Top Horror Movies


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

51. Orphanage, The ( orfanato, El )

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Actors: Fernando Cayo, Belén Rueda, Roger Príncep, Andrés Gertrúdix
Plot: An orphan returns to her former orphanage with her new family to remodel and re-open the grounds. When she and her son venture to the beach he leaves a trail of sea-shells for one of his imaginary friends to follow. What exactly follows them back though?

52. The Haunting

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Plot: Hill House, a place with a wicked history attracts a researcher who assembles a group of people to stay in the house for a period of time. Strange things happen...

53. Gremlins

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Frances Lee McCain
Plot: A failed inventor brings how a new fuzzy pet for his son - but don't him wet, feed him after midnight and especially keep him away from bright light. When the rules are inevitably broken, something much more sinister is released.

54. Dracula

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Plot: A young lawyer travels to a gloomy eastern European village, where the local count, Dracula, takes an interest in him. He learns too late the count is a powerful vampire, one who would very much like take his wife-to-be, Mina, for his own.

55. Sleepy Hollow

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
Plot: Forensics expert Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a string of gristly decapitations blamed on local legend The Headless Horseman.

56. Jacob's Ladder

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Lyne
Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pe?a, Danny Aiello, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Plot: A New York postal worker, has increasingly harrowing flashbacks to Vietnam as his life unravels before him.

57. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Barry Keoghan, Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, Colin Farrell
Plot: A brilliant surgeon and his tranquil domestic life with his wife and two children is thrown in to upheaval with the arrival of a 16-year-old boy - leading the good doctor to make a sacrifice to save himself and his family.

58. The Cabin in the Woods

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Drew Goddard
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Kristen Connolly, Amy Acker
Plot: A twist on the classic horror setup of a group of friends going to a cabin retreat in the dark woods and uncovering something unexpected and horrific.

59. The Wicker Man

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robin Hardy
Actors: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland
Plot: A police seargent investigates Summerisle after the disappearence of a young girl. The locals are preparing for a local festival and are unhelpful, but he won't stop until he gets to the bottom of crime.

60. Don't Look Now

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania
Plot: The parents of a drowned child go to Venice and experience strange occurrences, including the arrival of what appears to be their dead little girl.

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