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Horror Classics

by Gnislew • Created 11 years ago • Modified 1 week ago
Horror movie classics and horror movies that will be classics in my oppinion.
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  • Kevin Bacon, Adrienne King, Ari Lehman, Robbi Morgan, Betsy Palmer, and Jeannine Taylor in Friday the 13th (1980)

    1. Friday the 13th

    19801h 35mR22Metascore
    6.4 (168K)
    A group of teenage camp counselors attempt to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious, relentless killer.
    DirectorSean S. CunninghamStarsBetsy PalmerAdrienne KingJeannine Taylor
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

    2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    19741h 23mR91Metascore
    7.4 (201K)
    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)

    3. 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
  • Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)

    4. Saw

    20041h 43mR46Metascore
    7.6 (494K)
    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
  • Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott, Kerr Smith, Amanda Detmer, and Chad Donella in Final Destination (2000)

    5. Final Destination

    20001h 38mR39Metascore
    6.7 (319K)
    After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.
    DirectorJames WongStarsDevon SawaAli LarterKerr Smith
  • Haze (2005)

    6. Haze

    200549mNot Rated
    6.4 (3.3K)
    A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death.
    DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoTakahiro MuraseTakahiro Kandaka
  • Heather Langenkamp in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

    7. 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
  • Dan Palmer, Yazz Fetto, and James Heathcote in Freak Out (2004)

    8. Freak Out

    20041h 32mNot Rated
    5.1 (638)
    Two best friends, Merv Doody (James Heathcote) and Onkey (Dan Palmer), take a hapless escaped mental patient under their wing and attempt to teach him how to become a real serial killer.
    DirectorChristian JamesStarsJames HeathcoteDan PalmerNicola Connell
  • Mitch Cohen in The Toxic Avenger (1984)

    9. The Toxic Avenger

    19841h 22mR42Metascore
    6.2 (35K)
    Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
    DirectorsMichael HerzLloyd KaufmanStarsAndree MarandaMitch CohenJennifer Babtist
  • Michael Berryman in The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

    10. The Hills Have Eyes

    19771h 30mR64Metascore
    6.3 (41K)
    On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
    DirectorWes CravenStarsSusan LanierRobert HoustonJohn Steadman
  • Basket Case (1982)

    11. Basket Case

    19821h 31mR77Metascore
    6.2 (23K)
    A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
    DirectorFrank HenenlotterStarsKevin VanHentenryckTerri Susan SmithBeverly Bonner
  • Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat in Paranormal Activity (2007)

    12. 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
  • Rebecca Gayheart, Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid, and Michael Rosenbaum in Urban Legend (1998)

    13. Urban Legend

    19981h 39mR35Metascore
    5.6 (76K)
    A college student suspects a series of bizarre deaths are connected to certain urban legends.
    DirectorJamie BlanksStarsJared LetoAlicia WittRebecca Gayheart
  • Béatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis in Inside (2007)

    14. Inside

    20071h 22mR
    6.7 (47K)
    Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
    DirectorsAlexandre BustilloJulien MauryStarsAlysson ParadisJean-Baptiste TabourinClaude Lulé
  • Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator (1985)

    15. Re-Animator

    19851h 24mUnrated73Metascore
    7.1 (76K)
    After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
    DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara Crampton
  • Dead Eyes Open (2006)

    16. Dead Eyes Open

    20061h 25mNot Rated
    3.6 (77)
    Six young people on their way to a joint holiday - when the tank gets empty they find themselves stranded in the midst of an unknown wilderness. Everything looks perfect, but near an old graveyard Christin gets attacked by a deranged man and injured by his bite. Looking for help Web and Eddie discover an outlying house, its basement barricaded with solid perforated plates. Additionally a high metal fence seems to protect the shabby property from something. At last they are let into this odd fortress but even there the distraught feeling of a permanent threat won't cease. They do not know that the strange lady is hiding something at her garden: Something that is hungry for human flesh. Alarmed, they discover something incredibly dangerous has already changed the whole world. Old-school horror movie filmed on grainy super 8 with slowly walking dead. Very fine traditional zombie story in the way of zombie master Romero.
    DirectorRalf MöllenhoffStarsTanek SeranekMalte GutkowskiRocco Finamore
  • Olwen Catherine Kelly in The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

    17. The Autopsy of Jane Doe

    20161h 26mR65Metascore
    6.8 (156K)
    Father and son coroners investigate the death of a beautiful Jane Doe.
    DirectorAndré ØvredalStarsBrian CoxEmile HirschOphelia Lovibond
  • Susan Backlinie and Bruce in Jaws (1975)

    18. Jaws

    19752h 4mPG87Metascore
    8.1 (708K)
    When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to the local police chief, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard Dreyfuss
  • Swiped to Death (2019)

    19. Swiped to Death

    20197mShort
    6.0 (257)
    Dating can be hell. When Olivia 'swipes right' on a handsome stranger, her world collides with some serious hidden danger.
    DirectorElaine MongeonStarsKristie KruegerWill SterlingJoan Urchin
  • Brad Dourif and Dinah Manoff in Child's Play (1988)

    20. Child's Play

    19881h 27mR58Metascore
    6.7 (126K)
    A dying serial killer transfers his consciousness into a popular kids doll using voodoo. A struggling single mother gifts her six-year-old son the much sought-after doll for his birthday, and the doll slowly begins to show its true colors.
    DirectorTom HollandStarsCatherine HicksChris SarandonAlex Vincent
  • Critters (1986)

    21. Critters

    19861h 26mPG-1352Metascore
    6.1 (42K)
    A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.
    DirectorStephen HerekStarsDee WallaceM. Emmet WalshBilly Green Bush
  • Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles, and Henry Victor in Freaks (1932)

    22. Freaks

    19321h 4mNot Rated80Metascore
    7.8 (53K)
    A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.
    DirectorTod BrowningStarsWallace FordLeila HyamsOlga Baclanova
  • The Fog (1980)

    23. The Fog

    19801h 29mR55Metascore
    6.8 (89K)
    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
  • Marilú Marini, Pepe Soriano, and Gonzalo Calzada in Nocturna: Side A - The Great Old Man's Night (2021)

    24. Nocturna: Side A - The Great Old Man's Night

    20211h 47m
    6.7 (245)
    Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, battling for redemption on his last night on earth. Faced with imminent death, he is forced to rethink his past, his present and his take on reality.
    DirectorGonzalo CalzadaStarsMarina ArtigasLautaro DelgadoMora Della Veccia
  • James McAvoy in Split (2016)

    25. Split

    20161h 57mPG-1363Metascore
    7.3 (598K)
    Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
    DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsJames McAvoyAnya Taylor-JoyHaley Lu Richardson

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