Top Horror Movies


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

81. Diabolique ( diaboliques, Les )

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actors: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault, Paul Meurisse
Plot: After a wife and a man's mistress Kill her husband, the body mysteriously
disappears as the two women appear cursed.

82. The Babadook

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jennifer Kent
Actors: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, Tim Purcell, Noah Wiseman, Benjamin Winspear, Craig Behenna
Plot: A woman loses her husband in a car crash on the way to giving birth to her
child, Samuel. Coping with life as a single mother, she watches as Samuel
grows, and as he begins to see monsters everywhere, with often violent
reactions. One particular book, The Babadook, talks of a monster hiding in
the dark places in houses - it affects not only Samuel, but her as well.

83. Duel

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Shirley O'Hara
Plot: A man plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with a driver of an 18-wheeler.

84. It Follows

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Actors: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Lili Sepe, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, Debbie Williams
Plot: Jay, a 19-year-old, should be spending Autumn worrying about school, boys and spending week-ends at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual experience she finds herself unable to shake the feeling that something is stalking her. As strange visions begin to plague her, she turns to her friends to help escape this horror - if she can.

85. Under the Shadow

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Babak Anvari
Actors: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Arash Marandi, Behi Djanati Atai
Plot: Stranded in their flat during the Iran/Iraq war, a young Iranian mother and her daughter are haunted by an evil spirit.

86. [ Rec ]

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Actors: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge Serrano, Pablo Rosso, David Vert, Vicente Gil
Plot: A local television reporter and her cameraman are tracking the practices of a local fire department for a segment. The department is dispatched on an emergency call and the television crew goes along for the film. Once inside the building where the call came from the government quarantines the building. And what's with the old lady that bit that guy? They're both acting like zombies!

87. Black Christmas aka Silent Night, Evil Night

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon, Marian Waldman, Andrea Martin
Plot: A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.

88. The Bad Seed

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden, William Hopper
Plot: A mother is forced to deal with the most terrifying thing a mother can deal with in this daring film based off of a popular play. Set in the 1950's, in a society where little girls are brought up to be cute and polite young ladies, a little, "harmless" girl named Rhoda raises suspicion when a boy in her class mysteriously drowns after beating her in a penmanship contest.

The medal he won went missing and Rhoda is the center of attention. No one suspects that she is to blame for the boy's death, but her the janitor at the building she lives in. Her mother also has to come to terms with the fact that her daughter might be a "Bad Seed" who lacks a soul and kills to get what she wants. Is Rhoda innocent or is she a bad seed?

89. The Devil's Rejects

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Zombie
Actors: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Leslie Easterbrook, Sheri Moon, William Forsythe, Ken Foree
Plot: The serial killing Firefly family is under attack from a sadistic local sheriff looking to avenge the death of his brother. When a couple of the family escape, they turn a fleabag motel into their own playground with the sheriff hot on their heels.

90. Pearl

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ti West
Actors: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Matthew Sunderland, Alistair Sewell
Plot: Prequel to X in which we discover Pearl's origin - growing up isolated and dealing with an ailing father and overbearing mother, she only wants to capture some of the glamour like she's seen in the movies - no matter the cost.

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