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The most horror movies

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  • The Shining (1980)

    1. 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
  • Max von Sydow in The Exorcist (1973)

    2. The Exorcist

    19732h 2mR83Metascore
    8.1 (482K)
    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
  • Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat in Paranormal Activity (2007)

    3. Paranormal Activity

    20071h 26mR68Metascore
    6.3 (266K)
    After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.
    DirectorOren PeliStarsKatie FeatherstonMicah SloatMark Fredrichs
  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    4. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (758K)
    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
  • Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)

    5. Saw

    20041h 43mR46Metascore
    7.6 (493K)
    Two men awaken to find themselves on the opposite sides of a dead body, each with specific instructions to kill the other, escape or face the consequences. These two are the latest contestants in Jigsaw's games.
    DirectorJames WanStarsCary ElwesLeigh WhannellDanny Glover
  • Heather Langenkamp in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

    6. A Nightmare on Elm Street

    19841h 31mR76Metascore
    7.4 (280K)
    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
  • The Ring (2002)

    7. The Ring

    20021h 55mPG-1357Metascore
    7.1 (392K)
    A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
    DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsNaomi WattsMartin HendersonBrian Cox
  • Evil Dead II (1987)

    8. Evil Dead II

    19871h 24mR72Metascore
    7.7 (191K)
    Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
    DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellSarah BerryDan Hicks
  • Alien (1979)

    9. 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
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator (1987)

    10. Predator

    19871h 47mR47Metascore
    7.8 (481K)
    A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
    DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerCarl WeathersKevin Peter Hall
  • Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in Aliens (1986)

    11. Aliens

    19862h 17mR84Metascore
    8.4 (814K)
    Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie Henn
  • Bridget Hoffman in The Evil Dead (1981)

    12. The Evil Dead

    19811h 25mNC-1771Metascore
    7.4 (244K)
    Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
    DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEllen SandweissRichard DeManincor
  • The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

    13. The Cabin in the Woods

    20111h 35mR72Metascore
    7.0 (476K)
    A group of kids go to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a world-wide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.
    DirectorDrew GoddardStarsKristen ConnollyChris HemsworthAnna Hutchison
  • Embeth Davidtz and Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness (1992)

    14. Army of Darkness

    19921h 21mR59Metascore
    7.4 (203K)
    When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
    DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEmbeth DavidtzMarcus Gilbert
  • Halloween (1978)

    15. Halloween

    19781h 31mR90Metascore
    7.7 (326K)
    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
  • Marilyn Eastman, Duane Jones, and Judith Ridley in Night of the Living Dead (1968)

    16. Night of the Living Dead

    19681h 36mR89Metascore
    7.8 (146K)
    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
  • Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later (2002)

    17. 28 Days Later

    20021h 53mR73Metascore
    7.5 (505K)
    Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the United Kingdom, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
    DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher Eccleston
  • Ring (1998)

    18. Ring

    19981h 36mNot Rated
    7.2 (83K)
    When her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko sets out to investigate. She finds the tape, watches it and receives a phone call informing her that she'll die in a week.
    DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko Takeuchi
  • Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    19. The Silence of the Lambs

    19911h 58mR86Metascore
    8.6 (1.6M)
    A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
    DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott Glenn
  • Kelly Stables in The Ring Two (2005)

    20. The Ring Two

    20051h 50mPG-1344Metascore
    5.4 (104K)
    Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
    DirectorHideo NakataStarsNaomi WattsDavid DorfmanSissy Spacek
  • I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

    21. I Walked with a Zombie

    19431h 9mApproved
    7.0 (15K)
    A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsFrances DeeTom ConwayJames Ellison
  • Inferno (1980)

    22. Inferno

    19801h 46mR69Metascore
    6.5 (25K)
    An American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.
    DirectorDario ArgentoStarsLeigh McCloskeyIrene MiracleEleonora Giorgi
  • The Fog (1980)

    23. 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
  • Souad Mellouk in Khahit errouh (2003)

    24. Khahit errouh

    20031h 32m
    7.5 (19)
    DirectorHakim BelabbesStarsH'Nia CherqaouiAzeddine BouayadLaura Marks
  • Cronos (1992)

    25. Cronos

    19921h 34mR70Metascore
    6.7 (35K)
    A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
    DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio Brook

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