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Every Horror Movie I've Seen In My Life (That I Can Recall)

by FaceCannon • Created 10 years ago • Modified 3 weeks ago
This list includes every horror movie I can remember seeing. The first 200 movies used to be my (approximately ranked) top 200. But, things change, I got busy, and now I don't even know what I believe anymore... I'm just gonna keep adding movies, and adding movies, and adding movies, and adding mooooviieessszzz...
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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
  • The Thing (1982)

    2. The Thing

    19821h 49mR57Metascore
    8.2 (504K)
    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith David
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

    3. 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
  • Angus Scrimm in Phantasm (1979)

    4. Phantasm

    19791h 29mR72Metascore
    6.6 (43K)
    Newly orphaned teenager Mike Pearson, his older brother Jody, and their friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons in their southern California town.
    DirectorDon CoscarelliStarsA. Michael BaldwinBill ThornburyReggie Bannister
  • Bridget Hoffman in The Evil Dead (1981)

    5. 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
  • Natalie Mendoza, Shauna Macdonald, Saskia Mulder, Alex Reid, Nora-Jane Noone, and MyAnna Buring in The Descent (2005)

    6. The Descent

    20051h 39mR71Metascore
    7.2 (263K)
    A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
    DirectorNeil MarshallStarsShauna MacdonaldNatalie MendozaAlex Reid
  • Black Christmas (1974)

    7. Black Christmas

    19741h 38mR65Metascore
    7.1 (53K)
    During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
    DirectorBob ClarkStarsOlivia HusseyKeir DulleaMargot Kidder
  • Doug Bradley in Hellraiser (1987)

    8. Hellraiser

    19871h 34mR56Metascore
    6.9 (149K)
    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
  • Max von Sydow in The Exorcist (1973)

    9. 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
  • James Woods and Debbie Harry in Videodrome (1983)

    10. Videodrome

    19831h 27mR58Metascore
    7.2 (110K)
    A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja Smits
  • Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later (2002)

    11. 28 Days Later

    20021h 53mR73Metascore
    7.5 (506K)
    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
  • Noroi (2005)

    12. Noroi

    20051h 55mNot Rated
    6.8 (18K)
    A prominent paranormal journalist Kobayashi goes missing shortly after completing a documentary. What begins as an investigation into strange noises soon evolves into the chilling mystery of a demonic entity named Kagutaba.
    DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsJin MurakiRio KannoTomono Kuga
  • Heather Langenkamp in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

    13. 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
  • Stir of Echoes (1999)

    14. Stir of Echoes

    19991h 39mR67Metascore
    6.9 (91K)
    A man has visions of a missing neighborhood girl.
    DirectorDavid KoeppStarsKevin BaconZachary David CopeKathryn Erbe
  • Clare Foley in Sinister (2012)

    15. Sinister

    20121h 50mR53Metascore
    6.8 (302K)
    A controversial true-crime writer finds a box of Super 8 home movies in his new home, revealing that the murder case he is currently researching could be the work of an unknown serial killer whose legacy dates back to the 1960s.
    DirectorScott DerricksonStarsEthan HawkeJuliet RylanceJames Ransone
  • Kim Kap-su, Yum Jung-ah, Lim Soo-jung, and Moon Geun-young in A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

    16. A Tale of Two Sisters

    20031h 54mR65Metascore
    7.1 (72K)
    After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.
    DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLim Soo-jungYum Jung-ahKim Kap-su
  • Halloween (1978)

    17. 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
  • Fernando Tielve in The Devil's Backbone (2001)

    18. The Devil's Backbone

    20011h 46mR78Metascore
    7.4 (73K)
    After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
    DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsMarisa ParedesEduardo NoriegaFederico Luppi
  • Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke in Angel Heart (1987)

    19. Angel Heart

    19871h 53mR61Metascore
    7.2 (101K)
    In 1955 New Orleans, small-time private investigator Harry Angel is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cypher to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite, but the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
    DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMickey RourkeRobert De NiroLisa Bonet
  • Ring (1998)

    20. 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
  • Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead (2004)

    21. Shaun of the Dead

    20041h 39mR76Metascore
    7.9 (623K)
    The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
    DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate Ashfield
  • Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator (1985)

    22. 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
  • The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

    23. 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
  • John Paul in Dawn of the Dead (1978)

    24. Dawn of the Dead

    19782h 7mUnrated71Metascore
    7.8 (134K)
    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
  • Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

    25. Ju-on: The Grudge

    20021h 32mR48Metascore
    6.7 (51K)
    A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa Uehara

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