Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsBest Of 2025Holiday Watch GuideGotham AwardsCelebrity PhotosSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Copy

favourite horror movies

by annmarieager • Created 12 years ago • Modified 12 years ago
List activity
159 views
• 0 this week
Create a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
  • 70 titles
  • Paul Bettany in Priest (2011)

    1. Priest

    20111h 27mPG-1341Metascore
    5.7 (129K)
    A warrior priest disobeys church law to track down a pack of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.
    DirectorScott StewartStarsPaul BettanyCam GigandetMaggie Q
  • Ty Simpkins in Insidious (2010)

    2. Insidious

    20101h 43mPG-1352Metascore
    6.8 (362K)
    A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
    DirectorJames WanStarsPatrick WilsonRose ByrneTy Simpkins
  • Anthony Sellers in The Crazies (2010)

    3. The Crazies

    20101h 41mR56Metascore
    6.5 (136K)
    After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.
    DirectorBreck EisnerStarsRadha MitchellTimothy OlyphantDanielle Panabaker
  • Isabelle Fuhrman in Orphan (2009)

    4. Orphan

    20092h 3mR42Metascore
    7.0 (274K)
    A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.
    DirectorJaume Collet-SerraStarsVera FarmigaPeter SarsgaardIsabelle Fuhrman
  • The Last House on the Left (2009)

    5. The Last House on the Left

    20091h 53mR42Metascore
    6.5 (107K)
    After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.
    DirectorDennis IliadisStarsGarret DillahuntMonica PotterTony Goldwyn
  • 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 (268K)
    A caving expedition goes horribly wrong when six explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
    DirectorNeil MarshallStarsShauna MacdonaldNatalie MendozaAlex Reid
  • Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later (2002)

    7. 28 Days Later

    20021h 53mR73Metascore
    7.5 (528K)
    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
  • Rose Byrne in 28 Weeks Later (2007)

    8. 28 Weeks Later

    20071h 39mR78Metascore
    6.8 (351K)
    Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
    DirectorJuan Carlos FresnadilloStarsJeremy RennerRose ByrneRobert Carlyle
  • Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez in Resident Evil (2002)

    9. Resident Evil

    20021h 40mR35Metascore
    6.6 (306K)
    A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
    DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichMichelle RodriguezRyan McCluskey
  • Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

    10. Resident Evil: Afterlife

    20101h 36mR37Metascore
    5.8 (186K)
    While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.
    DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichAli LarterWentworth Miller
  • Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

    11. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

    20041h 34mR36Metascore
    6.1 (219K)
    Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
    DirectorAlexander WittStarsMilla JovovichSienna GuilloryEric Mabius
  • Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

    12. Resident Evil: Extinction

    20071h 34mR41Metascore
    6.2 (213K)
    Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
    DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsMilla JovovichAli LarterOded Fehr
  • 30 Days of Night (2007)

    13. 30 Days of Night

    20071h 53mR53Metascore
    6.6 (199K)
    After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
    DirectorDavid SladeStarsJosh HartnettMelissa GeorgeDanny Huston
  • Drew Barrymore in Scream (1996)

    14. Scream

    19961h 51mR66Metascore
    7.4 (434K)
    In the small town of Woodsboro, California, a masked killer known as Ghostface begins murdering high school students, and a group of friends must use their knowledge of horror movies to unmask the killer.
    DirectorWes CravenStarsNeve CampbellCourteney CoxDavid Arquette
  • Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett Smith, Courteney Cox, and Jerry O'Connell in Scream 2 (1997)

    15. Scream 2

    19972hR62Metascore
    6.3 (230K)
    A year after the Woodsboro murders, the survivors try to move on at Windsor College in Ohio-but when a new Ghostface killer starts a campus killing spree, they must face terror all over again.
    DirectorWes CravenStarsNeve CampbellCourteney CoxDavid Arquette
  • Neve Campbell, Parker Posey, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, and Deon Richmond in Scream 3 (2000)

    16. Scream 3

    20001h 56mR56Metascore
    5.7 (180K)
    In Hollywood, a new Ghostface starts killing the cast of Stab 3, a movie sequel whose previous movies were based on the Woodsboro and Windsor College killings. Forcing the survivors of those previous attacks to confront terror once again.
    DirectorWes CravenStarsDavid ArquetteNeve CampbellCourteney Cox
  • Scream 4 (2011)

    17. Scream 4

    20111h 51mR52Metascore
    6.2 (186K)
    Ten years after the original Woodsboro murders, one of the survivors returns home to promote their new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
    DirectorWes CravenStarsNeve CampbellCourteney CoxDavid Arquette
  • Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

    18. Thir13en Ghosts

    20011h 31mR30Metascore
    5.6 (100K)
    When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things, dies, he leaves his house, fortune, and his prized collection of ghosts.
    DirectorSteve BeckStarsTony ShalhoubShannon ElizabethEmbeth Davidtz
  • Geoffrey Rush, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras in House on Haunted Hill (1999)

    19. House on Haunted Hill

    19991h 33mR28Metascore
    5.6 (63K)
    An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
    DirectorWilliam MaloneStarsGeoffrey RushFamke JanssenTaye Diggs
  • Heather Langenkamp in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

    20. A Nightmare on Elm Street

    19841h 31mR76Metascore
    7.4 (287K)
    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
  • Kim Myers and Mark Patton in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

    21. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

    19851h 27mR43Metascore
    5.5 (85K)
    A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
    DirectorJack SholderStarsRobert EnglundMark PattonKim Myers
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

    22. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

    19871h 36mR49Metascore
    6.7 (99K)
    A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
    DirectorChuck RussellStarsHeather LangenkampRobert EnglundCraig Wasson
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

    23. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

    19881h 33mR56Metascore
    5.6 (67K)
    Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
    DirectorRenny HarlinStarsRobert EnglundRodney EastmanJohn Beckman
  • Heather O'Rourke in Poltergeist (1982)

    24. Poltergeist

    19821h 54mPG79Metascore
    7.3 (193K)
    A family's home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a doorway to the "other side." With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
    DirectorTobe HooperStarsJoBeth WilliamsHeather O'RourkeCraig T. Nelson
  • Heather O'Rourke in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

    25. Poltergeist II: The Other Side

    19861h 31mPG-1349Metascore
    5.7 (32K)
    The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.
    DirectorBrian GibsonStarsJoBeth WilliamsCraig T. NelsonHeather O'Rourke

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb App
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.