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Cult Lab's Top 100 Cult Horror Movies

by McCool2112 • Created 7 years ago • Modified 7 years ago
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  • Halloween (1978)

    1. Halloween

    19781h 31mR90Metascore
    7.7 (323K)
    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.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsDonald PleasenceJamie Lee CurtisTony Moran
  • Max von Sydow in The Exorcist (1973)

    2. The Exorcist

    19732h 2mR83Metascore
    8.1 (478K)
    When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
    DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda Blair
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

    3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    19741h 23mR91Metascore
    7.4 (198K)
    Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
    DirectorTobe HooperStarsMarilyn BurnsEdwin NealAllen Danziger
  • John Paul in Dawn of the Dead (1978)

    4. Dawn of the Dead

    19782h 7mUnrated71Metascore
    7.8 (133K)
    During an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. Reiniger
  • Zombie (1979)

    5. Zombie

    19791h 31mR54Metascore
    6.8 (32K)
    Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
    DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard Johnson
  • Suspiria (1977)

    6. Suspiria

    19771h 32mR79Metascore
    7.3 (112K)
    An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
    DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio Bucci
  • Alien (1979)

    7. Alien

    19791h 57mR89Metascore
    8.5 (1M)
    After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
    DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn Hurt
  • Bridget Hoffman in The Evil Dead (1981)

    8. The Evil Dead

    19811h 25mNC-1771Metascore
    7.4 (242K)
    Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
    DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEllen SandweissRichard DeManincor
  • Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, and Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (1973)

    9. The Wicker Man

    19731h 28mR87Metascore
    7.5 (100K)
    A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
    DirectorRobin HardyStarsEdward WoodwardChristopher LeeDiane Cilento
  • The Devil Rides Out (1968)

    10. The Devil Rides Out

    19681h 35mG
    6.9 (11K)
    Devil worshipers plan to convert two new victims.
    DirectorTerence FisherStarsChristopher LeeCharles GrayNike Arrighi
  • John Paul in Day of the Dead (1985)

    11. Day of the Dead

    19851h 41mNot Rated60Metascore
    7.1 (77K)
    As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph Pilato
  • James Woods and Debbie Harry in Videodrome (1983)

    12. Videodrome

    19831h 27mR58Metascore
    7.2 (109K)
    A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja Smits
  • The Shining (1980)

    13. The Shining

    19802h 26mR68Metascore
    8.4 (1.2M)
    A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny Lloyd
  • The Beyond (1981)

    14. The Beyond

    19811h 27mR38Metascore
    6.6 (27K)
    A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
    DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollDavid WarbeckCinzia Monreale
  • Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

    15. Bride of Frankenstein

    19351h 15mApproved95Metascore
    7.8 (56K)
    Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin Clive
  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    16. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (752K)
    A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera Miles
  • Deep Red (1975)

    17. Deep Red

    19752h 7mR89Metascore
    7.5 (45K)
    A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
    DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele Lavia
  • The Fog (1980)

    18. The Fog

    19801h 29mR55Metascore
    6.8 (88K)
    Local legend tells of a ship lured on to the rocks of Antonio Bay being enveloped by a supernatural cloud as it sank; the myth says that when this mysterious fog returns, the victims will rise up from the depths seeking vengeance.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsAdrienne BarbeauJamie Lee CurtisJanet Leigh
  • Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don't Look Now (1973)

    19. Don't Look Now

    19731h 50mR95Metascore
    7.1 (66K)
    A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
    DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJulie ChristieDonald SutherlandHilary Mason
  • Jack Nance in Eraserhead (1977)

    20. Eraserhead

    19771h 29mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.3 (137K)
    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen Joseph
  • Marilyn Eastman, Duane Jones, and Judith Ridley in Night of the Living Dead (1968)

    21. Night of the Living Dead

    19681h 36mR89Metascore
    7.8 (145K)
    A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl Hardman
  • Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

    22. Rosemary's Baby

    19682h 17mR96Metascore
    8.0 (248K)
    A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsMia FarrowJohn CassavetesRuth Gordon
  • Mirella Banti in Tenebrae (1982)

    23. Tenebrae

    19821h 41mR83Metascore
    7.0 (29K)
    An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
    DirectorDario ArgentoStarsAnthony FranciosaGiuliano GemmaChristian Borromeo
  • Boris Karloff, John Boles, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive, and Dwight Frye in Frankenstein (1931)

    24. Frankenstein

    19311h 10mApproved91Metascore
    7.8 (84K)
    Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris Karloff
  • Susan Backlinie and Bruce in Jaws (1975)

    25. Jaws

    19752h 4mPG87Metascore
    8.1 (694K)
    When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard Dreyfuss

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