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1. The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the U.K.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: John Bryans, John Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing
Votes: 7,510
2. Orgy of the Dead (1965)
Unrated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror
A couple driving to a cemetery looking for inspiration for a horror story encounters the dancing dead.
Director: Stephen C. Apostolof | Stars: Criswell, Fawn Silver, Pat Barrington, William Bates
Votes: 3,321
3. The Last Shark (1981)
PG | 88 min | Horror
James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: James Franciscus, Vic Morrow, Micaela Pignatelli, Joshua Sinclair
Votes: 3,111
4. Phantasmagoria (1995 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young successful author and her photographer husband buy a stunning and mysterious mansion on the outskirts of a small town in New England, but soon enough start to experience maddening horrors of its previous owner.
Director: Peter Maris | Stars: Victoria Morsell, David Homb, Robert Miano, Taylor Bernard
Votes: 780
5. Dreamaniac (1986)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
A heavy-metal musician makes a deal with a satanic succubus to make him successful with women, in return for the succubus being able to feed on the girls.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Thomas Bern, Ashlyn Gere, Sylvia Summers, Lauren Peterson
Votes: 660
6. Deadline (1980)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A popular horror writer whose family life is falling apart struggles to write his next horror movie.
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Stephen Young, Sharon Masters, Marvin Goldhar, Jeannie Elias
Votes: 791
7. The Killing Floor (2007)
R | 94 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
Director: Gideon Raff | Stars: Marc Blucas, Joel Leffert, Shiri Appleby, Jeffrey Carlson
Votes: 3,318
8. The Sacred (2012)
TV-MA | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A young girl bravely travels up to her dead Aunts cabin for creative inspiration. Marie gets more than she bargained for, when she soon realizes she is not alone. Confronted by evil spirits, she is forced to fight for her life.
Director: Brett Donowho | Stars: Heather Roop, Jordan Belfi, Brighid Fleming, Sid Haig
Votes: 464
9. Stephen King's Golden Tales (1985 Video)
139 min | Horror
Compilation of five horror stories from Tales from the Darkside (1983) that takes the viewer into the dark world of vampires, cursed objects and sinister humor. Despite the title, only the final story is by Stephen King.
Directors: Frank De Palma, Jodie Foster, Richard Friedman, Theodore Gershuny, Michael Gornick | Stars: Miranda Beeson, Bill Cain, Jeff Conaway, Marcia Cross
Votes: 98
10. The Fearing Mind (2000–2001)
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Bill Fearing, a famous writer of suspense thrillers, gets his ideas from things that happen in his family. When he gets an idea, the viewers enter his mind and see the gruesome events unfold.
Stars: Harry Van Gorkum, Susan Gibney, Katee Sackhoff, Rae Allen
Votes: 52
11. Ghosts of Fear Street (1998 TV Movie)
TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A pilot for a failed TV version of Ghosts of Fear Street based on the books by R.L. Stine. A horror writer takes his family to his old neighborhood to visit his quirky father-in-law who lives on Fear Street where strange things happen.
Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Christopher Rich, Talia Balsam, Vincent Berry, Alexandra Breckenridge
Votes: 42
12. Monster in My Pocket: The Big Scream (1992 TV Movie)
23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Monster in My Pocket: The Big Scream is an animated television special featuring several monsters from Matchbox's toy-line, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Directors: Don Lusk, Ray Patterson | Stars: Marvin Kaplan, Mitzi McCall, Rob Paulsen, Stuart K. Robinson
Votes: 66
13. Dark Seed (1992 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Point and click adventure about a phlegmatic small town horror novelist Mike Dawson who learns that his mind has been impregnated with the embryo of a monstrous alien invader from an evil alien parallel dimension.
Stars: Mike Dawson, John Krause, Paul Drzeweicki, Heidi Marendi
Votes: 100
14. Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2010)
83 min | Horror, Thriller
Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into... See full summary »
Director: Gabriele Albanesi | Stars: Giuseppe Saccà, Paolo Sassanelli, Laura Gigante, Antonino Iuorio
Votes: 431
15. The Warning (II) (2015)
91 min | Horror
Determined to get ahead in the competitive world of TV journalism, a woman investigates a local legend of people vanishing at the hands of a satanic cult but finds that she herself becomes the hunted.
Director: Dirk Hagen | Stars: Summer Moore, Jeff Allen, Christina Pascucci, Tiffany Joy Williams
Votes: 129
16. Fire (I) (2014)
90 min | Drama
One day, someone puts a bomb on Carlos car and kill his wife and leaves his daughter of 10 years old without legs. Eleven years later, he lives in Barcelona with his daughter but he never ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Marías | Stars: Jose Coronado, Aida Folch, Leyre Berrocal, Montse Mostaza
Votes: 275
17. Remembering Messiah of Evil (2009 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary on the making of "Messiah of Evil," the surreal horror cult classic written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, directed by Willard Huyck. Includes interviews with Huyck and Katz ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Christian | Stars: Morgan Fisher, Walter Hill, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Votes: 16
18. Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' (1989 Video)
83 min | Documentary
Director: Yoshiki Satô | Stars: Hiroshi Takeda, Nobuko Miyamoto, Nobuhiro Kubota, Nokko
19. The Dark Half (1992 Video Game)
Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Thad Beaumont is a successful horror novelist whose alter ego George Stark somehow becomes real and stalks him. He also frames him for a series of murders, so Thad must elude the police until he can stop George.
Director: Robert Fiorini
Votes: 13
20. If on a Winter's Night (1999)
13 min | Horror, Short
Director: Jeff Lambert | Stars: Michael Boisvert, Darren Klementti
Votes: 54
21. Ghost Story: Alice Krige - Being Alma and Eva (2015 Video)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Star: Alice Krige
22. Crowley's Tomb (2015)
4 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
A malcontent gang of teenagers called the "Cemetery Boys" hang out in the world's largest graveyard. By chance the Cemetery Boys stumble on the evil empire of CROWLEY'S TOMB. Stealing items... See full summary »
Director: Ricardo Prostreamz Rodriguez | Stars: William Blake, Jarred Burgos, Carlina Cribb, Isabella Dawson
Votes: 5
23. The Survivor: The Legacy of James Herbert (2017 Video)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Chris Cooke, David Flint, James Herbert
24. The Development of 'Ghost Story' (2015 Video)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Lawrence D. Cohen, Burt Weissbourd
25. The Lovecraft Syndrome (2004)
14 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
A grad student becomes obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft's stories.
Director: David Schmidt | Stars: Kathrynne Ann Rosen, Maurice McNicholas, Amy E. Harmon
26. The Survivor: Robert Powell on James Herbert (2017 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Robert Powell, James Herbert
27. Ghost Story Genesis with Peter Straub (2015 Video)
40 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
Star: Peter Straub
28. Queer Horror Story (2023 Podcast Series)
16+ | 20 min | Horror
A Brazilian Podcast about LGBTQ+ in horror movies and books, hosted by the writer and director Carlos Antico Junior.
29.
Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode:
Sleepwalker
(1976)
TV-14 | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A young American woman visiting her author father in London discovers that her childhood habit of sleepwalking has recurred. She has a vivid dream of witnessing a murder in a strange house - or is it a dream?
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Darleen Carr, Robert Beatty, Michael Kitchen, Ian Redford
Votes: 141
30.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
Mirror, Mirror
(1986)
PG | 24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
While guesting on a talk show, horror novelist Jordan Manmouth claims he is immune to being frightened by the nightmarish creatures he creates - and comes to regret the taunt when he is terrorized by a black-caped phantom.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Sam Waterston, Helen Shaver, Dick Cavett, Tim Robbins
Votes: 620
31.
Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode:
The Boogieman - October 31, 1964
(1990)
TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Everything goes wrong when Sam leaps into a Gothic horror novelist on Halloween.
Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Valerie Mahaffey, Paul Linke
Votes: 627
32.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Confession
(1996)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies, is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.
Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Eddie Izzard, Ciarán Hinds, Alun Armstrong, John Benfield
Votes: 468
33.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Valerie on the Stairs
(2006)
TV-MA | 60 min | Horror
Taken from a Clive Barker original screen story, tells the tale of a novelist who discovers there are fates worse than literary anonymity in this sexually-charged tale of terror.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Tyron Leitso, Nicola Lipman, Jonathan Watton, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 2,099
34.
Fear Itself (2008–2009)
Episode:
The Circle
(2009)
TV-14 | 41 min | Horror
A writer heads to a small town to try and recharge his creative juices. Unfortunately for him, the story he's working on seems to be happening to him and his wife, and it seems the darkness itself around their cabin is out to get them.
Director: Eduardo Rodriguez | Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Ashley Scott, Victoria Pratt, Melanie Nicholls-King
Votes: 477
35.
Dragons' Den (2005– )
Episode:
Episode #10.3
(2012)
Game-Show, Reality-TV
Director: Paul MacKay | Stars: Evan Davis, Duncan Bannatyne, Hilary Devey, Peter Jones