100 best horror movies

A list of the best horror films, selected by visitors to our site: Talk to Me, From Hell, The Crow, Exam, The Exorcist, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Ginger Snaps, Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, The Ring
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Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:04

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

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:52

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.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:41

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:15

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

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

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 remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him. When The Phantom learns this, he abducts Christine.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryJapan
Duration01:36

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryBelgium, France, West Germany
Duration02:05

Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius (Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, (Carrière) unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Canada
Duration01:36

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.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
Duration01:41

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:40

Miriam and John are an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. She gave her lover the gift of eternal life and together they hunt. But John begins aging rapidly, he seeks the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts. Miriam is immediately drawn to Sarah, desiring her as her next immortal companion...

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Poland
Duration01:48

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:51

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.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Duration01:58

    Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration01:30

    An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past on a windy island. Between midnight and dawn, he tells his wife about his most painful memories.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryCanada, Japan
    Duration01:48

    (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryJapan

    A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountryJapan
    Duration02:04

    A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, Japan
    Duration02:12

    When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:17

    A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryItaly, France, West Germany
    Duration01:38

    An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, action
    CountryUSA, Canada, Japan, France
    Duration01:49

    A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:33

    Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror
    CountryItaly, France

    Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:41

    Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:35

    An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick, where it will be put it back together. The castle though is not the only part of the deal, with it goes the several-hundred year old ghost who haunts it.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:05

    While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration02:01

    Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who it turns out is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryItaly, West Germany, France
    Duration01:47

    Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets in motion their destruction.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryItaly, France, Germany
    Duration01:44

    A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.

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