Top 250 Horror Movies (#151-#200)
151 - The Invitation (2015)
A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Directed by Karyn Kusama
Written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi
Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi and Michiel Huisman
Genre: Paranoia, Cults
152 - The Monster Squad (1987)
A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.
Directed by Fred Dekker
Written by Shane Black and Fred Dekker
Starring Andre Gower, Robby Kiger and Stephen Macht
Genre: Horror Comedy, Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies
153 - The Night Walker (1964)
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who was killed in a fire.
Directed by William Castle
Written by Robert Bloch
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor and Judi Meredith
Genre: Psychological Horror, Nightmares, Mystery
154 - The Old Dark House (1932)
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Directed by James Whale
Written by Benn W. Levy (from the novel by J.B. Priestly)
Starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton and Lilian Bond
Genre: Old Dark House, Mystery
155 - Cat People (1942)
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Written by DeWitt Bodeen
Starring: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith and Jane Randolph
Genre: Shape-shifters, Curses
156 - Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
A gay serial killer murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.
Directed by Ulli Lommel
Written by Kurt Raab
Starring Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden and Margit Carstensen
Genre: Serial Killer, Cannibalism
157 - Candyman (1992)
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptical grad student researching the monster's myth.
Directed by Bernard Rose
Written by Bernard Rose (from the novel by Clive Barker)
Starring Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkely and Tony Todd
Genre: Supernatural, Urban Legends
158 - The Invisible Man (1933)
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Directed by James Whale
Written by R.C. Sherriff (from the novel by H.G. Wells)
Starring Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart and William Harrigan
Genre: Madmen, Science Fiction
159 - Curse of Chucky (2013)
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos.
Directed by Don Mancini
Written by Don Mancini
Starring Chantal Quesnelle, Fiona Dourif and Jordan Gavaris
Genre: Evil Dolls, Slasher, Sequel
160 - American Psycho (2000)
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Directed by Mary Harron
Written by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner (from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis)
Starring Christian Bale, Justin Theroux and Josh Lucas
Genre: Serial Killers, Madmen
161 - Happy Death Day (2017)
A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer's identity.
Directed by Christopher Landon
Written by Scott Lobdell
Starring Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard and Ruby Modine
Genre: Horror Comedy, Serial Killer, Mystery, Time Loop
162 - Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Angela Baker, a traumatized and very shy young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions gets their comeuppance.
Directed by Robert Hiltzik
Written by Robert Hiltzik
Starring Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten and Karen Fields
Genre: Slasher
163 - Maniac (1980)
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?
Directed by William Lustig
Written by Joe Spinell and C.A. Rosenberg
Starring Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro and Abigail Clayton
Genre: Madmen, Serial Killers, Gore
164 - Vampyr (1932)
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
Directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer
Written by Christen Jul and Carl Theodore Dreyer (from the novel by Sheridan Le Fanu)
Starring Julian West, Maurice Schutz and Rena Mandel
Genre: Silent Film, Vampires, Gothic
165 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by James V. Hart (based on the novel by Bram Stoker)
Starring Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Vampires
166 - What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane - like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
Directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
Written by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
Starring Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi and Cori Gonzalez-Macuer
Genre: Horror Comedy, Vampires, Handheld
167 - The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets.
Directed by Andre Ovredal
Written by Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing
Starring Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox and Ophelia Lovibond
Genre: Mystery, Occult, Supernatural
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168 - Crawl (2019)
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Directed by Alexandre Aja
Written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen
Starring Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper and Morfydd Clark
Genre: Animals, Trapped
169 - The Ritual (2017)
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Directed by David Bruckner
Written by Joe Barton (from the novel by Adam Nevill)
Starring Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali and Robert James-Collier
Genre: Creatures, Supernatural, Woods
170 - AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
During an archaeological expedition in Antarctica, a team of scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.
Directed by Paul W.S.Anderson
Written by Paul W.S. Anderson, Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett
Starring Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen and Raoul Bova
Genre: Aliens, Creatures
171 - It Comes At Night (2017)
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Directed by Trey Edward Shults
Written by Trey Edward Shults
Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott and Carmen Ejogo
Genre: Plague, Post-apocalyptic
172 - Return of the Living Dead (1985)
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
Directed by Dan O'Bannon
Written by Dan O'Bannon, Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo and Russell Streiner
Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen and Don Calfa
Genre: Zombies, Horror Comedy
173 - Night Monster (1942)
A rich recluse invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps where, one by one, they meet horrible deaths.
Directed by Ford Beebe
Written by Clarence Upson Young
Starring Bela Lugosi, Irene Hervey, Lionel Atwill and Leif Erickson
Genre: Mystery, Monsters
174 - Slither (2006)
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Directed by James Gunn
Written by James Gunn
Starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks and Michael Rooker
Genre: Horror Comedy, Gore, Aliens, Plague, Zombies
175 - Horror of Dracula (1958)
Jonathan Harker begets the ire of Count Dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, forcing his colleague Dr. Van Helsing to destroy the predatory villain when he targets Harker's loved ones.
Directed by Terence Fisher
Written by Jimmy Sangster (from the novel by Bram Stoker)
Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Michael Gough
Genre: Vampires
176 - Zombi 2 (Zombie) (1979)
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Written by Elisa Briganti
Starring Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch and Richard Johnson
Genre: Zombies, Gore
177 - The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Victor Frankenstein builds a creature and brings it to life, but it behaves not as he intended.
Directed by Terence Fisher
Written by Jimmy Sangster (from the book by Mary Shelley)
Starring Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart and Christopher Lee
Genre: Frankenstein, Madmen
178 - Stir of Echoes (1999)
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.
Directed by David Koepp
Written by David Koepp (from the novel by Richard Matheson)
Starring Kevin Bacon, Zachary David Cope and Kathryn Erbe
Genre: Ghosts, Mystery
179 - Jennifer's Body (2009)
A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Directed by Karyn Kusama
Written by Diablo Cody
Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons and Adam Brody
Genre: Demons, Possession, Horror Comedy
180 - The Wolf Man (2010)
Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.
Directed by Joe Johnston
Written by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self (from the 1914 screenplay by Curt Siodmak)
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt
Genre: Werewolves, Remakes
181 - Re-Animator (1985)
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.
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Written by Dennis Paoli, William Norris and Stuart Gordon (from the story by H.P. Lovecraft)
Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott and Barbara Crampton
Genre: Horror Comedy, Mad Scientist, Gore, Zombies
182 - Shaun of the Dead (2004)
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
Directed by Edgar Wright
Written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Kate Ashfield
Genre: Horror Comedy, Zombies
183 - The Collector (2009)
An ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Directed by Marcus Dunstan
Written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan
Starring William Prael, Diane Ayala Goldner, Juan Fernandez and Josh Stewart
Genre: Torture, Madmen, Home Invasion
184 - Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Written by Guillermo del Toro
Starring Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil and Sergi Lopez
Genre: Fairy Tales, Creatures
185 - House of the Devil (2009)
In 1983, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Directed by Ti West
Written by Ti West
Starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov
Genre: Witches, Witchcraft, Satanism
186 - The Fog (1980)
An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.
Directed by John Carpenter
Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh
Genre: Ghosts, Curses
187 - The Host (2006)
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
Directed by Joon-ho Bong
Written by Joon-ho Bong, Won-jun Ha and Chul-hyun Baek
Starring Kang-ho Song, Hee-Bong Byun, Hae-il Park, Doona Bae and Ko Asung
Genre: Kaiju, Science Fiction
188 - The Lost Boys (1987)
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Written by Jan Fischer, James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam
Starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest and Kiefer Sutherland
Genre: Vampires
189 - Se7en (1995)
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Directed by David Fincher
Written by Andrew Kevin Walker
Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey and Gwyneth Paltrow
Genre: Serial Killers, Thriller, Mystery
190 - The Brood (1979)
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg
Starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle
Genre: Creatures, Mystery, Body Horror
191 - The Shallows (2016)
A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Written by Anthony Jaswinski
Starring Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada and Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo
Genre: Sharks, Survival
192 - Interview with the Vampire (1994)
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Directed by Neil Jordan
Written by Anne Rice (from the novel by Anne Rice)
Starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Christian Slater and Antonio Banderas
Genre: Vampires
193 - The Wicker Man (1973)
A Police Sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl who the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Directed by Robin Hardy
Written by Anthony Shaffer
Starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Diane Cilento
Genre: Cults, Mystery
194 - Suspiria (2018)
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Written by David Kajganich (from the movie by Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi)
Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton and Doris Hick
Genre: Witches, Remake, Mystery
195 - What Lies Beneath (2000)
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Clark Gregg and Sarah Kernochan
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford and Katharine Towne
Genre: Mystery, Ghosts
196 - Blood and Black Lace (1964)
A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
Directed by Mario Bava
Written by Marcello Fondato, Giuseppe Barilla and Mario Bava
Starring Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok and Thomas Reiner
Genre: Giallo, Mystery, Slasher
197 - House of Wax (1953)
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Directed by Andre De Toth
Written by Crane Wilbur and Charles Belden
Starring Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy and Phyllis Kirk
Genre: Revenge, Madmen, Serial Killer
198 - The Orphanage (2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Directed by J.A. Bayona
Written by Sergio G. Sanchez
Starring Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo and Roger Princep
Genre: Hauntings, Ghosts
199 - Videodrome (1983)
When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality.
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg
Starring James Woods, Debbie Harry and Sonja Smits
Genre: Conspiracy Theories, Body Horror, Psychological Horror
200 - The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou
Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and Barry Keoghan
Genre: Curses
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