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Total Film Top 50 Horror Film

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  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

    1. 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
  • Halloween (1978)

    2. 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
  • Suspiria (1977)

    3. 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
  • 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
  • The Shining (1980)

    5. 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
  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    6. 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
  • Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, and Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (1973)

    7. 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
  • Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

    8. 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
  • Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don't Look Now (1973)

    9. 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
  • Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

    10. Cannibal Holocaust

    19801h 35mUnrated22Metascore
    5.8 (64K)
    An anthropologist ventures into the Amazon rainforest on a rescue mission, where he recovers footage shot by a film crew documenting their disastrous encounters with local cannibal tribes.
    DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry Pirkanen
  • The Thing (1982)

    11. The Thing

    19821h 49mR57Metascore
    8.2 (499K)
    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith David
  • Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)

    12. Carrie

    19761h 38mR86Metascore
    7.4 (218K)
    Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy Irving
  • Max von Sydow in The Exorcist (1973)

    13. 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
  • Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    14. The Blair Witch Project

    19991h 21mR80Metascore
    6.5 (302K)
    Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
    DirectorsDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua Leonard
  • Witchfinder General (1968)

    15. Witchfinder General

    19681h 26mUnrated
    6.7 (13K)
    During the English Civil War, a young Roundhead seeks vengeance against a vicious witch-hunter and his henchman, who have terrorized the soldier's fiancée and wrongfully executed her uncle.
    DirectorMichael ReevesStarsVincent PriceIan OgilvyRupert Davies
  • Julie Harris in The Haunting (1963)

    16. The Haunting

    19631h 52mG74Metascore
    7.4 (44K)
    Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
    DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie HarrisClaire BloomRichard Johnson
  • Bridget Hoffman in The Evil Dead (1981)

    17. The Evil Dead

    19811h 25mNC-1771Metascore
    7.4 (243K)
    Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
    DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEllen SandweissRichard DeManincor
  • Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer in Peeping Tom (1960)

    18. Peeping Tom

    19601h 41mNot Rated
    7.6 (42K)
    A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
    DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira Shearer
  • Alien (1979)

    19. 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
  • Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

    20. 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
  • 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
  • Ann Carter, Julia Dean, and Jane Randolph in The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

    22. The Curse of the Cat People

    19441h 10mApproved
    6.7 (7.6K)
    A young, lonely girl lives in a dreamworld with her father's dead first wife as a playmate.
    DirectorsGunther von FritschRobert WiseStarsSimone SimonKent SmithJane Randolph
  • Cécile de France in High Tension (2003)

    23. High Tension

    20031h 31mR42Metascore
    6.7 (81K)
    Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
    DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsCécile de FranceMaïwennPhilippe Nahon
  • Heather Langenkamp in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

    24. A Nightmare on Elm Street

    19841h 31mR76Metascore
    7.4 (278K)
    Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
    DirectorWes CravenStarsHeather LangenkampJohnny DeppRobert Englund
  • Griffin Dunne and David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London (1981)

    25. An American Werewolf in London

    19811h 37mR55Metascore
    7.5 (129K)
    American college students David Kessler and Jack Goodman on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Jack dies. David recovers in a hospital, where he has nightmares.
    DirectorJohn LandisStarsDavid NaughtonJenny AgutterJoe Belcher

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