- 1No adults believe three youths' (Mitchel Musso, Spencer Locke, Sam Lerner) assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature that means them harm. With Halloween approaching, the trio must find a way to destroy the structure before innocent trick-or-treaters meet ghastly ends.
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Gil Kenan
- Also ranks #3 on The 35 Best Scary Movies For Kids
- Also ranks #3 on Pretty Good Movies On Netflix Inspired By '80s Horror
- Also ranks #4 on 12 Super Creepy Animated Shows And Movies Technically For Kids
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- 2Saturday the 14th is a 1981 American horror-comedy film starring real-life husband and wife Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin, co-written and directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman. A spoof of classic horror movies, it was followed by Saturday the 14th Strikes Back in 1988.
- Released: 1981
- Directed by: Howard R. Cohen
- 3Ben (Oliver Reed) and Marian Rolf (Karen Black) can't believe how cheap the rent is at their giant Victorian summer home. Over time, however, they begin to sense that there's something peculiar about the place. Marian becomes strangely obsessed with keeping house, Ben finds himself prone to unusual bursts of anger and his vivacious aunt Elizabeth (Bette Davis) becomes withdrawn, then mysteriously dies. As the couple tries to adjust, they wonder if the house itself could be responsible?
- Released: 1976
- Directed by: Dan Curtis
- Also ranks #2 on Obscure Horror Movies from the 1970s You Should Know About
- Also ranks #10 on Fictional Haunted Houses You'd Totally Live In
- Also ranks #12 on 20 Shocking Horror Movie Endings That Took You by Surprise
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- 4A teenager (Lynn-Holly Johnson) and her younger sister learn their eerie landlady's (Bette Davis) secret at an English country manor.
- Released: 1980
- Directed by: John Hough
- 5Investigative reporter John Baxter (Tony Roberts) buys a notorious house in the Long Island suburb of Amityville, N.Y., in an attempt to prove that stories about its being inhabited by demons are fraudulent. But soon his daughter, Susan (Lori Loughlin), and her friend Lisa (Meg Ryan) are experiencing inexplicable terrors, while his estranged wife, Nancy (Tess Harper), and supernatural expert Elliot West (Robert Joy) fear that the evil has begun to spread outside the house's walls.
- Released: 1983
- Directed by: Richard Fleischer
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- 6Scientist Lionel Barrett (Clive Revill) and his wife, Ann (Gayle Hunnicutt), lead a team into the infamous Belasco House, supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, a notorious serial killer. Though the rational Barrett does not believe in ghosts, the other members of his group do, include devout spiritualist Florence Tanner (Pamela Franklin) and psychic medium Benjamin Fischer (Roddy McDowall), who has been in Belasco House before and seen what horrors can befall those who enter it.
- Released: 1973
- Directed by: John Hough
- Also ranks #7 on The 100+ Best Horror Movies Of 1973, Ranked
- Also ranks #12 on The Best Horror Movies About Hell
- Also ranks #15 on Fictional Haunted Houses You'd Totally Live In
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- 7The House That Dripped Blood is a 1971 British horror anthology film directed by Peter Duffell and distributed by Amicus Productions. It stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott, and Jon Pertwee. The film is a collection of four short stories, all originally written and subsequently scripted by Robert Bloch, linked by the protagonist of each story's association with the eponymous building. The film carries the tagline "TERROR waits for you in every room in The House That Dripped Blood."
- Released: 1971
- Directed by: Peter Duffell
- Also ranks #9 on 22 Terrifying Anthology Horror Movies Perfect for a Halloween Binge
- Also ranks #12 on The Best Vampire Movies of the 1970s
- Also ranks #13 on The 45 Scariest PG Horror Movies Of All Time
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