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Gymnopedie's Great Horror Movies

by Gymnopedies • Created 6 years ago • Modified 1 day ago
So I created this list in order to separate the good horror movies from the really great horror movies, in my humble opinion. Every film in this list has received an "eight" rating, or higher from me. I figured it would be a useful list in order to separate the horror films that mean the most to me. This list will be ever expanding as I see more films. In no specific order.
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  • I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain (1998)

    1. I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain

    19981h 19m
    5.3 (812)
    A young man gets infected and gradually starts turning into a zombie.
    DirectorAndrew ParkinsonStarsGiles AspenEllen SoftleyDean Sipling
  • Lili Taylor in The Addiction (1995)

    2. The Addiction

    19951h 22mNot Rated
    6.5 (12K)
    A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.
    DirectorAbel FerraraStarsLili TaylorChristopher WalkenAnnabella Sciorra
  • Doug Bradley in Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

    3. Hellbound: Hellraiser II

    19881h 37mR41Metascore
    6.4 (59K)
    Kirsty is brought to an institution after the horrible events of Hellraiser (1987), where the occult-obsessive head doctor resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites and their demonic underworld.
    DirectorTony RandelStarsDoug BradleyAshley LaurenceClare Higgins
  • The Carrier (1988)

    4. The Carrier

    19881h 39mR
    5.6 (629)
    The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inamimate object that he touches, and then if another person touches the object, they are dissolved into it. No one knows that Jake is the carrier except him. This brings about the "red objects" that specify every object that he has touched, as discovered by the community with cats. They use cats to test inanimate objects for the disease. And they cover themselves in garbage bags to protect themselves.
    DirectorNathan J. WhiteStarsGregory FortescueStevie LeeSteve Dixon
  • Doug Bradley in Hellraiser (1987)

    5. Hellraiser

    19871h 34mR56Metascore
    6.9 (148K)
    A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.
    DirectorClive BarkerStarsAndrew RobinsonClare HigginsAshley Laurence
  • No Place to Hide (1981)

    6. No Place to Hide

    19811h 40mTV Movie
    6.2 (405)
    Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who is this man in black? Is it the strange young man whom she recently dated? Or the psychologist her mother told her to visit? Or is she really insane...?
    DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMariette HartleyKathleen BellerArlen Dean Snyder
  • Marianna Hill in Messiah of Evil (1974)

    7. Messiah of Evil

    19741h 30mR69Metascore
    6.3 (6.9K)
    A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
    DirectorsWillard HuyckGloria KatzStarsMichael GreerMarianna HillJoy Bang
  • The Other (1972)

    8. The Other

    19721h 48mPG65Metascore
    6.8 (7.5K)
    A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
    DirectorRobert MulliganStarsUta HagenDiana MuldaurChris Udvarnoky
  • Adolfo Celi in They Have Changed Their Face (1971)

    9. They Have Changed Their Face

    19711h 36m
    6.6 (760)
    In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.
    DirectorCorrado FarinaStarsAdolfo CeliGeraldine HooperGiuliano Esperati
  • Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

    10. Rosemary's Baby

    19682h 17mR96Metascore
    8.0 (249K)
    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
  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    11. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (753K)
    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
  • Flight of the Living Dead (2007)

    12. Flight of the Living Dead

    20071h 29mUnrated
    5.1 (9.8K)
    A mad scientist is transferring a dead woman in a freezer with an armed guard on a plane to Paris. After slight turbulence, the freezer breaks down and she awakens, turns into a zombie, and infects all on board.
    DirectorScott ThomasStarsDavid ChisumKristen KerrKevin J. O'Connor
  • Intensity (1997)

    13. Intensity

    19973h 6mTV Movie
    7.1 (2.3K)
    A woman spending Thanksgiving at the home of her friend's family in the rural Pacific Northwest finds herself in the clutches of a disturbed serial killer.
    DirectorYves SimoneauStarsJohn C. McGinleyMolly ParkerBlu Mankuma
  • Blood & Donuts (1995)

    14. Blood & Donuts

    19951h 29mR
    5.9 (1.5K)
    A vampire falls for a woman working at a donut shop.
    DirectorHolly DaleStarsGordon CurrieLouis FerreiraHelene Clarkson
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

    15. Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    19891h 7mNot Rated
    6.9 (28K)
    A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
    DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu Kanaoka
  • Briony Behets and John Hargreaves in Long Weekend (1978)

    16. Long Weekend

    19781h 37mNot Rated61Metascore
    6.5 (6.5K)
    When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
    DirectorColin EgglestonStarsJohn HargreavesBriony BehetsMike McEwen
  • Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, and Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

    17. The Omen

    19761h 51mR62Metascore
    7.5 (141K)
    Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
    DirectorRichard DonnerStarsGregory PeckLee RemickHarvey Stephens
  • Grant Williams in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

    18. The Incredible Shrinking Man

    19571h 21mApproved73Metascore
    7.6 (21K)
    After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
    DirectorJack ArnoldStarsGrant WilliamsRandy StuartApril Kent
  • Jennifer Lawrence in Mother! (2017)

    19. Mother!

    20172h 1mR76Metascore
    6.6 (260K)
    A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
    DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsJennifer LawrenceJavier BardemEd Harris
  • Omari Hardwick in Spell (2020)

    20. Spell

    20201h 31mR38Metascore
    5.5 (10K)
    A man crash lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.
    DirectorMark TonderaiStarsOmari HardwickLoretta DevineLorraine Burroughs
  • The Dead (2010)

    21. The Dead

    20101h 45mR59Metascore
    5.7 (9.8K)
    An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.
    DirectorsHoward J. FordJonathan FordStarsRob FreemanPrince David OseiDavid Dontoh
  • The Girl Next Door (2007)

    22. The Girl Next Door

    20071h 31mR29Metascore
    6.5 (31K)
    In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture.
    DirectorGregory WilsonStarsWilliam AthertonBlythe AuffarthBlanche Baker
  • Nathan Baesel in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

    23. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

    20061h 32mR66Metascore
    6.7 (26K)
    The next great killer and psychopath has given a documentary film crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the quiet town of Glen Echo.
    DirectorScott GlossermanStarsNathan BaeselAngela GoethalsZelda Rubinstein
  • The Territory (1981)

    24. The Territory

    19811h 40m
    6.2 (312)
    A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.
    DirectorRaúl RuizStarsGeoffrey CareyJohn Paul Getty IIIJeffrey Kime
  • City of the Living Dead (1980)

    25. City of the Living Dead

    19801h 33mNot Rated
    6.2 (20K)
    A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
    DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De Mejo

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