. Swallow
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Actors: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, Luna Lauren Velez
296. 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.
297. Abigail
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Dan Stevens, Melissa Barrera
Plot: A group of criminals think they have the score of a lifetime when they
kidnap the young daughter and budding ballerina of a crime boss. But
locked inside a mansion, they soon realize this is no ordinary girl - and
find themselves in a battle for survival.
298. Hush
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: John Gallagher Jr., Emma Graves, Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloyan, Michael Trucco
Plot: Maddie, a deaf writer, lives alone in a secluded house in the woods.
Though it can be hectic, her life is mostly peaceful. That is until a
masked man shows up and she ends up having to fight for her life.
299. Candyman
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bernard Rose
Actors: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams, Ted Raimi
Plot: Helen Lyle, a Chicago student, is writing her thesis on local myths and legends when she hears about Candyman - the son of a slave and an artist who was brutally tortured and murdered for loving the wrong woman. Today, it is said if you say his name 5 times in mirror, he will appear. With unexplained murders all over, the locals blame Candyman, but Helen does not believe, until she calls Candyman and finds that some legends come true.
300. Cujo
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lewis Teague
Actors: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter, Kaiulani Lee
Plot: A large, gentle St. Bernard named Cujo is turned into a monster when he is
bit by a rabid bat. Donna Trenton and her son Tad pull into repair shop
just as their car dies not knowing that the only one to greet them is
going to be Cujo.
