100+ Best Horror Movies

Top-rated horror films ranked by our smart algorithm

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85 Best Horror Movies

Top-rated horror films ranked by our smart algorithm

#1
The Conjuring poster
7.5

The Conjuring

20131h 52m

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

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#2
The Exorcist poster
7.7

The Exorcist

19732h 2m

12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

Horror
#3
The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It poster
7.5

The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It

20211h 51m

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

HorrorMysteryThriller
#4
Saw poster
7.4

Saw

20041h 43m

Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying...

HorrorMysteryCrime
#5
Alien poster
8.1

Alien

19791h 57m

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.

HorrorScience Fiction
#6
Saw II poster
6.6

Saw II

20051h 33m

When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives and now it's time for Matthews to join the game.

Horror
#7
The Conjuring 2 poster
7.3

The Conjuring 2

20162h 14m

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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#8
Psycho poster
8.4

Psycho

19601h 49m

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

HorrorDramaThriller
#9
The Meg poster
6.3

The Meg

20181h 53m

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

ActionScience FictionHorror
#10
The Thing poster
8.0

The Thing

19821h 49m

A team of American scientists investigate the empty, destroyed base of their Norwegian counterparts in Antarctica, only to discover a terrifying life force that can take the form of its prey.

HorrorMysteryScience Fiction
#11
It poster
7.2

It

20172h 15m

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

HorrorFantasy
#12
The Nun poster
5.9

The Nun

20181h 36m

A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.

HorrorMysteryThriller
#13
The Shining poster
8.2

The Shining

19802h 24m

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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#14
Alien Covenant poster
6.1

Alien Covenant

20172h 2m

Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world—which has a sole inhabitant: the 'synthetic', David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

Science FictionHorrorMystery
#15
Scream poster
7.4

Scream

19961h 52m

A year after the murder of her mother, Sidney Prescott is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

CrimeHorrorMystery
#16
Halloween poster
7.6

Halloween

19781h 31m

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

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#17
It Chapter Two poster
6.9

It Chapter Two

20192h 49m

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

HorrorFantasy
#18
Train to Busan poster
7.8

Train to Busan

20161h 58m

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

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#19
Shaun of the Dead poster
7.5

Shaun of the Dead

20041h 39m

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

HorrorComedy
#20
A Quiet Place Part II poster
7.5

A Quiet Place Part II

20211h 37m

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

Science FictionThrillerHorror
#21
The Others poster
7.6

The Others

20011h 41m

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.

HorrorMysteryThriller
#22
Split poster
7.3

Split

20171h 57m

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

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#23
Get Out poster
7.6

Get Out

20171h 44m

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

MysteryThrillerHorror
#24
Black Swan poster
7.7

Black Swan

20101h 48m

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

DramaThrillerHorror
#25
World War Z poster
6.8

World War Z

20131h 56m

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

ActionDramaHorror
#26
Jaws poster
7.7

Jaws

19752h 4m

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.

HorrorThrillerAdventure
#27
Constantine poster
7.1

Constantine

20052h 1m

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

FantasyActionHorror
#28
Interview with the Vampire poster
7.4

Interview with the Vampire

19942h 3m

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

HorrorDramaFantasy
#29
A Quiet Place poster
7.4

A Quiet Place

20181h 31m

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

HorrorDramaScience Fiction
#30
Bram Stokers Dracula poster
7.4

Bram Stokers Dracula

19922h 8m

When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Murray, the reincarnation of Dracula's long-dead wife Elisabeta, obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.

RomanceHorror
#31
Hereditary poster
7.3

Hereditary

20182h 8m

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

HorrorMysteryThriller
#32
Annabelle Creation poster
6.6

Annabelle Creation

20171h 50m

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

HorrorMysteryThriller
#33
28 Days Later poster
7.2

28 Days Later

20021h 53m

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

HorrorThrillerScience Fiction
#34
Insidious poster
6.9

Insidious

20111h 43m

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

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#35
A Nightmare on Elm Street poster
7.3

A Nightmare on Elm Street

19841h 31m

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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#36
Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters poster
6.0

Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters

20131h 28m

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

FantasyHorrorAction
#37
Zombieland poster
7.3

Zombieland

20091h 28m

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

ComedyHorror
#38
The Devils Advocate poster
7.5

The Devils Advocate

19972h 24m

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

DramaMysteryThriller
#39
Orphan poster
7.0

Orphan

20092h 2m

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

HorrorThrillerMystery
#40
Sleepy Hollow poster
7.2

Sleepy Hollow

19991h 45m

New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals believe the culprit to be none other than the legendary Headless Horseman.

DramaFantasyThriller
#41
Midsommar poster
7.2

Midsommar

20192h 27m

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

HorrorDramaMystery
#42
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street poster
7.2

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

20071h 56m

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

DramaHorror
#43
Sinister poster
6.9

Sinister

20121h 50m

True-crime writer Ellison Oswald is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

HorrorThrillerMystery
#44
Life poster
6.4

Life

20171h 44m

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

HorrorScience FictionMystery
#45
The Lighthouse poster
7.5

The Lighthouse

20191h 49m

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

DramaFantasyThriller
#46
Zombieland Double Tap poster
7.0

Zombieland Double Tap

20191h 39m

Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.

ComedyHorror
#47
The Witch poster
6.9

The Witch

20151h 32m

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

DramaFantasyHorror
#48
Blade poster
6.8

Blade

19982h 1m

The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.

HorrorAction
#49
Gremlins poster
7.1

Gremlins

19841h 46m

When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

FantasyHorrorComedy
#50
Van Helsing poster
6.3

Van Helsing

20042h 12m

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.

HorrorAdventureAction
#51
The Cabin in the Woods poster
6.6

The Cabin in the Woods

20121h 35m

Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

HorrorFantasy
#52
From Dusk Till Dawn poster
7.0

From Dusk Till Dawn

19961h 48m

Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.

HorrorActionThriller
#53
The Purge Anarchy poster
6.6

The Purge Anarchy

20141h 44m

One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of punishment or imprisonment. Leo, a sergeant who lost his son, plans a vigilante mission of revenge during the mayhem. However, instead of a death-dealing avenger, he becomes the unexpected protector of four innocent strangers who desperately need his help if they are to survive the night.

HorrorThriller
#54
10 Cloverfield Lane poster
7.0

10 Cloverfield Lane

20161h 44m

After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.

ThrillerScience FictionDrama
#55
The Mist poster
6.9

The Mist

20072h 6m

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

HorrorScience FictionThriller
#56
Final Destination poster
6.6

Final Destination

20001h 38m

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

Horror
#57
The Invisible Man poster
7.1

The Invisible Man

20202h 4m

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

ThrillerScience FictionHorror
#58
Us poster
7.0

Us

20191h 56m

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

HorrorThrillerMystery
#59
Dont Breathe poster
7.0

Dont Breathe

20161h 29m

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

ThrillerHorror
#60
It Follows poster
6.6

It Follows

20141h 41m

When carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her older boyfriend for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her defend herself.

HorrorMystery
#61
mother! poster
7.0

mother!

20172h 1m

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

DramaThrillerHorror
#62
Bird Box poster
6.9

Bird Box

20182h 4m

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

HorrorThrillerDrama
#63
Hellboy II The Golden Army poster
6.8

Hellboy II The Golden Army

20082h 0m

Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.

FantasyHorrorAdventure
#64
Halloween poster
6.5

Halloween

20181h 46m

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

HorrorThriller
#65
Annihilation poster
6.4

Annihilation

20181h 55m

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Science FictionHorror
#66
The Purge Election Year poster
6.4

The Purge Election Year

20161h 45m

Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government forces Barnes and Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night.

ActionHorrorThriller
#67
Blade II poster
6.5

Blade II

20021h 57m

A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Blade is asked by the Vampire Nation for his help in preventing a nightmare plague that would wipe out both humans and vampires.

FantasyHorrorAction
#68
The Ring poster
6.7

The Ring

20021h 55m

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.

HorrorMystery
#69
Annabelle poster
5.8

Annabelle

20141h 39m

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

Horror
#70
The Purge poster
6.3

The Purge

20131h 26m

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

Science FictionHorrorThriller
#71
Alien³ poster
6.4

Alien³

19921h 54m

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

Science FictionActionHorror
#72
Crimson Peak poster
6.6

Crimson Peak

20151h 59m

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

HorrorRomance
#73
The Blair Witch Project poster
6.3

The Blair Witch Project

19991h 21m

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.

HorrorMystery
#74
Escape Room poster
6.5

Escape Room

20191h 40m

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

HorrorThrillerMystery
#75
Resident Evil poster
6.6

Resident Evil

20021h 40m

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

HorrorActionScience Fiction
#76
Paranormal Activity poster
6.0

Paranormal Activity

20071h 25m

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night. Followed by five terrifying installments in the franchise, this is the original found-footage shocker that started it all.

HorrorMystery
#77
Alien Resurrection poster
6.1

Alien Resurrection

19971h 49m

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

Science FictionHorrorAction
#78
The Babadook poster
6.5

The Babadook

20141h 34m

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

DramaHorror
#79
Warm Bodies poster
6.4

Warm Bodies

20131h 37m

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

HorrorComedyRomance
#80
Happy Death Day poster
6.6

Happy Death Day

20171h 37m

Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.

HorrorMysteryComedy
#81
Dracula Untold poster
6.4

Dracula Untold

20141h 32m

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.

HorrorActionFantasy
#82
Hush poster
6.7

Hush

20161h 22m

A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

HorrorThriller
#83
The Shallows poster
6.3

The Shallows

20161h 26m

When Nancy is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

HorrorDramaThriller
#84
The Visit poster
6.3

The Visit

20151h 34m

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

HorrorMystery
#85
The Mummy poster
5.5

The Mummy

20171h 50m

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

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Understanding Horror Movies

Explore what makes horror films unique, their key characteristics, and why they captivate audiences worldwide.

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Genre Characteristics

Suspenseful atmosphere, psychological tension, supernatural elements, jump scares, dark themes, and storytelling designed to frighten and thrill audiences.

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Popular Subgenres

  • • Supernatural Horror
  • • Psychological Horror
  • • Slasher Films
  • • Zombie Horror
  • • Gothic Horror
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Viewing Tips

Best watched in dark environments for maximum effect. Consider viewer tolerance levels and avoid late-night viewing if you're sensitive to scary content.

Why Horror Movies Matter

Horror films allow audiences to confront fears in a safe environment, providing controlled adrenaline experiences that can be psychologically beneficial and emotionally cathartic.

These movies often serve as social commentary, using metaphor and symbolism to address contemporary anxieties and cultural issues in thought-provoking ways.

🏆 Horror Genre Statistics

Movies in Database:85+
Top 25 Average Rating:6.9/10
Most Popular Era:2010s
Quality Threshold:7.0+ Rating

Your Horror Discovery Guide

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