Top Horror Movies


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

71. Doctor Sleep

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Zahn McClarnon, Kyliegh Curran, Jacob Tremblay, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: It has been decades since the events of The Shining and Danny Torrence, now a middle-aged man, is trying to cope both with his father's legacy of alcoholism and his own gift, which he uses at a small town in Massachusetts, helping the elderly pass on as Doctor Sleep. But when he discovers a young girl with the most powerful Shine he has experienced, he must face both his past and the present when she comes under the gaze of The True Knot, a group that feeds on the Shine to sustain themselves.

72. Kwaidan

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Katsuo Nakamura, Kanemon Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Keiko Kishi
Plot: Four Japanese tales revolving around the supernatural: A poor samurai disowns his wife in order to marry for money only to regret the decision and return home, but something has changed; a woodcutter is rescued from a snowstrom by an ice spirit who saves him on condition he never tell anyone about her - 10 years later he breaks the promise; a blind musician in a monastery is commissioned by a ghostly host to sing their ballad, but as his lifeforce is drained the monks rush to save him; finally, a writer recounts the story of man who keeps seeing a mysterious face in his cup of tea.

73. Trick 'r Treat

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Dougherty
Actors: Quinn Lord, Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Leslie Bibb, Anna Paquin, Rochelle Aytes
Plot: Four interwoven stories share the Halloween theme: a high school principal
moonlights as a serial killer, a female college virgin thinks she has met
the right guy, a group of teens look to pull a mean-spirited prank and a
man obsessed with the holiday drives his wife crazy.

74. Hereditary

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ari Aster
Actors: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, Zachary Arthur
Plot: Ellen has long been the matriarch of the Graham family but, upon her passing, her daughter, Annie, along with her husband Steve and their two children find themselves as part of a horrifying legacy as they begin to unravel the true story behind their family - and learn that not everything you inherit is welcome.

75. The Phantom of the Opera

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rupert Julian
Actors: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis
Plot: The Opera of Paris is visited by a mysterious phantom (Lon Chaney) who has his eye on the famous singer - but after frightening her away, an ingenue, Christine Daae is brought in and becomes intrigued by the phantom living in the catacombs and his reason for staying.

76. Train to Busan ( Busanhaeng )

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Actors: Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Woo-sik Choi, Yu-mi Jeong, Sohee, Kim Soo-ahn
Plot: A father who spends more time with his work than with his daughter honors
her birthday wish to visit her mother, and his ex-wife. But boarding the
high-speed KTX train turns in to a fight for survival when a zombie
outbreak cripples South Korea and an infected passenger soon threatens
everyone on board.

77. Ringu

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato, Yoichi Numata
Plot: A reporter investigates a video tape that is supposed to kill you seven days after viewing it.

78. From Dusk Till Dawn

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo
Plot: Two brothers and cold-blooded killers, Seth and Richard Gecko, take a
family hostage and steal their RV with hopes of fleeing to Mexico. They
make a pit stop at an exotic dance club which, unfortunately for all
involved, is actually just a front for a clan of vampires.

79. Us

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jordan Peele
Actors: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Plot: A family on vacation is terrorized by the appearance of a second family -
one that is wholly evil and looks just like them.

80. Fright Night

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Holland
Actors: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall, Stephen Geoffreys, Jonathan Stark
Plot: A young B-horror movie buff becomes convinces his new next door neighbors are vampires. When nobody believes him, he recruits the skeptical host of his favorite TV show Fright Night.

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