Top Horror Movies


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

411. Dead Silence

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Wan
Actors: Amber Valletta, Ryan Kwanten, Donnie Wahlberg, Bob Gunton, Laura Regan, Keir Gilchrist
Plot: A young man returns home to Ravens Fair after he receives a ventriloquist doll at his apartment, and his wife if brutally murdered. He finds that a local legend about Mary Shaw, the doll's owner, is much more than just a ghost story.

412. Possession

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering
Plot: A couple's impending divorce causes both to examine each other in a different life - but as the husband becomes obsessed with finding out why his wife wants to leave, she becomes more and more fearful of him. When he finds out she already has a lover, he begins a relationship with his young's son's teacher - a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his wife but with a complete opposite personality.

413. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy William Neill
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya, Ilona Massey, Dennis Hoey
Plot: Larry Talbot aka The Wolfman, is in the care of Dr. Manning - but knows
his condition cannot be cured my modern medicine. Instead, after escaping
the asylum, an old gypsy points him to the only man who can help: Dr.
Frankenstein. But the doctor is nowhere to be found - his daughter, who
send him to the ruins of the former castle - but is not abandoned as
Frankenstein's monster is still around.

414. The Skeleton Key

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Iain Softley
Actors: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Maxine Barnett
Plot: A hospice worker in an old plantation house in New Orleans comes across a mysterious Hoodoo ritual. The magic will only work if she believes in it and as she delves deeper into the mystery, she starts to believe.

415. Damien: Omen II

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Taylor
Actors: William Holden, Lance Henriksen, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Nicholas Pryor
Plot: Now 13, an older Damien begins to discover his true destiny as the anti-Christ and is more than willing to accept it. Forces work to stop his power, but can they succeed?

416. Slither

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Gunn
Actors: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Tania Saulnier, Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry, Jenna Fischer
Plot: A small town is taken over by a parasitic alien life form that controls their minds.

417. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: André Øvredal
Actors: Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Gabriel Rush, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows
Plot: The small town of Mill Valley holds a dark secret: the Bellows family shadow looms large, where Sarah, a young girl, turned her life of dark secrets and horror into a series of terrifying short stories. A group of teens are about to find out that Sarah's stories are more than just words on paper when they begin to experience the horror for themselves after coming across the ghastly collection.

418. Monkey Shines

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci, Joyce Van Patten
Plot: A quadriplegic man is given a genetically enhanced monkey to help him in
his daily life but when the emotional bond between the two becomes akin to
a psychic connection, the monkey acts on his subconscious rage.

419. The Blob

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Actors: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, John Benson
Plot: A meteoroite delivers a gelatinous creature to earth, which promptly begins devouring the citizens of a nearby small town. The growing "blob" tries its best to terrorize the town, but the ultra-cool Steve McQueen gives the "blob" the cold-shoulder and saves the day!

420. Queen of the Damned

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Rymer
Actors: Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez, Lena Olin, Claudia Black
Plot: Lestat is back and once again wreaks havoc everwhere he goes! This time he has gone too far and awakened an ancient evil : Akasha, Queen of the Damned. Will she be stopped or will earth become a hell over which she rules?

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