Top Horror Movies


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

311. Dance of the Vampires ( Fearless Vampire Killers, The )

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass, Ferdy Mayne, Jessie Robins
Plot: Maybe the best horror/comedy based on bites: vampire bites. An incompetent scientist takes his young pupil in search of eastern vampires, and failing to kill them, it spreads the disease. The action takes place in the 19th century, when Sharon Tate was a young daughter of an innkeeper. She is taken by master vampire, the count, to the old castle, to be imprisoned forever.

312. [ Rec ] 2

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Actors: Manuela Velasco, Javier Botet, Leticia Dolera, Ferran Terraza, David Vert, Ana Isabel Velásquez
Plot: Following the events of REC - a SWAT team and doctor are sent into the quarantined apartment after contact is lost.

313. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker ( Night Warning )

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Asher
Actors: Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis, Bill Paxton, Steve Eastin

314. Oculus

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: Katee Sackhoff, Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, James Lafferty, Rory Cochrane, Katie Parker
Plot: Convinced her brother is innocent of the murder he is accused of, a women sets out to prove who the real culprit is - a supernatural entity in the form of an antique mirror.

315. Scream VI

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Courteney Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panettiere
Plot: After surviving the most recent Ghostface killings in Woodsboro, the remaining group packs up for New York only to learn that putting the past behind them will not be so easy as a new wave of killings begins.

316. Hatchet

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam Green
Actors: Joel Moore, Mercedes McNab, Joleigh Fioreavanti, Joel Murray, Deon Richmond, Tamara Feldman
Plot: A group of tourists in New Orleans take a boat ride of the haunted bayous and learn the tragic tale of Victor Crawley - a disfigured man who was accidentally killed by his father - with a hatchet. When they become stranded, however, the tale takes a deadly twist.

317. Strange Darling

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: JT Mollner
Actors: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, Ed Begley Jr., Steven Michael Quezada, Madisen Beaty
Plot: A man and a woman meet up a motel for a one-night stand, not realizing the
horrors in store in a twisted journey that is equal parts fear and
madness.

318. Nightbreed

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clive Barker
Actors: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, Hugh Ross
Plot: Based on Clive Barker's (who directed the film) novel, Cabal, a young outcast finds a community of mutants and monsters who are being hunted down by a serial killer, along with being targeted by a group of redneck vigilantes. He bonds with the group, vowing to help them survive.

319. The People Under the Stairs

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen
Plot: On his 13th birthday, a boy helps his sister's boyfriend attempt to rob
the house of the greedy local landlord. Getting inside is the easy part,
escaping is another matter entirely.

320. Berberian Sound Studio

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Strickland
Actors: Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappellaro, Cosimo Fusco, Suzy Kendall, Chiara D'Anna
Plot: A British sound engineer finds himself working for an Italian horror studio but his life is complicated as the fictional horror begins to bleed into his very real life.

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