The best Horror films of the new millennium
by karlee1981 | created - 03 Jul 2014 | updated - 06 Nov 2022 | PublicWith all the CGI demon-ghosts and all the sadistic torturers out there appearing in all the cheaply shot cash-grabs made for multiplex-going teens in October, it is tempting to think that the horror genre is dead. But please try to bear in mind; Horror has always been %95 teen garbage. The horror genre is alive and well if you only take the time to seek out the good movies among all the crap.
Finding these good movies is all the more difficult because...
You cannot trust the IMDb ratings of horror movies! This is why I've included the Rotten Tomatoes scores on some of these unjustly low-rated films.
In this era of billion dollar megaplex blockbusters aimed at teens carrying Mommy and Daddy's money in their pockets, there is usually no room in the theater for well-crafted horror movies aimed at adults. These films must almost always be made independently and released straight-to-DVD or given an extremely limited release in tiny venues. But these great movies don't reach their intended audience because the only people who watch straight-to-DVD horror movies are hardcore horror fans, and the unfortunate fact is that most hardcore horror fans are stupid. They are of low intelligence. Sorry.
They've come to expect stupidity when renting a horror movie because most horror movies are (and always have been) lowbrow garbage. These people want a death or a jump scare every fifteen minutes like clockwork, no matter how pointless to the plot.
These people quickly get confused and angry when they accidentally watch a horror movie with drawn-out tension, any hint of human drama, or only a few meaningful deaths. They feel cheated and they give the film four or five stars.
Yes, a few of the movies on this list do have good IMDb ratings, all are either foreign films or that very rare theater release. The hardcore horror fans stay far away from foreign movies and they are judged fairly by the people who do see them. The theater releases are seen by large audiences beyond the hardcore Horror fans, these large audiences then judged them fairly.
These are in rough order of greatness.
NOTES:
If a movie is less than a year old it's possible I just haven't seen it yet.
It Comes at Night (%88 on Rotten Tomatoes) was a great film but it is not and never was Horror. Blame the studio's marketing people if you feel cheated, not the film.
Before anyone bites my head off, I liked Get Out, I just thought the horror aspect was the weakest part of the movie They shouldn't have had that opening scene, we should've been left wondering if something is amiss or if our main character is just being paranoid
The production company A24 is absolutely crushing it! Not just in the Horror field. Look them up!
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1. REC (2007)
R | 78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso
Votes: 196,364
%90 on Rotten Tomatoes
2. Resolution (III) (2012)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Emily Montague, Kurt David Anderson
Votes: 19,493
A perfect %100 on Rotten Tomatoes!
3. Absentia (I) (2011)
R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband.
Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Dave Levine, Justin Gordon
Votes: 20,052
A thoughtful, realistic sisterly drama is interrupted by supernatural happenings. Many will find this one too slow. Tough.
While not enough critics have reviewed this on Rotten Tomatoes for the site to generate a percentage, three of the four who did gave it high marks.
4. Pontypool (2008)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak
Votes: 35,438
God bless those Canadians. They created the slasher genre with 'Black Christmas' and they continue to change the horror game with innovative low-budget films like this.
%82 on rotten Tomatoes
5. The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Julian Richings
Votes: 300,160 | Gross: $25.14M
%91 on Rotten Tomatoes
6. Relic (2020)
R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family's home.
Director: Natalie Erika James | Stars: Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Steve Rodgers
Votes: 30,181
%91 on Rotten Tomatoes
7. Creep (I) (2014)
R | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
A young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. When he notices the man's odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions.
Director: Patrick Brice | Stars: Katie Aselton, Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Votes: 68,074
Tense, tense, tense, tense, more tense.
If you don't recognize the names of these actors, DO NOT CLICK ON THEM, DO NOT LOOK THEM UP! I didn't know who these people were and I think I enjoyed the movie more because of it.
%96 on Rotten Tomatoes
%74 on Metacritic
8. The Invitation (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, the unsettling past reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michiel Huisman, Tammy Blanchard
Votes: 118,994 | Gross: $0.23M
Tenser, tenser, tenser, tenser, unbearably tense.
DON'T WATCH THE PREVIEW! IT GIVES TOO MUCH AWAY! Just look at the reviews on RottenTomatoes and trust that these people know what they're talking about. TRUST!
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_invitation/
%89 on Rotten Tomatoes
I swear to you, I physically flinched when Will noted that Eden had put bars on the windows since last he'd been there. And when Gina casually notes that her cellphone isn't working.
9. Them (2006)
R | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Stars: Olivia Bonamy, Michaël Cohen, Adriana Mocca, Maria Roman
Votes: 32,055
Unfortunately for us, this one started a crappy trend; The Strangers The Purge The Purge 2 The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders And they'll just keep coming as long as they make a profit.
10. 28 Days Later (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
Votes: 444,918 | Gross: $45.06M
11. Spring (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 109 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
A young man in a personal tailspin flees from US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti, Nick Nevern
Votes: 31,350 | Gross: $0.05M
A Romance/Drama that happens to have some monsterism issues. It may not even belong in any Horror lists, but it's really that good.
From the same guys who made Resolution.
%88 on Rotten Tomatoes
12. The Mist (2007)
R | 126 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher
Votes: 339,879 | Gross: $25.59M
13. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 70,969 | Gross: $0.75M
More of a mystery/war film with a ghost in it.
14. The Hole in the Ground (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, David Crowley
Votes: 22,321 | Gross: $0.02M
%88 on Rotten Tomatoes
15. Hereditary (2018)
R | 127 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff
Votes: 377,007 | Gross: $44.07M
%89 on Rotten Tomatoes
Another one with a lot of big painful, unpleasant drama going on.
16. What We Become (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.
Director: Bo Mikkelsen | Stars: Benjamin Engell, Troels Lyby, Mille Dinesen, Ella Solgaard
Votes: 4,268
“ A simple, stripped-down reboot of the Zombie genre. A modern alternative to 'Night of the Living Dead'. A re-introduction of the concept.
This should be the first Zombie movie a 21st century young person century sees.
%78 on Rotten Tomatoes
17. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis
Votes: 593,355 | Gross: $13.54M
18. The House of the Devil (2009)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig
Votes: 51,187 | Gross: $0.10M
Not gonna lie, the first half hour on campus really should've been edited down. Please stick with it.
%86 on Rotten Tomatoes
19. The Wailing (2016)
TV-MA | 156 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Director: Na Hong-jin | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Hwang Jung-min, Kwak Do-won, Chun Woo-hee
Votes: 81,759
20. The Orphanage (2007)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 163,532 | Gross: $7.16M
21. The Rental (2020)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two couples rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend get-away.
Director: Dave Franco | Stars: Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White
Votes: 38,085
A slasher movie for adults
74% on Rotten Tomatoes
Did the killer only ever attack because they found the cameras? Was he just going to creep and stalk otherwise?
22. The Babadook (2014)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney
Votes: 246,962 | Gross: $0.92M
Warning; Despite the silly title, this movie is very far from fun. With family trauma, troubled kids, psychotic breakdowns, and child abuse, it's a squirm-inducing downer.
%98 on Rotten Tomatoes.
23. It Follows (2014)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Director: David Robert Mitchell | Stars: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe
Votes: 268,538 | Gross: $14.67M
This movie about teenagers and sex is extremely sequelicous and absolutely would've been financed by a big studio and released in the multiplex if it had come out in the eighties or nineties. But with blockbuster-centric Hollywood making blander and blander movies to appeal to a wider and wider international audience, sex is the first thing that has to go if they want their product to make money in the prudish countries. You know who you are.
%96 on Rotten Tomatoes
24. V/H/S/2 (2013)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.
Directors: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard | Stars: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, Adam Wingard, Hannah Hughes
Votes: 43,927 | Gross: $0.02M
I felt that V/H/S (an anthology film featuring segments made by a bunch of different people) was not quite good enough for this list (as you can probably imagine, the quality was fairly uneven).
V/H/S/2 (also an anthology film featuring segments made by a bunch of different people) hits the mark nicely and even the weakest of the stories is at least imaginative with innovative camera work.
Has a %70 on Rotten Tomatoes.
Like its precursor it's fast-paced, bloody, and booby, so I have no idea why IMDb voters gave it such a low score. Is it just that no one likes anthology films anymore?
Apparently, V/H/S 3 is terrible. I don't know what happened.
25. Southbound (2015)
R | 89 min | Horror
Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares - and darkest secrets - over one long night on a desolate stretch of desert highway.
Directors: Roxanne Benjamin, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Patrick Horvath, Justin Martinez, Radio Silence, Chad Villella | Stars: Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Kristina Pesic, Fabianne Therese
Votes: 21,374 | Gross: $0.01M
Another Anthology movie made by a bunch of different people. Very much in the spirit of V/H/S.
%80 on Rotten Tomatoes
26. The Vigil (2019)
PG-13 | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity, in writer-director Keith Thomas' electrifying feature debut.
Director: Keith Thomas | Stars: Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Malky Goldman, Lynn Cohen
Votes: 9,782
90% on Rotten Tomatoes
27. The Bay (II) (2012)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly, Kether Donohue, Frank Deal
Votes: 29,581 | Gross: $0.03M
%77 on Rotten Tomatoes
28. Honeymoon (2014)
R | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.
Director: Leigh Janiak | Stars: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber, Hanna Brown
Votes: 27,474 | Gross: $0.01M
%70 on Rotten Tomatoes
29. The Baby's Room (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When ... See full summary »
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino
Votes: 5,743
30. We Are What We Are (2013)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The Parkers, a reclusive family who follow ancient customs, find their secret existence threatened as a torrential downpour moves into their area, forcing daughters Iris and Rose to assume responsibilities beyond those of a typical family.
Director: Jim Mickle | Stars: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Wyatt Russell
Votes: 22,108 | Gross: $0.08M
%85 on Rotten Tomatoes
31. Let the Right One In (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
Director: Tomas Alfredson | Stars: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
Votes: 226,643 | Gross: $2.12M
32. We Are Still Here (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Mystery
In the cold, wintery fields of New England, a lonely old house wakes up every thirty years - and demands a sacrifice.
Director: Ted Geoghegan | Stars: Andrew Sensenig, Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Marie
Votes: 19,905
The film starts out as a mature, understated haunted house drama for adults. After about half an hour the plot thickens and the movie starts to change into something else entirely. While part of me mourned the potential high-brow horror we were briefly promised, I couldn't not love the bloody fast-paced climax.
%95 on Rotten Tomatoes.
33. Trick 'r Treat (2007)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Horror
Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.
Director: Michael Dougherty | Stars: Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes
Votes: 104,580
34. To Let (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 68 min | Horror, Thriller
Mario and his pregnant girlfriend Clara are trying to find in a short period a new apartment to live since they have sold their apartment and they need to move in fifteen days. When Mario ... See full summary »
Director: Jaume Balagueró | Stars: Macarena Gómez, Nuria González, Adrià Collado, Ruth Díaz
Votes: 2,993
35. Monsters (2010)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies
Votes: 97,589 | Gross: $0.24M
This film is a romance set against the backdrop of giant monsters. This will turn some people off.
%71 on Rotten Tomatoes
36. Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)
Unrated | 83 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire | Stars: Aure Atika, Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Gil Alma
Votes: 3,231 | Gross: $0.08M
37. The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Not Rated | 47 min | Horror, Mystery
While sorting the affairs of his late Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles across a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.
Director: Andrew Leman | Stars: Matt Foyer, John Bolen, Ralph Lucas, Chad Fifer
Votes: 8,887
The best adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's work.
%100 on Rotten Tomatoes
38. Starry Eyes (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Directors: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer | Stars: Alexandra Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan, Fabianne Therese
Votes: 22,304
%76 on Rotten Tomatoes
39. In Fear (I) (2013)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a new couple become lost and are then set upon by a tormentor with an unknown motive.
Director: Jeremy Lovering | Stars: Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert, Allen Leech
Votes: 10,142
%83 on Rotten Tomatoes
40. The Monster (2016)
R | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mother and daughter must confront a terrifying monster when they break down on a deserted road.
Director: Bryan Bertino | Stars: Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine, Aaron Douglas, Christine Ebadi
Votes: 19,325
%78 on Rotten Tomatoes
41. Come True (2020)
Unrated | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington
Votes: 11,111
84% on Rotten Tomatoes
42. The Blackcoat's Daughter (I) (2015)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break.
Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar
Votes: 25,945 | Gross: $0.02M
%72 on Rotten Tomatoes
43. La casa muda (2010)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman becomes trapped inside a house and is unable to contact the outside world as mysterious forces haunt it.
Director: Gustavo Hernández | Stars: Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi, Gustavo Alonso, María Salazar
Votes: 8,026
The most effective use of darkness and silence I've seen since The Blair Witch project.
%71 on Rotten Tomatoes
44. Darling (II) (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Thriller
A lonely girl's violent descent into madness.
Director: Mickey Keating | Stars: Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden
Votes: 3,363
If you're a fan of Roman Polanski's apartment trilogy, your ship has come in.
%68 on Rotten Tomatoes
45. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
R | 114 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.
Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Lim Soo-jung, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Kap-su, Moon Geun-young
Votes: 68,212
46. Reincarnation (2005)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna, Tetta Sugimoto
Votes: 6,760
47. The Pact (II) (2012)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's death and the disappearance of her sister, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.
Director: Nicholas McCarthy | Stars: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Mark Steger, Agnes Bruckner
Votes: 25,329
%67 on Rotten Tomatoes
48. Us (II) (2019)
R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Votes: 340,530 | Gross: $175.08M
It would've been much higher on this list but I hated the last third of the movie. I don't think the doppelgangers needed any explanation at all. But if they really had to dumb down the premise to get a big studio budget, a hellish mirror universe colliding with ours seems more plausible to me than secret government clones of everyone in the country living in labyrinthine billion-dollar, billion-manhours underground tunnels. Also it was too jokey.
49. Session 9 (2001)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas
Votes: 62,843 | Gross: $0.38M
50. Murder Party (2007)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.
Director: Jeremy Saulnier | Stars: Chris Sharp, Kate Porterfield, Tess Porterfield Lovell, Puff Snooty
Votes: 12,292
Horror-Comedy-Hipster-Mumblecore
If any of these words don't appeal to you, please don't watch it.
While not enough critics have reviewed it on Rotten Tomatoes for the site to generate a percentage, all four who did gave it high marks.
51. End of the Line (II) (2007)
95 min | Horror, Thriller
Karen boards a late-night train and fights with several other passengers to survive a murderous night after becoming trapped in a tunnel.
Director: Maurice Devereaux | Stars: Ilona Elkin, Nicolas Wright, Neil Napier, Emily Shelton
Votes: 5,136
Ditto on all that Canadian stuff.
While not enough critics have reviewed it on Rotten Tomatoes for the site to generate a percentage, both of those who did gave it high marks.
52. The Conspiracy (2012)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
Director: Christopher MacBride | Stars: Aaron Poole, James Gilbert, Ian Anderson, Peter Apostolopoulos
Votes: 13,090
And again!
86% on Rotten Tomatoes
53. Kill List (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson, Michael Smiley
Votes: 45,293 | Gross: $0.03M
%76 on Rotten Tomatoes
54. The Lords of Salem (2012)
R | 101 min | Horror, Thriller
Radio DJ Heidi is sent a box containing a record--a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Sheri Moon Zombie, Meg Foster, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips
Votes: 32,292 | Gross: $1.16M
5.1 on imdb
%45 on Rotten Tomatoes
I don't care.
A beautiful, disgusting, bizarre, trippy, rosemary's baby on acid. Made with love, meticulous care for the details, and respect for the horror movies that came before.
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