The Ultimate List Of Horror
A list of horror, monsters, aliens, zombies, vampires, slasher and horror-comedy movies...
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1.
The Thing
(1982)
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. (109 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
2.
Dawn of the Dead
(1978)
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. (126 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
3.
The Devil's Rejects
(2005)
In Ruggsville, Texas, the police under the command of Sheriff John Quincy Wydell attack the house of the sadistic serial killers Firefly family (a.k.a... (107 mins.)
Director: Rob Zombie
4.
From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996)
Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results. (108 mins.)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
5.
Phenomena
(1985)
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. (110 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
6.
Possession
(1981)
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife... (127 mins.)
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
7.
Thriller: A Cruel Picture
(1974)
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute. (104 mins.)
Director: Alex Fridolinski
8.
Wolfen
(1981)
A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks. (115 mins.)
Director: Michael Wadleigh
9.
Rabid Dogs
(1974)
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway. (96 mins.)
Director: Mario Bava
10.
The Shining
(1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
11.
Don't Look Now
(1973)
A married couple grieving the recent death of their little daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. (110 mins.)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
12.
Psycho
(1960)
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. (109 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
13.
Deep Red
(1975)
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried. (126 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
14.
Evil Dead II
(1987)
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. (84 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
15.
Starship Troopers
(1997)
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival. Based on Robert E Heinlein's 1959 sci-fi epic. (129 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
16.
Aliens
(1986)
The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough? (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
17.
Pontypool
(2008)
A psychological thriller in which a deadly virus infects a small Ontario town. (93 mins.)
Director: Bruce McDonald
18.
Blade of the Ripper
(1971)
An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer. (98 mins.)
Director: Sergio Martino
19.
The Psychic
(1977)
A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton behind it... (95 mins.)
Director: Lucio Fulci
20.
Grindhouse
(2007)
Two full length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez put together as a two film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies. (191 mins.)
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth
21.
Planet Terror
(2007)
After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.
Director: Robert Rodriguez
22.
Resident Evil: Extinction
(2007)
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp. (95 mins.)
Director: Russell Mulcahy
23.
Amer
(2009)
Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and... (90 mins.)
Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
24.
I Am Legend
(2007)
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. (101 mins.)
Director: Francis Lawrence
25.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
(1984)
In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him. (91 mins.)
Director: Wes Craven
26.
[Rec]
(2007)
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying. (78 mins.)
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
27.
Zombie
(1979)
Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead. (91 mins.)
Director: Lucio Fulci
28.
Suspiria
(1977)
A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction. (98 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
29.
Day of the Dead
(1985)
A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies. (102 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
30.
All the Colors of the Dark
(1972)
A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers. (94 mins.)
Director: Sergio Martino
31.
The Evil Dead
(1981)
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. (85 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
32.
Alien
(1979)
A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
33.
30 Days of Night
(2007)
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires. (113 mins.)
Director: David Slade
34.
28 Days Later...
(2002)
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. (113 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
35.
I Saw the Devil
(2010)
When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge. (141 mins.)
Director: Jee-woon Kim
36.
The Horde
(2009)
An end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies. (90 mins.)
Director: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
37.
Resident Evil
(2002)
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. (100 mins.)
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
38.
Christine
(1983)
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. (110 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
39.
La polizia chiede aiuto
(1974)
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
Director: Massimo Dallamano
40.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
(1970)
A writer is stalked by a serial killer after witnessing a murder attempt on one woman's life. (98 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
41.
Zombieland
(2009)
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, and a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the Last Twinkie and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. (88 mins.)
Director: Ruben Fleischer
42.
New Nightmare
(1994)
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world? (112 mins.)
Director: Wes Craven
43.
The Blair Witch Project
(1999)
Three film students go missing after traveling into the woods of Maryland to make a documentary about the local Blair Witch legend leaving only their footage behind. (81 mins.)
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
44.
Carrie
(1976)
A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night. (98 mins.)
Director: Brian De Palma
45.
[Rec] ²
(2009)
The action continues from [Rec], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation. (85 mins.)
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
46.
Thinner
(1996)
A lawyer is cursed by a gypsy to lose weight...and lose weight...and lose weight... (92 mins.)
Director: Tom Holland
47.
The Tenant
(1976)
In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant... (126 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
48.
Night of the Living Dead
(1968)
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse. (96 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
49.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
(1974)
Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals. (83 mins.)
Director: Tobe Hooper
50.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(1992)
A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled. (135 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
51.
Nightwatch
(1994)
In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims... (107 mins.)
Director: Ole Bornedal
52.
Eraserhead
(1977)
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. (85 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
53.
Trauma
(1993)
A young man tries to help a teenage European girl whom escaped from a clinic hospital after witnessing the murder of her parents by a serial killer and they try to find the killer before the killer finds them. (106 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
54.
Dawn of the Dead
(2004)
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall. (101 mins.)
Director: Zack Snyder
55.
The Birds
(1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (119 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
56.
Torso
(1973)
Someone is strangling coeds in Perugia. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf... (89 mins.)
Director: Sergio Martino
57.
Scream
(1996)
A killer known as "ghost face" begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one. (111 mins.)
Director: Wes Craven
58.
Final Destination
(2000)
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one. (98 mins.)
Director: James Wong
59.
Re-Animator
(1985)
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Director: Stuart Gordon
60.
28 Weeks Later
(2007)
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan. (100 mins.)
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
61.
Misery
(1990)
A famous novelist is "rescued" from a car crash by an obsessed fan. (107 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
62.
Cemetery Man
(1994)
A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies. (105 mins.)
Director: Michele Soavi
63.
Night of the Living Dead 3D
(2006)
Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D! (80 mins.)
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
64.
Se7en
(1995)
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. (127 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
65.
The Devil's Advocate
(1997)
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself. (144 mins.)
Director: Taylor Hackford
66.
Battle Royale
(2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. (114 mins.)
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
67.
They Live
(1988)
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth. (93 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
68.
Highway to Hell
(1991)
An eloping bride is taken into Hell, and her fiancée must pursue. (94 mins.)
Director: Ate de Jong
69.
Giallo
(2009)
In Italy, a woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow. (92 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
70.
Predator
(1987)
A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior. (107 mins.)
Director: John McTiernan
71.
Dead Alive
(1992)
A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors. (104 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
72.
Return of the Living Dead Part II
(1988)
Curious kids unearth the barrels that helped revive the dead of the first film, which proves the second time's an undead charm. (89 mins.)
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
73.
Innocent Blood
(1992)
Marie has two appetites, sex and blood. Her career as a vampire is going along fine until two problems come up... (112 mins.)
Director: John Landis
74.
Shaun of the Dead
(2004)
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living. (99 mins.)
Director: Edgar Wright
75.
An American Werewolf in London
(1981)
Two American tourists in Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. (97 mins.)
Director: John Landis
76.
Army of Darkness
(1992)
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home. (81 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
77.
Blade
(1998)
A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires. (120 mins.)
Director: Stephen Norrington
78.
The Amityville Horror
(2005)
A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder. (90 mins.)
Director: Andrew Douglas
79.
The Sixth Sense
(1999)
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. (107 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
80.
The Shining
(1997 Mini-Series)
A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers.
Director: Mick Garris
81.
Pet Sematary
(1989)
Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable. (103 mins.)
Director: Mary Lambert
82.
Deathwatch
(2002)
In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night... (94 mins.)
Director: Michael J. Bassett
83.
Gothika
(2003)
Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done. (98 mins.)
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
84.
House of 1000 Corpses
(2003)
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers. (89 mins.)
Director: Rob Zombie
85.
Nosferatu
(1922)
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula." (94 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
86.
Event Horizon
(1997)
A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board. (96 mins.)
Director: Paul Anderson
87.
Constantine
(2005)
Constantine tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has literally been to hell and back. (121 mins.)
Director: Francis Lawrence
88.
Land of the Dead
(2005)
The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation. (93 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
89.
I Spit on Your Grave
(1978)
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge. (101 mins.)
Director: Meir Zarchi
90.
Halloween
(1978)
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets. (91 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
91.
The Descent
(2005)
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. (99 mins.)
Director: Neil Marshall
92.
Wrong Turn
(2003)
Six people find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by "cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding." (84 mins.)
Director: Rob Schmidt
93.
Nightwatch
(1997)
Ewan McGregor plays a law student who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue. He begins to discover... (101 mins.)
Director: Ole Bornedal
94.
Saw
(2004)
With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw". The men must follow various rules and objectives if they wish to survive and win the deadly game set for them. (103 mins.)
Director: James Wan
95.
Let the Right One In
(2008)
Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. (115 mins.)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
96.
The Others
(2001)
A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted. (101 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
97.
Videodrome
(1983)
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station. (87 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
98.
Psycho
(1998)
A young female embezzeler arrives at the Bates Motel which has terrible secrets of its own. (105 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
99.
The Return of the Living Dead
(1985)
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air... (91 mins.)
Director: Dan O'Bannon
100.
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro
(1971)
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared. (92 mins.)
Director: Aldo Lado
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