241. Stoker
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chan-wook Park
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Goode
Plot: After her father dies in an accident, India Stoker's mysterious uncle - a person who she didn't even know existed until he showed up - helps deal with her unstable mother. Even though she suspects he has his own motives, she finds herself increasingly infatuated with him.
242. Creature from the Black Lagoon
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Horror
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno
Plot: An Amazon River expedition uncovers an ancient Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. They capture the creature, but it breaks free - kidnapping a woman from camp, with whom he has fallen in love with.
243. Cat People
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Plot: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
244. Ravenous
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antonia Bird
Actors: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies
Plot: Captain John Boyd is transferred to Fort Spencer. Shorty after his arrival a stranger appear telling a horrible tale of a party stranded near a cave tend to cannibalism in order to survive. A search party is formed heading for the cave to search for survivors.
245. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Horror/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Actors: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò
Plot: Bad City - an Iranian town that sits lonely and nearly abandoned. The few townspeople that remain are unaware that death comes in many forms - including a solitary vampire who preys quietly on them.
246. Ju-On: The Curse 2
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Actors: Yuuko Daike, Makoto Ashikawa, Kahori Fujii, Takako Fuji
Plot: When something of unspeakable tragedy takes place the location becomes tainted and everyone that comes here get tainted by the evil as well. A husband murders his wife and child in jelous rage because he's convinced she is having an affair. The house become cursed and more people get tainted as they enter the house.
247. The Entity
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, Margaret Blye, David Labiosa
Plot: Supposedly based on actual events: a woman awakens on night to find herself the victim of assault and rape by an invisible force. With friends and family shunning her, and possibly thinking of committing her, she turns to parapsychologists who in turn find an evil presence that is drawn to her and must somehow figure out how to stop it.
248. Three... Extremes ( Sam gang yi )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park
Actors: Ling Bai, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Miki Yeung, Byung-hun Lee
Plot: In this Asian horror film, there are three sub plots:
The first story is called Dumplings and a woman is trying very hard to have a child to keep her marriage from falling apart. She goes to desperate lengths to do this when she finds out she is unable to bare children.
The second story called The Cut involves a director who is casting a movie that involves someone he knows. This someone is asked to do things for the movie that seem odd and scary.
The third story is called The Box and it involves the relationship of a girl and her sister. She is buried in the snow and tries to separate between dream and reality.
249. The Tingler
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Castle
Actors: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts
Plot: A scientist (Price) discovers a strange creature that latches on to people's spines when they are afraid and causes a tingling sensation. A person must scream to get rid of the tingler; otherwise, he or she will die. When the film was first released in theaters, buzzers were attached to some audience members' seats to replicate the tingling sensation at key points in the movie.
250. Fear Street Part Two: 1978
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Leigh Janiak
Actors: Olivia Welch, Chiara Aurelia, Drew Scheid, Michael Provost
Plot: It's summertime and Camp Nightwing is about to serve up plenty of fun and activities now that school is out. Too bad one of the campers is about to play host to an unwelcome guest - one that will turn them into a stone-cold killer and survival becomes the goal of this bloody summer camp.
