Best Horror Movies

Horror movies take as their focus that which frightens us: the mysterious and unknown, death and bodily violation, and loss of identity. Horror films aim to elicit responses of fear or revulsion from their audience, whether through suggestion and the creation of mood or by graphic representation. Horror paradoxically provides pleasure, providing a controlled response of fear that is presumably cathartic. The main categories of horror are gothic horror, monster terror, and psychological thriller. Watch best horror movies of all time!

Psycho movie poster

#1 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.

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Alien movie poster

#2 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.

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The Shining movie poster

#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.

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#4 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.

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Nosferatu movie poster

#5 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.

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#6 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.

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#7 Rosemary's Baby 1968

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 physiological 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 17m.

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Faust movie poster

#8 Faust 1926
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage

Director: F.W. Murnau. Cast: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard.

Overview: God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

Genres: Drama, Foreign. Country: Germany. Runtime: 1h 25m.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari movie poster

#9 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Director: Robert Wiene. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolph Lettinger, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Werner Krauss.

Overview: An eerie German silent film from 1920. This classic expressionistic film is known as a landmark in film history becoming famous worldwide from it’s exceptional new wave style of well built and painted grotesque scenery with contrasted lighting along with the painted effect of light and shadows. The film tells a surrealistic story with an unusual end that was a result of censorship.

Genres: Crime, Foreign, Horror. Country: Germany. Runtime: 1h 11m.

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King Kong movie poster

#10 King Kong 1933

Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, James Flavin, Sam Hardy.

Overview: An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 40m. Rated: NR.

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Frankenstein movie poster

#11 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.

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Bride of Frankenstein movie poster

#12 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.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? movie poster

#13 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962

Sister Sister, Oh So Fair! Why Is There Blood All Over Your Hair?

Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy.

Overview: Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, who's career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.

Genres: Drama, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 15m.

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#14 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.

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#15 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.

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Night of the Living Dead movie poster

#16 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.

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Shaun of the Dead movie poster

#17 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.

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Onibaba movie poster

#18 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.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie poster

#19 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke, Tom Fadden, Guy Way, Kenneth Patterson, Virginia Christine.

Overview: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 20m.

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#20 The Innocents 1961

Director: Jack Clayton. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Clytie Jessop, Isla Cameron, Eric Woodburn.

Overview: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror, Thriller. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 40m. Rated: NR.

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse movie poster

#21 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse

Director: Fritz Lang. Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oscar Beregi Sr., Paul Bernd, Henry Pleß.

Overview: Fritz Lang directed this sequel to his nearly four-hour Dr. Mabuse silent of 1922. The film opens with Detective Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) spying on the activities of a criminal syndicate. Not realizing he has been seen, Hofmeister is attacked by the thugs and later turns up out of his mind.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Foreign, Horror, Indie, Thriller. Country: Germany. Runtime: 2h 2m.

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Halloween movie poster

#22 Halloween 1978

The Trick Is To Stay Alive!

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.

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Freaks movie poster

#23 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: Freaks lives up to it’s name. This film follows the lives of various performers in a freak show. Besides the amazing display of human deformity the film tells the story about a trapeze artist woman who agrees to marry a popular but small man from the freak show. Yet the little man’s friends don’t think she really loves him and try to help him find the truth.

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

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The Unknown movie poster

#24 The Unknown 1927

Director: Tod Browning. Cast: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry, Nick De Ruiz, John George, Frank Lanning.

Overview: Lon Chaney is carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford is the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 3m.

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#25 The Phantom Carriage 1921
Körkarlen

Director: Victor sjöstrom. Cast: victor sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Concordia Selander.

Overview: It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead...

Runtime: 1h 33m.

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#26 The Cremator 1969
Spalovač mrtvol

Director: Juraj Herz. Cast: Jiří Menzel, Rudolf Hrušínský.

Overview: Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror. Country: Czech Republic. Runtime: 1h 35m.

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The Birds movie poster

#27 The Birds 1963

...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!

Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, James H. Brown. Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw, Jessica Tandy.

Overview: Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Suspense, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 59m. Rated: PG-13.

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Repulsion movie poster

#28 Repulsion 1965

Director: Roman Polanski. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux.

Overview: Carol is a young beauty parlor worker who falls into violent paranoia (including terrifying hallucinations) over a weekend. This classic psychological thriller by Roman Polanski still holds up today.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror, Thriller. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 44m. Rated: NR.

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#29 Eyes Without a Face 1960
Les yeux sans visage

Director: Georges Franju. Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, François Guérin, Juliette Mayniel.

Overview: A brilliant scientist, Professor Genessier, is guilt-stricken after having disfigured his daughter’s face in a car accident. He has almost perfected the technique of grafting skin tissue and intends to use this science to rebuild his daughter’s damaged face. But he needs a supply of donors to experiment on.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Horror. Countries: France, Italy. Runtime: 1h 28m.

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#30 The Man Who Laughs 1928

Director: Paul Leni. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Brandon Hurst.

Overview: Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.

Genres: Drama, Horror. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 50m.

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#31 Dead of Night 1945

Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer. Cast: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Frederick Valk, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers, Michael Redgrave.

Overview: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.

Genres: Horror, Thriller. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 42m.

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#32 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.

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#33 Grindhouse

Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino. Cast: Kurt Russell, Rose McGowan, Danny Trejo.

Overview: A double-bill of thrillers. "Grindhouse" is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. "Death Proof," is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while "Planet Terror" shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie ooutbreak.

Country: United States of America. Runtime: 3h 11m.

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#34 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.

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#35 The Invisible Man 1933

Director: James Whale. Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers.

Overview: A scientist turns himself invisible. However, the formula slowly drives him insane, causing him to terrorize the countryside as an invisible killer.

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 11m.

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#36 Peeping Tom 1960

Director: Michael Powell. Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley.

Overview: A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Foreign. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 41m. Rated: NR.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie poster

#37 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.

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#38 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.

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#39 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.

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The Phantom of the Opera movie poster

#40 The Phantom of the Opera 1925

The greatest horror film of modern cinema!

Director: Rupert Julian. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Gibson Gowland, Arthur Edmund Carewe, John St. Polis, Snitz Edwards, Virginia Pearson.

Overview: A grotesquely disfigured composer known as the "Phantom" haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his underground lair, the Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him after her next performance. When the Phantom finds out, he abducts Christine, incurring the wrath of Raoul -- and a horde of rabid Parisians.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 33m.

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#41 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.

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#42 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.

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#43 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.

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#44 The Devils 1971

Director: Ken Russell. Cast: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin.

Overview: Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.

Genre: Drama. Country: United Kingdom. Runtime: 1h 51m. Rated: NC-17.

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#45 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939

Director: Sidney Lanfield. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barry.

Overview: Sherlock Holmes, aided by Dr Watson, investigates mysterious deaths apparently caused by a family curse.

Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 20m.

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Saw movie poster

#46 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.

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[REC] movie poster

#47 [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.

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#48 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.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock movie poster

#49 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975

Director: Peter Weir. Cast: Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Jacki Weaver, Rachel Roberts.

Overview: Valentine's Day, 1900... a beautiful day for an excursion to aboriginal holy place 'Hanging Rock', the perfect place for a school picnic. Among the young white gloved pupils of Appleyard College are senior boarders Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith. All are properly chaperoned by headmistress Miss Appleyard. When the four girls venture off to walk to the lower slopes, distant screams are heard...

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Thriller. Country: Australia. Runtime: 1h 55m. Rated: PG.

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#50 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.

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