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1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,548,310 | Gross: $130.74M

2. Halloween (1978)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes

Votes: 306,803 | Gross: $47.00M

3. The Last House on the Left (2009)

R | 110 min | Horror, Thriller

After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.

Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen

Votes: 100,394 | Gross: $32.75M

4. A View to a Kill (1985)

PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

The recovery of a microchip from the body of a fellow British secret agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist scheming to cause massive destruction.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones

Votes: 104,915 | Gross: $50.33M

5. Halloween (I) (2018)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Votes: 169,100 | Gross: $159.34M

6. 3 from Hell (2019)

R | 115 min | Action, Horror

After barely surviving prison, the demented Firefly clan go on the run, unleashing a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Jeff Daniel Phillips

Votes: 17,911

7. Halloween Kills (2021)

R | 105 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Surviving victims of Michael Myers form a vigilante mob and vow to end his reign of terror.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Votes: 98,315 | Gross: $92.00M

8. The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

Unrated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home.

Director: Duncan Skiles | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis, Madisen Beaty

Votes: 33,978 | Gross: $0.01M

9. Primal (2019)

R | 97 min | Action, Thriller

Frank's caught wildlife in the Brazilian jungle incl. a 400 lbs. white jaguar. He ships it on the same ship as an arrested assassin. The assassin breaks free and frees the animals.

Director: Nick Powell | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand, Jeremy Nazario

Votes: 11,165

10. No Good Deed (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.

Director: Sam Miller | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Idris Elba, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo

Votes: 22,031 | Gross: $52.54M

11. Blood and Black Lace (1964)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini

Votes: 13,006

12. The Unknown (1927)

Unrated | 68 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz

Votes: 9,156 | Gross: $0.41M

13. Alone in the Dark (1982)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

A few dangerous and delusional mental patients break out of a mental asylum during a power blackout, and lay siege to their new doctor's house, who, they believe, killed their previous doctor.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz

Votes: 6,994

14. Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014 Video)

PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller hires her newly formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum to recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.

Directors: Jay Oliva, Ethan Spaulding | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Neal McDonough, Hynden Walch, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 37,754

15. Sister Emanuelle (1977)

16+ | 90 min | Drama

Having renounced her old life of promiscuity, a nun's sexual and religious identity is challenged by a free-spirited, nymphomaniacal new pupil at her convent and a fugitive killer.

Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Laura Gemser, Mónica Zanchi, Gabriele Tinti, Vinja Locatelli

Votes: 803

16. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz

Votes: 6,096 | Gross: $3.38M

17. Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi

Aliens land in the town of "Speelburgh" searching for the source of rock & roll. They find trouble with Dee Dee, Frankie and the pack.

Director: James Fargo | Stars: Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Tom Nolan, Ruth Gordon

Votes: 1,571

18. Scary Movie (1991)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A paranoid teenage nerd comes to believe that an escaped lunatic may be hiding in the neighborhood Halloween house of horrors, and slowly starts to descend into madness.

Director: Daniel Erickson | Stars: John Hawkes, Suzanne Aldrich, Ev Lunning, Mark Voges

Votes: 1,063

19. Night Screams (1987)

85 min | Horror

A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.

Director: Allen Plone | Stars: Joseph Paul Manno, Ron Thomas, Randy Lundsford, Megan Wyss

Votes: 671

20. Stepfather 3 (1992 TV Movie)

R | 110 min | Horror, Thriller

That psycho stepfather has escaped from the insane asylum and had his face surgically altered. Now he's married again, this time to a woman with a child in a wheelchair. He goes on a ... See full summary »

Director: Guy Magar | Stars: Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, Season Hubley, David Tom

Votes: 2,065

21. Methodic (2007)

Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Nick, a child haunted by "The Dollman," goes mad, kills his parents, and is institutionalized. After twenty years, he escapes and continues his rampage disguised in a homemade Dollman outfit.

Director: Chris R. Notarile | Stars: Niki Rubin, Brandon Slagle, Rachael Robbins, Tony Dadika

Votes: 302

22. Halloween Night (2006 Video)

TV-14 | 85 min | Horror

The film follows Chris Vale (Scot Nery), a young man who was wrongly convicted of murdering his family in 1982, and admitted into an insane asylum based largely on the fact that Chris had ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Atkins | Stars: Derek Osedach, Rebekah Kochan, Scot Nery, Sean Durrie

Votes: 1,164

23. 10/31 (2017)

93 min | Horror

This is an anthology film consisting of 5 horror tales from 5 different writers.

Directors: Brett DeJager, Rocky Gray, Zane Hershberger, John William Holt, Hunter Johnson, Justin M. Seaman | Stars: Jennifer Nangle, Aliese Kuhm, Alexandria Kuhn, Cindy Maples

Votes: 621

24. Backlash (1947)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Detectives try to solve the case of a murdered Los Angeles defense attorney.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge

Votes: 545

25. The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.

Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten

Votes: 632

26. The Hidden Hand (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best

Votes: 677

27. Schweinskopf al dente (2016)

TV-G | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

Crime comedy centering around a German village policeman who has to hunt down an escaped killer in his hometown in the backwoods of Bavaria while also chasing after his girl friend who has run off to Italy with another man.

Director: Ed Herzog | Stars: Sebastian Bezzel, Simon Schwarz, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Gregor Bloéb

Votes: 2,131

28. The Johnsons (1992)

103 min | Horror

According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash ... See full summary »

Director: Rudolf van den Berg | Stars: Monique van de Ven, Esmée de la Bretonière, Kenneth Herdigein, Rik van Uffelen

Votes: 844

29. King of Africa (1968)

Unrated | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."

Directors: Giovanni Scolaro, Sandy Howard | Stars: Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli, Rossano Brazzi, George Sanders

Votes: 77

30. My Learned Friend (1943)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Thriller

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

Directors: Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Lawrence Hanray

Votes: 427

31. That Day (2003)

105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be ... See full summary »

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer

Votes: 782

32. Bye, Bye Bluebeard (1949)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bluebeard the killer is at large, and in Porky Pig's home, a crafty mouse disguises himself as Bluebeard to scare Porky into providing him with a generous serving of food. Just as Porky ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Davis | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 489

33. Dimension in Fear (1998)

111 min | Thriller

Escaped murderer Cal Lewis wants revenge for those responsible for him being put away. Enroute from Texas to Las Vegas he crosses paths with young TV news reporter Deidre Holland who quickly becomes his target.

Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Ron Jason, Nicole West, Gene Ellison-Jones, Liz Renay

Votes: 95

34. Un extraño en la casa (1968)

85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Police are looking for a psychopath who kills with a razor. During his escape, he sneaks into a vehicle without being noticed, which takes him to a house where a girl and a woman will face the terror on their own.

Directors: Alfredo Zacarías, Miguel Zacarías | Stars: Evita, Joselo, Roy Jenson, Rosenda Monteros

Votes: 31

35. Dezemberküsse (2001)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

Freddy, a smalltime criminal on the run, takes shelter with a pastor and his daughter. Romance with the daughter ensues and causes problems.

Director: Gabriel Bornstein | Stars: Achim Amme, Frauke Bartels, Sarah Blohm, Britta Brechtefeld

Votes: 18

36. Halloween: Prodigal Son (2021)

45 min | Horror

After the death of his father Dr. Loomis, his son David Loomis, begins to follow the clues, which indicate that Michael Myers may be alive, now the hunt begins, to end this curse forever.

Director: Rui Constantino | Stars: Claire Allison, Isaac Andrew, Caleb Angel, Leah Aubrey

Votes: 304

37. Choose Your Own Death: The Babysitter (2009 Video)

Unrated | 20 min | Short, Horror

A young Babysitter is left home alone with two young girls as a series of creepy incidents could potentially prove fatal.

Director: Barry J. Michael | Stars: Megan McComas, Jake White, John Wagner, Shannon Bivens

38. Halloween (1983 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Horror, Thriller

A babysitter is stalked by a homicidel maniac named Michael Myers While trying to protect the kids she is babysitting from the shape

Votes: 118

39. Bound for Betrayal! (2004 Video)

45 min | Adventure

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Stars: Michelle Curtis, Liz Hunter, Christina Kazan, Tyler Lindsay

40. The Emperor Jones (1953 TV Movie)

Drama

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Gordon Heath, Neil Wilson, Connie Smith, John Harrison

41. Christmas Steve (2016)

8 min | Short, Action, Comedy

It's Christmas Eve, Becky Swanson has just been dumped, and notorious homicidal maniac Christmas Steve has escaped from the Asylum For the Violently Insane. When Steve targets Becky for ... See full summary »

Director: Graham M. Sheppard | Stars: Stefan Kuchar, Christopher Lewis, Courtney O'Connor, Ermina Pérez

42. The Rookies (1972–1976)
Episode: Cauldron (1973)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama

While off duty, Officers Webster and Gillis are taken hostage by two men headed to Mexico in search of an unorthodox medical treatment for one of the men. After they escape the men, the officer's must trek through the desert to survive.

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson

Votes: 23

43. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode: Morning Incident (1960)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Laurie Pritchard is a farm girl engaged to a farm boy but the farm life isn't consistent with her dreams. Then she meets a man who might be able to make her dreams come true.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Martha Hyer, Robert Culp, Robert Garland, Kevin Jones

Votes: 19

44. Mike Tyson Mysteries (2014–2020)
Episode: The Death of Lyle Victor Linkus (2019)

TV-14 | 11 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After his execution goes very wrong, convicted killer Lyle Victor Linkus escapes prison. The warden asks Mike and his team to catch him. Meanwhile, Deezy vanishes after going to meet his online girlfriend for the first time.

Stars: Mike Tyson, Norm MacDonald, Rachel Ramras, Jim Rash

Votes: 69

45. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Tabula Rasa (2008)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A suspected serial killer who's been in a coma since 2004 due to an accident when he was arrested wakes up 4 years later, with no memory of his past, not even his name. While he is tried in court, in which Hotch is testifying against him, the rest of the team investigates his past further.

Director: Steve Boyum | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 2,755

46. Major Crimes (2012–2018)
Episode: Special Master: Part Two (2015)

Not Rated | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While Major Crimes works against the clock to catch the killer before he claims his third and final victim, Phillip Stroh executes his escape plan.

Director: Leo Geter | Stars: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan

Votes: 286

47. The North Water (2021)
Episode: The Devils of the Earth (2021)

TV-MA | 54 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Drax has a daring opportunity to escape, but must convince Cavendish to help him. Otto's vision coming to life, Sumner hunts a bear, but strays too far into icy oblivion.

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Sam Spruell, Roland Møller, Gary Lamont

Votes: 565