Top 37 must-see best mystery movies from mystery movies, including Pan's Labyrinth, Salem's Lot, Poltergeist, Weapons, The Lighthouse, Blue Velvet, Dead Ringers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, and The Gift ranked and rated by score.
Plot / Synopsis: Benjamin Cooper's Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper (2016) tells the story of someone marooned on an island and haunted by scary specters and hideous locals in the night. You must always keep a light burning to keep the evil away. Vernon Wells, Matt O'Neill, and Rachel Riley star in Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper...
Director: Benjamin Cooper Stars: Vernon Wells, Matt O''Neill, Rachel Riley, Monty Wall, Carl Edge
Plot / Synopsis: Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood, where the spirit of the Headless Horseman hunts them one by one...
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante Stars: Billy Aaron Brown, Rebecca Mozo, Richard Moll, Arianne Fraser, M. Steven Felty
Plot / Synopsis: A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl...
Director: Francis Ford Coppola Stars: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin, Joanne Whalley
Plot / Synopsis: Based on the killings of the 1960's, Richard Speck is a disturbed man that breaks into the college sorority house. He r**es and beats the eight women while thinking to himself about his own psychotic world. Is someone strong enough to escape the grasp of Richard Speck?
Tagline: More evil than Bundy. More depraved than Dahmer...
Plot / Synopsis: When Maddy Stern discovers her father has gone missing during a routine birdwatching excursion, she and her college pals trek out into the wilderness to find him, only to end up in a wealthy scientist's desolate ranch aviary, where they encounter a pair of giant, hungry terror birds believed to be extinct for centuries...
Director: Sean Cain Stars: Jessica Lee Keller, Lindsey Sporrer, Greg Evigan, Leslie Easterbrook, Dillon Cavitt
Plot / Synopsis: Alistair Legrand's The Diabolical (2015) looks like it will be a fantastic horror movie. A single mother and her children are awoken every night by an evil entity. When they try to leave the evil force traps them in by force. I see some major scary elements here, and it looks like a great fit for it's Halloween release on...
Director: Alistair Legrand Stars: Ali Larter, Arjun Gupta, Max Rose, Chloe Perrin, Merrin Dungey
Plot / Synopsis: A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
Tagline: Fear The Lights...
Plot / Synopsis: As a Washington psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.
Tagline: Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep...
Directors: Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue Stars: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright
Plot / Synopsis: An abandoned paramour tracks her lover down to a distant lighthouse. When she finds her beyond hope she must find a way to save a child from the malignant spirit of her deceased father and the madness of her mother...
Director: Coz Greenop Stars: April Pearson, Toby Osmond, Jon Campling, Kendra Mei, Lynne Anne Rodgers
Plot / Synopsis: The story of a family struggling to survive in a world terrorized by a deadly, primeval species who have evolved for millions of years in the pitch darkness of a vast underground cave system, hunting only with their acute hearing. As the family seeks refuge in a remote haven where they can wait out the invasion, they start to...
Director: John R. Leonetti Stars: Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, Kate Trotter, John Corbett
Plot / Synopsis: When a firefighter's wife mysteriously goes missing on an actual haunted road in rural New Jersey, he and his sister in law seek closure by employing a Haitian witch doctor to contact her spirit but are hunted by the entities of past victims looking to leave purgatory by collecting fresh souls...
Directors: Richard Grieco, Steve Stanulis Stars: Ace Young, Erin O''Brien, Cody Calafiore, Katie Morrison, Lauren LaVera
Plot / Synopsis: While investigating the murder of her father by her blind younger brother, a young woman disturbs the vengeful spirit of Elizabeth Short, known in legend as "The Black Dahlia".
Tagline: Beauty Never Dies...