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best horror out there

by TuesdayThe17th • Created 10 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
This is a list of the films that i found to be "the best" films i have seen. They are judged on a number of things such as uniqueness, atmosphere,formula, methods, portrayls,character development, quality, and of course scariness. You can trust my opinion,
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  • Come Back to Me (2014)

    1. Come Back to Me

    20141h 36mR31Metascore
    5.8 (5.4K)
    Sarah and Josh are married suburbanites. After a car accident, Sarah suffers blackouts. As her life spirals she hides a camera in her home and unlocks a horrific secret with far-reaching consequences.
    DirectorPaul LeydenStarsJon AbrahamsAndrew BeckhamJeanette Branch
    Mind blowing movie. A new route for an old idea
  • Pandorum (2009)

    2. Pandorum

    20091h 48mR28Metascore
    6.7 (164K)
    Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.
    DirectorChristian AlvartStarsDennis QuaidBen FosterCam Gigandet
  • Wendigo (2001)

    3. Wendigo

    20011h 31mR63Metascore
    5.1 (5K)
    The legend of the Wendigo, a beast from Indian folklore who is half-man, half-deer, and can change itself at will.
    DirectorLarry FessendenStarsPatricia ClarksonJake WeberErik Per Sullivan
  • V/H/S (2012)

    4. V/H/S

    20121h 56mR54Metascore
    5.8 (73K)
    When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
    DirectorsMatt Bettinelli-OlpinDavid BrucknerTyler GillettStarsCalvin Lee ReederLane HughesAdam Wingard
  • V/H/S/2 (2013)

    5. V/H/S/2

    20131h 36mR49Metascore
    6.0 (47K)
    Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find a collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.
    DirectorsSimon BarrettJason EisenerGareth EvansStarsLawrence Michael LevineKelsy AbbottAdam Wingard
  • Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    6. The Blair Witch Project

    19991h 21mR80Metascore
    6.5 (303K)
    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
  • Sauna (2008)

    7. Sauna

    20081h 23mUnrated
    6.2 (7.6K)
    As a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
    DirectorAntti-Jussi AnnilaStarsVille VirtanenTommi EronenViktor Klimenko
  • Horsehead (2014)

    8. Horsehead

    20141h 29mNot Rated
    4.8 (2K)
    Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. She doesn't get along with her mother very well and is not looking forward to seeing her again. Upon her arrival, Jessica discovers that her late grandmother is lying in the adjoining room to her own during the wake. After a rough first night made restless by a strange nightmare in which she meets her dead grandmother, Jessica suddenly becomes ill. Stuck in bed with a high fever, the young woman decides to use her lethargic state to try out lucid dreaming. In order to do so, and on Sean's advice, Jessica breathes a little bit of ether whenever she needs to sink deeper into the other world to try and take control of her nightmares. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...
    DirectorRomain BassetStarsLilly-Fleur PointeauxCatriona MacCollMurray Head
  • Southbound (2015)

    9. Southbound

    20151h 29mR58Metascore
    5.9 (22K)
    Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares - and darkest secrets - over one long night on a desolate stretch of desert highway.
    DirectorsRoxanne BenjaminMatt Bettinelli-OlpinDavid BrucknerStarsChad VillellaMatt Bettinelli-OlpinKristina Pesic
  • Hooked Up (2013)

    10. Hooked Up

    20131h 21mNot Rated
    3.9 (408)
    Looking for a good time, two friends on a trip to Barcelona befriend a couple of girls but it's not fun they find, instead they get trapped in a house haunted by a devilish ghost bent on tearing apart anyone that enters her dwelling.
    DirectorPablo LarcuenStarsJonah EhrenreichJúlia MolinsStephen Ohl
  • Blair Witch (2016)

    11. Blair Witch

    20161h 29mR47Metascore
    5.0 (52K)
    After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his vanished sister Heather, James and a group of friends head to the forest believed to be inhabited by the Blair Witch.
    DirectorAdam WingardStarsJames Allen McCuneCallie HernandezCorbin Reid
  • Jane Levy in Don't Breathe (2016)

    12. Don't Breathe

    20161h 28mR71Metascore
    7.1 (318K)
    Three delinquents break into the house of a war veteran who is blind to steal his money. However, they discover that the man is not as defenseless as he seems.
    DirectorFede AlvarezStarsStephen LangJane LevyDylan Minnette
  • Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood in Gerald's Game (2017)

    13. Gerald's Game

    20171h 43mTV-MA77Metascore
    6.5 (136K)
    A couple tries to spice up their marriage in a remote lake house. After the husband dies unexpectedly, the wife is left handcuffed to their bed frame and must fight to survive and break free.
    DirectorMike FlanaganStarsCarla GuginoBruce GreenwoodChiara Aurelia
  • Cub (2014)

    14. Cub

    20141h 24mNot Rated49Metascore
    5.9 (6.3K)
    Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced he will encounter a monster...and he does.
    DirectorJonas GovaertsStarsMaurice LuijtenEvelien BosmansTitus De Voogdt
  • Carlo Glorioso, Stacie Jones, Cory Okouchi, Laura Myers, Erik Kristopher Myers, Carl Porter, Kenny Johnson, Matt Davies, Robin Nicolai, Cazz Cerkez, and Gavin York in Butterfly Kisses (2018)

    15. Butterfly Kisses

    20181h 31m
    5.9 (5K)
    A director discovers a box of videotapes showing the creepy film project of two students that stars a local horror legend.
    DirectorErik Kristopher MyersStarsRachel ArmigerReed DeLisleMatt Lake
  • Matt Dillon in The House That Jack Built (2018)

    16. The House That Jack Built

    20182h 32mR42Metascore
    6.8 (100K)
    In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
    DirectorLars von TrierStarsMatt DillonBruno GanzUma Thurman
  • Suspiria (2018)

    17. Suspiria

    20182h 32mR64Metascore
    6.7 (100K)
    A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
    DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsChloë Grace MoretzTilda SwintonDoris Hick
  • Christopher Rygh in The Head Hunter (2018)

    18. The Head Hunter

    20181h 12m
    5.4 (7.5K)
    A medieval warrior's gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago.
    DirectorJordan DowneyStarsChristopher RyghCora KaufmanAisha Ricketts
  • Relaxer (2018)

    19. Relaxer

    20181h 31mNot Rated82Metascore
    6.0 (1.4K)
    With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge - the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man - and he can't get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.
    DirectorJoel PotrykusStarsJoshua BurgeDavid DastmalchianAndre Hyland
  • Damian Maffei, Justin Marxen, Terri Partyka, and Chaney Morrow in Haunt (2019)

    20. Haunt

    20191h 32mR69Metascore
    6.3 (43K)
    On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.
    DirectorsScott BeckBryan WoodsStarsKatie StevensWill BrittainLauryn Alisa McClain
  • Armie Hammer in Wounds (2019)

    21. Wounds

    20191h 35mR51Metascore
    4.1 (23K)
    Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
    DirectorBabak AnvariStarsArmie HammerZazie BeetzKarl Glusman
  • Tin Can Man (2007)

    22. Tin Can Man

    20071h 23mNot Rated
    5.9 (179)
    Recently dumped by his girlfriend for another man, working in a job he hates, things could be better for Peter. One night, while he is alone in his apartment, there is a knock at the door. His life will never be the same again.
    DirectorIvan KavanaghStarsPatrick O'DonnellMichael ParleEmma Eliza Regan
  • The Canal (2014)

    23. The Canal

    20141h 32mNot Rated55Metascore
    5.8 (15K)
    A film archivist finds his sanity crumbling after he is given an old 16mm film reel with footage from a horrific murder that occurred in the early 1900's.
    DirectorIvan KavanaghStarsRupert EvansAntonia Campbell-HughesHannah Hoekstra
  • Rose Leslie in Honeymoon (2014)

    24. Honeymoon

    20141h 27mR65Metascore
    5.7 (28K)
    A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.
    DirectorLeigh JaniakStarsRose LeslieHarry TreadawayBen Huber
  • The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

    25. The Poughkeepsie Tapes

    20071h 21mR
    5.9 (29K)
    In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work.
    DirectorJohn Erick DowdleStarsStacy ChboskyBen MessmerSamantha Robson

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