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  • Dressed to Kill (1980)

    1. Dressed to Kill

    19801h 44mR74Metascore
    7.1 (53K)
    A mysterious blonde woman kills one of the patients of a psychiatrist and then goes after the high-class hooker who witnessed the murder.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMichael CaineAngie DickinsonNancy Allen
  • Benoît Poelvoorde in Man Bites Dog (1992)

    2. Man Bites Dog

    19921h 35mNC-1767Metascore
    7.4 (45K)
    A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
    DirectorsRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly Pappaert
  • The Stepfather (1987)

    3. The Stepfather

    19871h 29mR72Metascore
    6.7 (20K)
    After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.
    DirectorJoseph RubenStarsTerry O'QuinnJill SchoelenShelley Hack
  • Johanna ter Steege in The Vanishing (1988)

    4. The Vanishing

    19881h 47mNot Rated
    7.7 (51K)
    Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
    DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter Steege
  • Connie Mason in Blood Feast (1963)

    5. Blood Feast

    19631h 7mNot Rated
    5.0 (7.7K)
    An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down.
    DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsWilliam KerwinMal ArnoldConnie Mason
  • Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

    6. Cannibal Holocaust

    19801h 35mUnrated22Metascore
    5.8 (65K)
    An anthropologist ventures into the Amazon rainforest on a rescue mission, where he recovers footage shot by a film crew documenting their disastrous encounters with local cannibal tribes.
    DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry Pirkanen
  • Michael Berryman in The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

    7. 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
  • House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

    8. House of 1000 Corpses

    20031h 29mR31Metascore
    6.0 (97K)
    Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
    DirectorRob ZombieStarsSid HaigKaren BlackBill Moseley
  • It's Alive (1974)

    9. It's Alive

    19741h 31mPG72Metascore
    5.8 (9.4K)
    The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.
    DirectorLarry CohenStarsJohn P. RyanSharon FarrellAndrew Duggan
  • Connie Mason in Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)

    10. Two Thousand Maniacs!

    19641h 23mNot Rated
    5.8 (5.5K)
    Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
    DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsConnie MasonWilliam KerwinJeffrey Allen
  • David Arquette and Kari Wuhrer in Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

    11. Eight Legged Freaks

    20021h 39mPG-1353Metascore
    5.5 (62K)
    Venomous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.
    DirectorEllory ElkayemStarsDavid ArquetteKari WuhrerScott Terra
  • Piranha (1978)

    12. Piranha

    19781h 34mR71Metascore
    5.9 (26K)
    When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
    DirectorJoe DanteStarsBradford DillmanHeather Menzies-UrichKevin McCarthy
  • Squirm (1976)

    13. Squirm

    19761h 32mPG
    4.9 (6.7K)
    A storm causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.
    DirectorJeff LiebermanStarsDon ScardinoPatricia PearcyR.A. Dow
  • William Hurt in Altered States (1980)

    14. Altered States

    19801h 42mR58Metascore
    6.9 (40K)
    A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
    DirectorKen RussellStarsWilliam HurtBlair BrownBob Balaban
  • James Olson and Robert Soto in The Andromeda Strain (1971)

    15. The Andromeda Strain

    19712h 11mG60Metascore
    7.2 (42K)
    Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
    DirectorRobert WiseStarsJames OlsonArthur HillDavid Wayne
  • Boris Karloff in The Devil Commands (1941)

    16. The Devil Commands

    19411h 5mApproved
    6.1 (1.6K)
    Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.
    DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsBoris KarloffAnne RevereAmanda Duff
  • Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)

    17. Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

    19681h 24mPG
    6.1 (2.1K)
    The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
    DirectorHajime SatôStarsTeruo YoshidaTomomi SatôHideo Kô
  • Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Cedric Hardwicke, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Napier, and John Sutton in The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

    18. The Invisible Man Returns

    19401h 21mApproved48Metascore
    6.4 (5.8K)
    The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
    DirectorJoe MayStarsCedric HardwickeVincent PriceNan Grey
  • Kathleen Burke in Island of Lost Souls (1932)

    19. Island of Lost Souls

    19321h 10mPassed
    7.3 (12K)
    A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
    DirectorErle C. KentonStarsCharles LaughtonBela LugosiRichard Arlen
  • Planet of the Vampires (1965)

    20. Planet of the Vampires

    19651h 28mNot Rated
    6.2 (7.7K)
    After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
    DirectorMario BavaStarsBarry SullivanNorma BengellÁngel Aranda
  • Kerry Remsen in Pumpkinhead (1988)

    21. Pumpkinhead

    19881h 26mR47Metascore
    6.2 (30K)
    After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.
    DirectorStan WinstonStarsLance HenriksenJeff EastJohn D'Aquino
  • Shivers (1975)

    22. Shivers

    19751h 27mR58Metascore
    6.3 (25K)
    The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPaul HamptonJoe SilverLynn Lowry
  • Village of the Damned (1995)

    23. Village of the Damned

    19951h 38mR41Metascore
    5.6 (36K)
    A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsChristopher ReeveKirstie AlleyLinda Kozlowski
  • Bela Lugosi, Vince Barnett, John Berkes, Lew Kelly, Wanda McKay, and Tom Neal in Bowery at Midnight (1942)

    24. Bowery at Midnight

    19421h 1mApproved
    5.3 (1.4K)
    Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Brenner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders.
    DirectorWallace FoxStarsBela LugosiJohn ArcherWanda McKay
  • Jason Evers and Virginia Leith in The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

    25. The Brain That Wouldn't Die

    19621h 22mApproved
    4.5 (7.9K)
    A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
    DirectorJoseph GreenStarsJason EversVirginia LeithAnthony La Penna

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