Top Horror Movies


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

171. Phantasm

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Coscarelli
Actors: Michael Baldwin, Lynn Eastman, Reggie Bannister, David Arntzen
Plot: Mike looks up to his older brother who seems to have it all - the looks, the car and the girls. However, the two are thrown into a different world after a funeral when the mortician, The Tall Man, is seen lifting a coffin with ease and taking it with him. Thus begins their quest to bring down The Tall Man.

172. Spring

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Holly Hawkins, Chris Palko
Plot: A young man flees from the U.S. to Italy after some trouble in life. There he meets a young, local woman who is more then a mystery.

173. The Cottage

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Actors: Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison, Steven O'Donnell
Plot: In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer.

174. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chuck Russell
Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette
Plot: Nancy Thompson is back, but this time to help some troubled teens fight back against Freddy and his razor hands.

175. The Spiral Staircase

Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Siodmak
Actors: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Rhonda Fleming
Plot: A killer is stalking women. There's a creepy house, a mute servant girl and some questionable residents.

176. Pin

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sandor Stern
Actors: David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn, Bronwen Mantel
Plot: Leon and Ursula are brought up by a distant father and cold mother - their only friend is Pin, an anatomy dummy their father uses in his office and brings to life with ventriloquism. When their parents die suddenly, they are left alone in their expansive house and Leon becomes very protective of his sister, and soon brings Pin to move in with them...

177. Fallen

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz
Plot: Convicted killer Edgar Reese is brought to justice and executed thanks to the efforts of detective John Hobbes. However, soon after his deaths, a series of killings done in the style of Reese and Hobbes finds that the cause is an ancient evil that can move from person to person with just a touch.

178. Salem's Lot

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia
Plot: A writer returns to his home town to investigate the eerie mansion that haunted him as a child. Meanwhile, a supernatural illness plagues the town, leaving the victims weak and bloodless. Based on the Stephen King novel.

179. Child's Play

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Holland
Actors: Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif, Chris Sarandon, Tommy Swerdlow
Plot: Charles Lee Ray, a serial killer on the run, is shot and dying when he performs a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul to a children's doll. This doll is then given to a small boy who fights for his life as the doll returns to Charles Lee Ray's killing ways.

180. Haxan ( Witchcraft Through the Ages )

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt
Plot: Witchcraft, demon's and hell portrayed in medieval times until the present. It depicts the powers, habits of evil and how it can affect the holiest of person's. Even Satan appears to show his intent.

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