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My Horror Evolution

by terrible2 • Created 14 years ago • Modified 14 years ago
These are amung the best films that fed my Horror addiction...
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  • Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

    1. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

    19221h 34mNot Rated
    7.8 (120K)
    Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
    DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von Wangenheim
  • Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

    2. The Phantom of the Opera

    19251h 33mPassed
    7.5 (21K)
    A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
    DirectorsRupert JulianLon ChaneyErnst LaemmleStarsLon ChaneyMary PhilbinNorman Kerry
  • Boris Karloff, John Boles, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive, and Dwight Frye in Frankenstein (1931)

    3. Frankenstein

    19311h 10mApproved91Metascore
    7.8 (84K)
    Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris Karloff
  • Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

    4. Dracula

    19311h 15mPassed71Metascore
    7.3 (62K)
    Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
    DirectorsTod BrowningKarl FreundStarsBela LugosiHelen ChandlerDavid Manners
  • Boris Karloff and Zita Johann in The Mummy (1932)

    5. The Mummy

    19321h 13mNot Rated
    7.0 (32K)
    A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
    DirectorKarl FreundStarsBoris KarloffZita JohannDavid Manners
  • Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles, and Henry Victor in Freaks (1932)

    6. 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
  • Fay Wray and King Kong in King Kong (1933)

    7. King Kong

    19331h 40mApproved92Metascore
    7.9 (94K)
    A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
    DirectorsMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce Cabot
  • Valerie Hobson, Henry Hull, and Warner Oland in Werewolf of London (1935)

    8. Werewolf of London

    19351h 15mApproved
    6.3 (7K)
    After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
    DirectorStuart WalkerStarsHenry HullWarner OlandValerie Hobson
  • Lon Chaney Jr. and Evelyn Ankers in The Wolf Man (1941)

    9. The Wolf Man

    19411h 10mApproved72Metascore
    7.2 (33K)
    Upon his return to his father's estate, aristocrat Larry Talbot meets a beautiful woman, attends a mystical carnival and uncovers a horrifying curse.
    DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsClaude RainsWarren WilliamRalph Bellamy
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

    10. Creature from the Black Lagoon

    19541h 19mG68Metascore
    6.9 (37K)
    A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
    DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard Denning
  • Vincent Price and Carolyn Craig in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

    11. House on Haunted Hill

    19591h 15mApproved
    6.7 (33K)
    A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
    DirectorWilliam CastleStarsVincent PriceCarol OhmartRichard Long
  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    12. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (759K)
    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
  • The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

    13. The Curse of the Werewolf

    19611h 33mApproved
    6.5 (7.6K)
    In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
    DirectorTerence FisherStarsClifford EvansOliver ReedYvonne Romain
  • Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963)

    14. The Birds

    19631h 59mPG-1390Metascore
    7.6 (214K)
    A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRod TaylorTippi HedrenJessica Tandy
  • Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

    15. Rosemary's Baby

    19682h 17mR96Metascore
    8.0 (250K)
    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
  • 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
  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

    17. Let's Scare Jessica to Death

    19711h 29mPG-1358Metascore
    6.4 (9.9K)
    A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.
    DirectorJohn D. HancockStarsZohra LampertBarton HeymanKevin O'Connor
  • Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, and Ralph Richardson in Tales from the Crypt (1972)

    18. Tales from the Crypt

    19721h 32mPG
    6.8 (14K)
    Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
    DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJoan CollinsPeter CushingRalph Richardson
  • Sandra Peabody in The Last House on the Left (1972)

    19. The Last House on the Left

    19721h 24mR68Metascore
    5.8 (42K)
    Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.
    DirectorWes CravenStarsSandra PeabodyLucy GranthamDavid Hess
  • The Legend of Hell House (1973)

    20. The Legend of Hell House

    19731h 35mPG56Metascore
    6.6 (15K)
    A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.
    DirectorJohn HoughStarsRoddy McDowallGayle HunnicuttPamela Franklin
  • Max von Sydow in The Exorcist (1973)

    21. 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
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

    22. 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
  • Susan Backlinie and Bruce in Jaws (1975)

    23. Jaws

    19752h 4mPG87Metascore
    8.1 (707K)
    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
  • Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)

    24. Carrie

    19761h 38mR86Metascore
    7.4 (220K)
    Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy Irving
  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

    25. The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    19761h 30mR52Metascore
    6.0 (11K)
    The story of a berserk, hooded killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
    DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsBen JohnsonAndrew PrineDawn Wells

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