Best Horror Movies

#1 The Exorcist 1973

Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of darkness.

Director: William Friedkin. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Linda Blair, William O'Malley, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Barton Heyman, Peter Masterson, Rudolf Schündler, Robert Symonds, Titos Vandis, Donna Mitchell, Robert Gerringer.

Overview: Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house. A man has been called for as a last resort to try and save her. That man is The Exorcist.

Genres: Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 12m. Rated: R.

#2 Psycho 1960

Check in. Relax. Take a shower.

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, Hilton A. Green. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Frank Albertson, Patricia Hitchcock, Vaughn Taylor, Lurene Tuttle, Mort Mills, John Anderson.

Overview: Psycho is one of the most famous masterpieces from Hitchcock and for it’s time was unparalleled in it’s horror effect. A chilling score sets the pace for an introverted killer and a mystery thriller case of multiple dimensions. The credits for the film directed by Saul Bass were revolutionary for their time.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 46m. Rated: R.

#3 The Shining 1980

The Horror is driving him crazy

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson.

Overview: The Shining is a Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Steven King’s horror novel of the same name. The film takes the viewer into a remote hotel where a Jack Torrance and his wife and son must live in for the winter. One of the scariest films of all times mixes up reality and makes isolation a psychological nightmare.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 2h 24m. Rated: R.

#4 [REC] 2007

One Witness. One Camera

Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza. Cast: Manuela Velasco, Carlos Lasarte, Pablo Rosso, David Vert, Vicente Gil, Martha Carbonell, Carlos Vicente, Ferran Terraza, Jorge Yamam.

Overview: "REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station. Receiving a call from an old lady trapped in her house, they reach her building to hear horrifying screams -- which begin a long nightmare and a uniquely dramatic TV report.

Genres: Foreign, Horror. Country: Spain. Runtime: 1h 18m. Rated: R.

#5 Rosemary's Baby 1968

Pray for Rosemary's Baby

Director: Roman Polanski. Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Victoria Vetri, Patsy Kelly, Elisha Cook Jr., Emmaline Henry, Marianne Gordon.

Overview: Rosemary’s Baby is a classic psychological horror film from Roman Polanski about a young couple who move into a New York apartment to start a family and have a baby. Things soon turn ugly as Rosemary believes her baby isn’t safe around their strange neighbors.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 16m. Rated: R.

#6 The Thing 1982

Director: John Carpenter. Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites.

Overview: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller. Countries: Canada, United States of America. Runtime: 1h 49m. Rated: R.

#7 Alien 1979

In space no one can hear you scream.

Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton.

Overview: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 57m. Rated: R.

#8 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974

Who will survive and what will be left of them?

Director: Tobe Hooper. Cast: Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen, Marilyn Burns.

Overview: En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

Genres: Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 23m. Rated: R.

#9 The Omen 1976

It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it.

Director: Richard Donner. Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, Robert Rietty, Tommy Duggan, John Stride, Holly Palance, Anthony Nicholls, Roy Boyd, Sheila Raynor, Robert MacLeod.

Overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from 1976.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Foreign. Countries: United Kingdom, Italy. Runtime: 1h 51m. Rated: R.

#10 Dawn of the Dead 1978

Director: George A. Romero. Cast: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford, David Early, Richard France, Howard Smith, Daniel Dietrich, Fred Baker, James A. Baffico, Rod Stouffer.

Overview: An American horror movie from 1978 about a group of four people who are hiding out in a shopping center after the city has been over run with zombies. This low budget film has gained a cult statues in the horror genre.

Genres: Action, Horror. Countries: Italy, United States of America. Runtime: 2h 6m. Rated: R.

#11 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984

A scream that wakes you up, might be your own...

Director: Wes Craven. Cast: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Ronee Blakley, John Saxon, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Lin Shaye, Joe Unger, Mimi Craven, David Andrews.

Overview: Years after being burned alive by a mob of angry parents, child murderer Freddy Krueger returns to haunt the dreams -- and reality -- of local teenagers. As the town's teens begin dropping like flies, Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world.

Genre: Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 31m. Rated: R.

#12 The Ring 2002

Director: Gore Verbinski. Cast: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Shannon Cochran, Daveigh Chase, Rachael Bella, Jane Alexander, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Sandra Thigpen, Richard Lineback, Sara Rue, Adam Brody.

Overview: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 55m. Rated: PG-13.

#13 Saw 2004

Live or die. Make your choice.

Director: James Wan. Cast: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Mike Butters, Paul Gutrecht, Michael Emerson, Benito Martinez, Shawnee Smith, Makenzie Vega, Monica Potter, Ned Bellamy, Alexandra Bokyun Chun, Avner Garbi.

Overview: Would you kill to live? That's what two men, Adam and Gordon, have to ask themselves when they're abducted by a serial killer and paired up in a deadly situation -- holed up in a prison constructed with such ingenuity that escape seems impossible. Attempting to break free might kill them, but their captor could decide at any moment that it's time to dismantle their bodies in his signature way.

Genres: Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 42m. Rated: R.

#14 Nosferatu 1922
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

Director: F.W. Murnau. Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Georg H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff, John Gottowt, Gustav Botz, Max Nemetz, Wolfgang Heinz, Albert Venohr, Guido Herzfeld, Hardy von Francois, Karl Etlinger, Heinrich Witte.

Overview: Although the critics in 1922 didn’t find the film to be anything special, a few years after it’s release it was called innovative and a landmark in cinema history. German director Murnau’s vampire film holds claim to one of the most, if not the most important German expressionist film and a foundation for horror films.

Genres: Fantasy, Horror. Country: Germany. Runtime: 1h 22m.

#15 Halloween 1978

The Night HE Came Home!

Director: John Carpenter. Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, Brian Andrews, John Michael Graham, Nancy Stephens, Arthur Malet, Mickey Yablans, Brent Le Page, Adam Hollander, Robert Phalen, Tony Moran.

Overview: Michael Myers, who just escaped from a mental hospital, goes on a murderous rampage on Halloween night after returning to his hometown of Haddonfield, Ill. Inexplicably, his prize victim seems to be babysitter Laurie. Psychiatrist Dr. Loomis is on a mission to stop Myers in this slasher classic.

Genres: Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 31m. Rated: R.

#16 Frankenstein 1931

Director: James Whale. Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr, Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Michael Mark.

Overview: Dr. Frankenstein, an obsessed scientist, creates a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. The movie revolves around this monster and his struggle to live again.

Genre: Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 11m. Rated: PG.

#17 Bride of Frankenstein 1935

The monster demands a mate.

Director: James Whale. Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Una O'Connor, E.E. Clive, Lucien Prival, O.P. Heggie, Dwight Frye, Reginald Barlow, Mary Gordon, Anne Darling.

Overview: Bride of Frankenstein begins where James Whale's Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 15m. Rated: PG.

#18 The Cabin in the Woods April 2012

If you hear a strange sound outside... have sex

Director: Drew Goddard. Cast: Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams, Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, Kristen Connolly, Brian J. White, Amy Acker, Anna Hutchison, Jodelle Ferland.

Overview: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Comedy. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 35m. Rated: R.

#19 Friday the 13th 1980

You’ll wish it were only a nightmare.

Director: Sean S. Cunningham. Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Jeannine Taylor, Kevin Bacon.

Overview: Camp Crystal Lake has been shuttered for over 20 years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. The camp's new owner and several young counselors are readying the property for re-opening despite warnings of a "death curse" by local residents. The curse proves true on Friday the 13th as one by one each of the counselors is stalked by a violent killer.

Genre: Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 35m. Rated: R.

#20 Kwaidan 1964
Kaidan

Director: Masaki Kobayashi. Cast: Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi, Fumie Kitahara, Kappei Matsumoto, Yoshiko Ieda, Otome Tsukimiya, Kenzô Tanaka, Kiyoshi Nakano, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Yûko Mochizuki, Kin Sugai.

Overview: A classic collection of four Japanese Horror stories. Features "Black Hair", "The Woman in the Snow", "Hoichi the Earless" and "In a Cup of Tea".

Genres: Fantasy, Foreign, Horror, Indie. Country: Japan. Runtime: 2h 41m.

#21 The Others 2001

Sooner or later she'll see them, then everything will be different.

Director: Alejandro Amenábar. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Eric Sykes, Elaine Cassidy, Renée Asherson, Keith Allen, Michelle Fairley, Alexander Vince, Gordon Reid, Ricardo López, Fionnula Flanagan.

Overview: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller. Country: Spain. Runtime: 1h 41m. Rated: PG-13.

#22 The Crazies 2010

Fear Thy Neighbor

Director: Breck Eisner. Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker, Christie Lynn Smith, Brett Rickaby, Preston Bailey, John Aylward, Joe Reegan, Glenn Morshower, Larry Cedar, Lynn Lowry.

Overview: Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the “American Dream” gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in The Crazies, a reinvention of the George Romero classic.

Genres: Horror, Action, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 41m. Rated: R.

#23 I Saw The Devil 2010
Akma-reul Bo-at-da

Abandon all compassion.

Director: Kim Ji-Woon. Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Jeon Kuk-Hwan, Oh San-Ha, Kim Yun-Seo.

Overview: A woman named Joo-Yun is stranded in her broken down car on a snowy night. She talks to her fiance on her cellphone while she awaits for a tow truck. Her fiance is So-Hyun, an agent for the National Intelligence Service.A few days later, an ear is found in a plastic bag by children playing near a river. When the police arrive, they later find Joo-Yun's head in the river. At this moment So-Hyun arrives at the crime scene and witnesses his fiance's decapitated head.At the funeral for Joo-Yun, Soo-Hyun apologizes to her for not being there to protect her and also promises to inflict pain 1,000x worse to the man responsible for her death.When Soo-Hyun tracks down his fiance's killer he beats the man severely. The killer awakens the next day bloodied, but still alive. There is also an envelope with money left on his belly. Soo-Hyun's plan for vengeance is just beginning ...

Genres: Foreign, Thriller. Country: Korea. Runtime: 2h 24m.

#24 Dracula 1931

Director: Tod Browning. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Herbert Bunston, Frances Dade, Joan Standing, Charles K. Gerrard.

Overview: The legend of vampire Count Dracula begins here with this original 1931 Dracula film from Bela Lugosi.

Genre: Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 12m. Rated: NR.

#25 Night of the Living Dead 1968

Director: George A. Romero. Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon, Charles Craig, S. William Hinzman, Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille, George A. Romero, Russell Streiner, John A. Russo.

Overview: A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" horror film, and it greatly influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 36m. Rated: R.

#26 Shaun of the Dead 2004

A Romantic Comedy. With Zombies.

Director: Edgar Wright. Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Peter Serafinowicz, Penelope Wilton, Steve Emerson, Nicola Cunningham, Reece Shearsmith, Bill Nighy, Jessica Hynes.

Overview: Shaun of the Dead is a humorous homage to Zombie movies from director Edgar Wright; an outrageous romantic comedy with zombies.

Genres: Comedy, Foreign, Horror. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 35m. Rated: R.

#27 Haxan 1922

Director: Benjamin Christensen. Cast: Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt, Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan.

Overview: Haxan is a study about how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts. The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatized sequences that are comparable to horror films.

Genre: Horror. Countries: Denmark, Sweden. Runtime: 1h 44m.

#28 Paranormal Activity 2009

What Happens When You Sleep?

Director: Oren Peli. Cast: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs.

Overview: After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

Genres: Horror, Suspense, Mystery. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 39m. Rated: R.

#29 Re-Animator 1985

Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders... and another on his desk.

Director: Stuart Gordon. Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Peter Kent, Ian Patrick Williams.

Overview: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 26m. Rated: NR.

#30 The Blair Witch Project 1999

Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez. Cast: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffith, Jim King, Sandra Sánchez, Ed Swanson, Patricia DeCou, Mark Mason, Jackie Hallex.

Overview: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary...A year later their footage was found.

Genres: Horror, Mystery. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 21m. Rated: R.

#31 Zombieland 2009

This place is so dead

Director: Ruben Fleischer. Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray, Amber Heard, Derek Graf.

Overview: An easily spooked guy, Columbus, joins forces with wild man Tallahassee to fight for survival in a world virtually taken over by freakish zombies. As they destroy scores of the undead, they meet up with two other survivors, Little Rock and Wichita, and journey to a supposedly safe abandoned amusement park.

Genres: Comedy, Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 27m. Rated: R.

#32 The Fly 1986

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Director: David Cronenberg. Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel.

Overview: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Drama. Countries: Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America. Runtime: 1h 36m. Rated: R.

#33 Dead Alive 1992
Braindead

Some things won't stay down... even after they die.

Director: Peter Jackson. Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stephen Papps, Murray Keane, Glenis Levestam, Lewis Rowe, Stuart Devenie.

Overview: When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.

Genres: Horror, Comedy, Foreign. Country: New Zealand. Runtime: 1h 37m.

#34 The Evil Dead 1981

Can they be stopped?

Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, Sam Raimi.

Overview: When a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest. As each of the kids are possessed by the demons they've let loose, body parts and bodily fluids go a-flying until only one young man is left to face down the Evil Dead.

Genres: Horror, Comedy. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 25m. Rated: NC-17.

#35 Evil Dead II 1987

Kiss Your Nerves Good-Bye!

Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Denise Bixler, Richard Domeier, John Peakes, Lou Hancock, Ted Raimi.

Overview: Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.

Genres: Comedy, Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 25m. Rated: R.

#36 Island of Lost Souls 1932

Director: Erle C. Kenton. Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, Paul Hurst, Hans Steinke, Tetsu Komai, George Irving.

Overview: An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

Genres: Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 10m.

#37 The Haunting 1963

Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton, Rosalie Crutchley, Lois Maxwell, Valentine Dyall, Diane Clare, Ronald Adam.

Overview: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller. Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America. Runtime: 1h 52m.

#38 Night of the Demon 1957

Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond, Reginald Beckwith, Ewan Roberts, Peter Elliott, Rosamund Greenwood, Brian Wilde, Richard Leech, Lloyd Lamble, Peter Hobbes, Charles Lloyd Pack.

Overview: Night of the Demon is a 1957 British horror film. An adaptation of M. R. James' Casting the Runes (1911), the plot revolves around American Professor John Holden going to England and investigating a Satanic cult suspected of being responsible for more than one death in recent months.

Genres: Horror, Mystery. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 35m.

#39 Freaks 1932

The love story of a SIREN, a GIANT, and a DWARF!

Director: Tod Browning. Cast: Edgar Allan Woolf, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Rose Dione, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Schlitze, Josephine Joseph, Koo Koo, Johnny Eck, Peter Robinson, Prince Randian, Daisy Earles.

Overview: A beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the dwarf leader of a circus side-show, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 4m.

#40 Hellraiser 1987

He'll tear your soul apart.

Director: Clive Barker. Cast: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Oliver Smith, Robert Hines, Anthony Allen, Leon Davis, Michael Cassidy, Kenneth Nelson, Gay Baynes, Niall Buggy, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford, Grace Kirby.

Overview: An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover, who's being chased by demons after he escaped from their sado-masochistic Hell.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Foreign. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 34m. Rated: R.

#41 Scream 1996

Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far.

Director: Wes Craven. Cast: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, W. Earl Brown, Drew Barrymore, Joseph Whipp, Roger Jackson, David Booth, Lawrence Hecht, Liev Schreiber, Kevin Patrick Walls.

Overview: One year after the death of Sidney Prescott's mother, two students turn up gutted. When a serial killer appears, Sidney begins to suspect whether her mother's death and the two new deaths are related. No one is safe, as the killer begins to pick everyone off one by one.

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 51m. Rated: R.

#42 Tucker & Dale vs. Evil 2010

Evil just messed with the wrong hillbilles.

Director: Eli Craig. Cast: Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Philip Granger, Brandon Jay McLaren, Christie Laing, Chelan Simmons, Travis Nelson, Alex Arsenault, Adam Beauchesne, Joseph Allan Sutherland, Karen Reigh, Tye Evans, Bill Baksa.

Overview: Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count accidentally climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair, who believe that the kids are on some sort of suicide pact. Preconceptions and misunderstandings abound as horror and hilarity occupy the screen side by side.

Genres: Comedy, Horror. Countries: Canada, United States of America. Runtime: 1h 29m. Rated: R.

#43 Insidious 2011

It's not the house that's haunted.

Director: James Wan. Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye.

Overview: Insidious is the terrifying story of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to realise that it was not their house that was haunted.

Genres: Horror, Thriller. Countries: United States of America, Canada. Runtime: 1h 43m. Rated: PG-13.

#44 Onibaba 1964

Director: Kaneto Shindô. Cast: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Jûkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama.

Overview: In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror, Indie. Country: Japan. Runtime: 1h 43m.

#45 Silent Hill 2006

We've been expecting you.

Director: Christophe Gans. Cast: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen, Alice Krige, Jodelle Ferland, Colleen Williams, Ron Gabriel, Derek Ritschel, Eve Crawford, Amanda Hiebert, Nicky Guadagni, Roberto Campanella.

Overview: A girl has a bad case of sleep walking and while dreaming talks about a place called Silent Hill. Her parents take her to this place that she only mentions in dreams yet in an attempt to get there they crash their car and loose their daughter. They begin searching for her yet not knowing the dangers that lurk in Silent Hill.

Genres: Adventure, Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 6m. Rated: R.

#46 The Cell 2000

Enter The Mind Of A Killer

Director: Tarsem Singh. Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Catherine Sutherland, James Gammon, Colton James, Dylan Baker, Gerry Becker, Musetta Vander, Patrick Bauchau, Jake Weber, Dean Norris, Tara Subkoff, Lauri Johnson.

Overview: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

Genres: Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller. Countries: Germany, United States of America. Runtime: 1h 49m. Rated: R.

#47 Mirrors 2008

There is evil...On the other side.

Director: Alexandre Aja. Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck, Jason Flemyng, Darren Kent.

Overview: French director Alexandre Aja adds to his growing canon of horror features with this remake of the Korean feature GEOUL SOKEURO (2003). Kiefer Sutherland stars as Ben Carson, a disgraced former New York City cop who attempts to put his checkered past behind him by taking a job as a security guard.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery. Countries: Romania, United States of America. Runtime: 1h 50m. Rated: R.

#48 Hour of the Wolf 1968
Vargtimmen

Director: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann.

Overview: An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror, Thriller. Country: Sweden. Runtime: 1h 39m.

#49 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931

Directors: Rouben Mamoulian, Robert Lee. Cast: Fredric March, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes, Edgar Norton, Tempe Pigott.

Overview: Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 38m.