Top Horror Movies


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

301. 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.

302. 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.

303. The Woman in Black

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Watkins
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, David Burke, Shaun Dooley, Alisa Khazanova
Plot: A young lawyer is sent to a quiet village to settle a recently-deceased client's account when he comes across the ghost of a woman seeking vengeance.

304. House of Usher

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Eleanor LeFaber, Ruth Oklander
Plot: Roderick Usher's cursed New England bloodline dooms him and his sister, Madeline, to madness and debauchery. When Philip Winthrop arrives at the grim Usher mansion with plans of marrying Madeline, Roderick attempts to dissuade him with the tales of the Usher curse.

305. Demons ( Dèmoni )

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lamberto Bava
Actors: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Geretta Geretta, Paola Cozzo
Plot: Campy little movie with pretty poor acting and dubbing, but none-the-less very frightening. A group of strangers are given free tickets to the premiere of a movie when someone tries on a mysterious mask on display. Cut by the mask, the wearer soon transforms into a demon attacking an infecting other movie goers. Chaos ensues as the demons transforms other people into demons until only a few fight for survival in the theatre.

306. Trilogy of Terror

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dan Curtis
Actors: Karen Black, Robert Burton, Jim Storm, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Gregory Harrison
Plot: Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women.

307. I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Actors: Toni Collette, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Jason Ralph

308. Wrong Turn

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Schmidt
Actors: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers, Lindy Booth
Plot: Six people get stranded in the woods of West Virginia where the locals are cannibals because of years of inbreeding.

309. Eden Lake

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Watkins
Actors: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender , Tara Ellis, Jack O'Connell, Finn Atkins, Jumayn Hunter
Plot: Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.

310. 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

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